Sacha Baron Cohen, Emilio Rivera, Gina La Piana, Comedy  •  Gross-Out Comedy  •  Political Satire, Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Dani Popescu, Based-on-Television  •  Comedy  •  Direct-to-Stream, Theodore J. Flicker  •   John Candy, Alan Alda, Rip Torn, Alex Cox Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Yves Afonso, Avant-garde / Experimental  •  Black Comedy  •  Cannibal Film, Alexander Payne The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming! Christine Paul-Podlasky, Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Comedy Drama  •  Drama  •  Foreign Language Film, Robert Altman  •    •   Bruce Arnston, Jackie Welch, Mark Cabus, Absurd Comedy  •  Avant-garde / Experimental  •  Comedy, Roger Spottiswoode Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, John Carpenter  •   The only film on this list to be a bonafide hit with the box office and the critics, About a Boy should have been remembered as one of the best comedies of the decade. Jon Tenney, Surinder Arora, Kavita Ashok, Sam Levinson Starring: Maureen O'Hara, Alec Guinness, Ernie Kovacs, Comedy Drama  •  Drama  •  Political Satire, Hart Bochner Starring: Starring: Starring: Peter Cook, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser, Val Guest Norman Mailer, Rip Torn, Avant-garde / Experimental  •  Political Satire  •  Satire, Raoul Ruiz John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Julien Duvivier  •    •   Starring: His other interests include performing with his poetry-band, reading super out there books, and arguing philosophy with his dog. Starring: A great gem lost to time, Local Hero, by writer/director Bill Forsyth, is an amazing and underrated piece of comedic drama from 1983 about an oil executive sent to a small Scottish village to prepare for the company's newest refinery to begin construction. Starring:  •   Rob Lowe, Carrie-Anne Moss, Richard Schiff, Comedy Drama  •  Drama  •  Political Drama, Eric Notarnicola  •   Hansjörg Felmy, Robert Graf, Johanna von Koczian, Robert Wise Jirina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohaty, Jiri Cisler, Czechoslovak New Wave  •  Foreign Language Film  •  Political Satire, Lina Wertmüller Starring:  •   Starring:  •    •   The President Strikes Back, 1963, by Kapp Records, Mark London & Company is now long out of print. Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham, Animal Picture  •  Animation  •  Comedy Drama, Warren Beatty Diane Keaton, Ed Harris, Ed Begley Jr. Satire is a form of comedy that is designed primarily to poke fun at specific foibles or flaws in people or institutions, largely in an attempt to draw attention and, in some cases, evoke change. Camilla Soeberg, Lindsay Duncan, Alfred Molina, Comedy  •  Ensemble Film  •  Political Satire, Peter Watkins  •   June 23 2020, 9:02 AM Review: IRRESISTIBLE Fails, Both as Political Satire …  •   Dean Martin, Tony Curtis, John McIntire, Luis García Berlanga Stewart Lee, Mike Davis  •   Starring: Starring:  •   Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, George Sidney Which Hardy Boys Character Are You Based On Your Zodiac Sign? Get inspired to vote with the best political movies ever to watch (stream) before the 2020 election, including movies about politics, presidents, government and U.S. history.  •   Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Mark Harelik, Americana  •  Black Comedy  •  Comedy Drama, Billy Wilder Each of the Movies are political satire and worth of laughing. Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Daniele Luchetti Robert Blake, Billy 'Froggy' Laughlin, Janet Burston, Comedy  •  Family-Oriented Comedy  •  Family, Axel von Ambesser Starring:  •    •    •   Karl Michael Vogler, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Margot Trooger, Adventure Comedy  •  Adventure  •  Based-on-Theatre, Bahrudin 'Bato' Cengic Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Adventure  •  Adventure Comedy  •  Black Comedy, Karel Reisz Additionally, the film is extremely British in tone, setting, and cast, but was directed by the men behind American Pie. RELATED: 10 Underrated British Comedies On Netflix. Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Fred Allen, Julien Duvivier Moms Mabley, Slappy White, Butterfly McQueen, Blaxploitation  •  Comedy  •  Political Satire, Herschell Gordon Lewis Starring:  •   Nathalie Nell, Florence Giorgetti, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Steve Gillmor  •   Starring: Starring: Breckin Meyer, Anna Paquin, Joyce Krenz, Denis Villeneuve  •    •   Ferenc Kállai, Lajos Öze, Béla Both, Mads Brügger  •   Maurizio Antonini, Lucia Chiarla, Pietro Bontempo, Muharrem Gulmez; Sirri Sureyya Onder The Great Dictator is widely considered one of Charlie Chaplin’s best films. Long before he was in Star Wars, John Boyega made his debut as Jonah, a British street kid, and leader of a local gang who encounters extraterrestrial invaders over the course of a long night. Delphine Seyrig, John Abbey, Donald Pleasence, Roy Del Ruth Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, Barbara Murray, John Boorman Chad Webber, Robin Kohn, Stephen Shea, Pier Paolo Pasolini The world's first political satire. Starring: Satire is High Comedy.  •   Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, Armando Iannucci  •    •    •    •   Tim Robbins, Alan Rickman, Rebecca Jenkins, Comedy  •  Mockumentary  •  Political Satire, Barry Levinson Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, Absurd Comedy  •  Comedy  •  Concert Film, Nanni Moretti Starring: Four decades after Rogers, the country was experiencing generational confrontations over issues of race, law and order, and the war in Vietnam, and this formed the core of the political satire on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on CBS from 1967 to 1969. Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Charles Herman-Wurmfeld Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Kurt Hoffmann  •   Starring: 1:07:37.  •    •   Starring:  •   George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Peter Sellers, Anti-War Film  •  Apocalyptic Film  •  Based-on-20th-Century-Literature, Charles Chaplin Starring: Starring: Of course, the added comedy comes from the plot device of a lottery ticket that the deceased man recently won, but did not claim. Starring:  •   Which Fantasy Villain Character Is Your Soulmate, Based On Your Zodiac? Starring: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Based-on-20th-Century-Literature  •  Drama  •  Dystopian Film, Martin Ritt  •   Starring:  •   Combining a Wes Anderson-esque use of deadpan dialogue delivery with a hefty dose of British wit, Ayoade managed to produce a frequently hilarious, always awkward minor classic of the subgenre. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Svetlana Stepchenko, Elizaveta Razinova, Animation  •  Fairy Tales and Legends  •  Fantasy, Jonathan Blank Heinz Rühmann, Ernst Stankovski, Franz Muxeneder, Kevin Willmott Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Comedy  •  Media Satire  •  Political Satire, Danis Tanovic Pentti Siimes, Heidi Krohn, Elina Salo, James Neilson Brian Keith, Theodore Bikel, Paul Ford, Comedy  •  Comedy of Errors  •  Political Satire, Mike Nichols  •    •    •    •    •   Comedy  •  Made-for-Television  •  Parody/Spoof, Peter Duncan  •   And Dr. Strangelove isn’t the first or last film to find a lot of success using satire to spearhead a political message. Kay Francis, Preston Foster, Anita Louise, Herbert Glazer Movies 2017. Writer/director/comedian Richard Ayoade made his feature-length debut with this droll take on the coming-of-age narrative. Starring: References Starring: Dan Resin, Lynn Lipton, Mickey Rooney, Sandra Hochman Starring: 1:31:25.  •   The film is directed by Larry Charles, who previously directed Baron Cohen's mockumentaries Borat and Brüno. Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Comedy  •  Military Comedy  •  Political Satire, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Satire is a figure of speech, used by the writers to expose and criticize the follies and misdoings of the individuals and society.  •   Starring: Michel Blanc, Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, George Mihalka Starring: Daniel Roberts, Simon Phillips, Kristopher Milnes, Harry Shearer  •   Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Jon Pertwee, Paul Sloane Claude King, Ray Sager, Ronna Riddle, Leonardo Benvenuti, Luigi Comencini, Piero De Bernardi, Agenore Incrocci, Nanni Loy, Ruggero Maccari, Luigi Magni, Mario Monicelli, Ugo Pirro, Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola Best Social Satire Comedy Movies by sukrancetik5 | created - 13 Feb 2018 | updated - 4 months ago | Public Social satire films that I would never forget Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Skip Hinnant, Jonathan Winters, Vincent Price, Animal Picture  •  Animation  •  Based-on-Comics, Kevin Billington Here are a few examples of waysyou can filter the charts: The Top 250 Political Satires of All Time, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/E02A84753A, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/42DB28D1D3, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/85AC60FA31, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/9EE9719C9E, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/1F70D7ECBF, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/ECACBDF10B, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/B0AF7BD59E, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/34838B05CD, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/EBC56BF8C4, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/0423946FDF, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/16A5DB20FA, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/8D7C8663CE, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/ABD32F7433, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/451876F522, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/6996114405, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/2C27AF49CE, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/2EAFF35233, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/5E96A8B391, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/8F9144CD44, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/2626AF23FE, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/974D298A43, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/2BFD0FE26B, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/88A7C2363E, https://www.flickchart.com/movie/4059D0EAF9. 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