Social Satire Movies

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...

In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world....

In a provincial Japanese town, an entrepreneurial sanitation collector is drawn into the world of local politics, only to discover that the...

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its...

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on...

At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed...

An intro class for becoming a Swede.

Michelle and Ben have a big announcement. Lynn and Chris? Front row seats. What was meant to be a celebratory dim sum lunch quickly gives way to an...

The suicide of his expatriate uncle draws Englishman and poet Dennis Barlow into California's booming funeral industry.

Amavasai (Sathyaraj) turns Nagaraja Cholan, a successful politician. Corrupt to the core, the movie begins from where the first part ended. He rises...

A young man travels across India and on his way he learns about the issues connected to nation-wide politics which urges him to do something about it.

Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he...

A teacher whose true vocation is that of a bullfighter and, since bullfights are frowned upon in Catalonia, he is having a hard time working on what...

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally...

Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento.

An aspiring novelist on the verge of a publishing breakthrough loses his unconventional muse, a tropical fish, sending him and an unstable fisheries...

A sly critique of the communist regime in Poland, one of the carefree participants disrupts a patriotic march by retrieving a collection of...

Four ordinary women, inflicted by silly societal norms, have to steal, lie, cheat and hide in order to lead the lives that they rightfully deserve.

Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the...