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Movies that feel likeThe Dictator (2012)

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

If you loved The Dictator, the closest films we have are Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), Burn After Reading (2008) and In the Loop (2009). All three share The Dictator'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 Lost in America (1985).

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Larry Charleswittyplayfuldarkly funnyparanoid
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Paramount Plus Premium

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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan poster
🍅 90%★ 7.4comedyPrime Video

Larry Charles directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.

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Burn After Reading
2008 · dir. Ethan Coen
🍅 78%★ 7comedy · drama

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Dictator does

When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: united nations

The difference: Easier on the paranoia than The Dictator

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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Bugonia
2025 · dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
🍅 87%★ 7.4science fiction · thriller · comedyNetflix

Common ground: satire

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than The Dictator does

Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

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

Darkly funny comedy 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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Repo Man
1984 · dir. Alex Cox
🍅 93%★ 6.8comedy · science fiction

Both are built on the same subject: conspiracy

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

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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Scary Movie
2000 · dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
🍅 52%★ 6.3comedyParamount+Peacock

The same preoccupation in both: parody

A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up and the laughs pile on, none of your favorite scary movies escape the razor-sharp satire of this outrageously funny parody!

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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · dir. Michael Patrick Jann
🍅 47%★ 6.7comedy

One thread runs through both: satire

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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Office Space
1999 · dir. Mike Judge
🍅 82%★ 7.6comedyParamount+

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

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

Comedy built on play, twice over

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

Both sit in the same darkly funny register

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

The shared currency is wit

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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