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Movies that feel like The Bar (2017)

If you loved The Bar, the closest films we have are The Day of the Beast (1995), Men & Chicken (2015) and Sightseers (2012). All three share The Bar's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

In downtown Madrid, a series of mysterious gunshots trap a motley assortment of people in a decrepit bar.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Álex de la Iglesiadreadunsettlingtensewittyplayfuldarkly funny

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The Day of the Beast
1995 · dir. Álex de la Iglesia
🍅 77%7.3horror · comedy · action

The same hand behind both of them: Álex de la Iglesia

The difference: Not nearly as tense as The Bar

When a rogue priest discovers the exact date the Antichrist will be born, he enlists a Death Metal record store clerk and a cheesy TV psychic for an urban spree of gore, sacrilege and twisted humor to prevent the Apocalypse.

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

Common ground: dark comedy

The difference: Missing the dread of The Bar

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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Sightseers
2012 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 86%6.5comedy · crime · romance

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

The difference: None of the tension The Bar is built on

Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.

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

Tense where it counts, witty underneath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Bar does

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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Better Watch Out
2017 · dir. Chris Peckover
🍅 89%6.5horror · thriller · comedy

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.

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Housebound
2014 · dir. Gerard Johnstone
🍅 95%6.7horror · comedy · thriller

Playful horror in both cases

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.

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The Hunt
2020 · dir. Craig Zobel
🍅 57%6.6action · thriller · horror

Darkly funny thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.

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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 2
2021 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
3.8horror · thriller · comedy

Comedy with a pulse of dread, in both cases

When something horrible happens to the only survivor of a bloody massacre, an insecure rookie cop must overcome his fears to stop further carnage.

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The Golden Glove
2019 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 54%6.7crime · thriller · horror

Horror built on unease, twice over

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

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6.3adventure · comedy

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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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Look Who's Back
2015 · dir. David Wnendt
7comedy

Playful thriller 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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About Endlessness
2019 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 95%6.8drama · fantasy · comedy

Darkly funny comedy in both cases

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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