Satire movies and TV shows – page 4
Best films
46K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, ...
Style:
mockumentary, surreal, black and white, parody, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, celebrity, disappearance, missing person, character study, justice, artists and showbiz, therapy, celebrity culture, found footage, loneliness, philosophy ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s ...
Place:
new york, germany, bronx new york city, paris france, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Paris Fashion Week draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Follows the various storylines of these characters, centering around a murder investigation of a prominent fashion figure. Features an ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, erotic, independent film, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
fashion, satire, fashion model, female nudity, female pubic hair, nudity, farce, lesbianism, multiple storylines, storytelling, art, public nudity ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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25K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are planning ...
Style:
humorous, cult classic, controversial, cynical, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
violence, satire, adultery, lesbian sex, dirty old man, female nudity, caught having sex, group sex, promiscuous woman, heist, anti hero, danger ...
Time:
2000s, september 11 2001
Place:
new york, arizona, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star.
Style:
sexy, humorous, funny, cult classic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nudity, satire, sorority, anti conformity, radio, public nudity, female nudity, adultery, lesbian, masturbation, lesbianism, public humiliation ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, year 1981, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
washington d.c., middle east, bronx new york city, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
Style:
philosophical, funny, humorous, romantic, satirical ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
atheism, rags to riches, love and romance, satire, alternate reality, stupidity, love triangle, misfit, life philosophy, creativity, existentialism, roman empire ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 13th century, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality.
Style:
anthology, parody, sex comedy, sexy, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
zoophilia, satire, sex, mad scientist, surrealism, sarcasm, sex scene, bestiality, sexology, transsexuality, looking for sex, nudity ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
new york
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23K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
War Inc. is set in the future, when the fictional desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after a private corporation, Tamerlane, owned by the former Vice President of the United States, has taken over the whole country. Brand Hauser, a hit ...
Style:
satirical, black comedy, parody, cynical, suspenseful ...
Plot:
satire, mercenary, hitman, politics, dark humor, fictional country, corporation, political satire, mistaken identity, dishonesty, assassination attempt, state affairs ...
Time:
future, year 2008
Place:
bolivia, asia, virginia, canada, middle east ...
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240K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.
Style:
clever, funny, philosophical, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
friendship, sarcasm, satire, slacker, workplace, everyday life, weed, stupidity, loser, stoner, one day, hipster ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
new jersey, seattle, usa, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an ...
Style:
talky, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, bad ending ...
Plot:
food, fast food restaurant, junk food, satire, cooking and food, butcher, hamburger, public health, illegal immigration, greed, health, fighting the system ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
texas, usa, colorado, mexico, california
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In this series, the LAPD thinks it's a good idea to form a task force partnering actors with homicide detectives. A super meta half hour comedy, the show within a show within a show is as much about Hollywood as it is an action-comedy ...
Style:
parody, captivating, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
satire, police captain, lapd, buddy cop, police investigation, film industry, policewoman, cop, actor, crime investigation, self referential humor, celebrity culture ...
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21K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good. The American public literally eats up the new dessert sensation now known as the Stuff but, ...
Style:
black comedy, satirical, cult horror, slasher, absurd ...
Plot:
addiction, conspiracy, zombie, satire, small town, consumerism, ghost town, body horror, ice cream, boy, infiltration, supermarket ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, utopia, psychopath, time travel, satire, maverick cop, totalitarianism, fish out of water, violence ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.
Style:
parody, humorous, absurd, realistic, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
journalism, satire, father son relationship, dog, reporter, workplace, stupidity, jealousy, friendship, rivalry, media, ambitious ...
Time:
20th century, year 2013, 70s, year 1979, year 1980 ...
Place:
new york, california, usa, manhattan new york city, san diego california
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663K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Two low-level astronomers, upon discovering that a meteor will strike the Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace.
Style:
cerebral, apocalyptic, feel good, political, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, date night, adult
Plot:
disaster, asteroid, end of the world, social satire, danger, satire, politics, meteorite, chaos, comet, mass hysteria, social commentary ...
Time:
future, 2020s, year 1994, distant future, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, london, illinois, north america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The Coen Brothers tell the story of a absurd yet likable family with an unproductive couple as the focal point. The couple has gotten themselves into some trouble while kidnapping a baby and give Hollywood one of the most memorable chase scenes to ...
Style:
witty, humorous, funny, dark comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, toddlers, family outing
Plot:
kidnapping, satire, robbery, parenthood, screwball, baby, american football, adoption, missing child, policewoman, desert, dark humor ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, atmospheric, mind bending ...
Plot:
satire, trippy, alchemist, enlightenment, surrealism, hermaphrodite, sex, spiritual journey, sex scene, absurdism, hippopotamus, lsd ...
Time:
year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, south america, latin america, peru
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sex comedy, black comedy, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
striptease, strip club, stripper, satire, dancing, congressman, female nudity, sex scene, little girl, yacht, bouncer, pole dancing ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
florida, usa, miami, las vegas
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style:
clever, cynical, captivating, motivational, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
money, corruption, wall street, business, rise and fall, addiction, stock market, stock broker, success, wealth, greed, rags to riches ...
Time:
80s, year 2013, 90s, 20th century, year 1987 ...
Place:
new york, usa, geneva switzerland, big ben london, italy ...
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141K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
Style:
parody, funny, satirical, political, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
politics, satire, congressman, election, campaign, farce, campaigning, political corruption, sarcasm, election campaign, mentor, stereotypes ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
Style:
parody, funny, spoof, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot:
satire, deadpan, stupidity, assassin, mind control, investigation, sarcasm, police, gunfight, assassination plot, terrorist, creativity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, beirut lebanon, england
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16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexual, cult classic, stylized, biting ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
satire, womanizer, adultery, hairdresser, sex, infidelity, cheating girlfriend, businessman, mistress, skinny dipping, hair salon, motorcycle ...
Time:
year 1968, year 1975, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, egypt
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17K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, ...
Style:
black comedy, talky, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
journalism, newspaper, newspaper editor, workaholic, satire, media, workplace, newspaper reporter, husband wife relationship, quarrel, scapegoat, father daughter estrangement ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Suzanne Stone (Maretto) wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with ...
Style:
sexy, black comedy, satirical, dark comedy, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
journalism, femme fatale, satire, female protagonist, erotic fantasy, teenage girl, oral sex, murder, television, cheating wife, adultery, erotic scene ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
new hampshire, usa, california, minnesota, canada
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47K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Style:
satirical, humorous, light, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
fictional reality show, satire, happy ending, television, surveillance, media hype, brother brother relationship, fish out of water, audition, life philosophy, misfit, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the ...
Style:
mockumentary, political, witty, cynical, satirical ...
Plot:
political satire, election campaign, politics, satire, journalism, political campaign, manipulation, republican, conspiracy, senator, ambition, campaign ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, nicaragua, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
Style:
feel good, funny, cult classic, talky, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
satire, love, surrealism, true love, destiny, supernatural power, voice over narration, manic pixie dream girl, weatherman, older man younger woman relationship, magic, social commentary ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The Boondocks is an American adult animated sitcom on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series premiered on November 6, 2005 and was created by Aaron McGruder, based upon McGruder's comic strip of the same ...
Style:
adult animation, anime, semi serious, humorous, sitcom ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
african american, satire, adult humor, topical humor, grandfather grandson relationship, street kid, interracial relations, youth, leaving home, mature, social satire, politics ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, surreal, biting, satirical ...
Plot:
farce, bourgeoisie, high society, social commentary, absurdism, satire, social satire, surrealism, dark humor, decadence, dinner, dream ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
europe, paris france, france, spain
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70K
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter Christian fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
Style:
controversial, independent film, tense, realistic, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, religious fanaticism, society, preacher, protest, homosexuality, gay slur, kidnapping, torture, religious fundamentalism, transgression, psychopath ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, xian, new jersey, texas
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style and sound. They get a record deal which brings fame and fortune but ...
Style:
humorous, teen, not serious, witty, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
satire, music, showbiz, rock and roll, friendship, fictional band, celebrity, music band, lifestyle, desire for fame, musician's life, disorder ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york
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