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Movies that feel likeDrop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

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.

If you loved Drop Dead Gorgeous, the closest films we have are Lost in America (1985), In the Loop (2009) and Election (1999). All three share Drop Dead Gorgeous' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is I'm All Right Jack (1959).

🍅 47% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Patrick Jannwittyplayfuldarkly funny
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If Drop Dead Gorgeous hit the spot, these will too

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Lost in America
1985 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 95%★ 7comedy

Common ground: satire

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

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

The same preoccupation in both: dark comedy

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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Election
1999 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 92%★ 7.2comedy · dramaParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Drop Dead Gorgeous does

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

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The Ruling Class
1972 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 83%★ 7.2comedy · dramaMax

One thread runs through both: satire

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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I'm All Right Jack
1959 · dir. John Boulting
🍅 85%★ 7.1comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

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Withnail & I
1987 · dir. Bruce Robinson
🍅 84%★ 7.5comedy · dramaMax

Both lean on dark humor more than on comedy

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

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

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

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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The Producers
1968 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 92%★ 7.5comedy

Both work the same dark humor

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.

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Office Space
1999 · dir. Mike Judge
🍅 82%★ 7.6comedyParamount+

A streak of wit through both

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

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

The shared currency is play

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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★ 6.3adventure · comedyNetflix

Both sit in the same darkly funny register

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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