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Movies that feel like The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

If you loved The Bed Sitting Room, the closest films we have are Brazil (1985), A Boy and His Dog (1975) and Repo Man (1984). All three share The Bed Sitting Room's 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 Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV and Night Flight Plus and others, checked against today's data.

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

πŸ… 64% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Richard Lesterwittyplayfulcerebraldarkly funnybleak

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If The Bed Sitting Room hit the spot, these will too

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Brazil
1985 Β· dir. Terry Gilliam
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· science fiction

Dystopia runs into dark comedy in each of them

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

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A Boy and His Dog
1975 Β· dir. L.Q. Jones
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.4drama Β· science fiction Β· comedy

Life after the end is the engine of both

The difference: None of the dark humor that defines The Bed Sitting Room

Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.

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Repo Man
1984 Β· dir. Alex Cox
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· science fiction

Both keep circling back to dark comedy

The difference: Missing the bleakness of The Bed Sitting Room

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

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The Great Dictator
1940 Β· dir. Charlie Chaplin
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8.4comedy Β· war

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Leans war where The Bed Sitting Room does not

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

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Dark Star
1974 Β· dir. John Carpenter
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.1comedy Β· science fiction

Cerebral comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Not nearly as darkly funny as The Bed Sitting Room

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

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The Man in the White Suit
1951 Β· dir. Alexander Mackendrick
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...

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πŸ… 98%β˜… 8.3comedy Β· war

Darkly funny and bleak in the same breath

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

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Mars Attacks!
1996 Β· dir. Tim Burton
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.4comedy Β· fantasy Β· science fiction

Both trade on play more than on being comedy

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1990s show

A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.

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Kin-dza-dza!
1986 Β· dir. Georgiy Daneliya
β˜… 7.8comedy Β· science fiction Β· adventure

Life after the end sits at the heart of each

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

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Don't Look Up
2021 Β· dir. Adam McKay
β˜… 7.1comedy Β· science fiction Β· drama

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.

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Attack the Block
2011 Β· dir. Joe Cornish
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.7action Β· comedy Β· science fiction

Comedy built on dark humor, twice over

A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

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I'm All Right Jack
1959 Β· dir. John Boulting
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.1comedy

Both trade on wit more than on being science fiction

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

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