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Top Satirical Films (#1-100)

The Internet Movie Database includes "Satire" as one of the keywords describing the films below.

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
2 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
3 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 24
4 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
5 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
6 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
7 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
8 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
9 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
10 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
11 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 92
12 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
13 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 97
14 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 113
15 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
16 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 118
17 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 123
18 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 127
19 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
20 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 147
21 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 149
22 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
23 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 180
24 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 190
25 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 197
26 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 202
27 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 229
28 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 235
29 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 264
30 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 266
31 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 273
32 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 283
33 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 289
34 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 301
35 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 304
36 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 305
37 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 335
38 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 353
39 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 354
40 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 356
41 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 361
42 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 366
43 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 368
44 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes 381
45 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 392
46 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 399
47 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 433
48 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 454
49 Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling 464
50 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 476
51 Batman 1989 Tim Burton 493
52 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
53 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 541
54 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 552
55 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Peter Docter 580
56 An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis 585
57 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven 588
58 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 589
59 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 605
60 Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld 610
61 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 Trey Parker 617
62 Pink Flamingos 1972 John Waters 631
63 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 641
64 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 643
65 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 655
66 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 657
67 Delicatessen 1991 Marc Caro and Jean-Marie Jeunet 662
68 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 666
69 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 695
70 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 709
71 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 717
72 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen 721
73 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell 722
74 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 723
75 Horse Feathers 1932 Norman Z. McLeod 800
76 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 804
77 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 George Armitage 816
78 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan 843
79 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 889
80 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 908
81 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 917
82 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 933
83 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Preston Sturges 938
84 Sideways 2004 Alexander Payne 941
85 Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks 945
86 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 950
87 Trading Places 1983 John Landis 951
88 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 1005
89 Risky Business 1983 Paul Brickman 1009
90 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer 1029
91 Flirting with Disaster 1996 David O. Russell 1035
92 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge 1037
93 Waiting for Guffman 1996 Christopher Guest 1057
94 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater 1087
95 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1135
96 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1153
97 North Dallas Forty 1979 Ted Kotcheff 1161
98 Get Shorty 1995 Barry Sonnenfeld 1179
99 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 1181
100 Hairspray 1988 John Waters 1196
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