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Movies that feel likeEl Infierno (2010)

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.

If you loved El Infierno, the closest films we have are Adam's Apples (2005), In China They Eat Dogs (1999) and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022). All three share El Infierno's gritty and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Last Viking (2025).

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Adam's Apples
2005 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%★ 7.7drama · comedy · crime

The same preoccupation in both: dark comedy

The difference: Easier on the momentum than El Infierno

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

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

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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🍅 87%★ 7action · comedy · crimeRent or buy

Kinetic where it counts, gritty underneath

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

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

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

One thread runs through both: drug dealer

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

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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Headhunters
2011 · dir. Morten Tyldum
🍅 93%★ 7.5thriller · crime · action

Both lean on dark humor more than on action

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than El Infierno does

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

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

Contemplative comedy in both cases

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

Crime built on grit, twice over

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

Witty drama, and it commits to that

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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In the Loop
2009 · dir. Armando Iannucci
🍅 94%★ 7.4comedy

Western with a pulse of play, in both cases

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

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The Last Viking
2025 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 90%★ 7.1comedy · crime · dramaRent or buy

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Common ground: gun

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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