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Movies that feel likeIn China They Eat Dogs (1999)

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.

If you loved In China They Eat Dogs, the closest films we have are El Infierno (2010), Adam's Apples (2005) and Raising Arizona (1987). All three share In China They Eat Dogs' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is I Went Down (1997).

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

Common ground: dark comedy

The difference: Leans harder into western than In China They Eat Dogs 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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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 In China They Eat Dogs

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

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

One thread runs through both: robbery

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

Kinetic where it counts, witty underneath

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 2020s show

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

Both land play and grit at once

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

Both are built on the same subject: hoodlum

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

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

Crime built on wit, 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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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
★ 6.7comedy · drama

Action with a pulse of play, 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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Lost in America
1985 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 95%★ 7comedy

Both lean on dark humor more than on comedy

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

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The Ladykillers
1955 · dir. Alexander Mackendrick
🍅 100%★ 7.6comedy · crime

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · dir. Robert Hamer
🍅 100%★ 8comedy · crime

Action built on wit, twice over

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

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