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Genre "Absurd Comedy" Movies
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| 1. A Hard Day's Night (year: 1964) |
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During the first worldwide flush of Beatlemania in 1964, United Artists wanted to ship out a movie with The Beatles before their vogue was over. Worki ...
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| 2. Airplane! (year: 1980) |
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This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting — a comedy ...
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| 3. And Now for Something Completely Different (year: 1971) |
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Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different was first released in the US in 1973, but didn't really take off as a midnight-movie fixture ...
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| 5. Austin Powers in Goldmember (year: 2002) |
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Mike Myers' phenomenally successful spy spoof gains a few more characters, a slew of celebrity cameos, and even more free-associative laughs in this t ...
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| 6. Bananas (year: 1971) |
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One of Woody Allen's earlier, more slapstick-oriented efforts, Bananas tells the story of Fielding Mellish (Allen), a neurotic New Yorker who follows ...
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| 7. Beerfest (year: 2006) |
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Two guys used to drinking beer for fun suddenly become fierce competitors in a sort of Lager Olympics in this over-the-top comedy. Todd Wolfhouse (Eri ...
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| 8. Breakfast of Champions (year: 1999) |
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In a small American town called Midland City, Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) — a loyal father, a successful car dealer, and a respected member ...
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| 9. Dumb and Dumber (year: 1994) |
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Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels play the title roles (though viewers may find themselves debating which is which) in this genially low-brow comedy. Lloyd ...
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| 10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (year: 1998) |
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Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunte ...
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| 11. Freddy Got Fingered (year: 2001) |
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Television star Tom Green makes his directorial debut with this gross-out comedy. Green stars as Gord Brody, a 28-year-old slacker who aspires to be a ...
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| 12. I Heart Huckabees (year: 2004) |
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Five years after achieving commercial and critical success with his film Three Kings, director and screenwriter David O. Russell returns to the more i ...
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| 13. Nacho Libre (year: 2006) |
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Jared Hess (of Napoleon Dynamite fame) directs this bizarre comedy starring Jack Black as Nacho, a young man who works as a cook in the Mexican monast ...
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| 14. Napoleon Dynamite (year: 2004) |
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The directorial debut of filmmaker Jared Hess, who also co-wrote the screenplay, Napoleon Dynamite is a quirky, offbeat comedy set in the small Idaho ...
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| 15. National Lampoon's Vacation (year: 1983) |
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Far superior to its sequels, National Lampoon's Vacation chronicles the trials and tribulations of the Griswolds (Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana ...
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| 16. Punch-Drunk Love (year: 2002) |
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Adam Sandler and Emily Watson star in Punch-Drunk Love, an odd romantic comedy from gifted young director Paul Thomas Anderson. Sandler plays Barry Eg ...
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| 17. Scary Movie 3 (year: 2003) |
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While star Anna Faris returns for the third film in the Scary Movie series, the power behind the camera has shifted from the Wayans brothers to one of ...
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| 18. Scary Movie 4 (year: 2006) |
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Spoof series torch-bearer and Airplane! mastermind David Zucker steps back into the captain's chair for yet another round of cinematic shenanigans in ...
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| 19. Spaceballs (year: 1987) |
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A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Br ...
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| 20. Strange Brew (year: 1983) |
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Purporting to be loosely based on Hamlet, Strange Brew is about an evil braumeister at the Elsinore Brewery who has discovered an additive that when g ...
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| 21. Strangers With Candy (year: 2005) |
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The cult-favorite television series which offered a fun-house version of '70s "after-school specials" returns in this big-screen prequel to ...
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| 22. Super Troopers (year: 2001) |
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A handful of state troopers are put in the uncomfortable position of having to actually enforce the law in this high-spirited comedy. Mac (Steve Lemme ...
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| 23. Superhero Movie (year: 2008) |
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After spoofing disaster films in Airplane!, police shows in The Naked Gun, and Hollywood horrors in Scary Movie 3 and 4, producer David Zucker sets hi ...
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| 24. The Blues Brothers (year: 1980) |
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Expanding on their Saturday Night Live characters, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star as Jake and Elwood Blues, two white boys with black soul. Sportin ...
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| 25. The Brothers Solomon (year: 2007) |
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Mr. Show alumnus Bob Odenkirk directed — and SNL vet Will Forte scripted — this gleefully raunchy tale of two socially backward bu ...
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| 26. The Jerk (year: 1979) |
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Carl Reiner directs Steve Martin (who co-wrote the script with Carl Gottlieb) in this gag-laden comedy about an idiotic white man, raised by a poor fa ...
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| 27. The Naked Gun (year: 1988) |
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We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production ...
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| 28. The Onion Movie (year: 2008) |
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America's most popular satirical newspaper makes the leap from the printed page to the silver screen in this political comedy that explores what happe ...
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| 29. The Ten (year: 2007) |
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Much of the group responsible for MTV's The State - including director/actor David Wain and performers Ken Marino, Kerri Kinney-Silver and Joe Lo Trug ...
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| 30. Themroc (year: 1973) |
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This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. When a salt crystal is dropped into a solution of water that contains a ...
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