Movies like Raising Arizona

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Raising Arizona (1987)
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Raising Arizona (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Coen Brothers tell the story of a absurd yet likable family with an unproductive couple as the focal point. The couple has gotten themselves into some trouble while kidnapping a baby and give Hollywood one of the most memorable chase scenes to date.
Style: witty, humorous, funny, dark comedy, surreal, hilarious, road movie, offbeat, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing
Plot: kidnapping, screwball, baby, robbery, adoption, american football, parenthood, missing child, policewoman, crime gone awry, blackmail, redemption, prison escape, couple relations, jail, married couple, human nature, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, desert, dark humor, caper, love, violence, bounty hunter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
Keyword: dreams, loud, challenge

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Most similar movies to Raising Arizona

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, witty and funny films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, friends, satire, cons and scams, buddies and dark humor mostly in Crime, Comedy and Thriller genres. Some movies like Raising Arizona: Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Big Lebowski (1998), Ruthless People (1986), The Ladykillers (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, feel good, satirical ...
Audience: family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: unemployment, robbery, heist, caper, loss of job, bankruptcy, business, gangster, husband wife relationship, satire, greed, couples ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's ...
Style: road movie, funny, dark comedy, slapstick comedy, surreal ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: prison escape, blues, on the run, treasure hunt, small town, music, great depression, obsessive quest, country music, on the road, runaway, dark humor ...
Time: 1930s, year 2000, 20th century, y2k, 2000s ...
Place: mississippi, ancient greece, america, greece, persia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events ...
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, surreal, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bowling, mistaken identity, weed, dialogue, slacker, hippie, marijuana, great dialogue, dream, drug, stoner, nihilism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, year 1991
Place: los angeles, america, iraq, arizona, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Ruthless People (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, funny, hilarious, laugh out loud ...
Plot: kidnapping, greed, videotaped sex, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, farce, ransom, misunderstanding, fashion, revenge, vengeance, mistress ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Ladykillers (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
Style: funny, dark comedy, entertaining, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot: heist, dark humor, african american, painting, cons and scams, eccentricity, greed, culture clash, murder, con artists, friends, american football ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, talky, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dark humor, dog, psychopath, screenwriter, serial killer, gangster, crime gone awry, strong violent content, gunfight, murder, mob boss, weirdo ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 1963, year 1954, year 1975 ...
Place: los angeles, california, united kingdom, america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bottle Rocket (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that ...
Style: road movie, witty, humorous, talky, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, on the run, love, heist, motel, psychiatric hospital, road trip, gangster, bookstore, sibling relationship, disorder, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Stealing Harvard (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her ...
Style: funny, humorous, stylized, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: robbery, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, partner, disorder, cons and scams, nothing goes right, buddies, couple relations, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, toilet humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: harvard university, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Sugar & Spice (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When Jack and Diane find themselves in an unexpected adult situation, the A-Squad comes to their rescue. In order to help their friend Diane, the A-Squad goes where no cheerleader has gone before: taking on a little after-school project known as ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, heist, cheerleading, cheerleader, friendship, satire, teenage love, rebel, dark humor, girl gang, buddies, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, surreal, witty, offbeat ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: hotel, prison escape, art theft, mentor protege relationship, murder, luxury hotel, escapades, painting, gunfight, greed, fictional country, mentor ...
Time: 1930s, year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: eastern europe, alps, europe, america, persia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Desperate Living (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A rich housewife enlists her maid's help to murder her husband; they go on the lam and end up in Mortville, a homeless community built into a garbage dump.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, controversial, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: surrealism, male nudity, children, lesbian, murder, castration, satire, transsexual, lesbian sex, absurd violence, fascism, political corruption ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.
Style: mockumentary, humorous, clever, witty, funny ...
Plot: prison, robbery, heist, fighting the system, goofy hero, couples, petty criminal, unlikely criminals, misfit, couple relations, hapless, cons and scams ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 50s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: persia, turkey, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Twins (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, road movie, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, date night
Plot: twins, road trip, buddy, fish out of water, family relations, on the road, partner, brothers, buddies, culture clash, brother brother relationship, siblings ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: usa, los angeles, arizona, austin texas, santa fe new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Trapped in Paradise (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Firpo Brothers can get away with anything. They just can't get away!
Style: entertaining, humorous, light, funny, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: christmas, small town, snow, redemption, holiday, bank robbery, nothing goes right, disorder, partner, chases and races, crime gone awry, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Screwed (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.
Style: funny, humorous, intense, feel good, witty ...
Plot: mistaken identity, crime gone awry, fish out of water, comedy of errors, friendship, nothing goes right, partner, hostage, cons and scams, disorder, goofy hero, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Hangover Part III (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.
Style: funny, buddy comedy, hilarious, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: road trip, buddy, friendship between men, drinking, drinking alcohol, friendship, hung over, drug, party, dark humor, dentist, disorder ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, los angeles, seattle, usa, nevada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
King's Ransom (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: kidnapping, dishonesty, nothing goes right, breakup, disorder, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, unlikely criminals, love and romance, crime gone awry, cons and scams ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Style: talky, humorous, melancholic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: heist, love and romance, caper, corruption, robbery, unlikely criminals, disorder, couple relations, overnight success, cons and scams, bank robbery, art ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Gambit (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
Style: light, humorous, sexy, entertaining, absurd ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heist, caper, collector, revenge, art, con men, perfect crime, farce, brutality, stereotypes, screwball, greed ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Amos & Andrew (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson), a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver (Dabney Coleman) realizes ...
Style: clever, funny, light, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: island, bad cop, mistaken identity, police investigation, brutality, racism, interracial relations, buddies, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, social differences, resort ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, detective ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot: police, deadpan, stupidity, investigation, assassin, satire, gunfight, creativity, sarcasm, cop, dimwit, terrorist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: los angeles, usa, california, beirut lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Fargo (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: snow, dark humor, small town, kidnapping, police, murder, greed, crime gone awry, police investigation, violence, satire, winter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1996, year 1987
Place: minnesota, north dakota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Midnight Run (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An accountant embezzles $15 million of mob money, jumps bail and is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia.
Style: road movie, funny, talky, humorous, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: road trip, on the road, buddy, organized crime, hitman, gangster, chase, bounty hunter, train, car chase, race against time, police surveillance ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, new york, arizona, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Gold Diggers (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: National Lampoon's Gold Diggers is a black comedy about two losers in their twenties, Calvin Menhoffer (Will Friedle) and Leonard Smallwood (Chris Owen), who are out to get the good life without working for it. The two young men try to rob two ...
Style: humorous, absurd, intense, stylized, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: buddies, women, stupidity, brutality, adaptation, murder, erotica, partner, dishonesty, friends, criminal heroes, intrigue ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Burn After Reading (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of Linda Litzke and Chad Feldheimer, the two gym employees see a chance to make enough money for her to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of ...
Style: dark comedy, funny, black comedy, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: stupidity, espionage, paranoia, farce, divorce, infidelity, spy, gym, violence, online dating, great ending, ambition ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, virginia, persia, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Enid Is Sleeping (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the ...
Style: dark comedy, laugh out loud, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: infidelity, dark humor, police officer, shootout, murder, redneck, sibling relationship, couples, injustice, couple relations, on the run, investigation ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1959
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 30K
Stir Crazy (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, feel good, laugh out loud ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, buddy, wrongful conviction, injustice, convict, cell mate, prison escape, lawyer, partner, on the road, jail, black ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, witty, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, hostage, angel, ransom, screwball, heaven, robbery, murder, unlikely couple, confined, on the run ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: utah, usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.6
 7K
Crimewave (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, the race is on to frame an innocent video surveillance man.
Style: surreal, funny, cult classic, dark comedy, humorous ...
Plot: hitman, screwball, murder, car chase, death, killer, fear, hercules, exploitation, female protagonist, circus, false accusation ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.9
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Horrible Bosses (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a ...
Style: humorous, funny, dark comedy, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: dark humor, obnoxious boss, comedy of errors, dentist, murder, boss, boss and employee, sexual harassment, workplace, plan gone awry, manipulation, farce ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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