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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 |
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| La signora di tutti[1] | 1934 | Directed by Max Ophüls Written by Salvator Gotta (novel), Curt Alexander, Hans Wilhelm, Max Ophüls |
Italy | Drama |
| A Face in the Crowd[2] | 1957 | Directed by Elia Kazan Written by Budd Schulberg |
United States | Drama |
| A Bucket of Blood[3] | 1959 | Directed by Roger Corman written by Charles B. Griffith |
United States | Comedy horror |
| The Manchurian Candidate[4] | 1962 | Directed by John Frankenheimer Written by George Axelrod and based on The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon |
United States | Thriller (Political, neo-noir, psychological) |
| Le Mépris[5] | 1963 | Directed by Jean-Luc Godard Based on Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia |
International (France, Italy) | Drama (French New Wave) |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb[6] | 1964 | Directed by Stanley Kubrick Based on Red Alert by Peter George |
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[6] | 1973 | Directed by Woody Allen Written by Allen, Marshall Brickman |
United States | Comedy-science fiction |
| The Werewolf of Washington[8] | 1973 | Written and directed by Milton Moses Ginsberg | United States | Horror-comedy |
| House of Whipcord[5] | 1974 | Directed by Pete Walker Written by David McGillivray, Walker |
United Kingdom | Horror |
| Network[2] | 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[10] | 1984 | Directed by Rob Reiner Written by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Reiner |
United States | Mockumentary |
| Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future[5] (TV-film) | 1984 | Directed by Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel | United Kingdom | Science fiction (Cyberpunk) |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four[11] | 1984 | Written and directed by Michael Radford | United Kingdom | Dystopian |
| Brazil[12] | 1985 | Directed by Terry Gilliam Written by Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown |
United Kingdom | Science fiction drama |
| Desert Bloom[13] | 1986 | Directed by Eugene Corr and written by Corr and Linda Remy | United States | Drama |
| RoboCop[6] | 1987 | Directed by Paul Verhoeven Written by Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner |
United States | Science fiction-action |
| They Live[14] | 1988 | Directed by John Carpenter Written by Frank Armitage and based on "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson |
United States | Science fiction-action |
| The Distinguished Gentleman[10] | 1992 | Directed by Jonathan Lynn Written by Marty Kaplan, Jonathan Reynolds |
United States | Comedy |
| Bob Roberts[10] | 1992 | Written and directed by Tim Robbins | United States | Mockumentary |
| Demolition Man[15] | 1993 | Directed by Marco Brambilla Written (disputed) by Daniel Waters, Robert Reneau, Peter M. Lenkov |
United States | Science fiction-action |
| Starship Troopers[2] | 1997 | Directed by Paul Verhoeven Based on Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein |
United States | Science fiction-action |
| The Truman Show[16] | 1998 | Directed by Peter Weir Written by Andrew Niccol |
United States | Comedy drama |
| But I'm a Cheerleader | 1999 | Directed by Jamie Babbit Written by Brian Wayne Peterson |
United States | Comedy[17] |
| Fight Club | 1999 | Directed by David Fincher Written by Jim Uhls |
United States | Drama |
| Battle Royale [5] | 2000 | Directed by Kinji Fukasaku Based on Battle Royale by Koushun Takami |
Japan | Thriller-action |
| Dumplings[5] | 2004 | Directed by Fruit Chan Written by Lilian Lee |
Hong Kong | Horror |
| Land of the Dead [18] | 2005 | Written and directed by George A. Romero | International (Canada, France, United States) | Horror (Zombie, Post-apocalyptic) |
| Idiocracy[19] | 2006 | Written by Mike Judge and Etan Cohen Directed by Mike Judge |
United States | Science fiction-Comedy |
| Long Pigs [20] | 2007 | Written and directed by Chris Power and Nathan Hynes | Canada | Horror-Pseudo-documentary |
| District 9[15] | 2009 | Directed by Neill Blomkamp Written by Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell |
International (South Africa, United States, New Zealand) | Science fiction-action |
| The Cabin in the Woods[21] | 2011 | Directed by Drew Goddard Written by Goddard, Joss Whedon |
United States | Comedy-horror |
| Nightcrawler[22] | 2014 | Directed and written by Dan Gilroy | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Final Girls[23] | 2015 | Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson Written by M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller |
United States | 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 |
India | Political |
| Triangle of Sadness[25] | 2022 | Directed and written by Ruben Östlund | 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 Olmos
Written by Brian Patrick Butler |
United States | Political dystopian |
- ^ Ian Conrich and David Woods (eds), The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror (Wallflower Press, 2004), p. 17, ISBN 1 -904764-14-2.
- ^ a b c Cogan B, Kelso T (2009). Encyclopedia of Politics, the Media, and Popular Culture. ABC-CLIO, p. 119, ISBN 9780313343797
- ^ "A Bucket of Blood (1959) - Roger Corman | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
- ^ Davidson, Telly (2016). Culture War: How the '90s Made Us Who We Are Today (Whether We Like It or Not). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1-4766-6619-8. (p. 162)
- ^ a b c d e Davies, Clive (2015). Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won’t Write About. SCB Distributors. ISBN 9781909394063.
- ^ a b c Westfahl, Gary (2005). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, Volume 2, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 694, ISBN 9780313329524. 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."
- ^ Webley SJ, Zackariasson P (2019). The Playful Undead and Video Games: Critical Analyses of Zombies and Gameplay. Routledge. ISBN 9781351716512. 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."
- ^ "The Werewolf of Washington (1973) - Milton Moses Ginsberg, Nina Schulman | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
- ^ Knöppler, Christian (2017). The Monster Always Returns: American Horror Films and Their Remakes, transcript Verlag, p. 91, ISBN 9783839437353.
- ^ a b c Nillson J (2013), American Film Satire in the 1990s: Hollywood Subversion, Springer, ISBN 9781137300997
- ^ "1984 (1984) - Michael Radford | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
- ^ Freudenburg, Kirk. Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-00621-X.
- ^ Levy, Emanuel (1999). Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film. New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-5123-7., p. 285.
- ^ Lethem, Jonathan (2010). They Live: A Novel Approach to Cinema, Catapult, ISBN 9781593763930.
- ^ a b Hughes, Howard (2014). Outer Limits: The Filmgoers’ Guide to the Great Science-Fiction Films. Bloomsbury Publishing. pgs. 230, 253. ISBN 9780857723932.
- ^ Flanders, Judith (2014),The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes, Atlantic Books, p. 189, ISBN 9781782393788.
- ^ "But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) - Jamie Babbit | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
- ^ Fahy, Thomas, ed. (2012). The Philosophy of Horror. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 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."
- ^ "Idiocracy (2006) - Mike Judge | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
- ^ "Long Pigs (2007) - Chris Power, Nathan Hynes | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
- ^ Cowdell S, Fleming C, Hodge J (2015). Mimesis, Movies, and Media: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 3. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, p. 107, ISBN 9781628924657.
- ^ "Nightcrawler (2014) - Dan Gilroy | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
- ^ "The Final Girls (2015) - Todd Strauss-Schulson, Paul Weitz | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
- ^ Parker, Sean (2022-05-10). "Friend of the World: The Divine Comedy of Body Horror". Horror Obsessive. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
- ^ Whipp, Glenn (October 6, 2022). "In 'Triangle of Sadness,' strained satire, and vomit, on the high seas". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 31, 2023. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
- ^ Moskin, Julia (January 12, 2023). "'The Menu' Movie Serves Fine Dining on a Skewer". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 20, 2023. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
- ^ Bitel, Anton (2024-01-24). "Hemet, Or The Landlady Don't Drink Tea (2023)". Projected Figures. Archived from the original on 2024-01-24. Retrieved 2024-01-25.