| Roque Santeiro (1985) | 8.8 | |
| The Square (2017) | 7.1 | |
| Beneath The Lies (2014) | 8.7 | |
| Pinjra (1972) | 8.7 | |
| The Woman King (2022) | 6.9 |
Hypocrisy movies and TV shows – page 3
Best films
New films
| Old Dads (2023) | 6.2 | |
| Homo Argentum (2025) | 5.8 | |
| Life on Call (2022) | 6.9 | |
| The Kingdom (2021) | 6.4 | |
| Aurora (2025) | 6.4 |
List of hypocrisy movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Georg Sahl, one of the last major newspaper publishers with liberal-conservative quality standards, is offered the position of Federal President by the Mayor of Frankfurt. His wife Franziska, a successful divorce lawyer, is initially not very happy ...
Style:
political, suspense, tense, contemplative
Plot:
promiscuity, family relations, womanizer, hypocrisy, boss, age difference, naive woman, manipulation, father son relationship, adulterer, egoist, older man younger woman relationship ...
Place:
frankfurt germany
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10K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of a small town, working class father who embarks on a solo walk across the U.S. to crusade against bullying after his son is tormented in high school for being gay.
Style:
psychological, touching, talky, melancholic, anamorphic ...
Plot:
gay son, gay teenager, gay interest, father son relationship, gay, high school, cheerleader, high school student, american football, gay student, flash forward, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa, idaho, colorado, salt lake city utah, new york
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108K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
Style:
parody, humorous, biblical, satirical, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
caveman, stupidity, satire, chosen one, slavery, road trip, sarcasm, farce, dumb, destiny, buddies, profanity ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age, year 2009
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Marc (Lambert Wilson) is a man of the cloth who's gained a bit of celebrity for his public espousal of religious celibacy. In fact, he's even written a book about the subject. But Marc's 15 minutes of fame could be up when a bratty ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, semi serious, sincere, crying
Plot:
illegitimate son, secret, fatherhood, friendship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, teenage boy, satire, juvenile delinquent, bastard, christian, scandal ...
Place:
montreal, kosovo, paris france
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 19th century New Orleans creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is great opposition to her ideas of breaking traditions.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious
Plot:
white male black female relationship, interracial relations, racism, fighting the system, racial prejudice, injustice, discrimination, rebellion, social differences, society, life is a bitch, social decay ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1800s
Place:
new orleans, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
Song Yeo-wool, a widow who has been falsely accused of her husband’s murder, goes on a dangerous path to discover the truth about her husband’s death, while facing great judgement from the society. With this charge and allegation on her, she ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, dark, atmospheric
Plot:
hypocrisy, secrets, lie, false accusation, high society, reputation, betrayal, scandal, investigation, class conflict, moral corruption, urban ...
Place:
seoul
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In order to finally get that long-awaited promotion, Heinz Hellmich, an old white man, has to show his "wokest" side at work. When he invites his superiors to a private dinner at his home, his family's politically correct façade ...
Style:
dark comedy, satirical
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hypocrisy, satire, social satire, political satire, dinner party, office politics, irony, socially awkward, social climbing, character study, family drama, identity crisis ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the ...
Style:
family saga, tense, melancholic
Plot:
wedding, corruption, hypocrisy, character study, emotional breakdown, suicide attempt, arranged marriage, satire, ballerina, villa, bureaucracy, intimate ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Contempoary re-working of the Shakespeare's problem play set in the british army.
Style:
serious, intense, suspense, tragicomedy, dark comedy
Plot:
shakespeare, disguise, hypocrisy, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, power, adaptation, justice, conscience, british army, military base, honor ...
Place:
united kingdom
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The chronicles of Chatterjee, an ambitious and self-made young man, as he rises his way up the corporate ladder.
Style:
art house, ambiguous ending, slow cinema, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
ambition, social satire, moral ambiguity, class conflict, business ethics, character study, materialism, hypocrisy, office politics, irony, corruption, bureaucracy ...
Place:
kolkata, india
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In the 17th century Massachusetts, a married women, whose husband is missing, has a child with the local pastor. The puritanical residents of her town condemn her to carry the Scarlet Letter of shame. Then the husband shows up.
Style:
historical drama, serious, bleak, costume drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
adultery, illegitimate child, literary, hypocrisy, redemption, shame, punishment, forgiveness, infidelity, puritan, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
massachusetts
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970's petit bourgeois Dutch culture in general.
Style:
black comedy, absurd, allegory, art house, controversial ...
Plot:
religion, satire, hypocrisy, absurd humor, dark humor, irreverent, violence, cruelty, parable, taboo, political satire, counterculture ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Nunsploitation from Japan. Part of the Shûdôjo series.
Style:
controversial, dark, intense, erotic drama, sensual ...
Plot:
sexploitation, convent, nun, female protagonist, hypocrisy, religion, sin, sexual repression, moral ambiguity, repression, temptation, female sexuality ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicted from most every stratum of European society, most of whom show up with false hope in their hearts ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, tragicomedy, satirical, art house ...
Plot:
world war one, european, mortality, sanitarium, hypocrisy, death, deception, secrets, macabre, social satire, intimate, deaf ...
Time:
1910s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are ...
Style:
period piece, bleak, art house
Plot:
social commentary, hypocrisy, military life, soldier, loneliness, tragic love, realism, small town life, post war, cruelty, betrayal, fatalism ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, post world war two
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the thirties, during the Fascist Dictatorship, an insurance broker, Omero Battifiori, reaches a small country town from Rome seeking for new customers. The main authorities, expecting an incognito inspection from the Fascist Party of the capital, ...
Style:
satirical, period piece, cynical, black comedy, costume drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fascism, corruption, satire, hypocrisy, mistaken identity, political satire, farce, small town, bureaucracy, authoritarianism, dark humor, ss ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fall from Grace is a drama, concerning the lives of Jim Bakker and his then-wife, Tammy Faye Bakker Messner during the 1980s, and starred Kevin Spacey and Bernadette Peters. This made-for-television movie aired on NBC on April 29, 1990. Jim Bakker ...
Plot:
religion, scandal, televangelist, fundamentalism, preacher, controversy, religious hypocrisy, rise and fall, hypocrisy, biopic, betrayal, fraud ...
Time:
80s, 70s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A redneck con artist sets himself up as a preacher in a small Deep South town to run his moonshine distillery and clashes with a number of locals and a federal agent bent on shutting his operation down.
Style:
independent film, southern gothic, grindhouse, crime drama, period piece ...
Plot:
religion, redneck, exploitation, corruption, religious hypocrisy, hypocrisy, con man, backwoods, deep south, crucifix, small town, sleazy ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise.
Style:
cynical, dark comedy, independent film, parody, black humor
Plot:
satire, greed, religion and supernatural, evangelical christianity, media manipulation, religious hypocrisy, hypocrisy, scam, exploitation, corruption, moral ambiguity, consumerism ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In the tiny poor town of Asa Branca, in the middle of Brazilian Northeast, Roque Santeiro is worshiped as a saint. He was supposedly killed by a bandit, 18 years ago, trying to save the local church. After his disappearance, local leaderships such ...
Style:
novela, satirical, soap opera, comedy drama, dark comedy ...
Plot:
political satire, satire, religion, religious hypocrisy, political manipulation, hypocrisy, power struggle, corruption, small town, folklore, class conflict, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
northeast brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.
Style:
satirical, ironic, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
socialism, hypocrisy, class struggle, social satire, social commentary, political satire, social climbing, dark humor, sibling rivalry, manipulation, moral ambiguity, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy
Is relevant?
267
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess Virna Lisi so that he can steal her ...
Style:
black comedy, ironic, cynical, dark comedy, dark ...
Plot:
corruption, high society, hypocrisy, bourgeoisie, social satire, satire, aristocracy, scandal, moral ambiguity, class conflict, urban, political satire ...
Time:
70s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.
Style:
anthology, black comedy, witty, biting, cynical ...
Plot:
hypocrisy, social criticism, satire, city life, irony, slice of life, realism, identity crisis, political satire, intimate, nostalgia, nightlife ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Egypt
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A seemingly traditional journey of a young sheikh in a governmental mosque who moves from leading prayers to becoming a TV celebrity issuing "fatwas" that are accepted by millions who have become fans of his as a result of his courage and ...
Style:
thought provoking, religious drama, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, social commentary, hypocrisy, power struggle, ethical dilemma, fundamentalism, self discovery, life is a bitch, social problems, society, changing lives, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
egypt, middle east
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
After his running mate's murder, a controversial televangelist becomes Argentina's presidential candidate. But nothing about him is as holy as he seems.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, political, suspense ...
Plot:
politics, political intrigue, televangelist, murder, politician, hypocrisy, religious hypocrisy, corruption, presidential election, election, crime boss, murderer ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina
Is relevant?
210
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Faced with the trials and obstacles of life, the tight-knit community of Ste-Adeline has always remained united. But this time it's in shock and will have to face a situation that will confront the inhabitants with their contradictions. At the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, social, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, teenager, social commentary, small town, hypocrisy, community, secrets, family drama, life, adolescence, social issues ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An arrogant politician feeds his mail ego in meeting with a Russian call girl. At the same time his wife, a young hysterical star, picks a fight on set with a talk-show hostess who is in a loveless marriage with a yuppie manager who vents in therapy.
Style:
satirical, ironic, dark comedy
Plot:
social commentary, hypocrisy, high society, political satire, infidelity, paranoia, vanity, elitism, ego, call girl, class conflict, celebrity culture ...
Time:
2000s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Desire and addiction form the confluence of bad choices and unintended consequences for Veronica Lambert. Her desperation to see her desires fulfilled is palpable as she acclimatizes to big city life, while assuaged by the good intentions of Mr. New ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
betrayal, addiction, fatal attraction, desperation, relationship problems, life is a bitch, male female relationship, social problems, hypocrisy, relationships, lovers, hypocrite ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn't make it up… but that doesn't mean they don't have a little something to add. This comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year ...
Style:
parody, funny, controversial, surreal, mockumentary ...
Plot:
adult humor, profanity, irreverence, social relations, violence, police, hypocrisy, social satire, morality, social activist, silly humor, topical humor ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
america
Is relevant?
158K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
Style:
mockumentary, funny, parody, satirical, humorous ...
Plot:
gay, gender, gay slur, satire, lgbt, gay marriage, social satire, gay lead character, fame, nudity, homosexuality, sex ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, europe, austria, los angeles, vienna ...
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