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Wag the Dog (1997) film poster

Wag the Dog (1997)

Barry Levinson's 1997 political satire. Hoffman and De Niro fabricate a war to bury a presidential scandal.

Being There (1979) film poster

Being There (1979)

Final film of Sellers' great period. Being There is Hal Ashby's 1979 American satire adapting Jerzy Kosinski's 1971 novella.

Network (1976) film poster

Network (1976)

Sidney Lumet's 1976 TV news satire. Network is Sidney Lumet's 1976 American satire about commercial television.

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) film poster

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)

1983 Terry Jones comedy sketch film. The Pythons tackle life's stages from birth to death.

Dr. Strangelove (1964) film poster

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire. Sellers in three roles, Scott as Buck Turgidson.

American Beauty (1999) film poster

American Beauty (1999)

Sam Mendes's 1999 suburban satire. Kevin Spacey as a midlife-crisis dad, Annette Bening as the wife.

Mad City (1997) film poster

Mad City (1997)

Costa-Gavras's 1997 media satire. Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta.

Office Space (1999) film poster

Office Space (1999)

Mike Judge's 1999 cubicle satire. Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root as Milton.

Starship Troopers (1997) film poster

Starship Troopers (1997)

Starship Troopers is one of the most misunderstood films of the 1990s and one of the most accomplished political satires in mainstream science fiction. The adaptation is loose in ways that have generated decades of argument.

Demolition Man (1993) film poster

Demolition Man (1993)

Demolition Man is one of the funniest action films of the early 1990s and one of the most accidentally prescient. Marco Brambilla directed in his feature.

Galaxy Quest (1999) film poster

Galaxy Quest (1999)

David Howard and Robert Gordon. David Howard and Robert Gordon wrote.

RoboCop (1987, 1990, 1993, 2014) film poster

RoboCop (1987, 1990, 1993, 2014)

RoboCop is the satirical action franchise that established the cybernetic-cop subgenre and one of the most accomplished critiques of late-1980s corporate. Paul Verhoeven directed the 1987 original.