Political Satire Movies

Three men shipwrecked on a desolate island are granted a helpful gift by a mermaid, only to misuse it entirely.

Four characters get stuck in a boarding house after the spread of a contagious disease.

In 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression. The film...

Two neighbours argue about which one of them should get rid of a pile of rubbish.

At the height of the Watergate scandal on April 30, 1973, President Richard Nixon delivered his first major speech broadcast live from the White...

"River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a Vice President...

The night of the parliamentary elections a far-right politician, Reetta Tuggström, spends an intimate night with the journalist Hassan Abdi. The...

An elegant crowd attends a meeting but, while they listen to the speech, all they really care about is the buffet.

The FDP is gone - the financial crisis is still here. Fortress Europe is being built and the AFD would like to be in charge. The funded pension...

The disappearance of bearded vultures in Switzerland was caused by false accusations of them being dangerous, but this is not the only issue treated...

Political satire about the billion-euro loan to the GDR in 1983, which was arranged by Franz-Josef Strauß and Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski to...

Two political speech-writers struggle to spin the antics of an unlikely leader.

The Present Situation is a half narrative, half video-essay film about a small group of “extremely online” budding revolutionaries who...

A political satire, the first film made by Halas and Batchelor.

Expelled from the ruling party, two young people determines to try their luck in party politics. Having no idea about anything they decides to find a...

A Kashmiri shawl seller's confession to a bomb blast he didn’t commit spurs an investigation revealing truths as absurd as everyday life in...

A satire of a conservative armed uprising against the Ecuadorian liberal president Gonzalo Córdova.

In this biting satire of the film industry, an undiscovered actor will do anything to become the next 'Asian leading man' - other than go to therapy.