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10 Best Movies Like The Ant and the Aardvark

If you loved The Ant and the Aardvark, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
The Inspector

The Inspector

1965★ 5.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ant and the Aardvark for fans of Animation & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The screen's most comically inept detective wreaks havoc on the boulevards of Paris as he, with the help of his sidekick Deux Deux, wages a single-minded (and narrow-sighted) battl...

#2
Strange Object

Strange Object

2020★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ant and the Aardvark for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Afri...

#3
Six: Inside

Six: Inside

2009★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ant and the Aardvark for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animati...

#4
The Peasants

The Peasants

1939★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ant and the Aardvark for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919....

#5
Dune

Dune

2020★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ant and the Aardvark for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Sounds as witnesses. They blurr into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. A fluctuation between imagination and reality....

#6
Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World

Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World

2003★ 4.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ant and the Aardvark for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A feature-length documentary that explores the immense changes that occurred for gays, lesbians and transgender people living in the Global South. In the last decade of the 20th Ce...