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Top Satirical Films (#101-223)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 806
102 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis 809
103 Trading Places 1983 John Landis 811
104 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 817
105 Horse Feathers 1932 Norman Z. McLeod 819
106 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 837
107 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 840
108 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 850
109 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen 873
110 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet 882
111 Serenity 2005 Joss Whedon 893
112 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006 Larry Charles 905
113 Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor 922
114 À Nous la Liberté 1931 René Clair 937
115 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater 954
116 North Dallas Forty 1979 Ted Kotcheff 961
117 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 971
118 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan 972
119 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 Preston Sturges 975
120 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004 Adam McKay 982
121 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 996
122 Waiting for Guffman 1996 Christopher Guest 998
123 Dark Star 1974 John Carpenter 1000
124 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1005
125 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer 1011
126 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 Jared Hess 1015
127 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 1024
128 Hairspray 1988 John Waters 1068
129 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 1071
130 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1080
131 Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks 1083
132 Darling 1965 John Schlesinger 1084
133 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku 1094
134 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1109
135 Flirting with Disaster 1996 David O. Russell 1125
136 Galaxy Quest 1999 Dean Parisot 1138
137 Slacker 1991 Richard Linklater 1142
138 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1171
139 The Opposite of Sex 1998 Don Roos 1185
140 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1190
141 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 Peter Greenaway 1198
142 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1199
143 Man Bites Dog 1992 Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde 1201
144 The Dinner Game 1998 Francis Veber 1232
145 Team America: World Police 2004 Trey Parker 1236
146 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1261
147 Zelig 1983 Woody Allen 1269
148 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 Denys Arcand 1274
149 Pride and Prejudice 1940 Robert Z. Leonard 1277
150 Batman Returns 1992 Tim Burton 1296
151 Salò 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1310
152 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 1354
153 Get Shorty 1995 Barry Sonnenfeld 1374
154 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1380
155 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 1435
156 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman 1448
157 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism 1971 Dusan Makavejev 1458
158 Citizen Ruth 1996 Alexander Payne 1492
159 Day of the Dead 1985 George A. Romero 1571
160 Husbands and Wives 1992 Woody Allen 1581
161 Bananas 1971 Woody Allen 1600
162 The Barefoot Contessa 1954 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1612
163 Play It Again, Sam 1972 Herbert Ross 1622
164 Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995 Todd Solondz 1626
165 No Man's Land 2001 Danis Tanovic 1630
166 V for Vendetta 2005 James McTeigue 1634
167 Fantastic Planet 1973 René Laloux 1641
168 I'm All Right Jack 1959 John Boulting 1642
169 Female Trouble 1974 John Waters 1649
170 Fahrenheit 9/11 2004 Michael Moore 1673
171 Mean Girls 2004 Mark Waters 1681
172 To Die For 1995 Gus Van Sant 1690
173 Fritz the Cat 1972 Ralph Bakshi 1693
174 Scream 2 1997 Wes Craven 1726
175 Bulworth 1998 Warren Beatty 1727
176 Stripes 1981 Ivan Reitman 1730
177 Living in Oblivion 1995 Tom DiCillo 1735
178 Nine to Five 1980 Colin Higgins 1741
179 The War of the Roses 1989 Danny DeVito 1784
180 L.A. Story 1991 Mick Jackson 1786
181 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1794
182 The Man with Two Brains 1983 Carl Reiner 1795
183 Private Benjamin 1980 Howard Zieff 1796
184 Irma Vep 1996 Olivier Assayas 1806
185 A Boy and His Dog 1975 L.Q. Jones 1827
186 The Front Page 1931 Lewis Milestone 1844
187 Quo Vadis 1951 Mervyn LeRoy 1871
188 Fellini Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini 1885
189 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 1912
190 Smile 1975 Michael Ritchie 1914
191 Bob Roberts 1992 Tim Robbins 1922
192 The Wedding March 1928 Erich von Stroheim 1936
193 About Schmidt 2002 Alexander Payne 1950
194 The Kingdom 1994 Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier 1960
195 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut 1961
196 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Tim Burton 1975
197 The Mouse That Roared 1959 Jack Arnold 1980
198 Antz 1998 Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson 1994
199 The Ruling Class 1972 Peter Medak 2008
200 Emma 1996 Douglas McGrath 2017
201 Bedazzled 1967 Stanley Donen 2058
202 Dogma 1999 Kevin Smith 2059
203 Mars Attacks! 1996 Tim Burton 2065
204 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 Wolfgang Becker 2106
205 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green 2107
206 The Stepford Wives 1975 Bryan Forbes 2124
207 Mallrats 1995 Kevin Smith 2129
208 Baby Doll 1956 Elia Kazan 2138
209 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 Luis Buñuel 2145
210 Little Children 2006 Todd Field 2149
211 A Star Is Born 1937 William A. Wellman 2159
212 The Damned 1963 Joseph Losey 2179
213 They Live 1988 John Carpenter 2189
214 Valley Girl 1983 Martha Coolidge 2211
215 American Psycho 2000 Mary Harron 2240
216 Schizopolis 1996 Steven Soderbergh 2261
217 The Host 2006 Joon-ho Bong 2276
218 Carry On... Up the Khyber 1968 Gerald Thomas 2280
219 The Toxic Avenger 1984 Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman 2287
220 Sisters 1973 Brian De Palma 2299
221 The Bellboy 1960 Jerry Lewis 2336
222 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005 Shane Black 2352
223 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 2369
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