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Movies that feel like The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

If you loved The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the closest films we have are In China They Eat Dogs (1999), The Gentlemen (2020) and El Infierno (2010). All three share The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent's kinetic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tom Gormicankineticwittyplayfulgrittydarkly funny

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In China They Eat Dogs
1999 · dir. Lasse Spang Olsen
7.3action · comedy · crime

Both land momentum and wit at once

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 1990s show

Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works.

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The Gentlemen
2020 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 75%7.8action · comedy · crime

The same mix in both: play, then grit

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

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El Infierno
2010 · dir. Luis Estrada
7.6action · crime · western

Action with a pulse of dark humor, in both cases

The difference: Leans further into western

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

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Adam's Apples
2005 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%7.7drama · comedy · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: satire

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

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🍅 85%6.6comedy

The same preoccupation in both: satire

14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · dir. David Zucker
🍅 77%6.9comedy · crime

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

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Raising Arizona
1987 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 91%7.3comedy · crime

Both lean on play more than on crime

When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

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

Gritty comedy in both cases

The difference: Played as thriller first

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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Extreme Job
2019 · dir. Lee Byeong-heon
🍅 83%7.1action · comedy · crime

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

A drug squad attempts to take down a criminal organization and they must go undercover to do so, so they begin working at a chicken restaurant, that becomes famous for its delicious chicken. Due to the unexpected popularity, the detectives find themselves in a situation they never expected.

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

Crime with a pulse of dark humor, in both cases

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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The Heat
2013 · dir. Paul Feig
🍅 66%6.6action · comedy · crime

Common ground: undercover

Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence--and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins, one of Boston P.D.'s "finest," is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut instinct and street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals. Neither has ever had a partner, or a friend for that matter. When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies.

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6.8action · comedy · crime

Action built on momentum, twice over

Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.

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