Idiocracy

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average 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.

2006-09-01 | en

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.

2006-11-01 | en

Red Pilled Riding Hood

Conservative talk show host Emmett Vaughn reads a group of kindergarteners his hardcore anti-woke right-wing super epic retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood" to prevent them from being indoctrinated (from anyone besides him).

2024-08-22 | en

The Fool

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.

1990-12-07 | en

Martin Luther King

In a small village where caste politics rules the roost, amid a local election with two rival political parties vying to win by any means necessary, an underprivileged hairdresser becomes the game changer and lands in a curiously powerful position as the single deciding vote.

2023-10-27 | te

Founders Day

A small town is shaken by a series of ominous killings in the days leading up to a heated mayoral election.

2024-01-19 | en

Jubilee

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

1978-02-01 | en

The Wedding March

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.

1928-10-06 | en

The SuperVips

A satire of modern society or perhaps just a funny tale for children, depending on your age, mood or liking. Recounting the adventures of the last in a line of Supermen, the film pokes fun at the processes that lie behind advertising, politics and our consumer society.

1968-10-31 | it

Dragon Eats Eagle

Two low-level government workers follow orders from their absurd superiors.

2022-11-15 | en

Death of a Bureaucrat

A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos in 2019.

1966-07-24 | es

Aniene

2011-06-10 | it

Plan 10 from Outer Space

A woman accidentally discovers the Plaque of Kolob which leads her to discover an insidous alien plot for world domination documented by a disreputable early Mormon prophet. 'Plan 10 from Outer Space' is an eccentric comedy involving a bizarre relationship between Mormons, bees and extra terrestrials, hot on an obviously miniscule budget with a largely unknown cast, save for b-movie queen Karen Black.

1995-02-23 | en

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.

1987-02-07 | ja

Wild in the Streets

Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than expected. Inspired by their hero's words, Max's fans pressure their leaders into extending the vote to citizens as young as 15. Max and his followers capitalize on their might by bringing new issues to the fore, but, drunk on power, they soon take generational warfare to terrible extremes.

1968-05-29 | en

De camisa vieja a chaqueta nueva

A former Francoist becomes a democrat after the Spanish Transition

1982-11-12 | es

My Internship in Canada

Guibord is an independent Member of Parliament who represents Prescott-Makadewà-Rapides-aux Outardes, a vast county in Northern Quebec. As the entire country watches, Guibord unwillingly finds himself in the awkward position of holding the decisive vote to determine whether Canada will go to war. Accompanied by his wife, his daughter and an idealistic intern from Haiti named Sovereign, Guibord travels across his district in order to consult his constituents. While groups of lobbyists get involved in a debate that spins out of control, the MP will have to face his own conscience. 'My Internship in Canada' is a biting political satire in which politicians, citizens and lobbyists go head-to-head tearing democracy to shreds. Film starring Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard and Mardy Men

2015-10-02 | fr

Two Greyhounds

An early short film by Douglas Sirk (Detlef Sierck) which takes a satirical look at dubious business practices during the Weimar Republic. It was banned under the title "Zwei Genies" but released as "Zwei Windhunde" after revisions were made.

1934-12-14 | de

Harald & Harald

Harald and Harald read out loud from Culture Commission's final report (SOU 1995:84).

1996-01-14 | sv

Skattefria Andersson

Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.

1954-08-01 | sv