Comedy with a target. Satire takes aim at institutions, fashions, and human folly, then exaggerates until the truth becomes impossible to ignore.
HorrorA drifter discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien creatures controlling humanity through subliminal messaging. They Live is John Carpenter's 1988 American science-fiction horror film depicting a drifter who discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien…
Medical DramaArthur Hiller's 1971 medical satire. Scott as suicidal chief of medicine.
Medical DramaSidney Lumet's 1997 medical satire. James Spader as resident in end-of-life care system.
ComedyAdam McKay's 2021 climate-denial satire. Don't Look Up is Adam McKay's 2021 American satirical science fiction comedy.
ComedyRobert Altman's 1970 Korean War satire. Sutherland and Gould as wartime surgeons.
ComedyMike Nichols' 1970 Heller adaptation. Substantial source material that the film handles only partially.
Comedy
ComedyFinal film of Sellers' great period. Being There is Hal Ashby's 1979 American satire adapting Jerzy Kosinski's 1971 novella.
ComedyBarry Levinson's 1997 political satire. Hoffman and De Niro fabricate a war to bury a presidential scandal.
ComedyMike Judge's 2006 dystopian satire. Average man wakes in 500-years-dumber future.
ComedyBritish 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.
DramaSidney Lumet's 1976 TV news satire. Network is Sidney Lumet's 1976 American satire about commercial television.
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