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Satire movies point fun at humanity, our goofs and vices. The following are some of the most popular satire movies ever made. Have a laugh as you try to figure out these satirical movies from their screenshot.
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
The Life of Brian
History of the World: Part 1
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Get within arm's reach of any Python fan and he'll start giving you a litany of his favorite lines from this movie. For extra fun, watch it back-to-back with "Excalibur" for a salty/sweet combo of Arthurian legend.
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Ant-Man
Wolverine
The Tick
Deadpool
This is hands-down the funniest, most adult-oriented superhero flick ever made. Right from the opening credits, it's abundantly clear that this is NOT for the under-15 set.
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Clerks
Jay and Silent Bob
Office Space
Mike Judge strikes again with another spot-on satire, this one of corporate life. It's sold uncountable numbers of red staplers, that's for sure.
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Clueless
Alicia Silverstone rocketed into the public consciousness with this comedy of teen social etiquette. Most teen boys won't get half the jokes, and most teen girls will think it's secretly about them.
Legally Blonde
Mean Girls
Heathers
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
If you've ever watched TV news, especially if you watched it in the '70s and '80s, this movie will make you howl. Even if you're a 20-something who grew up on CNN and internet news services, you'll get a lot of the jokes.
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Dodgeball
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Spaceballs
Mel Brooks is one of the all-time masters of movie satire, and "Spaceballs" is one of his funniest ... at least for us sci-fi geeks. You haven't lived until you've seen John Candy in a wookiee suit.
Dark Matter
Mars Attacks!
Airplane II
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Catch Me If You Can
UHF
The Truman Show
If you've ever felt like someone's watching your every move, recording your life moment by moment ... well, you're probably a candidate for a padded cell. But in this case, Jim Carrey's Truman lived his life for the amusement of the world, televised 24-7.
Ace Venture: Pet Detective
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Once Upon a Time in the West
Blazing Saddles
This Mel Brooks classic introduced us to Mongo, which happens to be my nickname. It's also a biting satire of racial politics, mores and society as a whole.
She's the Sheriff
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Moneyball
The Wolf of Wall Street
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill star in this based-on-reality, greed-glorifying flick. It can be hard to stomach, until you realize that not only did this stuff happen, but what you're seeing isn't the worst.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Trading Places
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Hail, Caesar!
This broad comedy of the movie biz hits on most cylinders, especially when it lets George Clooney show off his comic chops. I think my taste for Hollywood satire got set early on by Mel Brooks, though, and no one really measures up.
Burn After Reading
History of the World, Part 1
Wag the Dog
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Surf Nazis Must Die
Shaun of the Dead
Simon Pegg made his big splash stateside with this hilarious spoof of zombie flicks. Along with a pal whose chief talent appears to be doing exactly the wrong thing at the worst possible time, Pegg gathers survivors and heads for, where else, the pub!
Return of the Living Dead
Re-Animator
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Men in Black
Will Smith was already a star when he made this movie, but the pairing with Tommy Lee Jones boosted him into the stratosphere. I've often walked the streets and thought the idea that a good percentage of the people I saw were actually aliens would explain a LOT.
Gremlins
Mars Attacks!
Hancock
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
The Truman Show
Synecdoche, New York
Being John Malkovich
John Malkovich is one of the oddest actors in Hollywood history, so a movie journey into his head had to happen. This one will make you pay attention lest you get lost, but it's worth the effort.
Burn After Reading
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
The Big Lebowski
Very few comedy movies have inspired a more fanatical following than this one. Jeff Bridges finds the part of his lifetime as The Dude, and John Goodman is scenery-chewing hilarious.
The Blues Brothers
Kingpin
Fargo
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Keeping Up With the Joneses
Bad Moms
We've had plenty of films where guys shuck the conventions of modern life and hit the road for irresponsible behavior. This one gives women their turn at the wheel, with hilarious results.
Neighbors
Thelma and Louise
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Airport '77
Police Squad!
The Naked Gun
Airplane!
The sight gags come almost too fast in this spoof of the '70s wave of disaster movies. Just about everyone has a favorite. Mine is the reporters running into the phone booths, which then fall over.
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Tropic Thunder
This movie more or less defines over-the-top parody. Every actor in it is playing a steroid-fueled caricature of an action-movie trope, none more so than Robert Downey, Jr. His cigar-chewing, faux-tough grunt is consistently hilarious.
Pineapple Express
M*A*S*H
Stripes
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Shrek
Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy might work well in a live-action comedy, but their Shrek pairing is comedy gold. My favorite part, though, is John Lithgow voicing the pompous Lord Farquaad.
Minions
Despicable Me
How To Train Your Dragon
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Heathers
Pretty in Pink
Mean Girls
Lindsay Lohan, before her early-career flameout, headlines this comedy of teen girl clique behavior. Much like "Clueless," it's not one for the boys in the crowd in any appreciable way.
Legally Blonde
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Hot Rod
Napoleon Dynamite
This movie may take a couple of viewings for you to catch the flow. It's not funny in the conventional sense, like a lot of the best satire, but its mockery of small-town life, society in general and high school silliness are outstanding.
Office Space
Zombieland
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
True Romance
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Love Guru
Love Actually
This is MANY peoples' favorite romance movie/favorite Christmas movie. It's got a star-studded cast, intersecting plot lines and some nifty surprises sprinkled throughout.
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
My Fair Lady
Roman Holiday
Breakfast at Tiffany's
This broad social satire is commonly thought of as Audrey Hepburn's finest role. Her character, Holly Golightly, certainly has one of the greatest names in the movie business.
Sabrina
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Borat
The Dictator
The Brothers Grimsby
Sacha Baron Cohen can surely be an acquired taste, and I'll admit it's one I've never acquired. In this one, he plays a soccer hooligan whose long-lost brother is MI-6's top assassin, kind of like Larry the Cable Guy having Jack Ryan for a brother.
Dirty Grandpa
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Pret a Porter
Ready to Wear
Pineapple Express
Zoolander 2
Try as I might, I can't figure out why a second Zoolander movie was necessary. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson playing clueless fashion models is just too close to real life!
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
White Chicks
Two of the Wayans brothers stomp into the world of race-based comedy the way only they can. There's not much subtlety here, with the brothers dressing up as white college girls, but the laughs are plentiful.
The Hot Chick
Little Man
Norbit
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Pret a Porter
Zoolander
The Devil Wears Prada
Two generations of great actresses face off in this film, reportedly based on a true story. Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep are fantastic, and every scene with both of them crackles with talent.
Heathers
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Animal House
The Graduate
Dustin Hoffman's career was pretty much made by this movie, and a lot of young men started looking at their boss' wives very differently. Just remember: Plastics!
Rain Man
The Paper Chase
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Mars Attacks!
The cast of this movie reads like a who's-who of latter 20th century Hollywood, with Jack Nicholson and Annette Bening leading Pierce Brosnan, Michael J. Fox, Danny DeVito, Rod Steiger and seemingly hundreds of others. Sadly, this volume of talent doesn't necessarily make for a good movie.
Galaxy Quest
The Fifth Element
Dark Star
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Galaxy Quest
For my money, this is the best spoof of "Star Trek" and other fandom ever created. Tim Allen leads a "crew" of science fiction actors who get mistaken for real space heroes and are called upon to save the galaxy from an alien race.
Spaceballs
Dark Matter
Silent Running
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
The Blues Brothers
Chicago
This Broadway musical-turned epic movie is one of the biggest movie musicals ever. It gave Richard Gere his career back, and introduced us to several emerging stars.
Bonnie and Clyde
Resolution Road
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Heavy Metal
Sausage Party
This might be the most obscene animated movie ever made. You'll think about the food in your fridge very differently after seeing it!
UHF
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Jason Segel seems perfectly cast as a lovable loser who goes to Hawaii to get over a bad breakup. Of course, since this is a movie, it doesn't all go smoothly.
Get Him to the Greek
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Wedding Crashers
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
This is the End
This is sort of the opposite of the "Dazed and Confused" school of filmmaking. In this one, a bunch of well-established actors get together and commit acts of debauchery, playing themselves, against the backdrop of the Biblical apocalypse.
Pineapple Express
Tropic Thunder
21 Jump Street
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Wall-E
Monsters, Inc.
Ever wonder if the monsters under your bed have a union? It turns out, at least in this film, that the boogeyman in the closet is a trained professional! Sleep well!
Toy Story
Up
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Wreck-It Ralph
Pixels
This movie SHOULD have worked. Aliens who think our video games are declarations of war come to Earth, and we find ourselves attacked by Pac-Man, Centipede and friends. I blame Adam Sandler ... but then I blame him for everything.
Cars
Tron
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Shakespeare in Love
Before Gwyneth Paltrow went off the deep end with weird diets and odd home tips, she did some darned fine acting in this movie. Joseph Fiennes plays the Bard, who's got a bad case of writer's block until Gwynnie comes along.
History of the World, Part 1
A Comedy of Errors
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Baywatch
Beverly Hills Cop
Police Squad!
22 Jump Street
The original TV version of "21 Jump Street" introduced us to Johnny Depp, but it wasn't really great otherwise. The comedy films, on the other hand, with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, are pure gold.
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
The Longest Yard
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The movie is a ton of fun to watch, but the real star is the soundtrack. Who knew George Clooney could sing? And the array of bluegrass talent assembled is impressive, to say the least.
Fargo
Hail, Caesar!
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Pitch Perfect
Easy A
Emma Stone, the next queen of Hollywood, leads this high school-set comedy of morals and manners. It starts off loosely following "The Scarlet Letter" but takes a sharp turn into high comedy.
Zombieland
Mean Girls
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
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Lagaan
Munna Bha!
3 Idiots
This Bollywood presentation shows three young men trying to reunite with a university friend. One escapes his wife without his pants, and another fakes a stroke ... trust me, it's funny!
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Dogma
Wag the Dog
Idiocracy
Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge is behind this, which explains the razor-sharp satire. Luke Wilson (the smart Wilson brother) plays a man who wakes up after five centuries to discover he's the smartest man on the planet.
Sleeper
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Kick-Ass 2
What if you were a high-school kid who just happened to be a superhero? Would the teacher write you a hall pass in the event of alien invasion?
Sin City
Zombieland
Deadpool
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Hot Fuzz
John Dies at the End
The World's End
Simon Pegg is once again facing the end of the world, but this time they are aliens instead of zombies. Pegg plays a man determined to take his old chums on a replica of an epic pub crawl. Along the way, they inadvertently become mankind's last hope to stave off an alien invasion.
Shaun of the Dead
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
North Dallas Forty
Bad News Bears
Major League
Slap Shot
You've heard the old joke about watching a fight and having a hockey game break out? Imagine if that was the premise for a movie! A failing hockey team takes to nonstop fisticuffs to put bodies in the seats.
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Blazing Saddles
A Million Ways to Die in the West
This Seth MacFarlane comedy was meant to lampoon Westerns and generally thumb its nose at genre conventions. Instead, it turned into a series of dirty jokes and shock comedy that was amusing, but not very profitable.
Tropic Thunder
Westworld
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Boogie Nights
Inherent Vice
Any movie based on a Thomas Pynchon novel is bound to be complex, and this one's no different. Essentially a crime caper, it's got a cast of main characters and walk-ons, all of whom seem to have just been indulging in some questionable pharmaceuticals.
Hard Eight
Thank You for Smoking
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Jawbreaker
Three popular girls stage a mock kidnapping of the prom queen, then accidentally kill her with the title snack. Things just get weirder from there.
Mean Girls
Heathers
Clueless
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Galaxy Quest
Time Bandits
Silent Running
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams' original book, one of the most beloved tomes in science fiction history, deserved better than this. It's not really the moviemakers' fault. The book is just too complex and too full of subtle humor to translate to the screen in two scant hours.
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
An American Werewolf in London
Monster movies have always been ripe for satire, and this one blends real scare with chuckles. Two American tourists encounter a werewolf in London, but no one believes them.
Fright Night
Evil Dead 2
Teen Wolf
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Which satire movie is shown in this screenshot?
Clerks
Dogma
Idiocracy
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
This, Kevin Smith's epic road movie, isn't so much a cohesive film as a series of vignettes. One of the greatest (of course) features George Carlin, playing a hitchhiker with strange wisdom.
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