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Plot Summary:
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: absurd, cult classic, slapstick, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, metafiction, alternative comedy, campy, comic, cult film
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The Great Movie Robbery (1986)
Plot Summary:
The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaiser and Jirí Lábus, who are set to accept an award from Japanese television representatives at the exhibition. At the same time, five gangsters plot to seize a revolutionary invention devised by professor Suzuki - a super holograph, which enables any figure from television to be transported in the flesh into the real world, and vice-versa.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, metafiction, parody, campy
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The Flying Saucers Over Velky Malikov City (1977)
Plot Summary:
A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, campy
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Miss Golem (1972)
Plot Summary:
It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes to her rescue when she tries to flee from two men wanting to take her away. Věra confesses that she has fled from home because her father, a factory owner, wanted to profitably marry her off. Petr is fascinated by the emancipated woman and shows her round his laboratory, where he plans to create a robot of his own - but one that would be far more advanced. Věra cuts herself on a broken test-tube and a drop of her blood gets in the solution. In the morning, they are taken aback to see Věra's double. This lucky chance has helped Petr create an artificial being, Miss Golem. She has a single motive for her actions: to take care of Věra and allow her to do only what is good for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: intellectual, crying, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy, neo screwball comedy, campy
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Do We Match Each Other, Darling? (1975)
Plot Summary:
Czech comedy from the 70ties.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Men about Town (1969)
Plot Summary:
Trojice venkovských fasádníků pracuje na montáži při obnově pražské zástavby. A když už se dostali do hlavního města, rozhodnou se, že by neškodilo si tady pořádně užít a vyhodit z kopýtka. Aby nedělali ostudu, nechají si dokonce dát "lekce" společenského chování a bontonu, přičemž svého školitele, jímž není nikdo jiný než Oldřich Nový, málem nechtěně zdeptají. Zkušená a podnikavá obyvatelka jednoho z jimi opravovaných domů jim pak připraví opravdu nečekané a silné zážitky.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The End of Agent W4C (1967)
Plot Summary:
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, fast paced, absurd, psychotronic, spoof, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, eurospy, campy
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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
Plot Summary:
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot. The plot goes wrong when they lose the bomb and land near Hitler's bunker in 1941, at a time that the Nazis sense victory. Bures, with two of the plotters, escape capture by the Nazis and make it back to the time machine. Bures programs the machine to return one day before they left, because he figures he can then save his brother and foil the plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, humorous, tense, sentimental, feel good, captivating, melancholic, political thriller, absurd
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Terminal City Ricochet (1990)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Terminal City, a decaying world where the citizens wallow amidst a mind-boggling profusion of discarded consumer goods; a ruthless world where television is exploited to its fullest to sell yet more needless junk to eager consumers; a bewildering land where the unreal is real and the real, unreal. Alex Stevens is hurled into this bedlam where he finds himself pitted against the maniacal Ross Gilmore, Mayor of Terminal City, and the evil Bruce Coddle, agent of Gilmore's Social Peace Enforcement Unit.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: political, underground film, independent film, black comedy, cult film
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Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunningly uses his horrifying reputation to get the respect and heart of his beloved Sabrina, a journalist from a local newspaper. But this game turns out to be risky and in the end, both gangs don't hesitate to seize the check at all costs, including an improvised operation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, psychedelic, psychotronic, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, poliziottesco, metafiction
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The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)
Plot Summary:
In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera. He is also an obsessed opera fan, keeps the body of his favorite diva preserved in a crypt in the castle. In order to keep away nosy visitors, the baron's mad-scientist assistant, invents all sorts of spooky phenomena in order to give the castle a creepy reputation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic, gothic horror, cult classic, fairy tale, parody, psychotronic, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Grandmothers Recharge Well! (1984)
Plot Summary:
A family purchases a home robot designed to look like a grandmum. Their neighbours immediately buy a more expensivve model as the two families always try to up the other one. Both grandmums start to "terorize" their families because they were set up to ensure the mums exercise, the kids study etc. Apart from that they start causing problems to the other family ... cut ropes with hanging clothes, pierced tires, etc. Once they get to killing each other family's pets the parents get really worried about the safety of their kids. The grannys later destroy each other while fighting and the families decide that they'll be better off without any robots. (It's some time since I saw this so the details may be off.) Mainly thanks to the design of the robots it's rather a comedy than a horror. Unless you are ten. And a rather good comedy!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychotronic, black comedy, freeze frame, alternative comedy, campy
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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
Plot Summary:
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: black comedy, apocalyptic, parody, psychotronic, spoof, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, costume drama, alternative comedy, period drama
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Plot Summary:
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
Plot Summary:
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. They also manage to kill king's astrologer Stuart Hampl, who warns the king. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychotronic, surreal, absurd, spoof, black comedy, experimental, slapstick comedy, slapstick, double entendre
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Dinner for Adele (1978)
Plot Summary:
When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy - the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: parody, surreal, detective, ambiguous ending, crying, psychotronic, spoof, black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Rumburak (1985)
Plot Summary:
Wizarding criminal Rumburak, exiled to the Mortal Realm, uses a supercomputer to recreate his lost spell formulas. His software falls into the hands of humans, chaos ensues, and Rumburak suddenly finds himself on the side of good.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, urban fantasy
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A Nice Plate of Spinach (1977)
Plot Summary:
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, alternative comedy, campy, cult film
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How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975)
Plot Summary:
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: absurd, folk tale, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, alternative comedy, urban fantasy
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The Coed and the Zombie Stoner (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a sorority girl falls in love with a zombie, it's only a matter of time before a zombie apocalypse is unleashed on campus. The sorority girl discovers that weed is the cure. Now, she must smoke out the whole school before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, parody, humorous, not serious, absurd, light, horror comedy, mockbuster, exciting, offbeat
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Waiter, Scarper! (1981)
Plot Summary:
It is the story of a man who had financial troubles. He was married several times and had to pay for several kids. He wanted to earn some extra money by playing in a cafe. But one drunken guest supposes he is a waiter and pays his bill to him. So the main hero finds his chance - he goes through restaurants, pretending that he is a waiter and asks people to hand their cash to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Some Time Later (2018)
Plot Summary:
Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it. (Sequel to “Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing,” 1989.).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, futuristic, social, crying, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, bizarre
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I Wake Up Yesterday (2012)
Plot Summary:
Czech teacher Peter experiences journey into the past to late 80´s to recover his true love Eliška. At present he´s nothing but relationship´s loser so he tries to find his true love at least at the past. During his journey he passes not just through relationship´s problem but thanks to his radical opinions also encounters problems with communists, even if he knows already from the future that totalitarian regime won´t last forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, psychotronic, teen comedy
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Computer Killers (1973)
Plot Summary:
Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the leather-gloved, ex-Nazi scientist Dr. Storm. Along the way, Jason meets Judy, also on her way to Brittlehouse Manor to visit her aunt, who married Dr. Storm some years ago. Once they arrive, the pair realise rather quickly that something is wrong, probably because the other guests have had their brains surgically removed, or all the blood pouring from the sink, or possibly just because the creepy midget keeps telling them to brush their teeth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, scary, medical horror, gothic horror, classic horror, humorous, slasher, biting, erotic
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Superhero Movie (2008)
Plot Summary:
The team behind Scary Movie takes on the comic book genre in this tale of Rick Riker, a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the villainously goofy Hourglass.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, slapstick, funny, not serious, humorous, satirical, absurd, hilarious, sex comedy
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
Plot Summary:
In this campy spy movie spoof Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) has invented an army of bikini-clad robots who are programmed to seek out wealthy men and charm them into signing over their assets. Secret agent Craig Gamble (Frankie Avalon) and millionaire Todd Armstrong set out to foil his fiendish plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, slapstick, humorous, grindhouse, spy comedy, exciting, offbeat, not serious, fast
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UHF (1989)
Plot Summary:
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, slapstick, funny, cult classic, game show, humorous, slapstick comedy, hilarious, realistic
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Sleeper (1973)
Plot Summary:
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, slapstick, funny, cult classic, clever, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, psychotronic
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Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Plot Summary:
As Scott Lang awaits expiration of his term of house detention, Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym involve him in a scheme to rescue Mrs. van Dyne from the micro-universe into which she has fallen, while two groups of schemers converge on them with intentions of stealing Dr. Pym's inventions.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 440000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, humorous, action adventure, psychotronic, light, saga, action comedy, inspirational, slasher
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Ant-Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 710000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, light, humorous, witty, serious, funny, psychotronic, epic, saga
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The Dark Tower (2017)
Plot Summary:
The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, epic, novela, action adventure, mystic, scary, mystical, atmospheric