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Movies that feel likeFlickering Lights (2000)

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

If you loved Flickering Lights, the closest films we have are Dead Presidents (1995), Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997) and I Went Down (1997). All three share Flickering Lights' kinetic and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Elling (2001).

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Anders Thomas Jensenkineticwittyplayfulgrittywarmwistful
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Dead Presidents
1995 · dir. Albert Hughes
🍅 47%★ 6.9crime · drama · actionStarz

Common ground: male friendship

The difference: Trades the wit of Flickering Lights for an angle of its own

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997 · dir. Thomas Jahn
★ 7.8comedy · crime · action

Kinetic and witty in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the wistfulness than Flickering Lights

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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I Went Down
1997 · dir. Paddy Breathnach
🍅 84%★ 6.7action · comedy · crimePrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: gangster

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?

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Slums of Beverly Hills
1998 · dir. Tamara Jenkins
🍅 82%★ 6.7comedy · drama

The same mix in both: play, then wistfulness

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Flickering Lights does

In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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The Green Butchers
2003 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 63%★ 7.2comedy

Anders Thomas Jensen working the same nerve twice

Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident.

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Pusher 3
2005 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 93%★ 7.3action · thriller · crime

Both are built on the same subject: drug addiction

Milo is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday, and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10,000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan.

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Kopps
2003 · dir. Josef Fares
★ 6.7action · comedy

Action with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

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Breaking Away
1979 · dir. Peter Yates
🍅 95%★ 7.7drama · comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends' and parents' annoyance.

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Elling
2001 · dir. Petter Næss
🍅 85%★ 7.4comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: male friendship

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

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Bad Boys II
2003 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 23%★ 6.6action · crime · comedy

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.

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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: denmark

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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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 91%★ 7.3comedy · drama

Playful comedy in both cases

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

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