Allegro non Troppo (1976), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979), The Exterminating Angel (1962), The Ballad of Narayama (1983), Le fantôme de la liberté (1974) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cultural Critique movies.
Storyline: Two teens (Louisa Krause, Libby Woodbridge) use their cell phones to record their lives and post the videos online.
Plot Keywords: independent film, black comedy, social media, teenagers, american film, digital age, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Angela,a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she goes after Emile's friend Alfred.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, color film, paris, marriage, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Enid and Rebecca after they finish the high school. Both have problems relating to people and they spend their time hanging around and bothering creeps. When they meet Seymour who is a social outsider who loves to collect old 78 records, Enid's life will change forever.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, black comedy, independent film, rebellion, alienation, friendship, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of academics at the University of Montreal - most long time friends - are planning on gathering at the lakeside recreational home of Rémy and Louise, who have been together for twenty years, married for fifteen of them, for dinner. Louise knows Rémy cheats on her, but believes he only does so when she is not around, about which she accepts. Their recreational home is adjacent to many of the recreational homes of the others, who are: divorced Pierre, his much younger current girlfriend Danielle who is a student at the university, the two who are still in the stage of newfound love, divorced mother Diane, independent minded Dominique, single homosexual Claude, and graduate student Alain. While the four men prepare the dinner, the four women are working out together in the gym. The common factor between the two groups is the topic of conversation: sex, especially as it relates to themselves. But underlying each of the conversations is their own academic and thus intellectual backgrounds, which shapes the nature of the discussions. When the two groups finally converge for dinner, a ninth person is added peripherally, brusque working class Mario, Diane's current sexual partner. This relationship is a first for Diane in that not only their sexual encounters but the way they interact with each other in general is predicated on S and M, dictated largely by Diane who nonetheless is the submissive. What happens with the group as dinner goes into evening and evening goes into morning is further shaped by them listening to a prerecorded interview Dominique did for CBC Radio earlier in the day to promote her new book, which discusses how the quest for individual happiness in modern western society is leading to the decline of the society in general.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, intellectual, dialogue-driven, midlife crisis, sexual relationships, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father before leaving a few days after. After he's gone, none of them can continue living as they did. Who was that visitor ? Could he be God ?
Plot Keywords: art film, italian cinema, religious metaphor, identity crisis, family breakdown, existentialism, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Christian is the respected curator of a contemporary art museum, a divorced but devoted father of two who drives an electric car and supports good causes. His next show is "The Square", an installation which invites passersby to altruism, reminding them of their role as responsible fellow human beings. But sometimes, it is difficult to live up to your own ideals: Christian's foolish response to the theft of his phone drags him into shameful situations. Meanwhile, the museum's PR agency has created an unexpected campaign for "The Square". The response is overblown and sends Christian, as well as the museum, into an existential crisis.
Plot Keywords: satire, black comedy, art world, social class, moral dilemma, hypocrisy, middle class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the state of a run-down country church, meeting the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce refusal, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus, his first disciple being an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift'...—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: religion, faith, redemption, existentialism, antihero, black comedy, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, art dealers, and inventors, calls to mind the bustling tapestries of Robert Altman. The story revolves around two objects, a rare set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century aristocratic portrait. As these items are passed, sold, or stolen from one character to another, a giddy round dance of excess begins to take shape, one which suggests that if history doesn't repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. Together with co-writer Gérard Brach, whose other co-writing credits include Repulsion and Tess, Otar Iosseliani uses a feather-light touch to expose the futility of class and social order, making a bagatelle of the concerns of rich and poor alike.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: experimental, avant-garde, surreal, french cinema, 1980s, art film, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary-style look at the fictional Senatorial campaign of Bob Roberts, an arch-conservative folk singer turned politician. This political satire includes several original songs co-written and performed by writer/director/star Tim Robbins, and cameo appearances by other stars as reporters and news anchors.
Plot Keywords: political satire, mockumentary, american politics, corruption, media manipulation, social commentary, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This filmed version of Lily Tomlin's successful one-woman performance piece is sometimes classified as a "documentary."
Plot Keywords: science fiction, comedy, philosophy, aliens, social satire, female perspective, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In an alternate version of Oakland, Cassius Green gets a telemarketing job and finds the commission paid job a dispiriting struggle as a black man selling to predominately white people over the phone. That changes when a veteran advises him to use his "white voice," and the attitude behind it to make himself more appealing to customers. With a bizarrely high-pitched accent, Cassius becomes a success even as his colleagues form a union to improve their miserable jobs. Regardless, Cassius finds himself promoted a "Power Caller" selling the most morally abhorrent but lucrative products and services as his connection to his girlfriend and colleagues fades away. However, Cassius' conscience arises anew as he finds himself in the midst of his boss' bizarre world of condescending bigoted decadence and his sinister plans to create the perfect subservient work force with Cassius' help.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, satire, social commentary, surreal, critique of capitalism, labor rights ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Storytelling is comprised of two separate stories set against the sadly comical terrain of college and high school, past and present. Following the paths of its young hopeful/ troubled characters, it explores issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation
Plot Keywords: independent film, black comedy, social satire, anthology, moral dilemma, sexual themes, racial issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Victims plot to get back at a Los Angeles media scammer (Dan Zukovic) who does insulting interviews and calls it performance art.
Plot Keywords: independent film, comedy, black comedy, satire, 1990s, los angeles, media satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary that investigates the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen.
Plot Keywords: wealth, consumerism, materialism, social inequality, capitalism, greed, documentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Megan is an all-American girl. She's a cheerleader and has a boyfriend, but she doesn't like kissing him very much, and she's pretty tactile with her cheerleader friends, and she only has pictures of girls up in her locker. Her parents and friends conclude that she *must* be gay and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, full of admittedly homosexual misfits, where she can learn how to be straight. Will Megan be turned around to successful heterosexuality, or will she succumb to her love for the beautiful Graham?
Plot Keywords: lgbtq+, comedy, romance, teen, homosexuality, satire, 1990s ...
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