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The Idiots follows a group of Copenhageners who move into a suburban house with a shared project: to abandon self-control and perform deliberate stupidity in public. It is a film about what people will do to escape the expectations that hold them in place — and what it costs them. If this film spoke to you, you are drawn to work that takes the mask of normality seriously enough to tear it off: provocation as method, collective experiment, and the discomfort that lives just beneath polite behaviour.
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The Young Ones
Four lunatic students share a house and turn collective dysfunction into a way of life.
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The Idiot
Christ-like Prince Myshkin enters corrupt 19th-century St Petersburg and becomes entangled in the lives around him.
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Smartypants
Great thinkers and comedians ask the questions no one else will.
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Idiots
Two unqualified men hired to escort a teen to rehab watch a simple job spiral into dangerous mayhem.
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The Idiot
A gentle, saintly ex-soldier arrives in wintry Hokkaido and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity.
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The Dinner Game
Bourgeois friends compete to parade the most spectacular 'idiot' as dinner-party sport.
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The Stupids
A spectacularly dim-witted family stumbles into an illegal weapons deal while chasing their 'stolen' rubbish.
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Living With an Idiot
An intellectual bribes his way into bringing someone from an institution home, with destabilising results.
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The Bothersome Man
A man handed a ready-made life — job, flat, wife — finds the comfort unbearable and tries to escape.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after The Idiots?
The Bothersome Man shares that suffocating sense of a life constructed by others, while The Dinner Game turns the idea of deliberate social transgression into dark comedy from a very different angle.
What films explore the same themes as The Idiots?
Living With an Idiot and The Idiot (1951) both examine what happens when a disruptive outsider enters an ordered world — one as satire, one as tragedy.
Why does The Idiots feel so unsettling?
The film treats deliberate transgression as both liberation and cruelty simultaneously, leaving no safe position for the viewer — the discomfort is the point, not a side effect.