Top 20 movies like Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Top 20 Movies like Never Bet the Devil Your Head
- 1. Bitter Taste of Ginger
- 2. The Hotel New Hampshire
- 3. Adam's Apples
- 4. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- 5. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
- 6. Heat
- 7. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- 8. Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
- 9. Sanguinolenta venganza
- 10. Life of Brian
- 11. Office Space
- 12. The Three Musketeers
- 13. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
- 14. The Man with the Objective Lens
- 15. Ali G Indahouse
- 16. The Dweller on the Threshold
- 17. Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...
- 18. Tropic Thunder
- 19. Self Service
- 20. The Case of the Artist
1. Bitter Taste of Ginger
Ginger, a recent widow, takes up autoerotic asphyxiation to work up the nerve to kill her abusive mother-in-law, Ginny.
2. The Hotel New Hampshire
Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.
It has an average vote of 5.636 on TMDB.
3. Adam's Apples (Adams æbler)
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
It has an average vote of 7.463 on TMDB.
4. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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.
It has an average vote of 6.779 on TMDB.
5. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
It has an average vote of 7.329 on TMDB.
6. Heat
Former child star Joe Davis, reduced to living in a cheap Hollywood motel while struggling for acting jobs, is lusted after by nearly every woman he meets, including Jessica Todd, a tightly wound feminist who has recently come out as a lesbian. When Jessica's mother, Sally, an emotionally needy has-been actress, meets Joe, she moves him into her enormous, tacky mansion as her new boy toy and attempts to get him acting work.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
7. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie)
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
It has an average vote of 7.505 on TMDB.
8. Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
9. Sanguinolenta venganza (Sanguinolenta venganza)
"The Vengador", always concerned about society and mainly about young people, is like a father to Saul and Robert. He always guides them on the right path. Unfortunately, Robert is killed and this fighter will not rest until he avenges him.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
10. Life of Brian
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
It has an average vote of 7.761 on TMDB.
11. Office Space
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.
It has an average vote of 7.384 on TMDB.
12. The Three Musketeers
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the King. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the Cardinal.
It has an average vote of 6.82 on TMDB.
13. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Dr. Clayton Forrester figures he can rule the world if he deadens his subjects' brains by making them endure terrible movies. Exploiting his access to nearby satellite-dwellers Mike Nelson and his robot pals, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, Forrester makes them watch "This Island Earth", a cheesy 1950s spaceship film. But when Mike and friends make funny comments throughout the movie and others that follow, Forrester's plan looks increasingly flimsy.
It has an average vote of 6.653 on TMDB.
14. The Man with the Objective Lens (Der Mann mit dem Objektiv)
A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB .
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
15. Ali G Indahouse
Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, instead of bringing the Prime Minister down, Ali is embraced by the nation as the voice of youth and 'realness', making the Prime Minister and his government more popular than ever.
It has an average vote of 6.069 on TMDB.
16. The Dweller on the Threshold
Hammered and wandering the forgotten streets of Philadelphia, Ivy encounters a dark stranger and her life is forever transformed as mythology and reality collide.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
17. Co je doma to se počítá, pánové... (Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...)
Czech comedy from the 70ties.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
18. Tropic Thunder
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
19. Self Service (Self Service)
Hungry mosquitos, in search of a meal, find that fruit, flowers and other such fare doesn't satisfy. One enterprising bug hits the jackpot - a human! However, the victim vigorously resists joining the food chain, causing a number of winged casualties. The little buggers wait until the man falls asleep, then set up a number of enterprises: cafes, bars, filling stations, all serving blood. Things are going well, but then the mosquito Cosa Nostra moves in, and ramp production into high gear.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
20. The Case of the Artist (Случай с художником)
A film that "exposes" the creators of abstract, constructivist, surrealistic painting. The horrors experienced by the artist in the world of pictorial abstractions force him to return to "realism"
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.