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Movies that feel likeAdam's Apples (2005)

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

If you loved Adam's Apples, the closest films we have are The Last Viking (2025), El Infierno (2010) and Election (1999). All three share Adam's Apples' contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is OMG: Oh My God! (2012).

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Anders Thomas Jensencontemplativewittyplayfulgrittydarkly funny
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The Last Viking
2025 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 90%★ 7.1comedy · crime · dramaRent or buy

Anders Thomas Jensen directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2020s show

After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has forgotten its location, sending them on a journey to recover the loot and confront who they are.

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El Infierno
2010 · dir. Luis Estrada
★ 7.7action · crime · westernPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Sits closer to action than Adam's Apples does

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

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Election
1999 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 92%★ 7.2comedy · dramaParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: satire

The difference: Easier on the grit than Adam's Apples

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

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In China They Eat Dogs
1999 · dir. Lasse Spang Olsen
★ 7.3action · comedy · crime

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

The difference: Leans harder into action than Adam's Apples does

Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works.

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OMG: Oh My God!
2012 · dir. Umesh Shukla
★ 8.1comedy · drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then wit

A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake.

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Digger
2026 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 52%★ 7.5comedy · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: satire

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.

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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
★ 6.7comedy · drama

The same hand behind both of them: Anders Thomas Jensen

Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

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Death to Smoochy
2002 · dir. Danny DeVito
🍅 42%★ 6.3comedy · crime · drama

Both land play and grit at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuchsia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ratings and the affections of a network executive - Randolph makes the unsuspecting rhino the target of his numerous outrageous attempts to exact revenge and reclaim his status as America's sweetheart.

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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · dir. David Zucker
🍅 77%★ 6.9comedy · crimeParamount+

Darkly funny comedy in both cases

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

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Withnail & I
1987 · dir. Bruce Robinson
🍅 84%★ 7.5comedy · dramaMax

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

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Raising Arizona
1987 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 91%★ 7.3comedy · crime

Both lean on wit more than on crime

When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · dir. Michael Patrick Jann
🍅 47%★ 6.7comedy

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

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