{"title":"Best Satire Movies","theme":"satire","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/satire","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":74,"listedFilms":52,"frames":5139,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"military uniform","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.97,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00305,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00103,"observedInFrames":91},{"element":"microphone","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.75,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00345,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00197,"observedInFrames":103}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"high_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2222,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.1224,"ratio":1.82},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"wide","shareOfThemeFrames":0.238,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.1952,"ratio":1.22}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.441,"ratio":0.97},{"hue":"red","share":0.185,"ratio":1.22},{"hue":"blue","share":0.153,"ratio":0.88},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.069,"ratio":0.91}],"meanSaturation":0.24,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.458,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"The Great Dictator","year":1940,"director":"Charlie Chaplin","cinematographer":"Karl Struss","exemplarScore":2,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-great-dictator-1940"},{"rank":2,"title":"The Death of Stalin","year":2017,"director":"Armando Iannucci","cinematographer":"Zac Nicholson","exemplarScore":2,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-death-of-stalin-2017"},{"rank":3,"title":"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb","year":1964,"director":"Stanley Kubrick","cinematographer":"Gilbert Taylor","exemplarScore":1.938,"framesIndexed":55,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb-1964"},{"rank":4,"title":"Starship Troopers","year":1997,"director":"Paul Verhoeven","cinematographer":"Jost Vacano","exemplarScore":1.579,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/starship-troopers-1997"},{"rank":5,"title":"Jojo Rabbit","year":2019,"director":"Taika Waititi","cinematographer":"Mihai Malaimare Jr.","exemplarScore":1.321,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/jojo-rabbit-2019"},{"rank":6,"title":"Time Bandits","year":1981,"director":"Terry Gilliam","cinematographer":"Peter Biziou","exemplarScore":1.321,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/time-bandits-1981"},{"rank":7,"title":"The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen","year":1988,"director":"Terry Gilliam","cinematographer":"Giuseppe Rotunno","exemplarScore":1.321,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-adventures-of-baron-munchausen-1988"},{"rank":8,"title":"Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan","year":2020,"director":"Jason Woliner","cinematographer":"Luke Geissbühler","exemplarScore":1.004,"framesIndexed":112,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/borat-subsequent-moviefilm-delivery-of-prodigious-bribe-to-american-regime-for-make-benefit-once-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan-2020"},{"rank":9,"title":"The Ugly Stepsister","year":2025,"director":"Emilie Blichfeldt","cinematographer":"Marcel Zyskind","exemplarScore":0.984,"framesIndexed":159,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-ugly-stepsister-2025"},{"rank":10,"title":"Election","year":1999,"director":"Alexander Payne","cinematographer":"James Glennon","exemplarScore":0.679,"framesIndexed":60,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/election-1999"}],"outlier":{"title":"Sightseers","year":2012,"exemplarScore":0,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}