Movies like Tropic Thunder
If Tropic Thunder's mix of vietnam, movie business and satire stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Tropic Thunder's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Full Metal Jacket
1987 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 117 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: vietnam, jungle, critical
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
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Shrek
2001 · Directed by Andrew Adamson · 90 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: parody, bold · Also comedy and adventure · From the same decade (2000s)
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely…
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A Clockwork Orange
1971 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 137 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: satire, audacious
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven.
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Black Dynamite
2009 · Directed by Scott Sanders · 85 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: amused · Also comedy and action · From the same decade (2000s)
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor.
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Her
2013 · Directed by Spike Jonze · 126 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: satire, provocative
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need.
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Team America: World Police
2004 · Directed by Trey Parker · 98 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: parody · Also adventure and action · From the same decade (2000s)
When North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il orchestrates a global terrorist plot, it's up to the heavily armed, highly specialized Team America unit to stop his dastardly scheme.
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Freelance
2023 · Directed by Pierre Morel · 108 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: amused · Also action and comedy
An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle…
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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
2008 · Directed by Hayden Schlossberg · 101 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: amused · Also comedy and adventure · From the same decade (2000s)
Having satisfied their urge for White Castle, Harold and Kumar jump on a plane to catch up with Harold's love interest, who's headed for the Netherlands.
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
2001 · Directed by Kevin Smith · 104 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: movie business · Also comedy and adventure · From the same decade (2000s)
When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that leaves them out of any royalties, the pair travel to Tinseltown to…
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Zombieland
2009 · Directed by Ruben Fleischer · 88 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: parody, amused · From the same decade (2000s)
Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors.