The Hospital (1971)
Arthur Hiller's 1971 medical satire. Scott as suicidal chief of medicine.
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2000sSomething the Lord Made (2004)
Joseph Sargent's 2004 HBO film. Alan Rickman as Dr. Alfred Blalock, Mos Def as Vivien Thomas.
1980sReds (1981)
Warren Beatty's 1981 John Reed biopic. American journalist who covered the Russian Revolution.
1970sM*A*S*H (1970)
Robert Altman's 1970 Korean War satire. Sutherland and Gould as wartime surgeons.
1990sWag the Dog (1997)
Barry Levinson's 1997 political satire. Hoffman and De Niro fabricate a war to bury a presidential scandal.
2000sIn 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.
1970sBeing There (1979)
Final film of Sellers' great period. Being There is Hal Ashby's 1979 American satire adapting Jerzy Kosinski's 1971 novella.
2000sIdiocracy (2006)
Mike Judge's 2006 dystopian satire. Average man wakes in 500-years-dumber future.
1970sNetwork (1976)
Sidney Lumet's 1976 TV news satire. Network is Sidney Lumet's 1976 American satire about commercial television.
1970sThe 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…
1960sInherit the Wind (1960)
1960 Stanley Kramer courtroom drama fictionalizing the Scopes Monkey Trial. Spencer Tracy and Fredric March as opposing attorneys.
1990sChildren of Heaven (1997)
Majidi's 1997 Iranian family drama. A boy and his sister share one pair of shoes between school sessions.