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Movies that feel likeIn Bruges (2008)

Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

If you loved In Bruges, the closest films we have are The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), Adam's Apples (2005) and Monsieur Verdoux (1947). All three share In Bruges' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is OMG: Oh My God! (2012).

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The Banshees of Inisherin
2022 · dir. Martin McDonagh
🍅 96%★ 7.6drama · comedyRent or buy

The same hand behind both of them: Martin McDonagh

The difference: Trades the grit of In Bruges for an angle of its own

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

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Adam's Apples
2005 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%★ 7.7drama · comedy · crime

The same two preoccupations: dark comedy, and church

The difference: Easier on the atmosphere than In Bruges

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

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Monsieur Verdoux
1947 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 97%★ 7.8comedy · crime · dramaMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

The difference: 61 years apart, and the 1940s show

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

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

Two things both keep coming back to: drug dealer and death

The difference: Sits closer to action than In Bruges 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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Animal Kingdom
2010 · dir. David Michôd
🍅 94%★ 7.2crime · drama

The same preoccupation in both: neo-noir

Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.

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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · dir. David Zucker
🍅 77%★ 6.9comedy · crimeParamount+

The same mix in both: wit, then play

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

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

Contemplative and darkly funny in the same breath

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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Death to Smoochy
2002 · dir. Danny DeVito
🍅 42%★ 6.3comedy · crime · drama

Comedy built on grit, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Carnage
2011 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 71%★ 7.1comedy · drama

Witty drama, and it commits to that

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

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Seven Psychopaths
2012 · dir. Martin McDonagh
🍅 82%★ 7.1comedy · crime

Martin McDonagh working the same nerve twice

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

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OMG: Oh My God!
2012 · dir. Umesh Shukla
★ 8.1comedy · drama

Playful crime in both cases

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

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The Grifters
1990 · dir. Stephen Frears
🍅 92%★ 6.8crime · drama

Common ground: neo-noir

A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

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