Catch-22 (1970)
Mike Nichols' 1970 Heller adaptation. Substantial source material that the film handles only partially.
Genre: Comedy (Page 8)
Comedy
ComedyBeing There (1979)
Final film of Sellers' great period. Being There is Hal Ashby's 1979 American satire adapting Jerzy Kosinski's 1971 novella.
ComedyWag the Dog (1997)
Barry Levinson's 1997 political satire. Hoffman and De Niro fabricate a war to bury a presidential scandal.
ComedyIdiocracy (2006)
Mike Judge's 2006 dystopian satire. Average man wakes in 500-years-dumber future.
ComedyIn the Loop (2009)
British and American officials bumble toward Middle East war. The film depicts British and American officials maneuvering through diplomatic incompetence toward a Middle Eastern war that none of them actually want but none can prevent.
Comedy
CheerleaderThe Swinging Cheerleaders (1974)
Jack Hill's 1974 American exploitation film about a feminist journalism student who joins a college cheerleading squad to write an expose and finds genuin. The Swinging Cheerleaders is Jack Hill's 1974 American exploitation film depicting a feminist journalism student who…
CheerleaderBut I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
Natasha Lyonne plays Megan Bloomfield. Babbit's directorial debut applies bright pastel-color art-direction to substantially serious subject matter, with the conversion-therapy camp setting rendered as deliberately artificial space that signals the screenplay's satirical positioning throughout.
CheerleaderSugar & Spice (2001)
Francine McDougall's 2001 American crime comedy about a high school cheerleading squad that robs banks to support their leader's pregnancy. Sugar & Spice is Francine McDougall's 2001 American crime comedy depicting a high school cheerleading squad whose lead member becomes…
CheerleaderJennifer’s Body (2009)
Karyn Kusama's 2009 American horror comedy with screenplay by Diablo Cody about a high school cheerleader possessed by a demon who feeds on her male class. Jennifer's Body is Karyn Kusama's 2009 American horror comedy depicting a high school cheerleader…
CheerleaderThe Final Girls (2015)
The Final Girls is Todd Strauss-Schulson's 2015 American meta-horror comedy depicting a grieving teenager and her friends pulled into the 1980s slasher film starring her dead mother where the cheerleader and counselor characters are stalked by a masked killer at…