Movies and TvShows featuring "halfwit" theme.

In the 1990s, a chief police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China. After a quick arrest, the clues lead the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behavior of the locals.

Foolish Wives is a dark comedy drama film released in 1922. The story revolves around an artist who plans to extort money from a count by seducing his wife in Monte Carlo. The artist creates chaos and confusion as he manipulates the count while dealing with his own infidelity and the schemes of other characters. The film explores themes of deception, seduction, and the complexities of social hierarchy.

Stroszek is a poignant and surreal road movie about a simpleton ex-convict who moves to Wisconsin with his friend and a prostitute to escape their troubled pasts and pursue the American Dream. However, their new life is filled with false promises, financial debt, and heartbreak, leading to a series of tragic and bizarre events.

Ridicule is a witty and satirical movie set in the opulent court of Versailles. It follows the story of a young painter who uses his intelligence and cleverness to navigate the treacherous world of the French aristocracy.

A woman falls in love with a charming stranger, but begins to suspect that he may be a dangerous serial killer.

Civil War. Southern steppes of Russia. Circumstances bring together various people: the Chekist, professor, actor, nurse and White Guard officer posing as a vet. On two tachanka's they make their way into the city.

Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.

Jim Wallace, a young engineer, is engaged by Hammond, manager of an estate in the Northwest, to build flumes for a logging camp, but Donovan, the superintendent, dislikes him and places numerous obstacles in his way. Virginia Coulson, owner of the estate, and her maid Dot arrive, and when Hammond proposes to Virginia, she refuses his declaration in favor of Jim. Later, when Donovan is found murdered, suspicion points to Jim, who is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Hammond gets evidence on the murderer, Goofus, a half wit, and plans to use it to force Virginia to marry him; Goofus wounds Hammond and, seeing he has not killed him, starts a forest fire. Jim, who has escaped from prison with the aid of his friend, Buddy, rescues Virginia from the burning lodge; Goofus confesses to the murder, and Jim is freed.

Rugged cowgirl, Nell Hagen sets out to retaliate for the hanging of her father Judd, who ruled their valley with an iron fist before the natives revolted. She is accompanied by her brothers, Ritt and Kirby, a hump-backed half-wit, and their sensuous cousin Julie Ann. The family then robs a bank, kills two tellers, enacts their revenge before heading for the border where their own family drama gets really mean and nasty.