Movies like Bottle Rocket

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Bottle Rocket (1996)
 6.9
 83K
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 somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.
Style: road movie, humorous, witty, talky, funny, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, cult classic, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, on the run, love, heist, motel, psychiatric hospital, road trip, gangster, bookstore, sibling relationship, self discovery, nothing goes right, disorder, prison, loser, partner, buddies, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, cons and scams, partners in crime, caper, brothers, mental illness, melancholy ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
Keyword: partners, gangsters, oldies, challenge

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Most similar movies to Bottle Rocket

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and dark comedy films with plots about dishonesty, disorder, caper, robbery, heist, cons and scams and gangster mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Bottle Rocket: Welcome to Collinwood (2002), Rushmore (1998), Feeling Minnesota (1996), Shakes the Clown (1991), Raising Arizona (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
Style: humorous, entertaining, absurd, hilarious, cult classic ...
Plot: heist, prison, greed, robbery, safecracker, caper, cons and scams, criminal heroes, dishonesty, crime gone awry, released from prison, disguise ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: ohio, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 197K
Rushmore (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the ...
Style: funny, dark comedy, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, depression, student, jealousy, adolescence, love triangle, teacher, teen angst, friendship, youth, mentor ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, y2k, year 1998
Place: usa, midwest, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Feeling Minnesota (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, corruption, murder, gangster, wedding, love triangle, stripper, family relations, elopement, motel, presumed dead, framed for murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Shakes the Clown (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, stylized, talky ...
Plot: clown, murder, false accusation, rescue, addiction, alcoholism, drinking, murder mystery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, nothing goes right, disorder, alcoholic ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.3
 149K
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 ...
Style: witty, humorous, funny, dark comedy, surreal ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing
Plot: kidnapping, screwball, baby, robbery, adoption, american football, parenthood, missing child, policewoman, crime gone awry, redemption, blackmail ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Brothers Bloom (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a ...
Style: witty, semi serious, realistic, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: twists and turns, heist, caper, magic realism, fall in love, partner, family relations, escapades, dishonesty, disorder, love and romance, going straight ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new jersey, montenegro, prague, tokyo, greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
50%
God Bless America (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant in this black comedy.
Style: cynical, dark comedy, black comedy, talky, funny ...
Plot: killing spree, female killer, mass murder, vigilante, serial killer, dark humor, society, layoff, rage, life is a bitch, media, visceral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of ...
Style: dark comedy, funny, humorous, talky, cult classic ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, eccentricity, eccentric family, writers, forbidden love, parents and children, deadpan, incest, uptight character, reconciliation, love, satire ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.3
 19K
Made (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two aspiring boxers lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.
Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, realistic, clever ...
Plot: friendship, organized crime, crime gone awry, dark humor, boxing, nothing goes right, partner, buddies, cons and scams, disorder, dishonesty, mafia ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: los angeles, new york, usa, california, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.7
 55K
Down by Law (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison escape, on the road, pimp, swamp, misfit, fight, character study, gangster, crime gone awry, escape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.4
 4K
Mad Dog Time (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, violence, organized crime, hitman, betrayal, mental illness, mental institution, brutality, rock, femme fatale, crime boss, murder ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.8
 4K
Safe Men (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic ...
Style: light, humorous, melancholic, absurd, buddy comedy ...
Plot: safecracker, heist, mistaken identity, organized crime, comedy of errors, cons and scams, gangster, farce, caper, justice, crime boss, unlikely criminals ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.5
 71K
Bandits (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, friendship, love triangle, on the run, bank robber, stockholm syndrome, bored housewife, thief, caper, prison, hostage, robbery ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, oregon, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.0
 99K
Out of Sight (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if ...
Style: sexy, neo noir, romantic, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: heist, prison, bank robbery, hot and sexy, fbi, hotel, robbery, love story, crime gone awry, opposites attract, character study, love and romance ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: detroit, usa, michigan, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Going in Style (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they ...
Style: light, realistic, touching, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: heist, senior citizen, robbery, caper, aging, elderly, bank, bittersweet, bank robber, thief, twin towers, hidden treasure ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.8
 22K
Quick Change (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, absurd, cult classic ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, robbery, buddies, friendship, partner, friends, disorder, cons and scams, runaway, love and romance, bank robber ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Curse of Inferno (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the money back into the bank is much more difficult than taking it out.
Style: independent film, realistic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
Plot: partner, wedding, escape, heist, crime gone awry, love and romance, fall in love, couples, wooing, dishonesty, babies and infants, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Style: road movie, humorous, action thriller, light, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, heist, chase, treasure hunt, on the road, car chase, buddy, robbery, bank robbery, rivalry, preacher, homosexual subtext ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1972
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 278K
The Sting (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Style: entertaining, atmospheric, witty, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: con artists, gambling, chase, cons and scams, caper, twists and turns, organized crime, manipulation, con man, plot twist, train, mafia ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1936
Place: chicago, usa, persia, new york, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Where the Money Is (2000)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Henry Manning (Paul Newman) has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann ...
Style: clever, light, semi serious, humorous, action thriller ...
Plot: bank robbery, chase, retirement home, caper, elderly, aging, cons and scams, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, criminal heroes, nursing ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
43%
 5.8
 59K
Masterminds (2015)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A night guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history.
Style: humorous, intense, stylized, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: heist, armored car robbery, robbery, workplace, surveillance, stupidity, twists and turns, criminal heroes, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, workplace situations, cons and scams ...
Time: year 2016, 90s, 20th century, year 1997, year 2004 ...
Place: usa, southern usa, north carolina, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Matchstick Men (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Style: psychological, feel good, entertaining, psychological thriller, twisted ...
Plot: con artists, twists and turns, cons and scams, mental illness, con men, heist, greed, slick, plot twist, psychology, father daughter relationship, obsession ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, actor's life, lifestyle, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Six Ways to Sunday (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Norman Reedus stars as Harry Odum, a henpecked, 18-year-old momma's boy in Youngstown, Ohio, who -- with his violent temper -- impresses a local boss of the Jewish Mafia. Soon he's found his calling as a hit man alongside his crack addict ...
Style: disturbing, talky, intense, humorous, biting ...
Plot: hitman, dark humor, coming of age, sex with mother, police corruption, depression, family relations, parents and children, self discovery, suburban life, rise and fall, criminal heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Band of Outsiders (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or ...
Style: black and white, cult classic, neo noir, postmodern, talky ...
Plot: robbery, love triangle, gunfight, alienation, caper, crime gone awry, danger, louvre, teenage girl, modernism, isolation, time travel ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 8.9
 2.2M
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, exciting, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: gangster, dark humor, organized crime, gunfight, violence, hitman, overdose, multiple storylines, violent, killings, drug, redemption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, persia, america, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Brink's Job (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After a long time of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang successfully rob one of Brink's security transport, taking $30,000. Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out their headquarters and finds ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, master criminal, crime gone awry, dishonesty, gang, cons and scams, rivalry, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, law enforcement, unlikely criminals, buddies ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1978, 50s, year 1950 ...
Place: boston, usa, new england, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Money for Nothing (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an ...
Style: light, intense, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: money, stolen money, chase, runaway, corruption, disorder, friends, nothing goes right, dishonesty, heist, gangster, police ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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