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Plot Summary:
Jonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He translates its inscription, which gives him three powers: to inflict pain, slow down time or kill. Soon, he's pursued by enemy spies who have learned about the magic coin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 912
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, psychotronic, tension, suspense
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Under the Glacier (1989)
Plot Summary:
A hapless guy from the city visits an isolated Icelandic seaside settlement. He gradually realizes that the seals are not what they seem, and that two of the inhabitants are magicians, vieing for the favour of a mysterious woman. Liberated from a spell, she proves to be a magician too. Then he falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Iceland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Move (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Beach Fever (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young Japanese entrepreneur is set on a quest by his wealthy father to find the world's best opening line in order to "get the girl". But when they stumble upon a sure-fire love potion, mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, independent film
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Mack & Rita (2022)
Plot Summary:
A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Mr. Peters' Pets (1962)
Plot Summary:
A man orders some "animal ambrosia" so he can turn into animals and be able to watch naked women.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Harvey (1972)
Plot Summary:
James Stewart reprises his stage and 1950 film role as Elwood P. Dowd in this 1972 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Blindfold (1966)
Plot Summary:
A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a secret place known as "Base X," forcing Dr. Snow to wear a blindfold whenever he is taken there.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: retro, slang, tension, suspense
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The Girl from S.I.N. (1966)
Plot Summary:
Secret agent Poontang Plenty, who works to defeat evil while trying to crack the secret of invisibility.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, spoof, parody, sex comedy, comic
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A Witch Without a Broom (1967)
Plot Summary:
A flirtatious sorcerous fancies a handsome human professor. Cross time antics arise when she attempts to bring the hapless professor into her alternate dimension.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic
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Out of Sight (1966)
Plot Summary:
Teenage beach party/spy spoof/musical comedy about a plot to bomb a music fair. As his boss is on vacation, a superspy's butler must come to the rescue, while being pursued by a trio of gorgeous assassins who're agents of F.L.U.S.H. Features George Barris hotrods, along with the musical talents of Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Astronauts, The Knickerbockers, Freddy and the Dreamers, and the only film appearance of The Turtles.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, spy comedy, psychotronic, spoof, comic
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Agent 8 3/4 (1964)
Plot Summary:
A young man travels to Prague for his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, political thriller, spy comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film, spoof, eurospy, comic
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The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)
Plot Summary:
A wacky 60s spy spoof.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, spoof
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Savages (1972)
Plot Summary:
A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate. Entering, they begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles and dress of people at a weekend party. There follows an allegory of upper-class behavior. At last, they begin to devolve toward their original status, and after a battle at croquet, they disappear into the woods.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, experimental
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Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
Plot Summary:
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, eurospy, comic
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Lords of Magick (1989)
Plot Summary:
A pair of sorcerer brothers from 10th-century England are sent to modern-day California on a quest to rescue a princess.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The White Lady (1965)
Plot Summary:
This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is not the thing that Communist leaders want in the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, psychotronic, urban fantasy
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Teen Wolf Too (1987)
Plot Summary:
Although awkward college student Todd Howard is particularly adept at science, he's paying for school with an athletic scholarship that he will lose should he not fare well in an upcoming boxing tournament. Luckily for Todd, he has inherited the same family curse that once turned his cousin into a werewolf. As he transforms into the hairy, fanged, howling monster, he finds both his physical agility and his popularity skyrocketing -- but at what cost?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, feel good, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic, light, talky, spooky, independent film, sexy
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Cold Turkey (1971)
Plot Summary:
Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will will a huge prize.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: parody, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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Jellyfish Eyes (2013)
Plot Summary:
In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children’s negative energy. Artist Takashi Murakami ‘s debut film is an amazing epic story that is an X-Ray of children’s hopes and fears with the artist’s unmistakable visual style.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal
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Big Man on Campus (1989)
Plot Summary:
In this version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of UCLA. He is put on trial and made to go through tests. One of the research doctors falls for him, and he falls for her in the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, independent film, slapstick
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This Is the End (2013)
Plot Summary:
While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 430000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, dark comedy, entertaining, not serious, hilarious, horror comedy, feel good, apocalyptic, humorous
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Vice Versa (1988)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, sentimental, comedy drama, light hearted, feel good, humorous, not serious, romantic, clever
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Like Father Like Son (1987)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for his teenage son Chris' problems with school. By accident one of them drinks a brain-exchanging serum, and it switches their identities. This leads of course to extraordinary complications in school and at work, but also to insight in the problems and feelings of each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, not serious, inspirational, disgusting, independent film, feel good, unusual plot structure, melancholic, splatter
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The Hot Chick (2002)
Plot Summary:
Not only is Jessica Spencer the most popular girl in school -- she is also the meanest. But things change for the attractive teen when a freak accident involving a cursed pair of earrings and a chance encounter at a gas station causes her to switch bodies with Clive, a sleazy crook. Jessica, in the form of the repulsive Clive, struggles to adjust to this radical alteration and sets out to get her own body back before the upcoming prom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, teen, entertaining, humorous, not serious, slapstick, predictable, teen sex comedy, ironic, sex comedy
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Life-Size 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Grace Manning is in the middle of her quarter-life crisis, realizing she is in over her head as CEO. To make matters worse, her wild-child ways are causing the company’s stock to plummet. With the help of her young next-door neighbor, Grace’s old Eve doll magically awakens to help get Grace back on track and give her the confidence to be the woman and leader Eve knows Grace can be.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Bruce Almighty (2003)
Plot Summary:
Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Grace, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God -- and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 426000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, light, inspirational, parody, hilarious, touching, absurd, sentimental
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Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Plot Summary:
A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in a cat the rest of the time. Now it's up to the family's mother, a private detective and a suspended police officer to try and stop the witches.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, campy
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Liar Liar (1997)
Plot Summary:
Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his mouth has suddenly become his biggest liability.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 328000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, hilarious, slapstick comedy, slapstick, predictable, feel good, entertaining, inspirational
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The Addams Family (1991)
Plot Summary:
Uncle Fester has been missing for 25 years. An evil doctor finds out and introduces a fake Fester in an attempt to get the Addams Family's money. The youngest daughter has some doubts about the new uncle Fester, but the fake uncle adapts very well to the strange family. Can the doctor carry out her evil plans and take over the Addams Family's fortune?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, cult classic, funny, not serious, stylized, light, scary
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Addams Family Values (1993)
Plot Summary:
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, cult classic, parody, scary, visually appealing, spooky