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Movies that feel like About Endlessness (2019)

If you loved About Endlessness, the closest films we have are Men & Chicken (2015), Songs from the Second Floor (2000) and All My Friends Are Dead (2020). All three share About Endlessness' contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

πŸ… 95% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Roy Anderssoncontemplativedreamlikewittyplayfuldarkly funny

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Men & Chicken
2015 Β· dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
β˜… 6.7comedy Β· drama

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as About Endlessness

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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Songs from the Second Floor
2000 Β· dir. Roy Andersson
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.5drama Β· comedy

Roy Andersson directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

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All My Friends Are Dead
2020 Β· dir. Jan Belcl
β˜… 5.9comedy Β· drama Β· thriller

Common ground: dark comedy

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than About Endlessness does

A group of friends at a New Year’s Eve party go through a whirlwind of events that exposes secrets, breaks hearts β€” and leads to a shocking outcome.

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πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.9drama Β· comedy Β· fantasy

Roy Andersson working the same nerve twice

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

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β˜… 6.3adventure Β· comedy

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than About Endlessness does

Drinking the tasty Folk Soda puts a spring in the 101 Year Old Man’s step and his next adventure takes him around the World and back to Sweden, during which time he is chased by the CIA, a Balinese debt collector and becomes an executive at a soft drink company.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 Β· dir. Terry Gilliam
πŸ… 50%β˜… 7.5adventure Β· drama Β· comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: surrealism

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

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The Ruling Class
1972 Β· dir. Peter Medak
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then dark humor

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

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Look Who's Back
2015 Β· dir. David Wnendt
β˜… 7comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 Β· dir. Michael Patrick Jann
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.7comedy

Playful drama, and it commits to that

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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The Last Viking
2025 Β· dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
β˜… 7.2comedy Β· crime Β· drama

Fantasy 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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The Bed Sitting Room
1969 Β· dir. Richard Lester
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.1comedy Β· science fiction

Both lean on dark humor more than on comedy

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

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Repo Man
1984 Β· dir. Alex Cox
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: surrealism

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

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