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1. Saltburn (2023)
R | 131 min | Drama, Thriller
A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.
Director: Emerald Fennell | Stars: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant
Votes: 205,765
2. Klovn (2005–2022)
TV-MA | 25 min | Comedy
The socially awkward misadventures of Frank Hvam, his girlfriend Mia and his best friend Casper.
Stars: Frank Hvam, Casper Christensen, Mia Lyhne, Iben Hjejle
Votes: 6,054
3. Forbidden Zone (1980)
R | 74 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family's basement.
Director: Richard Elfman | Stars: Gene Cunningham, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Virginia Rose, Phil Gordon
Votes: 5,446
4. Dickshark (2016)
Unrated | 200 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A romantic couple get more than they expected after the husband's experiments with penis-enlargement cream go awry.
Director: Bill Zebub | Stars: Kayla Browne, John Giancaspro, Rachel Crow, Greg Fuller
Votes: 629
5. F.U.B.A.R - The banned movie (2022)
4 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
This film was banned due to its shocking content.
Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Ethan Frazer
Votes: 72
6. Too Many Cooks (2014 TV Short)
TV-MA | 11 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A series of montages that parodies the introductory title sequences of generic 70s, 80s and 90s TV shows of various genres slowly turns into an absurdist meta slasher and then the parody becomes even weirder.
Director: Casper Kelly | Stars: Ken DeLozier, Tara Ochs, Katelyn Nacon, Justin Scott
Votes: 5,235
7. Reality (2014)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy
A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Alain Chabat, Jonathan Lambert, Élodie Bouchez, Kyla Kenedy
Votes: 6,958
8. Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)
X | 107 min | Comedy, Musical
Heironymus Merkin (Anthony Newley) screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth, and moral decay.
Directors: Anthony Newley, Richard Williams | Stars: Anthony Newley, Joan Collins, Alexander Newley, Tara Newley Arkle
Votes: 413
9. Fear & Shame (2017 Video)
3 min | Short, Comedy
Actor Robert Pattinson takes us into a brief, desperate, hunger-filled moment in the life of Robert Pattinson.
Director: Vikram Gandhi | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Vikram Gandhi, Aleah Quiñones, Daddy
Votes: 942
10. 5 Headed Shark Attack (2017 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Shaped like a demented starfish, a monster 5-headed shark terrorizes the open ocean before invading the beaches of Puerto Rico, endangering the once peaceful island paradise.
Director: Nico De Leon | Stars: Chris Bruno, Nikki Howard, Lindsay Sawyer, Jeffrey Holsman
Votes: 1,798
11. Keep an Eye Out (2018)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy
Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy?
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Grégoire Ludig, Marc Fraize, Anaïs Demoustier
Votes: 5,368
12. Buffet Froid (1979)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Alphonse lives in an empty building. Empty but for one neighbour, the police captain Morvandieu. When the man who have killed Alphonse's wife appears, the three men will be thrown in a serie of event in a surrealist world.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Denise Gence
Votes: 6,506
13. Rundfunk (2015–2016)
30 min | Comedy
Rundfunk is an absurd, horrendously funny and shamelessly politically incorrect high school comedy about two best friends, Tim and Erik, who spend their time trying to do as little as possible during their final year at high school.
Stars: Yannick van de Velde, Tom van Kalmthout, Kees Hulst, Claire Bender
Votes: 1,484
14. Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
Six people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová, Anna Wetlinská
Votes: 3,685
15. Escape from Virtual Island (2020 Podcast Series)
Comedy
In the year 2038, there's only one destination that can play host to the world's wealthiest adventure seekers: the Pengalaman Island Resort and Virtual Reality Theme Park. Located on a ... See full summary »
Stars: Paul Rudd, Jack McBrayer, Paula Pell, Amber Ruffin
Votes: 94
16. UUelcome (1997– )
Game-Show
Link Egglepple Starbureiy (lnq)
Stars: Lnq, Joey Koala, Puwun, Honne Bay
17. Happy End (1967)
73 min | Comedy, Crime
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Josef Abrhám, Bohus Záhorský
Votes: 1,415
18. Call Me Bwana (1963)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 880
19. How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975)
96 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A turbulent comedy of confusion about the water sprites who go soul hunting in the river Vltava and become ordinary mortals through all kinds of misadventures.
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Jaromír Hanzlík, Libuse Safránková, Frantisek Filipovský, Milos Kopecký
Votes: 1,315
20. Voksne mennesker (2005)
Unrated | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through times and struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark.
Director: Dagur Kári | Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Nicolas Bro, Tilly Scott Pedersen, Morten Suurballe
Votes: 3,439
21. Ashiap Man (2022)
TV-14 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A wannabe superhero struggles to help his village fight back against the evil corporation behind his father's death.
Directors: Atta Halilintar, Herdanius Larobu | Stars: Atta Halilintar, Aurel Hermansyah, Nasya Marcella, Gritte Agatha
Votes: 1,564
22. The Blob
Horror, Sci-Fi | Announced
When a band of miners uncover something hidden deep beneath the earth, they unwittingly unleash a hideous creature beyond imagination. Now the townsfolk must fight back, before it destroys everything.
Star: Samuel L. Jackson
23. Tuvalu (1999)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In a desolate and colorless landscape stands a dilapidated bathhouse run by a puffed-up blind man, his long-suffering wife, and their son Anton, who does all the work. He's lonely and ... See full summary »
Director: Veit Helmer | Stars: Denis Lavant, Chulpan Khamatova, Philippe Clay, Terrence Gillespie
Votes: 2,805 | Gross: $0.41M
24. The End of Man (1971)
79 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Stark naked man comes out from the sea and begins to walk the streets, interfering in daily episodes, always in search of justice. He names himself Finis Hominis (The End of Man, in latin),... See full summary »
Director: José Mojica Marins | Stars: José Mojica Marins, Teresa Sodré, Roque Rodrigues, Rosângela Maldonado
Votes: 425
25. The Man Without a Map (1968)
118 min | Mystery
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. Contradictory evidence and the lack of clues soon render the case as virtually unsolvable, as the detective grows more and more frustrated.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Etsuko Ichihara, Osamu Ôkawa, Kiyoshi Atsumi
Votes: 609
26. Happy Day (1976)
100 min | Drama
The film depicts the penal experience of political prisoners exiled to a small Aegean island during the military junta and in particular one prisoner's refusal to submit.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Zorz Sarri, Giorgos Moshidis, Stavros Kalaroglou, Nikos Bousdoukos
Votes: 296
27. Domingo em Rigel Kent
Short, Drama | Completed
Sunday in Rigel Kent is an independent short film inspired by the theater of the absurd. In the city of Rigel Kent, the mayor alters the days through decrees, and the population, eager to ... See full summary »
Director: André Ladeia | Stars: Ernani Moraes, Cristina Pereira, Jaime Leibovitch, Ícaro Galvão
28. Premonition Following an Evil Deed (1995)
TV-MA | 1 min | Short, Horror, Romance
A short film about the events following a murder.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Michele Carlyle, Stan Lothridge, Russ Pearlman, Pam Pierrocish
Votes: 1,359
29. Animal World (2018)
132 min | Comedy, Drama
In the spring of 2017, after finishing the documentary Animal World, the independent filmmaker Ouyang Dong turned his camera to a foreign woman, Mary, played by an inflatable doll who was ... See full summary »
Director: Lam Can-zhao | Stars: Haokun Gou, Gu Jianping, Lv Liang, Tian Ling
Votes: 18
30. Gospel According to Harry (1994)
82 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The film is a biblical soap-opera whose action unfolds in the Californian desert. Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband ... See full summary »
Director: Lech Majewski | Stars: Andy Rivera, Alhassane Barry, David Baty, Renata Berger
Votes: 303
31. Freak Orlando (1981)
126 min | Comedy, Fantasy
In the form of a "small theater of the world", a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, ... See full summary »
Director: Ulrike Ottinger | Stars: Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Albert Heins, Claudio Pantoja
Votes: 372
32. Eastern Business (2016)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Two friends begin a journey full of adventures in Eastern Europe, trying to make it in business and fulfill their long-time dreams.
Director: Igor Cobileanski | Stars: Ion Sapdaru, Constantin Puscasu, Daniel Busuioc, Anne Marie Chertic
Votes: 894
33. Accumulator 1 (1994)
102 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that's right in the TV set. This double needs energy from the true ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Petr Forman, Edita Brychta, Zdenek Sverák, Marián Labuda
Votes: 1,620
34. O Drakoulas ton Exarheion (1983)
87 min | Comedy, Horror, Music
A mad scientist creates the band Music Brigades from body parts of dead musicians.
Director: Nikos Zervos | Stars: Konstantinos Tzoumas, Tzimis Panousis, Vangelis Kotronis, Isavella Mavraki
Votes: 996
35. Space Chickens in Space (2018–2019)
TV-Y7 | 11 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Three chickens have to face unthinkable challenges of technology, school and sibling relationships on a diplomacy school in outer space.
Stars: Kylie Loveday, Lynette Callaghan, Laura Aikman, David Menkin
Votes: 125
36. Too Legit (2016)
16 min | Short, Comedy
A rape victim (Zoe Kravitz) learns that she is pregnant.
Director: Frankie Shaw | Stars: Zoë Kravitz, Teresa Palmer, Nate Corddry, Clark Gregg
Votes: 137
37. Big Milk (2023)
65 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A man (name unknown) receives a mysterious package. His quest to find the shipment's rightful owner brings him to the brink of sanity and good taste.
Director: Austin Allan James | Stars: Jacob Ohlhausen, Wyatt Kelly, David Goren, Pierce Leggin
38. Symphony No. 42 (2014)
Not Rated | 10 min | Animation, Short, Mystery
Forty-seven brief but vivid vignettes about the paradoxical nature of our world, seamlessly intertwine perplexing scenes of poetical absurdism with the ironic, the grotesque, and the beautiful. Is this the symphony of life?
Director: Réka Bucsi
Votes: 837
39. Planeta Petrila (2016)
80 min | Documentary
In Petrila, a Romanian mining town, an ex-miner uses art and absurdism in a struggle to keep history alive.
Director: Andrei Dascalescu | Stars: Ion Barbu, Catalin Cenusa, Mihai Barbu, Ilinca Paun-Constantinescu
Votes: 724
40. Saints (2014)
79 min | Comedy
Kralj and Joke are small time crooks, with their unsuccessful attempts to get rich. They arrive at the small local fair with intention of selling smuggled cigarettes, but they immediately ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Peric | Stars: Marko Kapitanovic, Duje Grubisic, Tino Bandini, Otokar Levaj
Votes: 51
41. Slanted and Enchanted (2019)
11 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A student walks into class and notices something is wrong. Strange events begin to escalate.
Stars: Tyler Whitehead, Daniel Griffin, Annabelle Hulke, Michaela Bajic
42. Tujurikkuja (2008 TV Movie)
28 min | Comedy
The comedy duo of Märt Avandi and Ott Sepp parody the events of 2008 in this New Year's Eve sketch show.
Director: Kaaren Kaer | Stars: Märt Avandi, Ott Sepp, Jim Ashilevi, Kaspar Kaljas
Votes: 235
43. The Korean from Seoul (2021)
88 min | Action, Comedy
An Australian trading company called Chandlerdale Exports hires a drunk Korean to help protect them against the forces of darkness.
Director: Steven Whatmough | Stars: Steven Whatmough, Ben Carew, Pui-Mei Wong, Emi Nishimura
Votes: 16
44. Bierkampf (1977)
85 min | Comedy
In a stolen police uniform the drinker Herbert creates unrest at the Oktoberfest in Munich. He is so drunk that he believes he is a real detective inspector.
Director: Herbert Achternbusch | Stars: Herbert Achternbusch, Annamirl Bierbichler, Heinz Braun, Josef Bierbichler
Votes: 137
45. Girgir Ali (1982)
80 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The sick old uncle wants to leave his inheritance to Girgir Ali, but Ali refuses. Meanwhile, an old friend accused of murder asks for help from Ali.
Director: Çetin Inanç | Stars: Cüneyt Arkin, Hikmet Tasdemir, Emel Tümer, Kazim Kartal
Votes: 243
46. Hydrozagadka (1971 TV Movie)
70 min | Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero whose name is As.
Director: Andrzej Kondratiuk | Stars: Roman Klosowski, Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz, Wieslaw Michnikowski, Józef Nowak
Votes: 1,357
47. Zolotye roga (1973)
74 min | Family, Fantasy
The mother is looking for the kidnapped children whom Baba Yaga has turned into fallow deer. The last work of director Aleksandr Rou.
Directors: Viktor Makarov, Aleksandr Rou | Stars: Georgiy Millyar, Aleksei Smirnov, Raisa Ryazanova, Volodya Belov
Votes: 447
48. Wisdom Teeth (2010)
16+ | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Help from a friend to pull the wisdom teeth does not end as expected.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Don Hertzfeldt, Roxanna Kitten Brown
Votes: 1,247
49. Die beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreutz (1967)
15 min | Short
Four guys break into an old castle and find uniforms and military equipment. They then prepare to defend it from an imaginary enemy.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Peter Brumm, Georg Eska, Karl-Heinz Steffel, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg
Votes: 840
50. Dovidenia v pekle, priatelia (1990)
73 min | Drama, Mystery
As a car full of an assortment of characters rolls down an embankment and bursts into flames, the old driver says "See You in Hell, Friends." The relations between the characters are shown ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Jakubisko | Stars: Míla Beran, Nino Besozzi, Jana Brezinová, Carlo Capannelle
Votes: 125