Dracula (2025)
Satire, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, metacinema
In Romania, a theatre group performing a Dracula play turns to crime.
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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 19.
How I Got Into College (1989)
Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
The story follows two high school seniors from Michigan on their quest to get into Ramsey College, a small college in Pennsylvania: popular and talented Jessica, and unnoticed underachiever Marlon. Jessica wants to break free of both her h…
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Personal Services (1987)
Komödie, biographical film, comedy film
Christine Painter is a sexually naïve waitress and single mother who pays for her teenage son David's tuition by renting London flats to call girls. When a landlord confronts her for illegally subletting the flats and falling behind on the…
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Flatland (2007)
Animated Film, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
In a two-dimensional world called Flatland populated by sapient polygons, it is three days until the celebration of the year 3000. "A Square", attorney at law, struggles to instruct his son, A Hexagon, in the art of sight recognition. The …
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State of the Union (1948)
Drama, Political Satire, drama film
After inheriting a newspaper empire from her father Sam Thorndyke (modeled on Hearst and Gannett) Republican newspaper magnate, Kay Thorndyke, intends to make her lover, aircraft tycoon Grant Matthews, U.S. president, with her as the power…
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Le roi de cœur (1966)
Satire, Tragic Comedy Film, War Film
In October 1918, as the Great War is ending, a small village in France is awaiting liberation from German occupiers. The retreating Germans wire the automaton clock in the main square to set off a bomb when the mechanical knight strikes th…
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Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1983)
dystopian film
In a future dystopia, Aram Fingal, a programmer working for the conglomerate Novicorp, is caught watching Casablanca at his workstation. As a consequence, the company assigns him mandatory prophylactic rehabilitation, where subjects are "d…
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The Scalphunters (1968)
Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film, drama film
Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster), an American fur trapper, is on his way to sell the hides he has amassed over the winter. He encounters a group of Kiowa Indians led by Two Crows (Armando Silvestre), who take his furs. In exchange, they give a di…
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Meet the Applegates (1990)
Animalhorror, Dark Comedy, Horror, Satire, comedy horror
In a Brazilian rainforest, a logging crew is attacked by a family of huge shapeshifting mutant bug creatures called "Brazilian Cocorada". In a well-off suburban Ohio neighborhood, the Applegates, a typical-looking family, move in. They are…
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The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Crime, mystery film, thriller film
Tony Randall begins the movie by talking directly to the audience. He explains that he will be starring as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in a mystery set in London. As the movie begins, Poirot has arrived in London to see his tailor.
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Ratboy (1986)
drama film, fantasy film
A former window dresser named Nikki Morrison overhears mention of a mysterious "Ratboy" named Eugene while dumpster diving at a dump. After finding and befriending him, Nikki makes several attempts at marketing his uniqueness to the public…
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Salome's Last Dance (1988)
Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama
Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas arrive late on Guy Fawkes Night in 1892 at their friend Alfred Taylor's brothel, where they are treated to a surprise staging of Wilde's play Salome, public performances of which have j…
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The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
Komödie, Satire
The elderly British employees of the Permanent Assurance Company, a staid London firm which has recently been taken over by the Very Big Corporation of America (VBCA), rebel against their much younger corporate masters when one of them is …
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Switching Channels (1988)
Komödie, comedy of remarriage, romantic comedy film
John L. "Sully" Sullivan, IV, is the news director of Satellite News Network (SNN), a Chicago-based TV cable news station. Christy Colleran, his best reporter and ex-wife, goes on vacation, where she falls in love with Blaine Bingham, the …
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Little Murders (1971)
Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
Patsy Newquist is a 27-year-old interior designer who lives in a New York City that is rife with street crime, noise, obscene phone calls, power blackouts and unsolved homicides. When she sees a defenseless man being attacked by street thu…
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Stars and Bars (1988)
Komödie, comedy film
A British art expert, Henderson Dores, travels to Georgia in the United States in order to purchase a rare painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He comes across some crazy characters in the process.
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Reefer Madness (2005)
Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film, zombie film
In a small middle-America town in 1936, a group of parents have been gathered by a mysterious Lecturer for an assembly. The ominous Lecturer informs the parents that he has come to warn them about the evils of marijuana on their youth ("Re…
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Things Change (1988)
Crime Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film
Gino, a humble shoe-shiner in Chicago, is approached by Mafia Don "Mr. Green", who offers him a large sum of money to take the blame for a murder committed by another gangster. When he refuses, the don starts to order what may be a hit on …
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The Great McGinty (1940)
Drama, Political Satire, comedy film
Dan McGinty, a bartender in a banana republic, recounts his rise and fall to the bar's dancing girl and a suicidal American customer, Tommy. The customer was a trusted bank employee who can no longer return to the United States and his fam…
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The Dark Backward (1991)
Dark Comedy, comedy film
Marty Malt is an unhappy garbage man who moonlights as an atrociously unfunny standup comic. He lives in a dark, grimy, garbage-strewn urban netherworld, where a company named Blump's apparently owns everything. His best friend and fellow …
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Dobermann (1997)
Action, Crime, action film, crime film
The charismatic criminal Dobermann (Vincent Cassel), who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers with his beautiful, deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci). After a complex and violent bank robbery…
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Hard Core Logo (1996)
Drama, Fake Documentary, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, mockumentary, musical film
The film is about a documentary team that follows the reunion of Hard Core Logo, a once-popular punk rock band. Frontman Joe Dick gets the band back together, ostensibly for an anti-gun benefit after hearing Canadian punk legend and person…
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Touch (1997)
Komödie, comedy film, drama film
A young man, Juvenal, is apparently able to cure the sick by the laying-on of hands. Mysterious stigmata appear from time to time on his flesh. The former evangelist Bill Hill, tired of selling mobile homes for a living, persuades his frie…
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A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Komödie, comedy film
Set in Casablanca shortly after World War II, escaped Nazi war criminal Heinrich Stubel has steadily murdered three managers of the Hotel Casablanca. Disguised as a Count Pfefferman, Stubel's goal is to reclaim the stolen art treasures tha…
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