
Movies that feel likeThe Dictator (2012)
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).
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If The Dictator hit the spot, these will too

Larry Charles directing both, with the same fingerprints on each
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Witty and playful in the same breath
The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Dictator does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: united nations
The difference: Easier on the paranoia than The Dictator

Common ground: satire
The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than The Dictator does


Both are built on the same subject: conspiracy
The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

The same preoccupation in both: parody

One thread runs through both: satire




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