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Movies that feel likeBugonia (2025)

Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

If you loved Bugonia, the closest films we have are Repo Man (1984), Idiocracy (2006) and No Other Choice (2025). All three share Bugonia's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Miracle Mile (1989).

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Repo Man
1984 · dir. Alex Cox
🍅 93%★ 6.8comedy · science fiction

Two things both keep coming back to: capitalism and dark comedy

The difference: Trades the tension of Bugonia for an angle of its own

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

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Idiocracy
2006 · dir. Mike Judge
🍅 71%★ 6.5comedy · science fiction · adventurePrime Video

Common ground: capitalism

The difference: Easier on the paranoia than Bugonia

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

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No Other Choice
2025 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 97%★ 7.5comedy · crime · thrillerHulu

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than Bugonia does

After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.

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Burn After Reading
2008 · dir. Ethan Coen
🍅 78%★ 7comedy · drama

The same preoccupation in both: paranoia

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Bugonia does

When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.

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

One thread runs through both: satire

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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PK
2014 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
🍅 82%★ 8.1comedy · drama · science fictionNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting go.

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All My Friends Are Dead
2020 · dir. Jan Belcl
★ 5.9comedy · drama · thrillerNetflix

The same mix in both: tension, then wit

A group of friends at a New Year’s Eve party go through a whirlwind of events that exposes secrets, breaks hearts — and leads to a shocking outcome.

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The Dictator
2012 · dir. Larry Charles
🍅 56%★ 6.5comedyParamount+

Common ground: satire

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

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Brick
2025 · dir. Philip Koch
🍅 44%★ 5.5thriller · science fictionNetflix

Cerebral where it counts, paranoid underneath

When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.

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Attack the Block
2011 · dir. Joe Cornish
🍅 91%★ 6.6action · comedy · science fiction

Common ground: alien

A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

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

Playful and darkly funny in the same breath

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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Miracle Mile
1989 · dir. Steve De Jarnatt
🍅 91%★ 7science fiction · thriller · comedyPrime Video

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!

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