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Satire movies

Explore films with satire genres and themes.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 709 films · Page 18.

Schizopolis (1996)

Komödie, comedy film

Although the film does not have a linear plot, a structure exists, telling the same story from three different perspectives. At the beginning, Soderbergh speaks to the audience in a style meant to evoke Cecil B. DeMille's introduction to T…

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It Should Happen to You (1954)

Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy

Gladys Glover is a young woman who yearns for fame. Strolling through Central Park, she meets Pete Sheppard, who is a documentary maker. Gladys tells him she has just been fired and has $1,000 saved up.

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Real Life (1979)

Satire, mockumentary

Documentary film producer Albert Brooks leads a project meant to encapsulate the joys, sorrows and intimacy of real life by filming a regular American family, the Yeagers, for a full year using expensive cameras: some installed on walls, a…

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Cinderfella (1960)

Komödie, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy

When Fella's father dies, he continues to live with his wicked stepmother Emily and her two sons, Maximilian and Rupert. His stepfamily takes over the family mansion, while Fella is reduced to living in an unfinished room at the end of a l…

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Tapeheads (1988)

Komödie, comedy film

After losing their jobs as security guards, best friends Ivan and Josh start a music video production company called "Video Aces". When they meet their childhood heroes, 1970s soul duo Swanky Modes, Ivan and Josh concoct a scheme to give t…

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Linda Lovelace for President (1975)

Erotic Film, Komödie, Raunchy comedy, Satire, Sex Film, comedy film

A committee of independent U.S. political party leaders have gathered to join forces and select a candidate for the upcoming presidential election. One of the committee members flippantly suggests nominating Linda Lovelace.

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Going Berserk (1983)

comedy film

John Bourgignon is an amiable chauffeur and would-be drummer who is engaged to Nancy, the daughter of the disapproving United States congressman Ed Reese. As the wedding date approaches, John's sleazy film-director friend, Sal DiPasquale, …

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Flatland: The Movie (2007)

Animation, Fantasy

The two-dimensional Arthur Square awakens from a dream of strange, glowing symbols. He lives with his wife, Arlene Square, and his curious granddaughter Hex, a hexagon. Hex and Arthur discuss the laws of inheritance: how each new generatio…

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Secret Honor (1984)

Historical drama, biographical film, drama film

A disgraced Richard Nixon is restlessly pacing in the study of his Saddle River, New Jersey mansion in the early 1980s. Armed with a loaded revolver, a bottle of Scotch whisky and a running tape recorder, while surrounded by closed-circuit…

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Jimmy Hollywood (1994)

Komödie, comedy film

Jimmy Alto is a failing actor living in Los Angeles. After increasing frustration with his career going nowhere and with crime in the city, Jimmy, along with his "spaced-out" best friend William, decides to take the law into his own hands.…

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Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)

Komödie, Satire, Sci-Fi, comedy drama

The film opens to Adam Beckett, a pianist reluctantly performing Chopin to an audience in Carnegie Hall. When Beckett is asked to play an encore, he gives away that he is not actually playing, but using a player piano. The outraged crowd s…

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Burning Palms (2010)

Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Satire

The Green-Eyed Monster Dedra Davenport meets Chloe, the 15-year-old daughter of her fiancé Dennis for the very first time. However, she is soon disturbed by how close father and daughter are, committing suicide by cutting her veins just li…

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The Baxter (2005)

Drama, Komödie, Romantic Drama, romantic comedy

Elliot, a tax accountant from Brooklyn, is a dependable though thoroughly average young man doomed to be the "Baxter", the nice guy who's bound to lose the girl to the leading man in romantic comedies. Losing three girlfriends to last-minu…

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Boogie Woogie (2010)

Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Satire, comedy film, drama film

Boogie Woogie is a comedy of manners, its cast of characters devouring each other in a small world awash with big money. Set against the backdrop of contemporary London and the international art scene, it casts an eye over the appetites an…

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Protocol (1984)

Komödie, comedy film

Sunny Ann Davis is a seemingly ditzy blonde who works as a cocktail waitress in Washington, D.C. She rents a small room in the home of a gay couple, has a lousy love life and drives a rust bucket of a car that she cannot afford to repair. …

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As Young as You Feel (1951)

Komödie, comedy film, musical film

After printer John R. Hodges is forced to retire at age 65 because of a company policy, he dyes his hair and beard black to pose as Harold P. Cleveland, the president of his former employer's parent company.

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Duck Soup (1933)

Anarchic Comedy Film, Musical, comedy film, musical film

Wealthy widow Gloria Teasdale is asked to give twenty million dollars to the small, financially struggling nation of Freedonia; she agrees on the condition that Rufus T. Firefly is appointed the country's leader. Meanwhile, Ambassador Tren…

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The Big Shave (1967)

Anti-War Film, Satire On War

Peter Bernuth stars as the recipient of the title shave, repeatedly shaving away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene. Prompted by the film's alternative title, many film critics have interpreted the young …

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Six-String Samurai (1998)

Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, buddy film, comedy film, musical film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

In 1957, the Soviet Union attacks the United States with nuclear weapons, rendering most of the nation uninhabitable. The American government has collapsed with the exception of the haven known as Lost Vegas, ruled by King Elvis. The Red A…

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The Bellboy (1960)

Komödie, comedy film

In a prologue sequence, fictitious executive producer of Paramount Pictures Jack E. Mulcher introduces the film, explaining that it has no story and no plot. The film simply shows a few weeks in the life of a person Mulcher calls "a real n…

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