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Don't Look Up(2021)

R
| 2h 25min | Comedy, Science Fiction, Drama
3.6/5 (with 3,671 votes)

Two American astronomers attempt to warn humankind about an approaching comet that will wipe out life on planet Earth.

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood(1996)

R
| 1h 29min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 537 votes)

When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?

Idiocracy(2006)

3.2/5 (with 1,208 votes)

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm(2020)

1h 36min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 1,055 votes)

14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

South Park: Joining the Panderverse(2024)

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Cartman's deeply disturbing dreams portend the end of the life he knows and loves. Meanwhile, the adults in South Park are wrestling with their own life decisions, as the advent of AI is turning their world upside down.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan(2006)

R
| 1h 24min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 2,348 votes)

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.

The Bling Ring(2013)

R
| 1h 30min | Drama, Crime
2.7/5 (with 1,419 votes)

Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track the whereabouts of famous celebrities, then rob their homes of riches.

Brüno(2009)

R
| 1h 23min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 735 votes)

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.

Attack the Block(2011)

R
| 1h 22min | Action, Comedy, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 895 votes)

A teen gang in a South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

Velvet Buzzsaw(2019)

R
| 1h 53min | Thriller, Mystery, Horror
2.7/5 (with 860 votes)

Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.

Double Trouble(1984)

1h 39min | Action, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 222 votes)

A stuntman and a saxophonist stand in for two billionaires threatened by killers.

The Bonfire of the Vanities(1990)

R
| 2h 5min | Crime, Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 208 votes)

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.

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Sick of Myself(2022)

NR
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist. In response, Signe makes a desperate attempt to regain her status by creating a new persona hell-bent on attracting attention and sympathy.

Directed by Kristoffer Borgli - With Kristine Kujath Thorp, Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen, Anders Danielsen Lie, Sarah Francesca Brænne, Ingrid Vollan, Henrik Mestad, ...

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion(1970)

1h 51min | Drama, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 325 votes)

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

Big Bad Mama(1974)

R
| 1h 23min | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
2.9/5 (with 25 votes)

Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Looking for Eric(2009)

1h 59min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 140 votes)

A man trying to put his life back on track gets some advice from an unexpected benefactor -- the ex-footballer Eric Cantona.

if....(1968)

1h 52min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 152 votes)

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three Lower Sixth students, leader Mick Travis, Wallace and Johnny decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.

Love's Whirlpool(2014)

2h 3min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

A room in a fancy downtown apartment. The evening orgy kicks off with eight men and women meeting for the first time, including an unemployed guy who pays the 20,000 yen party fee with money from his parents, and a female college student whose run-of-the-mill appearance hides a voracious sexual appetite.

The Country Bears(2002)

G
| 1h 28min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
2.4/5 (with 45 votes)

For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Country Bear Hall and his heroes, he discovers the venue that made them famous is near foreclosure. Beary hightails it over the river and through the woods to get the Bears in the Band back together for an all-out reunion concert to save Country Bear Hall.

The Day of the Locust(1975)

R
| 2h 25min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

About Nice(1930)

24min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 56 votes)

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

Directed by Jean Vigo

Dinner at Eight(1933)

1h 51min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 42 votes)

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

Carry On at Your Convenience(1971)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...

Donbass(2018)

2h 2min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 44 votes)

In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people try to survive in the rotten heart of chaos, where violence disguises itself as peace, propaganda becomes univocal truth and hatred reigns in the name of love.

Lenny(1974)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 104 votes)

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public.

Afonya(1975)

3.9/5 (with 39 votes)

The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR.

I Served the King of England(2007)

R
| 1h 55min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 40 votes)

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.

Plunkett & MacLeane(1999)

R
| 1h 33min | Action, Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 55 votes)

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both.

À Nous la Liberté(1931)

1h 35min | Comedy, Music
3.5/5 (with 36 votes)

In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.

Lipstick Under My Burkha(2017)

1h 56min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 45 votes)

Four ordinary women, inflicted by silly societal norms, have to steal, lie, cheat and hide in order to lead the lives that they rightfully deserve.

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