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75 films tagged satire, showing 50
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2023 · Drama
A Black novelist whose careful books nobody buys writes, as a joke, the crude street story publishers keep asking him for. Half of it is that joke going too far, half is his family at home.
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2025 · Thriller
In May 2020, the sheriff of a small New Mexico town refuses the mayor's mask mandate and decides to run against him. It is a long film about a town arguing with itself, online and in the street.
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2025 · Animation
The bank takes the farm and plans to sell the animals off, so a pig named Snowball talks the rest into throwing the humans out and running the place themselves. Bright, fast animation over Orwell's story.
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2004 · Comedy
The most confident newsreader in 1970s San Diego finds a woman hired onto his all-male team and going for his chair. Built from jokes rather than plot, and it stops for any gag it likes.
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2023 · Comedy
Families gather in a tiny desert town in 1955 for a junior stargazing convention, and the week does not go to plan. The whole thing is staged inside a story about a play being written.
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2025 · Drama
An aspiring actress works at a military role-play site that stands in for a made-up country called Atropia, where soldiers rehearse a war. It is a satire, and it all happens inside the fake war.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
An Italian director's film about the actor Carmelo Bene falls apart, and a friend puts everyone involved through a mock inquiry into what went wrong. It is a film about its own making, and mostly talk.
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2023 · Comedy
A doll from a pink plastic world where every day is perfect starts having thoughts she is not meant to have, and drives to the real world to find out why. Bright, fast, jokes stacked on jokes, with dance numbers.
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2025 · Comedy
The son of Frank Drebin is now the liability at Police Squad, and a software engineer's death puts him onto a tech billionaire with a device he should not have. Jokes stacked three to a scene.
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2025 · Drama
A young artist in 1990s Russia turns into the spin doctor at the centre of the Kremlin while Vladimir Putin rises to power. It runs from the last days of the Soviet Union onward, seen from inside the room.
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2025 · Comedy
Forty years on, the man who filmed Spinal Tap finds the band scattered into cheese shops and glue museums, and bound by an old contract to play one last show. A mockumentary, straight-faced throughout.
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2018 · Drama
The first Black officer on the Colorado Springs force answers a Klan recruitment ad by phone and sends a white colleague to the meetings in his place. Funny for long stretches, then it stops being funny.
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2022 · Horror
A group of rich twenty-somethings ride out a hurricane at a family mansion and start a party game where one of them is secretly the killer. Mostly one house, in the dark, with a lot of bickering.
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2025 · Drama
Four billionaire friends gather at a remote mountain house while the world comes apart from disinformation spreading on one of their platforms. It is four men in one house, talking, nearly all the way through.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Comedy
The masked killer from the first Scary Movie turns up again, and Cindy Campbell, now a paranoid shut-in, is dragged out by the friends and family around her. Gag after gag, aimed squarely at the first two films.
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2026 · Comedy
A chauvinist ad executive argues that men have it harder, knocks himself out, and wakes in a world run by women where the colleague he promoted as cover is now his boss. A broad comedy that flips every scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Comedy
A pop star at the peak of her fame is pushed by her label into brand deals she cannot stand, and a director she did not choose takes over the film of her tour. It is shot as a fake documentary about the music business.
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2026 · Thriller
A broke young man takes an assistant job with a famous artist whose work is sexually explicit, and she quickly makes him her submissive. Sex, jokes about the art world, and a crime story mixed in.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Thriller
A rich family newly moved from New York to the Catalan coast lives in its own sealed world, until one of the sons brings a girlfriend home. It plays as a black comedy, with the family's own strangeness as the joke.
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2026 · Comedy
Three sex workers in a conservative Peruvian town, replaced by women from abroad, set up their own business and take on the corrupt mayor. Broad political satire, played for laughs throughout.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Comedy
A middle-class couple set about getting their nine-year-old into an expensive private school, and tell themselves it is all for his future. A black comedy about parents and social class.
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2026 · Comedy
A retail company announces job cuts and then sends the whole office off for a week of teambuilding in the Carpathians, where it will be decided who stays. Office comedy, broad and quick.
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2025 · Science fiction
A young woman drives out with her boyfriend to a weekend at a rich friend's lake house, where the group is smaller and stranger than she expected. A handful of people in one house, and it turns nasty early.
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2026 · Musical
A noble policeman in an Indian town goes after the bandit wrecking its peace, and finds out the man is the brother he lost as a child. A broad parody of Bollywood, with songs, fights and their parents' deaths to explain.
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2016 · Action
A mercenary comes out of an experiment with powers he never asked for and goes after the man who did it to him, talking to the audience the whole way. Rude, fast, and joking through the violence.
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2023 · Comedy
A mild biology professor finds he has started turning up in the dreams of strangers all over the world, doing nothing in particular. It plays as a comedy about sudden fame and gets darker as it goes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2014 · Drama
A Swedish family are having lunch on a ski resort terrace when an avalanche comes at them, and they spend the rest of the holiday arguing about those few seconds. Uncomfortable to watch, and mostly one hotel.
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2007 · Comedy
London's best policeman is promoted sideways to a village where nothing happens and paired with a partner raised on action films. Jokes come thick and fast, and it gets very loud towards the end.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2019 · Comedy
A ten-year-old in the Hitler Youth, whose imaginary friend is a clownish Adolf Hitler, finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic. Broad silly jokes sitting right next to the worst thing in the room.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2014 · Action
A London teenager with a police record is recruited into a very old and very well dressed secret spy service, while a tech billionaire hands out free SIM cards to the world. Loud, rude and full of fights.
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2019 · Thriller
A family with no money talk their way one by one into jobs with a rich household on the other side of the city. The first half plays as a con, and they are good at it.
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2004 · Comedy
A sixteen-year-old raised in Kenya starts at an American high school and gets adopted by the three most popular girls in it. Fast, quotable, and a joke every few seconds.
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2017 · Horror
A young Black photographer goes with his white girlfriend to meet her parents at their country house for the weekend, where everyone is a little too welcoming. The discomfort arrives well before anything else does.
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2014 · Thriller
A young man with no job and no limits finds he can sell footage of crashes and shootings to a Los Angeles morning news show, and gets very good at arriving first. Night driving, police scanners, and one man talking his way into places he shouldn't be.
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2017 · Adventure
A girl in the Korean mountains has raised a hippo-sized pig for ten years, and the company that made the animal wants it back in New York. It swings between sweet and rough, sometimes in the same scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
Sixteen years after his group of revolutionaries fell apart, a paranoid burnout has to move fast when his teenage daughter goes missing and an army colonel comes looking. Long, loud and often very funny.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Comedy
A Victorian surgeon brings a drowned woman back to life, and she starts again from nothing, learning fast and then running off across Europe with a bad lawyer. Big sets, odd colors, and very blunt talk about sex.
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2016 · Comedy
A documentary crew follows a hugely famous pop star through the release of his second solo album, as everything around him starts to wobble. A fake documentary, jokes packed tight, and a lot of full songs.
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2004 · Comedy
A man stuck in a dead-end job decides that the day the dead start walking is the day he sorts his life out, starting with a trip to the pub. Fast, very jokey, and gorier than you might expect.
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2018 · Comedy
A broke telemarketer in Oakland finds that putting on a white voice on the phone gets him promoted, and the promotion takes him somewhere odd. It starts as an office comedy and keeps getting stranger.
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1964 · Comedy
An American general goes off the reservation and orders a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, and the men in the war room try to call it back. A comedy, played entirely straight.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Comedy
A handful of investors work out that the American housing market is built on bad loans and bet against it, while everyone tells them they are wrong. Fast and jokey, and it stops to explain the finance.
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2012 · Horror
Five college friends drive out to a cabin in the woods for the weekend, and somebody somewhere is watching them do it. It knows every horror film you have seen and plays with all of them.
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2017 · Comedy
Moscow, 1953: the man at the top drops dead and the committee around him start going for his job before the body is cold. Everyone talks fast, nobody says what they mean, and the jokes are about ugly things.
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2014 · Animation
An ordinary construction worker in a Lego city follows the instructions like everyone else, until he is mistaken for the one person who can stop the president gluing the world in place. Very fast, very silly, and packed with gags you will miss first time.
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2015 · Science fiction
In a world where single people are sent to a hotel and given forty-five days to pair off or be turned into an animal of their choosing, a newly dumped man checks in. Everybody speaks flatly, on purpose, and the rules are followed to the letter.
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2022 · Horror
A couple pay a great deal of money for dinner at an island restaurant, where a famous chef serves a tasting menu he has planned very carefully. One building, one evening, course by course.
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2024 · Horror
A fitness-show host dropped by television on her fiftieth birthday takes a black-market drug that promises a younger version of herself. It gets very graphic, and the last stretch does not hold back.
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2013 · Crime
A young stockbroker sets up his own firm selling worthless shares over the phone, and spends the money as fast as it arrives. Three hours of shouting, drugs and parties, played for laughs.
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2023 · Comedy
The staff of a shabby theatre camp in upstate New York try to keep the place open for one more summer while putting on an original musical. Shot like a documentary, and mostly improvised jokes.
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