List of satirical films explained

This is a list of films that incorporate satire or were described as such. Made-for-television and animated films are also included.

Title	Year	Credits	Country	Subgenre
	La signora di tutti^[1]	1934	Directed by Max Ophüls Written by Salvator Gotta (novel), Curt Alexander, Hans Wilhelm, Max Ophüls
	A Face in the Crowd^[2]	1957	Directed by Elia Kazan Written by Budd Schulberg		Drama
	A Bucket of Blood^[3]	1959			Comedy horror
	The Manchurian Candidate^[4]	1962		United States	Thriller (Political, neo-noir, psychological)
	Le Mépris^[5]	1963		International (France, Italy)	Drama (French New Wave)
	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb^[6]	1964		International (United Kingdom, United States)	Comedy-science fiction
	Night of the Living Dead^[7]	1968	Directed by George A. Romero Written by Romero, John Russo	United States	Horror (Zombie)
	Sleeper	1973	Directed by Woody Allen Written by Allen, Marshall Brickman	United States	Comedy-science fiction
	The Werewolf of Washington^[8]	1973			Horror-comedy
	House of Whipcord	1974	Directed by Pete Walker Written by David McGillivray, Walker	United Kingdom	Horror
	Network	1976	Directed by Sidney Lumet Written by Paddy Chayefsky	United States	Drama
	Dawn of the Dead^[9]	1978	Directed and written by Romero	United States	Horror (Zombie)
	This Is Spınal Tap: A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi	1984	Directed by Rob Reiner Written by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Reiner	United States	Mockumentary
	(TV-film)	1984	Directed by Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel	United Kingdom	Science fiction (Cyberpunk)
	Nineteen Eighty-Four^[10]	1984			Dystopian
	Brazil^[11]	1985	Directed by Terry Gilliam Written by Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown	United Kingdom	Science fiction drama
	Desert Bloom^[12]	1986	Directed by Eugene Corr and written by Corr and Linda Remy	United States	Drama
	RoboCop	1987	Directed by Paul Verhoeven Written by Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner	United States	Science fiction-action
	They Live^[13]	1988		United States	Science fiction-action
	The Distinguished Gentleman^[14]	1992	Directed by Jonathan Lynn Written by Marty Kaplan, Jonathan Reynolds	United States	Comedy
	Bob Roberts	1992		United States		Mockumentary
	Demolition Man	1993		United States	Science fiction-action
	Starship Troopers	1997		United States	Science fiction-action
	The Truman Show^[15]	1998		United States	Comedy drama
	But I'm a Cheerleader	1999			Comedy^[16]
	Fight Club	1999		United States	Drama
	Battle Royale	2000			Thriller-action
	Dumplings	2004			Horror
	Land of the Dead ^[17]	2005		International (Canada, France, United States)	Horror (Zombie, Post-apocalyptic)
	Idiocracy^[18]	2006	Written by Mike Judge and Etan Cohen Directed by Mike Judge		Science fiction-Comedy
	Long Pigs ^[19]	2007	Written and directed by Chris Power and Nathan Hynes		Horror-Pseudo-documentary
	District 9^[20]	2009		International (South Africa, United States, New Zealand)	Science fiction-action
	The Cabin in the Woods^[21]	2011		United States	Comedy-horror
	Nightcrawler^[22]	2014			Crime thriller
	The Final Girls^[23]	2015			Comedy-horror
	Friend of the World^[24]	2020	Written and directed by Brian Patrick Butler	United States	Body horror
	Tughlaq Durbar	2021	Directed by Delhi Prasad Deenadayalan Written by Deenadayalan, Balaji Tharaneetharan		Political
	Triangle of Sadness^[25]	2022		International (Sweden, Germany, France, United Kingdom)	Black comedy
	The Menu^[26]	2022	Directed by Mark Mylod Written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy	United States	Horror thriller
	Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea^[27]	2023	Directed by Tony OlmosWritten by Brian Patrick Butler	United States	Political dystopian

See also

• Satirical film

Notes and References

1. Ian Conrich and David Woods (eds), The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror (Wallflower Press, 2004), p. 17, .
2. Cogan B, Kelso T (2009). Encyclopedia of Politics, the Media, and Popular Culture. ABC-CLIO, p. 119,
3. Web site: A Bucket of Blood (1959) - Roger Corman | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie .
4. Book: Davidson, Telly . Culture War: How the '90s Made Us Who We Are Today (Whether We Like It or Not) . . . 2016 . 978-1-4766-6619-8 . (p. 162)
5. Davies, Clive (2015). Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won’t Write About. SCB Distributors. .
6. Westfahl, Gary (2005). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, Volume 2, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 694, . Quote: "Science fiction films often turn to satire to comment on contemporary trends. Dr Strangelove satirizes the politicians and scientists who plot nuclear war; Woody Allen's Sleeper (1973) brings a slapstick sensibility to the story of a contemporary man who awakens to find himself in a strange future world; and Paul Verhoeven's Robocop (1987) satirically comments upon the casual violence and corruption of its future world even as it indulges in a violent spectacle of its own."
7. Webley SJ, Zackariasson P (2019). The Playful Undead and Video Games: Critical Analyses of Zombies and Gameplay. Routledge. . Quote: "Resident Evil 5 (Capcom, 2009) faced accusations of racism in its depiction of African zombies (Brock 2011; Pham 2009; Goldstein 2009), suggesting that the undead are not quite 'other' enough to alleviate moral and social concerns. This is an ironic turn in zombies' popular culture history, perhaps, given the satirical intentions of George A. Romero's original zombie movie, Night of the Living Dead (The Walter Reade Organization, 1968). The film was released just six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and Romero sought to cast non-white actors in significant roles and went so far as to depict the lynching and murder of a key black character at the film's conclusion."
8. Web site: The Werewolf of Washington (1973) - Milton Moses Ginsberg, Nina Schulman | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie .
9. Knöppler, Christian (2017). The Monster Always Returns: American Horror Films and Their Remakes, transcript Verlag, p. 91, .
10. Web site: 1984 (1984) - Michael Radford | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie .
11. Freudenburg, Kirk. Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. .
12. Book: Levy , Emanuel . Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film . New York University Press . 1999 . 0-8147-5123-7 . registration ., p. 285.
13. Lethem, Jonathan (2010). They Live: A Novel Approach to Cinema, Catapult, .
14. Nillson J (2013), American Film Satire in the 1990s: Hollywood Subversion, Springer,
15. [Judith Flanders|Flanders, Judith]
16. Web site: But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) - Jamie Babbit | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie .
17. Book: Fahy. Thomas. 2012. The Philosophy of Horror. University Press of Kentucky. 978-0813136554., p. 121-3. Quote: "[E]xamining the film's satiric treatment of American capitalism and, by extension, a global economic order predicated upon class exploitation. Indeed, the economic system depicted in Land of the Dead has a remarkable parallel with Marx's representation of capitalist society. [...] THe besieged house is transformed into an entire city allegorically representing America and its relationship to the underdeveloped, exploited nations on the periphery of empire."
18. Web site: Idiocracy (2006) - Mike Judge | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie .
19. Web site: Long Pigs (2007) - Chris Power, Nathan Hynes | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie .
20. Hughes, Howard (2014). Outer Limits: The Filmgoers’ Guide to the Great Science-Fiction Films. Bloomsbury Publishing. pgs. 230, 253. .
21. Cowdell S, Fleming C, Hodge J (2015). Mimesis, Movies, and Media: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 3. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, p. 107, .
22. Web site: Nightcrawler (2014) - Dan Gilroy | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie .
23. Web site: The Final Girls (2015) - Todd Strauss-Schulson, Paul Weitz | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie .
24. Web site: Parker . Sean . 2022-05-10 . Friend of the World: The Divine Comedy of Body Horror . 2022-07-17 . Horror Obsessive . en-US.
25. News: Whipp. Glenn. October 6, 2022. In 'Triangle of Sadness,' strained satire, and vomit, on the high seas. live. Los Angeles Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20231231161826/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-10-06/triangle-of-sadness-review-vomit. December 31, 2023. January 2, 2024.
26. News: Moskin. Julia. January 12, 2023. 'The Menu' Movie Serves Fine Dining on a Skewer. live. The New York Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20230920045245/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/dining/the-menu-movie.html. September 20, 2023. January 2, 2024.
27. Web site: Bitel . Anton . 2024-01-24 . Hemet, Or The Landlady Don't Drink Tea (2023) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240124123617/https://projectedfigures.com/2024/01/24/hemet-or-the-landlady-dont-drink-tea-2023/ . 2024-01-24 . 2024-01-25 . Projected Figures . en-GB.