Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "satirical"

51. The Campaign (2012)

R | 85 min | Comedy

An incumbent Representative embroiled in personal scandal faces a no-holds-barred challenge from a naive newcomer funded by two unscrupulous billionaire lobbyist brothers.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Dylan McDermott

Votes: 137,147 | Gross: $86.91M

52. Brüno (2009)

R | 81 min | Comedy

Flamboyant, gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.

Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale, Chibundu Orukwowu

Votes: 153,996 | Gross: $60.05M

53. Broadcast News (1987)

R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.

Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky

Votes: 34,208 | Gross: $51.25M

54. Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

R | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A thriller about the contemporary art scene of Los Angeles, where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.

Director: Dan Gilroy | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge

Votes: 66,177

55. Observe and Report (2009)

R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Bi-polar mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective is recruited to close the case.

Director: Jody Hill | Stars: Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Ray Liotta, Michael Peña

Votes: 65,371 | Gross: $23.99M

56. Clone High (2023– )

TV-14 | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Historical figures who have been cloned and placed back in high school, including Abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, John F. Kennedy and more, as they face the trials of normal teenage life.

Stars: Neil Casey, Ayo Edebiri, Will Forte, Mitra Jouhari

Votes: 1,525

57. A Very Brady Sequel (1996)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy

The Bradys are surprised when a man claiming to be Carol's long lost first husband shows up at their home. Before long, his strange actions cause them to question his motives.

Director: Arlene Sanford | Stars: Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Tim Matheson, Christopher Daniel Barnes

Votes: 11,789 | Gross: $21.40M

58. The Prom (2020)

PG-13 | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high-school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.

Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington

Votes: 29,298

59. Maps to the Stars (2014)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack

Votes: 42,927 | Gross: $0.35M

60. El Conde (2023)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Fantasy, History

After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, Paula Luchsinger

Votes: 13,535

61. Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

PG | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.

Director: James Bobin | Stars: Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey, Steve Whitmire

Votes: 37,102 | Gross: $51.18M

62. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)

PG | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror

A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes.

Director: John De Bello | Stars: David Miller, George Wilson, Sharon Taylor, J. Stephen Peace

Votes: 14,980

63. The Road to Wellville (1994)

R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama

A story about the ins and outs of one unusual health facility in the early twentieth century, run by the eccentric Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack

Votes: 13,249 | Gross: $6.51M

64. S1m0ne (2002)

PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Rachel Roberts, Benjamin Salisbury

Votes: 62,517 | Gross: $9.68M

65. Extreme Movie (2008)

R | 86 min | Comedy

A sketch-comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments.

Directors: Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson | Stars: Frankie Muniz, Michael Cera, Ashley Schneider, Patrick J. Adams

Votes: 11,558

66. They Came Together (2014)

R | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

Molly owns a quaint little sweet shop. Joel works for a gigantic candy company threatening to shut her down. How they meet, fall in love, break up and get back together is hilariously recounted in this rom-com spoof.

Director: David Wain | Stars: Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Cobie Smulders

Votes: 24,567

67. Quasi (2023)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

Follow a hapless hunchback who yearns for love, but finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the king of France when each orders the hunchback to kill the other.

Director: Kevin Heffernan | Stars: Brian Cox, Steve Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan

Votes: 3,049

68. A Mighty Wind (2003)

PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Music

Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.

Director: Christopher Guest | Stars: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer

Votes: 29,567 | Gross: $17.51M

69. Down with Love (2003)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance

In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.

Director: Peyton Reed | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Renée Zellweger, David Hyde Pierce, Sarah Paulson

Votes: 44,436 | Gross: $20.30M

70. Soapdish (1991)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance

An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.

Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Cathy Moriarty, Teri Hatcher

Votes: 17,696 | Gross: $36.49M

71. Postal (2007)

R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

In the ironically named city of Paradise, a loser teams up with his cult-leading uncle to steal a peculiar bounty of riches from their local amusement park. The recently arrived Taliban have a similar focus, but a far more sinister intent.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Zack Ward, Dave Foley, Verne Troyer, Chris Coppola

Votes: 24,146 | Gross: $18.01M

72. Nurse Betty (2000)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.

Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear

Votes: 36,215 | Gross: $25.17M

73. Celebrity (1998)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Greg Mottola

Votes: 28,463 | Gross: $5.03M

74. Highway to Hell (1991)

R | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

An eloping bride is taken into Hell, and her fiancé must pursue.

Director: Ate de Jong | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Adam Storke, Chad Lowe, Kristy Swanson

Votes: 5,448

75. Vanity Fair (2004)

PG-13 | 141 min | Drama

Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia Sedley.

Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Votes: 23,518 | Gross: $16.14M

76. Cecil B. Demented (2000)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.

Director: John Waters | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier

Votes: 16,683 | Gross: $1.28M

77. World's Greatest Dad (I) (2009)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

When his son's body is found in a humiliating accident, a lonely high school teacher inadvertently attracts an overwhelming amount of community and media attention after covering up the truth with a phony suicide note.

Director: Bobcat Goldthwait | Stars: Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, Morgan Murphy, Naomi Glick

Votes: 40,814 | Gross: $0.22M

78. Bulworth (1998)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.

Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Kimberly Deauna Adams, Vinny Argiro

Votes: 27,330 | Gross: $26.53M

79. Tales from the Hood (1995)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.

Director: Rusty Cundieff | Stars: Clarence Williams III, Corbin Bernsen, Joe Torry, De'aundre Bonds

Votes: 9,646 | Gross: $11.80M

80. It's Pat: The Movie (1994)

PG-13 | 77 min | Comedy

The comedic misadventures of a person of indeterminate gender.

Director: Adam Bernstein | Stars: Julia Sweeney, Dave Foley, Charles Rocket, Kathy Griffin

Votes: 10,495 | Gross: $0.06M

81. Canadian Bacon (1995)

PG | 91 min | Action, Comedy

The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada.

Director: Michael Moore | Stars: John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak

Votes: 18,009 | Gross: $0.18M

82. For Your Consideration (2006)

PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy

Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.

Director: Christopher Guest | Stars: Catherine O'Hara, Harry Shearer, Parker Posey, Christopher Guest

Votes: 15,911 | Gross: $5.54M

83. War, Inc. (2008)

R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller

A corporation hires a professional assassin to pose as its trade show representative who must organize the wedding of a Middle Eastern pop star, which will allow him the opportunity to kill a Middle Eastern politician.

Director: Joshua Seftel | Stars: John Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack

Votes: 22,530 | Gross: $0.58M

84. 15 Minutes (2001)

R | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A homicide detective and a fire marshal must stop a pair of murderers who commit videotaped crimes to become media darlings.

Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks

Votes: 51,986 | Gross: $24.40M

85. The Comebacks (2007)

PG-13 | 84 min | Comedy, Sport

A comedy that spoofs inspirational sports movies, this movie is about an out-of-luck coach who drives a rag-tag bunch of college misfits towards the football championship.

Director: Tom Brady | Stars: David Koechner, Robert Ri'chard, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin

Votes: 12,063 | Gross: $13.35M

86. CB4 (1993)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Music

A guy makes a documentary of the rap band CB4 by following them. CB4 got popular by stealing Gusto's name, background and image. He wants them dead.

Director: Tamra Davis | Stars: Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Deezer D, Chris Elliott

Votes: 10,451 | Gross: $17.95M

87. Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle (1975)

R | 85 min | Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Shame, the ape man of the jungle, sets off to rescue his woman, June, when a gang of giant penises kidnaps her.

Directors: Picha, Boris Szulzinger | Stars: Bernard Dhéran, Claude Bertrand, Roger Carel, Pierre Trabaud

Votes: 1,374

88. Welcome to Mooseport (2004)

PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another local candidate.

Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Maura Tierney, Marcia Gay Harden

Votes: 13,476 | Gross: $14.47M

89. ¡Que viva México! (2023)

R | 191 min | Comedy

After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.

Director: Luis Estrada | Stars: Damián Alcázar, Alfonso Herrera, Joaquín Cosio, Ana de la Reguera

Votes: 2,426

90. What Just Happened (2008)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robert De Niro, John Turturro, Stanley Tucci, Sean Penn

Votes: 28,547 | Gross: $1.09M

91. Semi-Tough (1977)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.

Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston

Votes: 3,518 | Gross: $37.19M

92. Smile (1975)

PG | 113 min | Comedy

A social comedy about a beauty pageant for young Californian women, held annually in Santa Rosa, and how it affects the locals and participants.

Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, Geoffrey Lewis

Votes: 2,571

93. Crazy People (1990)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point lands in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with help from his fellow patients.

Directors: Tony Bill, Barry L. Young | Stars: Dudley Moore, Daryl Hannah, Paul Reiser, J.T. Walsh

Votes: 4,979 | Gross: $13.24M

94. The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! (2010)

TV-MA | 70 min | Animation, Comedy, Mystery

Eight housemates on a fake animated reality TV show realize they've been canceled and set off on a journey to get back on the air.

Director: Greg Franklin | Stars: Adam Carolla, Carol Channing, Christine Ebersole, Jess Harnell

Votes: 4,624

95. Buffalo Soldiers (2001)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn

Votes: 25,583 | Gross: $0.35M

96. Bad Apples (II)

Comedy, Thriller | Filming

A teacher struggles with a disruptive student. In a misguided attempt to control him, she unlawfully detains the boy. The class improves without him, leaving her conflicted about freeing the child.

Director: Jonatan Etzler | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Nathan Hall, Kirris Riviere

97. Head Office (1985)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy

Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.

Director: Ken Finkleman | Stars: Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Lori-Nan Engler, Merritt Butrick

Votes: 1,762 | Gross: $3.39M

98. Head of State (2003)

PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy

When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, Washington, D.C. alderman Mays Gilliam is unexpectedly picked as his replacement.

Director: Chris Rock | Stars: Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Lynn Whitfield, Dylan Baker

Votes: 21,257 | Gross: $37.79M

99. An American Carol (2008)

PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Fantasy

An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.

Director: David Zucker | Stars: Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, Trace Adkins

Votes: 10,115 | Gross: $7.00M

100. Hamlet 2 (2008)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Music

In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Steve Coogan, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, J.J. Soria

Votes: 17,370 | Gross: $4.88M