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Movies that feel likeAttack the Block (2011)

A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

If you loved Attack the Block, the closest films we have are PK (2014), Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020) and Look Who's Back (2015). All three share Attack the Block'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 In China They Eat Dogs (1999).

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PK
2014 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
🍅 82%★ 8.1comedy · drama · science fictionNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien

The difference: Trades the momentum of Attack the Block for an angle of its own

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting go.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan poster
🍅 85%★ 6.6comedyPrime Video

One thread runs through both: social satire

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Attack the Block does

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

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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🍅 68%★ 7adventure · comedy · drama

Both land ideas and dark humor at once

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Attack the Block does

After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.

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In the Loop
2009 · dir. Armando Iannucci
🍅 94%★ 7.4comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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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Don't Look Up
2021 · dir. Adam McKay
★ 7.1comedy · science fiction · dramaNetflix

Common ground: social satire

Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.

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

Playful action in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

Kinetic science fiction, 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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In China They Eat Dogs
1999 · dir. Lasse Spang Olsen
★ 7.3action · comedy · crime

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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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Idiocracy
2006 · dir. Mike Judge
🍅 71%★ 6.5comedy · science fiction · adventurePrime Video

Both lean on ideas more than on comedy

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

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El Infierno
2010 · dir. Luis Estrada
★ 7.7action · crime · westernRent or buy

Science fiction built on dark humor, twice over

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

Comedy with a pulse of wit, 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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