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Plot Summary:
A comedy/musical utilizing both new songs and parodies from the original (Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance), as well as references to popular films of the time, including Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. In your typical boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy fights girl with swords plot, the story revolves around Mabel.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, cult classic, humorous, spoof, feel good, semi serious, erotic, fairy tale, light, romantic
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The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
Plot Summary:
In spite of being apprenticed to a Pirate King as a child, Frederic has led a very sheltered life. So when he arrives in Penzance with his boisterous shipmates, there are a few surprises in store for him! It all ends happily, but not before he's dodged the Old Bill, fallen in love and made some rather inconvenient discoveries.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, romantic, atmospheric, sexy, clever, unusual plot structure, sweet
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The Pirates of Penzance (1980)
Plot Summary:
This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, tiny technical shortcomings, a live 1980 performance in Central Park, not the 1983 movie of the same name that also starred Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline. Those who remember that film, which had the benefit of retakes and editing, a lavish production budget, and the spaciousness of a Hollywood studio, may find this video less polished. On its own terms, it is nonetheless thoroughly enjoyable.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
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Brenda Starr (1989)
Plot Summary:
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the 'Brenda Starr' strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to life in the strip and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the strip. To get her back, and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip. In her world, Brenda Starr is the Ace Reporter for the New York Flash. She is talented, fearless, smart and a very snappy dresser. The only competition she has is from the rival paper's top reporter Libby Lipscomb. Brenda heads to the Amazon jungle to find a scientist with a secret formula which will create cheap and powerful gas from ordinary water. (This movie was filmed in 1986 but release was delayed for several years.).
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, entertaining, independent film, light, sexy, enigmatic, feel good, unusual plot structure
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Yes, Giorgio (1982)
Plot Summary:
A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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At Long Last Love (1975)
Plot Summary:
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, art deco, neo screwball comedy
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Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Plot Summary:
Matchmaker, Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: period piece, feel good, retro, hilarious, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, funny
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Back to the Beach (1987)
Plot Summary:
Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With special appearances by Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Pee-Wee Herman, Jerry Mathers and other familiar faces. Frankie and Annette grow up and have kids in the midwest. They return to LA to visit their daughter who is shacked up with her boyfriend and tries to hide the fact. They begin to have marriage problems when Frankie runs into Connie, who has erected a shrine to him in her night club. Their punk son has joined up with the local surf toughs, and things all come to a head when the toughs challenge the good guys to a surfing duel.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spoof, humorous, offbeat, feel good, realistic, witty, not serious, parody, light, sexy
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From Justin to Kelly (2003)
Plot Summary:
A lonely, sexually repressed man. A depressed woman. A summer camp. On this fateful night, they will meet... and their hearts will become one.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, light, feel good, touching, realistic, semi serious, romantic, road movie, rough
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Beach Party (1963)
Plot Summary:
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang, teen sex comedy
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Carry on Jack (1964)
Plot Summary:
Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker (Bernard Cribbins) signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless (Kenneth Williams). Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be entitled ´Up the Armada´, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, spoof, independent film, campy
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Savage Islands (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nathaniel Williamsen (O'Keefe) is taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie (Seagrove). Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish Bully Hayes (Jones), who also takes a liking to Sophie. When Sophie is kidnapped by slave trader Ben Pease (Phipps) "Nate" teams with Hayes in order to find her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, semi serious
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Royal Flash (1975)
Plot Summary:
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: mind blowing, offbeat, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, period drama
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Lemonade Joe (1964)
Plot Summary:
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, fast paced, cult classic, twisted, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981)
Plot Summary:
George Hamilton stars in a dueling dual role as twin sons of the legendary Zorro. Soon after the dashing Don Diego Vega inherits his father's famous sword and costume, a broken ankle prevents the masked avenger from fulfilling his heroic duties. When his flamboyantly fashion-conscious brother assumes the secret identity to continue an ongoing fight for justice, the results are nothing short of hilarious!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, cult classic, humorous, witty, novela, exciting, not serious, independent film
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Yellowbeard (1983)
Plot Summary:
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: parody, cult classic, humorous, colorful, exciting, saga, not serious, independent film, funny, light
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Cabin Boy (1994)
Plot Summary:
A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, melancholic, absurd, talky, not serious, cult classic, spoof, slapstick, nautical
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Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
Plot Summary:
An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 30s musical. Love's Labour's Lost tells the story of four best friends who swear off love. The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's highly entertaining but hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Romance, Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, humorous, witty, sex comedy, anamorphic, offbeat, independent film, slapstick comedy
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The Ice Pirates (1984)
Plot Summary:
The time is the distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to the unreachable centre of the galaxy at the end of the galactic trade wars. The galaxy is ruled by an evil emperor (John Carradine) presiding over a trade oligarchy that controls all mining and sale of ice from asteroids and comets.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, parody, humorous, grindhouse, fantasy adventure, retro, uplifting, apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting
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Hot Pursuit (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he is not quite sure where they are, and meets smugglers, crazy captains and murderers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, road movie, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, exciting, semi serious, funny, romantic
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Zeus and Roxanne (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrusive canine makes best-friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with Zeus's owner, Terry, a musician who rides a bike.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sweet, melancholic, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, clever, unusual plot structure, entertaining
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Pirates of the Great Salt Lake (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kirk Redgrave and Flint Weaver met only three weeks ago. But that hasn't stopped them from becoming the greatest pirates the Great Salt Lake has ever known. Still, pirate life isn't all that it's cracked up to be. For Kirk, it's a life of failure. For Flint, one without reward. That is until they stumble across a long lost treasure map that has the power to not only fulfill their wildest pirate dreams but curse them as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining, exciting, offbeat, semi serious, independent film
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Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
Plot Summary:
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the hidden treasure, which was revealed by Bones before he died. On their voyage across the seas, they soon find out that not everyone on board can be trusted.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, exciting, humorous, sweet, slasher, fantasy adventure, cute, light hearted, feel good, not serious
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Pirates (1986)
Plot Summary:
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the niece of the governor of Maracaibo. The question is, can he keep this pace up?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: dramatic, spoof, grindhouse, action comedy, exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, campy
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The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Plot Summary:
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, cult classic, inspirational, breathtaking, saga
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Romancing the Stone (1984)
Plot Summary:
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, light, romantic, entertaining, sexy, romantic comedy, funny, breathtaking, action adventure
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Popeye (1980)
Plot Summary:
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, semi serious, feel good, cult classic, entertaining, funny, retro, black comedy, thrilling
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The Man from Snowy River (1982)
Plot Summary:
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom was Jim's father's best friend and the other of whom is the father of the girl he wants to marry.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, cult classic, surprise ending, feel good, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, exciting, light
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The Princess Bride (1987)
Plot Summary:
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 444000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, touching, entertaining, funny, sweet, romantic, hilarious, romantic comedy, parody
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Peter Pan (2003)
Plot Summary:
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, exciting, captivating, sweet, light, romantic, scenic, teen, colorful
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Cutthroat Island (1995)
Plot Summary:
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her pirate raids.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, breathtaking, light, humorous, semi serious, retro, feel good, suspense, anamorphic, hilarious