2020s satirical films

2023 film directed by Greta Gerwig

2021 film directed by Adam McKay

The Substance is a 2024 body horror film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat. It follows a fading celebrity who is fired by her producer due to her age and uses a black market drug that creates a younger version of herself with unexpected side effects.

2022 film directed by Ruben Östlund

2021 film directed by Sarah Smith

M3GAN (pronounced "Megan") is a 2022 American science fiction horror film with black comedy elements about an artificially intelligent doll who develops self-awareness and becomes hostile toward anyone who comes between her and her human companion. It was directed by Gerard Johnstone from a screenplay by Akela Cooper, based on a story by Cooper and James Wan. Allison Williams and Violet McGraw star, Amie Donald physically portrays M3GAN, and Jenna Davis voices the character. It is the first installment in the M3GAN franchise.

2023 film directed by Cord Jefferson

2023 film by Todd Haynes

Saltburn is a 2023 dark comedy thriller film written, directed, and produced by Emerald Fennell, starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe and Carey Mulligan. Set in Oxford and Northamptonshire, it focuses on a student at the University of Oxford who becomes fixated with a popular, aristocratic fellow student, who later invites him to spend the summer at his eccentric family's estate.

2022 film directed by Akiva Schaffer

2020 film directed by Craig Zobel

2022 film directed by Adam Shankman

2025 film directed by Emilie Blichfeldt

No Other Choice is a 2025 South Korean black comedy thriller film co-written, produced, and directed by Park Chan-wook. Based on The Ax by Donald Westlake, the film stars Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, and Cha Seung-won. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, after the 2005 French-language feature The Axe directed by Costa-Gavras, to whom No Other Choice is dedicated in the closing credits. The film follows a desperate paper industry expert who decides to kill off his competition to be assured of the job he seeks to maintain his way of life.

2020 film by J Blakeson

2022 film directed by Halina Reijn

2022 film directed by Tommy Wirkola

2025 film directed by Alex Scharfman

2023 film directed by Cameron and Colin Cairnes

2023 film directed by Kenya Barris

Bigbug is a 2022 French science fiction black comedy film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It stars Elsa Zylberstein, Isabelle Nanty, Youssef Hajdi, Alban Lenoir and François Levantal. Set in an alternate retrofuturistic world in 2045, where communities have domestic robots in daily routines and family lives, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their own protection by their household robots, while a rogue, sentient AI android uprising takes place outside. The film was released on Netflix on 11 February 2022.

2022 film directed by Kristoffer Borgli

2016 protest film directed by Charlie Shackleton

2022 film directed by Eric Appel

2024 film directed by Bruno Dumont

2023 film directed by Emma Seligman

2020 film by Justin Simien

2026 film directed by Karim Aïnouz

2022 film directed by Quinn Shephard

2026 film directed by Tommy Wirkola

2023 film directed by Stéphan Castang

2022 film directed by Nick Lyon

2023 film directed by Ernst De Geer

2023 film directed by Charlie Day

2021 film directed by Mikhail Marales

Mountainhead is a 2025 American satirical comedy-drama television film written and directed by Jesse Armstrong in his directorial debut, and starring Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef.

2023 film by Sean Price Williams

2022 film directed by Carey Williams

2022 film directed by Peter Strickland

2023 film directed by Sebastián Silva

2021 film directed by Anne Fontaine

2023 film directed by Miguel Faus

2024 film by Bernhard Wenger

2021 film directed by Kim Dong-kyu

2024 Mexican film directed by Pierre Saint-Martin

2023 film