Looking for political satire movies like the 2013 movie The French Minister (Quai d’Orsay).

Preferably recent movies, but old ones (20th century) are fine as well.

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  1. Not sure if it’s European, but the only genuinely good satire I’ve seen in the last 10 years was The Death of Stalin

  2. I haven’t seen it yet, but wasn’t there a belge serie called the parliament which was about the European parliament?

  8. Also check out The Gravy Train. EU affairs (specifically the European Commission) from 1990.

    Starring Christoph Waltz.

  12. *In the Loop* – a film version of the British political comedy *The Thick of It*

    Same cast but a few characters have different names, IIRC.

  13. The Party (2017) is brilliant. Takes place mostly in just one room and in black and white, with a really good plot.

  14. Look who’s back (2015) was on Netflix some years ago, but the whole movie is on youtube now anyway.

  15. As for old movies “Miś” is a polish classic of political satire, about people’s republic times. Really reccomended.

  17. More about media, not so about politics, even if it’s about the diaries of some very well known politician.

    “Schtonk”

    A big german magazine buys some diaries.

    “Wait, why is there a F H on the front and not A H?”

    “Oh… strange. Wait, that’s maybe for “Führerhauptquartier!”

    The story of one of the biggest German news scandal: The magazine “Stern” buys Hitler-Diaries. Despite the fact that there are lots of hints they are faked. Like the above part: The faker used wrong intials.

    And:

    Iron Sky (Finland, Germany, Australia)

    Even if the director is a Fin, the movie shows that Germans have indeed humor and can even laugh about themselves.

  19. Not a movie but rather a series, but Borgen is well worth a watch. As is Zelensky’s servant of the people.

  20. Italian movie Fascist on Mars, for me one of the best movies on politics…

  21. Not sure if you count it, its around ww2, but:

    ‘The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin’ (1994, Czech/Russia/UK)

    ‘My dad, socialist kulak’ (1987, Yugoslavia)

    ‘Tito and me’ (1992, Yugoslavia)

    ‘Europa Europa’ (1990, Germany/France/Poland)

  22. Election Day (2007) is a good one. And the best thing it’s spot on. The spirit and the type of people you had to deal with during 00s elections is very close to reality. 

  23. It’s an old one but an absolute classic that perfectly illustrates how absurd politics in Hungary are:

    A Tanú (The witness)

  24. Is Conspiracy (2001)/The Wannsee Conference (1984) satire? The clips I’ve seen gave me the same vibes as Don’t look up (2021), but I haven’t seen it in full.

  25. Not exactly on point, but I recommend the French OSS117 movies. They’re cold-war spy movie satires with Jean Dujardin as the dimwitted, supremely self-confident French spy. He is hilarious.

  26. Not satire, more like dystopian sci-fi, but there is like one of the few movie ever to feature a (quasi fascist) “European federation” *What Happened to Monday* with Noomi Rapace.

    There’s even a corrupt candidate for President of the EF. Wait, maybe it is political satire too.

  27. I’m sorry that it isn’t a film, but I couldn’t not bring it up. I recently finished watching [The New Statesman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Statesman_(1987_TV_series)), brilliant 80s-90s sitcom lampooning the Conservative Party government of the time, centred around diabolical Tory MP Alan B’Stard. Probably one of the continuously funniest things I’ve watched, they don’t pull punches for who they go for.

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