If you loved Adam's Apples, try Flickering Lights

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Flickering Lights has roughly 3.2× fewer votes than Adam's Apples — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Adam's Apples

2005 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen

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Flickering Lights

2000 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen

What they share

Both films are directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, and they both carry the pitch black, playful mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Crime territory. If that's the register that drew you to Adam's Apples, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

pitch blackplayful

What Flickering Lights is

Here's a film about criminals discovering their inner HGTV hosts. Four crooks abscond with ill-gotten cash, then lie low in a rural fixer-upper. Turns out their talents run more to home improvement than grand larceny.

If you loved Adam's Apples, try Flickering Lights

Adam's Apples

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What they share

What Flickering Lights is

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