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Genre "Media Satire" Movies
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| 1. 15 Minutes (year: 2001) |
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An action drama centering on the media circus, 15 Minutes focuses on a New York homicide detective named Eddie Flemming (Robert De Niro), a famous fig ...
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| 2. 99 Francs (year: 2007) |
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| 3. Alien Autopsy (year: 2006) |
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Director Jonny Campbell teams with screenwriter William Davies for this satirical look at the notorious, purportedly genuine "Alien Autopsy" ...
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| 4. American Dreamz (year: 2006) |
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The President of the United States (Dennis Quaid) seems to be having a nervous breakdown after picking up a newspaper for the first time in four years ...
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| 5. Bulworth (year: 1998) |
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Warren Beatty directed, co-produced (with Pieter Jan Brugge), co-scripted (with Jeremy Pikser), and stars in this political satire, a comedy-drama abo ...
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| 6. Days of Darkness (year: 2007) |
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A civil servant gradually regresses into a fantasy world while falling for a beautiful movie star (Diane Kruger) in director Denys Arcand (The Barbari ...
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| 7. His Girl Friday (year: 1940) |
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The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnso ...
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| 8. Little Black Book (year: 2004) |
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Directed by Nick Hurran, Little Black Book follows Stacy (Brittany Murphy), an associate producer of a popular daytime talk show starring Kippie Kann ...
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| 9. Man Bites Dog (year: 1991) |
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Man Bites Dog is a Belgian faux-documentary and high-concept satire of media violence which follows the lethal exploits of Benoit Benoit Poelvoorde, a ...
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| 10. Natural Born Killers (year: 1994) |
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A frenetic, bloody look at mass murder and the mass media, director Oliver Stone's extremely controversial film divided critics and audiences with its ...
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| 11. Network (year: 1976) |
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A trenchant satire of "trash TV," Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the dean of n ...
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| 12. Pecker (year: 1998) |
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John Waters wrote and directed this $6.5 million satire on the Manhattan art world, a rags-to-riches comedy about 18-year-old amateur photographer Pec ...
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| 13. Protocol (year: 1984) |
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In this routine spoof of government and media foibles, Sunny (Goldie Hawn) is an ordinary cocktail waitress, someone who graduated in the top 75% of h ...
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| 14. Shock Treatment (year: 1981) |
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The sequel to the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this film follows the further adventures of Brad (Cliff De Young) and Janet (Jessica Har ...
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| 15. Shocker (year: 1989) |
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Wes Craven's Shocker takes media manipulation to a new level in this story of an evil force emitted from television sets that has the power to kill. T ...
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| 16. Spice World (year: 1998) |
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Bob Spiers (director of TV's Absolutely Fabulous) directed this feature-film debut of the five Spice Girls — Posh Spice, Sporty Spice, Scary ...
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| 17. Sweet Smell of Success (year: 1957) |
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Ernest Lehman drew upon his experiences as a Broadway press agent to write the devastating a clef short story "Tell Me About Tomorrow." This ...
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| 18. The Truman Show (year: 1998) |
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Peter Weir directed this comedy-drama, a commentary on all-pervasive media manipulation. Scripted by Andrew M. Niccol (Gattaca), the film plays like a ...
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| 19. The Ungodly (year: 2006) |
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Inspired by the satirical black comedy Man Bites Dog, emerging film director Thomas C. Dunn's feature debut tells the tale of a young documentary film ...
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| 20. Wag the Dog (year: 1997) |
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In a 29-day shoot, Barry Levinson filmed this $15 million political and media satire, adapted by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet from Larry Beinhart's n ...
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