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Movies that feel likeNo Other Choice (2025)

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.

If you loved No Other Choice, the closest films we have are I Care a Lot (2021), Headhunters (2011) and Adam's Apples (2005). All three share No Other Choice's playful and gritty 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).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Park Chan-wookwittyplayfulgrittytensedarkly funny
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video

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I Care a Lot
2021 · dir. J Blakeson
🍅 79%★ 6.4crime · thriller · dramaNetflix

Two things both keep coming back to: dark comedy and social criticism

The difference: Sits closer to drama than No Other Choice does

A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.

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

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

The difference: Takes it somewhere less witty than No Other Choice does

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

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

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The Gentlemen
2020 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 75%★ 7.8comedy · crimeNetflix

Gritty and darkly funny in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the tension than No Other Choice

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

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Cop Car
2015 · dir. Jon Watts
🍅 82%★ 6.3crime · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on tension more than on crime

Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.

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

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

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

Thriller with a pulse of play, in both cases

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

Comedy built on tension, twice over

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

Gritty crime in both cases

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

Thriller with a pulse of dark humor, 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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The Last Viking
2025 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 90%★ 7.1comedy · crime · dramaRent or buy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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

Playful crime, and it commits to that

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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