A Serial Killer's Guide to Life (2019), Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), The Party (1968), King of Hearts (1966), Black Dynamite (2009), The Mask (1994), Defendor (2009), The Brother From Another Planet (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Unconventional Hero movies.
Storyline: A self-help addict takes a road trip with a life coach who happens to be a deranged serial killer.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, crime, thriller, serial killer, psychological thriller, british film, indie film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A disaffected magazine intern (Aubrey Plaza) befriends an unusual guy (Mark Duplass), who is looking for a partner to accompany him on a trip back through time.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, romance, adventure, time travel, indie film, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While trying to tie his shoe, bumbling extra Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) unwittingly triggers explosives that destroy the set of an epic war film. The furious director tells executive Fred Clutterbuck (J. Edward McKinley) to fire him. Because of a misunderstanding, Bakshi instead mistakenly receives an invitation to an exclusive party at Clutterbuck's Hollywood mansion, where he proceeds to wreak havoc on partygoers as he stumbles through what will become the wildest night he's ever seen.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, british film, black and white, 1960s, absurd, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German Army has planted. However, Charles is chased by some Germans, and finds himself holed up at the local insane asylum, where the inmates are convinced that he is the "King of Hearts". Feeling obligated to help the inmates, Charles attempts to lead them out of town, but they are afraid to leave, and frolic about the streets in gay costumes.—Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org>
Plot Keywords: war, comedy, absurd, anti-war, french film, black comedy, mental asylum ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House..
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, nostalgia, parody, crime, revenge, urban ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) is a bank clerk that is an incredibly nice man. Unfortunately, he is too nice for his own good and is a pushover when it comes to confrontations. After one of the worst days of his life, he finds a mask that depicts Loki, the Norse night god of mischief. Now, when he puts it on, he becomes his inner, self: a cartoon romantic wild man. However, a small time crime boss, Dorian Tyrel (Peter Greene), comes across this character dubbed "The Mask" by the media. After Ipkiss's alter ego indirectly kills his friend in crime, Tyrel now wants this green-faced goon destroyed.
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, superhero, cartoonish, jim carrey, crime, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, drama, superhero, black comedy, antihero, indie film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. While mute, strongly empathic, and able to fix things, he resembles a Black man with strange feet. His attempt to make a place for himself in Harlem is an allegory for the immigrant experience in the United States. Meanwhile, two bounty hunters from the Brother's home planet arrive and try to capture him.—Reid Gagle
Plot Keywords: science fiction, alien, comedy, race, immigration, new york, social commentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a faulty interview with the Life Foundation ruins his career, former reporter Eddie Brock's life is in pieces. Six months later, he comes across the Life Foundation again, and he comes into contact with an alien symbiote and becomes Venom, a parasitic antihero.
Plot Keywords: action, sci-fi, anti-hero, marvel, dark, violence, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them, in order to use them for his dirty schemes. The next evening already, Briggs makes his first robbery, and when he wakes up in the morning he has no memory of it. Things get really complicated when he starts investigating the case. Will he be able to uncover... himself?
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, detective, dark humor, 1940s, new york, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Coming of age in Plainsboro, New Jersey. High school student Hal Hefner stutters. On the evening his parents stop arguing and separate, 43 miles away at the state tournament, his school's legendary debater, Ben Wekselbaum, goes blank mid-sentence, Ben's teammate Ginny Ryerson doesn't get a first-place trophy, and the world changes. That fall, to Hal's amazement, Ginny recruits him for the debate team, mentors him, and will be his partner. He still has his stutter, but he works hard and he falls in love with Ginny. On the day of the first debate of the season, the world changes again. From then until the day of the state tournament, Hal has a lot to sort out. Is love rocket science?
Plot Keywords: coming of age, comedy, drama, high school, teenager, self-discovery, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charlie is a Rhode Island state trooper with a multiple personalities. He is otherwise mild-mannered and non confrontational until somebody or something pushes him a little too far. That's when his maniacal alter-ego, Hank, takes over. Charlie is assigned on a routine mission to return alleged fugitive Irene back to upstate New York, but they wind up on the run from corrupt police officers. And their escape would be a lot simpler on everybody involved if Hank didn't keep stepping in at the most inopportune times....
Plot Keywords: comedy, dark humor, road movie, romance, police, double life, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The policeman Dave Speed is assigned to a mission in an ex-Indian reservation near a military shooting range. Casually, Dave is doing an investigation on the spot. A nuclear missile explodes. The radiation gives him superpowers. Dave is able to move object with the mind force, to discover mysterious crimes and to jump with no problem from a skyscraper. His friends cannot understand those transformations.—Tognacci Sebastiano <seblog@maya.dei.unipd.it>
Plot Keywords: comedy, science fiction, action, police, superpowers, 1980s, buddy cop ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Augustin Dos Santos is back. He still wants to be an actor and, this time, he moves to the Chinese borough in Paris because he has decided to play in kung-fu movies. But poor Augustin has a morbid fear of physical contacts, so he meets Ling, a nice Chinese doctor. This is the second chapter of Augustin's epic life...—Thierry Bézecourt <thbzcrt@worldnet.fr>
Plot Keywords: comedy, french film, action, martial arts, humor, 1990s, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hedonistic, contemptuous and vain health club members, to the point of accidentally ending up in a vat of toxic waste. The devastating results then have a transmogrification effect, his alter ego is released, and the Toxic Avenger is born, to deadly and comical results. The local mop boy is now the local Superhero, the saviour of corruption, thuggish bullies and indifference. Troma classic with good make-up effects and stunts, a pleasant surprise indeed.
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, action, b-movie, cult film, violence, gore ...
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