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Movies that feel likeParasite (2019)

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

If you loved Parasite, the closest films we have are No Other Choice (2025), Triangle of Sadness (2022) and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014). All three share Parasite'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 About Endlessness (2019).

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No Other Choice
2025 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 97%★ 7.5comedy · crime · thrillerHulu

Another Korean master turning job-market desperation into savage comedy

The difference: Follows one man's spiral — no family ensemble to root for

After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.

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Triangle of Sadness
2022 · dir. Ruben Östlund
🍅 71%★ 7.2comedy · dramaNetflix

The class pyramid flipped upside down and mocked without mercy

The difference: Broader satire — it harangues where Parasite quietly cuts

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 91%★ 7.7drama · comedyMax

Virtuoso filmmaking about status, delusion, and desperation

The difference: Showbiz ego study, single-take flash

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

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I Care a Lot
2021 · dir. J Blakeson
🍅 79%★ 6.4crime · thriller · dramaNetflix

A predator scamming the comfortable until the scheme bites back

The difference: No one to love here — it runs entirely on cold nerve

A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.

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Wild Tales
2014 · dir. Damián Szifron
🍅 94%★ 8.1drama · thriller · comedy

Class resentment detonating in meticulously built set pieces

The difference: Anthology of revenges, each self-contained

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Easier on the tension than Parasite

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

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All My Friends Are Dead
2020 · dir. Jan Belcl
★ 5.9comedy · drama · thrillerNetflix

One night, buried secrets and a body count played for dark laughs

The difference: A party-movie shock tone — gasps first, social insight second

A group of friends at a New Year’s Eve party go through a whirlwind of events that exposes secrets, breaks hearts — and leads to a shocking outcome.

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

A family reunion unearthing a truth you laugh at, then flinch from

The difference: Far cruder and stranger — Danish grotesque over precision

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

Polite civility collapsing in real time inside one apartment

The difference: All talk in one room — no danger beyond bruised egos

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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American Psycho
2000 · dir. Mary Harron
🍅 69%★ 7.6thriller · drama · crimePrime VideoHulu

Wealth as a mask over something monstrous, told with a straight face

The difference: Truly vicious — satire soaked in blood, from the rich man's side

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

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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About Endlessness
2019 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 95%★ 6.8drama · fantasy · comedyRent or buy

Deadpan human tableaux where cruelty and comedy share every frame

The difference: Nearly plotless — a gallery of vignettes, not a tightening trap

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

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