If you loved In China They Eat Dogs, try Flickering Lights

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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In China They Eat Dogs

1999 · dir. Lasse Spang Olsen

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Flickering Lights

2000 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen

What they share

Theysit in Action / Comedy / Crime territory. If that's the register that drew you to In China They Eat Dogs, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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 In China They Eat Dogs, try Flickering Lights

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