Top Social Satire Movies & TV Shows

I'm a Virgo (2023) TV Show

6.8 65 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-14

Story: A coming-of-age joyride about Cootie, a 13ft tall young Black man in Oakland, CA. Having grown up hidden away, Cootie soon experiences the beauty and contradictions of the world for the first time. He forms friendships, finds love, navigates awkward situations, and encounters his idol, a real life superhero named The Hero.

Style: absurdist

Plot: race politics, cult, oakland, california, superhero, surrealism, coming of age, social satire, ...

Attack the Block (2011)

6.5 2.3K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

Plot: london, england, street gang, chase, fireworks, meteor, playground, arrest, ...

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Cast

Sacha Baron Cohen

Maria Bakalova

Tom Hanks

Dani Popescu

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020)

6.4 2.9K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: 14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

Style: satirical

Plot: presidential election, patriotism, mockery, kazakhstan, satire, hidden camera, sequel, mockumentary, ...

Cast

Seth Rogen

Gaten Matarazzo

Steve Buscemi

Glenn Close

Animal Farm (2026)

6.4 93 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A group of farm animals rise up against their neglectful owner, dreaming of equality and freedom. But as the pigs take control, the revolution turns into tyranny, with truth rewritten and dissent crushed.

Plot: sheep, corruption, based on novel or book, pig, horse, dictatorship, coming of age, social satire, ...

Cast

Luke Wilson

Maya Rudolph

Dax Shepard

Terry Crews

Idiocracy (2006)

6.4 3.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: R

Story: To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

Plot: army, prostitute, usa president, congress, experiment, arena, capitalism, dystopia, ...

Time: future

Cast

Odessa Young

Hari Nef

ABRA

Suki Waterhouse

Assassination Nation (2018)

6.2 902 votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: 18

Story: After an anonymous hacker begins leaking the private data of thousands living in a small American town, the townspeople spiral into madness, with four high school seniors at the center of the maelstrom.

Style: provocative

Plot: high school, patriotism, feminism, dark comedy, hysteria, revenge, social satire, female protagonist, ...

Cast

Sidney James

Kenneth Williams

Charles Hawtrey

Joan Sims

Carry On at Your Convenience (1971)

6.2 66 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: PG

Story: 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 up with him.

Plot: bet, factory, worker, mother, strike, trade union, toilet, coach, ...

Brüno (2009)

5.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 83 min.

Audience: R

Story: Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.

Plot: homophobia, drag queen, satire, dominatrix, celebrity, mockumentary, social satire, fame, ...

The Bling Ring (2013)

5.4 3.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: Lured by stardom, a crew of aimless teens breaks into celebrity homes for a string of high-profile robberies and fame by appropriation.

Plot: dark comedy, satire, female friendship, based on true story, celebrity, thief, social satire, fame, ...

Place: california

Cast

Rene Russo

Jake Gyllenhaal

Zawe Ashton

Tom Sturridge

Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

5.4 2.0K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.

Plot: art collector, supernatural, dark comedy, satire, social satire, art house, consumerism, art thief, ...

Cast

Raquel Welch

Rex Reed

Mae West

John Huston

Myra Breckinridge (1970)

4.5 51 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.

Style: psychotronic

Plot: based on novel or book, homophobia, bisexuality, sex change, sexual violence, sexual fantasy, social satire, sexploitation, ...