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Movies that feel like Flickering Lights (2000)

If you loved Flickering Lights, the closest films we have are The Last Viking (2025), The Green Butchers (2003) and I Went Down (1997). All three share Flickering Lights' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

πŸ… 70% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Anders Thomas Jensenkineticwittyplayfulgrittywarmwistful

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

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

The difference: Missing the momentum of Flickering Lights

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 Green Butchers
2003 Β· dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
πŸ… 63%β˜… 7.2comedy

Anders Thomas Jensen working the same nerve twice

The difference: None of the momentum Flickering Lights is built on

Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident.

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I Went Down
1997 Β· dir. Paddy Breathnach
πŸ… 84%β˜… 6.7action Β· comedy Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: gangster

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?

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Kopps
2003 Β· dir. Josef Fares
β˜… 6.7action Β· comedy

Kinetic and witty in the same breath

A small Swedish village, HΓΆgbotrΓ€sk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997 Β· dir. Thomas Jahn
β˜… 7.8comedy Β· crime Β· action

Both land play and grit at once

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Flickering Lights does

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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Pusher 3
2005 Β· dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.3action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both are built on the same subject: drug addiction

Milo is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday, and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10,000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: denmark

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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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
1998 Β· dir. Karan Johar
πŸ… 67%β˜… 7.5romance Β· drama Β· comedy

The same two preoccupations: friendship bracelet, and childhood friends

Per her mother's last wish, an 8 year old girl sets out to reunite her father with his college best friend who was in love with him.

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Adam's Apples
2005 Β· dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
πŸ… 70%β˜… 7.7drama Β· comedy Β· crime

Witty comedy in both cases

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

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Dead Presidents
1995 Β· dir. Albert Hughes
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.9crime Β· drama Β· action

Common ground: male friendship

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

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Twin Dragons
1992 Β· dir. Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
πŸ… 43%β˜… 6.4action Β· comedy Β· crime

Both lean on momentum more than on action

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

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Hera Pheri
2000 Β· dir. Priyadarshan
β˜… 8.2comedy Β· crime

Playful crime, and it commits to that

Two tenants and a landlord, in desperate need of money, chance upon a ransom call via a cross connection. They hatch a plan to claim the ransom for themselves.

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