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Movies that feel likeWithnail & I (1987)

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

If you loved Withnail & I, the closest films we have are The Ruling Class (1972), Election (1999) and Lost in America (1985). All three share Withnail & I'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 I'm All Right Jack (1959).

🍅 84% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bruce Robinsonwittyplayfulcontemplativedarkly funny
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The Ruling Class
1972 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 83%★ 7.2comedy · dramaMax

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

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Election
1999 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 92%★ 7.2comedy · dramaParamount+

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

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

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Withnail & I does

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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OMG: Oh My God!
2012 · dir. Umesh Shukla
★ 8.1comedy · drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then dark humor

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 2010s show

A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake.

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Digger
2026 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 52%★ 7.5comedy · drama

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.

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The Producers
1968 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 92%★ 7.5comedy

Playful drama in both cases

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.

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

Comedy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Both lean on dark humor more than on drama

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

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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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Carnage
2011 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 71%★ 7.1comedy · drama

The same preoccupation in both: flat

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

Playful drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Withnail & I does

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

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I'm All Right Jack
1959 · dir. John Boulting
🍅 85%★ 7.1comedy

Both run darkly funny where it counts

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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