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Movies that feel like In China They Eat Dogs (1999)

If you loved In China They Eat Dogs, the closest films we have are I Went Down (1997), Men & Chicken (2015) and El Infierno (2010). All three share In China They Eat Dogs' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

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.

7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lasse Spang Olsenkineticwittyplayfulgrittydarkly funny

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I Went Down
1997 · dir. Paddy Breathnach
🍅 84%6.7action · comedy · crime

Common ground: hoodlum

The difference: None of the dark humor In China They Eat Dogs is built on

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

The difference: Missing the momentum of In China They Eat Dogs

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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El Infierno
2010 · dir. Luis Estrada
7.6action · crime · western

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Sits closer to western than In China They Eat Dogs 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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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · dir. Michael Patrick Jann
🍅 47%6.7comedy

Both land wit and play at once

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

The same mix in both: grit, then dark humor

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

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

Witty comedy in both cases

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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The Last Viking
2025 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
7.2comedy · crime · drama

The same preoccupation in both: bank robbery

The difference: 26 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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Raising Arizona
1987 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 91%7.3comedy · crime

One thread runs through both: robbery

When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

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

Action with a pulse of play, in both cases

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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The Gentlemen
2020 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 75%7.8action · comedy · crime

From the 2020s, and it lands the same way

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

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

Crime built on dark humor, 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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Last Night
1998 · dir. Don McKellar
🍅 85%7.1comedy · romance · drama

One thread runs through both: brothers and sisters

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

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