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Tag: satire

  • A Taxing Woman

    Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.

  • Student Confidential

    Four high school students are led into the world of adult vices by their guidance counselor, a shadowy, suicidal millionaire.

  • Raising Arizona

    When a childless couple–an ex-con and an ex-cop–decide to help themselves to one of another family’s quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.

  • Spaceballs

    When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet’s air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of “The Schwartz.” Can he master it in time to save the day?

  • The Jester and the Queen

    The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation – a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia – the story switches back and forth between the two plots and time-periods.

  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

    An account of Baron Munchausen’s supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

  • How to Get Ahead in Advertising

    Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman’s neck.

  • The Cabinet Minister’s Wife

    Becoming a wife of a minister, Zivka changes her former way of life and becomes a lady. However, her fashionable way of life is of short duration, since her husband is forced to resign after a being involved in a scandal. Based on a highly popular Serbian comedy novel by Branislav Nusic.

  • UHF

    The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.

  • Portlandia

    Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.