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Movies that feel likeWake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)

When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.

If you loved Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the closest films we have are A Simple Favor (2018), No Other Choice (2025) and Look Who's Back (2015). All three share Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery'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 Digger (2026).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Knives Out (2019) · Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

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A Simple Favor
2018 · dir. Paul Feig
🍅 84%★ 6.7thriller · comedy · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

Stephanie, a dedicated mother and popular vlogger, befriends Emily, a mysterious upper-class woman whose son Nicky attends the same school as Miles, Stephanie's son. When Emily asks her to pick Nicky up from school and then disappears, Stephanie undertakes an investigation that will dive deep into Emily's cloudy past.

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

Common ground: dark comedy

The difference: Lighter on twists

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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Look Who's Back
2015 · dir. David Wnendt
★ 7comedyRent or buy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Goes its own way on the tension

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon.

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🍅 85%★ 6.6comedyPrime Video

Comedy built on dark humor, twice over

14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

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

Witty thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans further into drama

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

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

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

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

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

Mystery built on tension, twice over

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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Triangle of Sadness
2022 · dir. Ruben Östlund
🍅 71%★ 7.2comedy · dramaNetflix

Witty comedy in both cases

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

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Oldboy
2003 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 82%★ 8.3thriller · mysteryRent or buy

Twisty thriller in both cases

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 2000s show

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

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Hail, Caesar!
2016 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 86%★ 6.3comedy · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: whodunit

When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

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