Best comedy satire films
The best films with dialog and/or actions that satirize, poke fun at or spoof governments, institutions, professions, cultures, people, places, etc. The dialog and scenes must be suitable for people of all ilks and ages to watch (i.e., no profanity, vulgarity, nudity, or scatalogical, toilet or other off-color humor or references).
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- DirectorGeorge S. KaufmanStarsWilliam PowellElla RainesPeter Lind HayesA bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.This film lampoons everything about American politics. Nothing escapes the barbs, jabs and spoofs in this witty, hilarious and zany satire. Only William Powell could keep a straight face through all of this. Candidates, political parties, pollsters, promoters, cronies, the press, advertising, and the gullible electorate all get a good going over in this masterful, riotously funny film.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsGreta GarboMelvyn DouglasIna ClaireA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.Ninotchka is one of the funniest political satire movies ever made. It rakes the Soviet Union and Josef Stalin across the coals. When it came out in 1939, the many failures of Soviet communism and Stalin had been reported and were well known by the public. Many Stalin failures get a going over in this film – the five-year plan, the show trials and purge of Russian leaders, the forced famine that killed millions in Ukraine and elsewhere. And, former Russian nobility lived in exile around Europe. All of this, in the hands of Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas – with a top supporting cast, makes for one of the funniest films and satires, and a superb comedy-romance.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsPeter SellersGeorge C. ScottSterling HaydenAn unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsClark GableHedy LamarrOscar HomolkaAn American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsCarole LombardJack BennyRobert StackDuring the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
- DirectorOtto PremingerErnst LubitschStarsTallulah BankheadCharles CoburnAnne BaxterIn 18th century Russia, the naive and idealistic lieutenant Chernov meets Empress Catherine the Great who becomes infatuated with him and appoints him Chief of the Imperial Guard.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsClark GableDeborah KerrSydney GreenstreetA World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsWilliam PowellCarole LombardAlice BradyA scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsMichael RedgraveRichard WattisMichael DenisonAfter Algernon discovers that his friend Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever-increasing confusion.
