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Plot Summary:
A comedic and episodic look at how the Brain Institute helped 81 people with their brain skills--from the ordinary (intelligence and creativity) to the extraordinary (controlling the weather and bending space-time). But one man is determined to show that the head of the Brain Institute is a fraud and a charlatan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Bahamas, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, experimental, art house, mockumentary, fake documentary
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The Thin Pink Line (1998)
Plot Summary:
In this mockumentary, a film team in search of a new documentary project determines to find a wrongfully imprisoned death-row inmate. Enter Chauncey Ledbetter, the quirky, potentially gay, prisoner convicted of murdering his high school show choir teacher. As filming of the documentary progresses, evidence increases that Chauncey might be guilty after all. Will the team prove Chauncey's innocence before his impending execution or will this be the end of him? The title is a humorous reference to Errol Morris’ documentary The Thin Blue Line, which raised questions about the conviction of a prison inmate on death-row.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: parody, mockumentary, flamboyance
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The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
Plot Summary:
A fragmented, experiential look at the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: experimental, art house, independent film
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The Bigfoot Project (2017)
Plot Summary:
A bush-league group of amateur filmmakers spend two weeks in the backwoods of Georgia searching for the mysterious Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, mockumentary, horror spoof
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A Better You (2014)
Plot Summary:
A hypno-therapist in midlife crisis must tackle his own personal challenges before helping others and getting joint custody of his kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Undecided: The Movie (2016)
Plot Summary:
A camera crew follows two "undecided" voters along the actual campaign trail, and no Presidential candidate - on either side of the aisle - is spared.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, fake documentary
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No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn (1994)
Plot Summary:
A couple manages to quit smoking by using hypnosis, but then their children decide to use it to manipulate their parents into more submissive behavior.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, nostalgic
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Vance and Pepe (2011)
Plot Summary:
In this mockumentary special based on characters from "The House of Venus Show", Vance and Pepe, two hosts of a renowned reality makeover series, find out their show has been canceled. Desperate for work, they devise a plan to use their 'fame' to find new careers in the porn industry.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: parody, mockumentary, queer cinema
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Cornhole: The Movie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Cornhole: The Movie is a mockumentary feature film that examines the lives of four groups of quirky characters who have sacrificed, exploited, and shamed those in their lives to gain a certain level of minimal fame in the Cincinnati based sport of Cornhole.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, spoof, fake documentary
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That's Adequate (1989)
Plot Summary:
This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film, spoof, parody, fake documentary
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Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Reno Sheriff’s Department find themselves in their stickiest situation yet, hunting down “Q," the person supposedly behind all of the conspiracy theories concocted by the QAnon movement. In their valiant efforts, the officers find themselves stuck at the QAnon convention at sea, and ultimately end up in more trouble when they escape only to discover that they’ve landed on Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous island.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, parody, funny
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Hacks (2002)
Plot Summary:
There's a reason God created day jobs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, mockumentary, fake documentary, cult film
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Brand X (1970)
Plot Summary:
In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, experimental, independent film, spoof, sketch comedy, parody
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Brutal Massacre: A Comedy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Harry Penderecki, a once heralded horror auteur, finds himself on the outside looking in at Hollywood. He hasn't had a hit film in years, and most in the industry, including his close friends, think he's washed up. Harry is given one last chance to redeem himself with what could be his best or last picture. Brutal Massacre becomes just that, as the cast and crew find themselves battling one mishap after another as Harry struggles to keep his sanity against overwhelming resistance to finish the picture and find himself at the top once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: parody, not serious, humorous, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, offbeat, slasher, spoof, cult movie cast
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Gangsta Rap: The Glockumentary (2007)
Plot Summary:
The hardest group you've never heard of is back. Gangsta Rap is a mockumentary based on a group of over the hill gangster rappers (circa NWA), trying to make a comeback. Its a hilarious look at the soft underbelly of hard core hip hop.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, not serious, mockumentary, parody, captivating, independent film, clever, offbeat, realistic
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The Making of '...And God Spoke' (1993)
Plot Summary:
A documentary on the making of a big budget Bible picture. This is a spoof that shows the inside action on a film set where everything that could possibly go wrong goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, spoof, offbeat, humorous, epic, realistic, witty, not serious, biblical, independent film
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Best in Show (2000)
Plot Summary:
The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, parody, cult classic, hilarious, cynical, black comedy, dark comedy, witty, biting, funny
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LolliLove (2004)
Plot Summary:
A hip, misguided Southern California couple decide to make a difference in the lives of the homeless by giving them lollipops with a cheery slogan on the wrapper.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, mockumentary, dark comedy, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, satirical
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The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (2003)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash', famous artists, actors and musicians speak out on how The Rutles influenced them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, witty, cynical, spoof, offbeat, biting
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Comic Book: The Movie (2004)
Plot Summary:
A host of real-life celebrities - including Hugh Hefner, Stan Lee, and Kevin Smith - journey into the world of comic book fandom! Documentary filmmaker Donald Swan heads to the world's largest comic book convention where he encounters a culture of craziness that he's totally unprepared for.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: witty, parody, humorous, not serious, mockumentary, feel good, light, melancholic, offbeat, exciting
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Look Around You (2002)
Plot Summary:
Look around you. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is? The first series of this British comedy show, filmed in 2002, was a send-up of the earnest programmes for schools made in the 1960s and 1970s. The second series (2005) is a friendlier spoof of the BBC's own slightly wacky 'Tomorrow's World' programme (1965-2002), and it gives a view from somewhere around 1982 of what life might be like in the early 21st century.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, surreal, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, absurd
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Farce of the Penguins (2006)
Plot Summary:
In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soundtrack of human voices. Carl and Jimmy, best friends, walk 70 miles to the mating grounds where the female penguins wait. The huddled masses of females - especially Melissa and Vicki - talk about males, mating, and what might happen this year. Carl, Jimmy, and the other males make the long trek talking about food, fornication and flatulence. Until this year, Carl's sex life has been dismal, but he falls hard for Melissa. She seems to like him. A crisis develops when Jimmy comes upon something soft in the dark. Can friends forgive? Does parenthood await Carl and Melissa?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, feel good, humorous, not serious, spoof, mockumentary, offbeat, banned, fake documentary
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Supernatural Activity (2012)
Plot Summary:
The world's most beloved illusionist, armed with his team of oxymoron’s, embark on the freakiest, most adventurous paranormal investigation of all time. Terrorized at every turn by an unexplainable irregular patterns of mysterious paradox’s, this witch-hunting, ghost busting, creature questing supernatural spooftacular is the funniest footage ever found!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, scary, humorous, not serious, independent film, mockumentary, offbeat, spoof, horror spoof
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Breaking Wind (2012)
Plot Summary:
A comedic spoof based on the worldwide phenomenon "The Twilight Saga.".
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, spoof, cynical, idiotic, vampire comedy, campy
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Brüno (2009)
Plot Summary:
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, parody, humorous, controversial, stylized, sex comedy, hilarious, sexual, absurd
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Forgotten Silver (1995)
Plot Summary:
An epic documentary chronicling the extraordinary, unbelievable life of pioneer Kiwi filmmaker Colin McKenzie. Or is it?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, witty, offbeat, epic, semi serious, independent film, clever, funny, light
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Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Plot Summary:
Corky St. Clair is a director, actor and dancer in Blaine, Missouri. When it comes time to celebrate Blaine's 150th anniversary, Corky resolves to bring down the house in Broadway style in this hilarious mockumentary from the people who brought you "This is Spinal Tap!".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, parody, independent film, clever, humorous, witty, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic
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Being Michael Madsen (2007)
Plot Summary:
Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, clever, realistic
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Zelig (1983)
Plot Summary:
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, surreal, black and white, humorous, parody, melancholic, compassionate, not serious, clever, intellectual
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Real Life (1979)
Plot Summary:
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, satirical, humorous, witty, comedy drama, clever, realistic, not serious, biting
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 434000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, absurd, humorous, controversial, funny, parody, dark comedy, satirical, slapstick, hilarious