If You Liked Desperate Living, Watch These Next
Finished Desperate Living (1977) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Desperate Living, most of them are comedy, crime.
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19 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Hard to Die(1990)
6.0ActionComedyThrillerAlso comedy
While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series of killings six months previously, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real…
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2.Female Trouble(1976)
6.9ComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
Teenage delinquent Dawn Davenport, incensed after her parents do not give her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, runs away from home. After an illegitimate child and hairstylist husband bring her more misery, she's enticed into a life of crime when the owners of her husband's salon promise her fame and…
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3.Who Is Cletis Tout?(2001)
5.9ActionComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
With a hitman’s gun aimed at him, Finch tells the story of how he broke out of jail, fell in love, and took the identity of a man wanted by the Mafia.
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4.Smokin' Aces(2006)
6.5ActionComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
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5.Ricky Gervais: Mortality(2025)
7.0ComedyAlso comedy
Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.
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7.Pink Flamingos(1972)
6.1ComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
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8.Ricky Gervais: Armageddon(2023)
7.1ComedyAlso comedy
Ricky Gervais dishes out controversial takes on political correctness and oversensitivity in a taboo-busting comedy special about the end of humanity.
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9.Louis C.K.: Oh My God(2013)
7.6ComedyAlso comedy
Filmed at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, AZ on February 15th and 16th, 2013, Oh My God is Louis C.K.'s fifth stand-up special, his first for HBO since 2007's Shameless, and his first since winning a Emmy Award for writing on his acclaimed show on FX, Louie. Performed in the round in front of a live audience, he…
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10.Hobo with a Shotgun(2011)
5.9CrimeActionThrillerAlso crime
A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city…
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11.Foxy Brown(1974)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
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12.Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years(2025)
7.2ComedyAlso comedy
In what might be his most personal and introspective hour yet, Bill offers hilarious takes on everything from male sadness to dating advice.
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13.Rise of the Footsoldier(2007)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime
Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.
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15.A Clockwork Orange(1971)
8.2Science FictionCrimeAlso crime
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. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure…
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16.Accident Man(2018)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and comedy
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
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17.Pretty Persuasion(2005)
5.8ComedyAlso comedy
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
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18.Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer(2024)
6.4ComedyAlso comedy
Jimmy Carr refutes the idea that you can't joke about anything these days with his edgy takes on gun control, religion, cancel culture and consent.
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19.In the Blood(2014)
5.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
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