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The Best Satire Movies Of All Time. by DareDevilKid • Created 13 years ago • Modified 8 years ago. A rare brand of cinema which effortlessly encompasses witty, dark and occassional hilarious humour with underlying socially and politically relevant messages throughout, without being too preachy.
Over the years, I considered these next 50 films as best. Some films are too serious for being a satire, while others are too goofy to be considered as satires (Hellzapoppin', Marx Brothers, early Woody Allen's).
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- 'Heathers' (1989) Directed by Michael Lehmann. One of the greatest movies of the 1980s - cult classic or otherwise - Heathers is a vicious, dark, and hilarious movie about the cutthroat nature of high school, gleefully making fun of various characters who all want to be popular, no matter what.
- 'Brazil' (1985) Directed by Terry Gilliam. After making some hilarious and oftentimes provocative/satirical stuff with Monty Python, filmmaker Terry Gilliam began branching out on his own in the 1980s and beyond, directing his own films without the entirety of Monty Python involved.
- 'The Truman Show' (1998) Directed by Peter Weir. Toward the end of the 1990s, Jim Carrey found himself wanting to branch out from the sorts of comedic roles he'd become best known for.
- 'Ace in the Hole' (1951) Directed by Billy Wilder. Of all the filmmakers who worked throughout the Golden Age of Hollywood, few were as skilled at implementing satirical elements into their films as Billy Wilder.
Jun 1, 2024 · Vote for your personal favorite satire films, regardless of how popular or successful they were at the box office. Latest additions: The People's Joker, The American Society of Magical Negroes, Problemista
- Relationships/Sex/Gender - The Lobster
- Art/Media - Network
- Hollywood - The Player
- Religion - Monty Python’s Life of Brian
- Race/Racism - Bamboozled
- Politics (US) - in The Loop
- Politics (Non-Us) - Z
- War - Dr. Strangelove
- Capitalism/Advertising - Robocop
- Class - La Dolce Vita
Most great satire takes high aim at those lofty institutions bearing down on us from atop towers of bullshit - bureaucracy, politics, and all your favorite ‘isms - but we’ll get to all that later. To start things off, we always like to grab readers’ attention by beginning with a whimper, so we’ll begin by closely looking at those satires that poke ...
Next up, we pivot to something totally unrelated, even though we phrase it like it’s deeply connected because we couldn’t think of a better way to segue between Relationships and The Media. Media satires have sent up the concept of fandoms in Galaxy Quest and celebrity in general in films like Meet John Doe, The King of Comedy, and Natural Born Kil...
Even more than mocking its little sibling TV, Hollywood loves making fun of itself. It’s just the right amount of self-deprecation to justify an hour and a half of pure vanity. Singin’ in the Rain teases in the gentlest, most loving way, while Sunset Boulevard dresses it up in noir clothing, but it is Robert Altman’s satire The Playerthat clinches ...
Ever so slightly less sacred to Hollywood than itself are the films that set out to send-up religion, to absolutely no controversy at all. Right? What has ever gone wrong here? Critiquing Christianity in The Milky Way, Bruce Almighty, Dogma, Islam in Four Lions, Spirituality in Schizopolis and - hot take here - Fight Club are high marks, but our fa...
Perhaps even less controversial than religion is racism, and we almost didn’t include a category on racial satires because what’s there to make fun of? But then after exhaustive research conducted by tireless scholars on long sleepless nights via peer-reviewed quick Google searches, it turns out there actually area few things. Shocking. Like Distri...
As long as we’re building categories around things you ought to be talking about on first dates and Thanksgivings, let’s not disappoint the internet and leave out politics! And, oh God, where do we even start? Maybe by looking back into the past to escape the problems of today. Bob Roberts takes on fake folksy relatability, Mr. Smith Goes to Washin...
There are many good non-US political satires made in the US, like Duck Soup, Jojo Rabbit and The Great Dictator - and in the UK, like The Death of Stalin - but for an international pick, we turn instead to the Greek since it’s their turn for a satire with no small towns faking anything at all from the film Z. Shot by Greek director-in-exile Costa-G...
Pivoting from the boardroom to the battlefield, we next take a breather from the heaviness of politics with a category known as war. Starship Troopers was an indictment of colonial warmongering so searing you might have missed it, and we’re very sad not to pick it, but we think Paul Verhoeven is ever so slightly edged-out by the lesser known Stanle...
Our next category explores those satires questioning the sickening realities of advertising and capitalism in general, but first, a word from our sponsors… Thank You for Smoking is a brilliant jibe at PR BS while Modern Times sees Charlie Chaplin make a slapstick critique of capital’s relationship with labour. But this is the category we get to han...
Finally, we get to channel the inner Karl Marx you’ve always secretly suspected lay within us and carve out a category for class commentary, something which has been done brilliantly across the decades from My Man Godfrey to Clueless to Idiocracy. We’ve also been treated to Barry Lyndon’s satire of upper-class behavior in the Victorian Era, but we’...
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The word satura as used by Quintilian, however, was used to denote only Roman verse satire, a strict genre that imposed hexameter form, a narrower genre than what would be later intended as satire. Quintilian famously said that satura, that is a satire in hexameter verses, was a literary genre of wholly Roman origin (satura tota nostra est).
