Above the Line vs Flickering Lights

Above the Line has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for Flickering Lights). Above the Line is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 49m. Flickering Lights is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are action, comedy, crime movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Above the LineFlickering Lights
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.1/10
Year20252000
Length1h 30m1h 49m
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime, DramaAction, Comedy, Crime
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorJeffrey Scott CollinsAnders Thomas Jensen
Main castGregg Henry, Reno Wilson, Cedric the Entertainer, Suzy Nakamura, Sophia AliMads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Iben Hjejle, Bent Mejding, Ulrich Thomsen

Synopsis

Above the Line

Six struggling Hollywood hopefuls team up for the ultimate comeback: to rob the Academy Awards from the crooked producer who crushed their dreams. But in a town built on make-believe, pulling off the perfect heist might just be the role of their lives.

Flickering Lights

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

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