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Movies that feel like Adam's Apples (2005)

If you loved Adam's Apples, the closest films we have are Men & Chicken (2015), The Last Viking (2025) and El Infierno (2010). All three share Adam's Apples' contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Paramount Plus Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 70% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Anders Thomas Jensencontemplativewittyplayfulgrittydarkly funny

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

Anders Thomas Jensen directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the grit Adam's Apples is built on

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 Β· dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
β˜… 7.2comedy Β· crime Β· drama

The same hand behind both of them: Anders Thomas Jensen

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2020s show

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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El Infierno
2010 Β· dir. Luis Estrada
β˜… 7.6action Β· crime Β· western

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Sits closer to action than Adam's Apples 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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Death to Smoochy
2002 Β· dir. Danny DeVito
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.3comedy Β· crime Β· drama

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Election
1999 Β· dir. Alexander Payne
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: satire

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

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In China They Eat Dogs
1999 Β· dir. Lasse Spang Olsen
β˜… 7.3action Β· comedy Β· crime

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

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

Common ground: satire

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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In the Loop
2009 Β· dir. Armando Iannucci
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.4comedy

Comedy with a pulse of dark humor, in both cases

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, butβ€”behind the scenesβ€”government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

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Withnail & I
1987 Β· dir. Bruce Robinson
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

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About Endlessness
2019 Β· dir. Roy Andersson
πŸ… 95%β˜… 6.8drama Β· fantasy Β· comedy

Contemplative crime, and it commits to that

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.

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

Both lean on wit more than on drama

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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OMG: Oh My God!
2012 Β· dir. Umesh Shukla
β˜… 8.1comedy Β· drama

Playful comedy in both cases

A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake.

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