Movies like Burglar

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Burglar (1987)
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Burglar (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As she's the only one who can be placed at the scene of the crime, she has to use her criminal skills to clear her name of the murder AND avoid getting charged with the burglary.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, action comedy, realistic, not serious, fast, detective, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, chase, bookstore, thief, investigation, motorcycle, home invasion, female protagonist, disguise, framed for murder, amateur detective, bisexual man, african american protagonist, heist, who done it, false accusation, nothing goes right, partner, disorder, odd couple, protagonist as suspect, police investigation, drinking, murder mystery, black ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: usa, california, san francisco
Keyword: partners, gangsters, doctors

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Most similar movies to Burglar

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and fast films with plots about disorder, police, partner, dishonesty, law enforcement, murder and heist mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Burglar: Quick Change (1990), Feds (1988), A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994), One Night at McCool's (2001), High Heels and Low Lifes (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
 5.5
 3K
Feds (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course, in which they learn to deal with guns and to recognise crimes. They also get a physical training. It appears that Ellie is a real ...
Style: intense, melancholic, semi serious, humorous, action comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: fbi, law enforcement, odd couple, police detective, partners against crime, friendship, partner, women, police investigation, strong female character, female protagonist, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A black detective becomes embroiled in a web of danger while searching for a fortune in missing drug money. During the course of his investigation, he encounters various old connections, ultimately confronting the criminal responsible for ...
Style: humorous, talky, realistic, suspenseful, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: private detective, police investigation, reluctant partners, black, justice, fbi, undercover, investigation, partner, disorder, injustice, who done it ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
One Night at McCool's (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Every man has a different recollection of the beautiful young woman who wreaked havoc on their lives during one heated night.
Style: sexy, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, hilarious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: femme fatale, manipulation, obsession, dangerous attraction, seductress, dark humor, murder, seduction, nothing goes right, dishonesty, destructive relationship, danger ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers for $2 million.
Style: humorous, entertaining, stylized, funny, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: farce, heist, blackmail, mind game, friends, disorder, rivalry, cons and scams, partner, bank robbery, robbery, burglar ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 3K
Best Men (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girlfriend. En route to the wedding, one of the men asks to stop by a bank to ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wedding, heist, crime gone awry, friendship, bank robbery, chase, tragedy, swat team, spy, marriage, explosions, on the run ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 31K
Money Talks (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Money Talks is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Brett Ratner. Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
Style: humorous, light, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, murder, journalism, frame up, media, mexican standoff, partner, protagonist as suspect, chases and races, buddies, law enforcement, buddy ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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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 ⇓
67%
Loose Cannons (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mac, the two fisted savy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burn out, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is, Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his ...
Style: humorous, action comedy, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: buddy cop, murder, police investigation, law enforcement, farce, disorder, odd couple, gang, friendship, investigation, partner, buddy ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, germany, washington d.c., europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 4K
Fatal Beauty (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics cop with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of 'Fatal Beauty' begin turning up next to too many dead bodies. Mike ...
Style: detective, crying, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, violence, good versus evil, murder, reluctant partners, gangster, cocaine, massacre, mob hit, female police officer, showdown, female protagonist ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Police Academy (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the ...
Style: funny, parody, light, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: police, police academy, officers and cadets, chase, dumb, recruit, rookie, instructor, cadet, mentor, creativity, police corruption ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984, 1950s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 4K
K-9: P.I. (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dooley and his K-9 partner Jerry Lee are ready to retire from the police force. But before he can retire with his pension he must work as a P.I. to find a set of high tech computer chips.
Style: realistic, humorous, tense, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dog, german shepherd, investigation, police dog, reluctant partners, private detective, buddy cop, owner dog relationship, police investigation, partners against crime, odd couple, police detective ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, not serious, slapstick ...
Audience: kids
Plot: deaf, disability, murder, blindness, farce, chase, blind man, witness, mute or deaf, friendship, deafness, odd couple ...
Time: 80s
Place: manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.4
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Bad Christmas (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A peaceful Christmas Eve is interrupted when a thief breaks into a villa. When the family’s little daughter mistakes him for Santa Claus and asks him to fulfill her Christmas wish, he will be forced to perform a miracle that will redeem secrets ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: adultery, infidelity, santa claus, cheating wife, christmas eve, thief, heist gone wrong, heist, mistaken identity, robbery, criminal, attempted robbery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a ...
Style: humorous, slapstick, absurd, spoof, relaxing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police academy, police, police investigation, violence, car chase, satire, love affair, prank, senior citizen, martial arts, blonde, voyeur ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 2K
Faithful (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.
Style: talky, melancholic, semi serious, black comedy, clever ...
Plot: loneliness, female protagonist, woman in danger, greed, crumbling marriage, family problems, self discovery, marriage, adultery, depression, killer, assassin ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 8K
Mo' Money (1992)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of ...
Style: light, intense, humorous, hood, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, credit card, cons and scams, twists and turns, love and romance, dishonesty, urban, criminal heroes, investigation, black, con men, chase ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Two If by Sea (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, ...
Style: humorous, suspense, romantic, road movie, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heist, justice, gangster, painting, happy ending, betrayal, couples, partner, cons and scams, disorder, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: usa, nova scotia, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Inspector Clouseau (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new ...
Style: fast, not serious, realistic, humorous, slapstick comedy ...
Plot: pink panther, law enforcement, mysticism, murder mystery, gang, undercover, investigation, heist, bank, chaos, partner, police detective ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, scotland yard, france, scotland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
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Double Take (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The governor of a Mexican state is assassinated. Soon after, junior executive Daryl Chase's life turns upside down: after he flags a huge transfer of funds from a Mexican account as probably illegal, he's attacked in his apartment, rescued ...
Style: intense, humorous, semi serious, action packed, action comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, on the run, fbi, chase, unlikely friendships, mistaken identity, african american, disorder, cons and scams, fish out of water, frame up, hidden identity ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york, texas, latin america, florida, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Halal State Security (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Someone is killing Parisians of Arab ethnicity. When an Algerian diplomat is murdered by the same assailant, two Algerian detectives are sent to help the French with the investigation and they have their own ways of doing things.
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, partner, odd couple, buddies, disorder, fish out of water, racism, chase, society, investigation, buddy cop, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, algeria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Madigan's Millions (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: humorous, semi serious, exciting, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, cons and scams, disorder, partner, dishonesty, chase, crime gone awry, goofy hero, money, gangster, police, hooligan ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Armed and Dangerous (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dooley, a cop wrongly sacked for corruption, teams up with a useless defence lawyer in their new careers... as security guards. When the two are made fall guys for a robbery at a location they are guarding, the pair begin to investigate corruption ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, not serious, exciting, parody ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: corruption, heist, gunfight, friendship, justice, on the run, nothing goes right, partners against crime, witnessing a crime, guard dog, female bodybuilder, private detective ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.5
 90K
Cop Out (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Detectives Jimmy and Paul, despite nine years as partners, can still sometimes seem like polar opposites – especially when Paul's unpredictable antics get them suspended without pay. Already strapped for cash and trying to pay for his ...
Style: humorous, buddy comedy, funny, entertaining, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: police, law enforcement, buddy, police investigation, buddy cop, gangster, chase, justice, money laundering, police officer, robbery, rescue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Puerto Ricans in Paris (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: NYPD detectives Luis and Eddie visit Paris to help gorgeous French designer Colette catch the black market thief who's ripped off her new handbag design. While Luis' girlfriend Vanessa and Eddie's wife Gloria remain in New York, the ...
Style: captivating, humorous, light, exciting, buddy comedy ...
Plot: puerto rican, police investigation, thief, partner, disorder, comedy of errors, friendship, chase, buddy cop, secret service, police officer, marital problem ...
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Cop and a Half (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the ...
Style: detective, humorous, satirical, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: children, gangster, murder, police investigation, boy, partners against crime, bully, witnessing a crime, police, friendship, odd couple, fighting crime ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The Russians need help in dealing with the Mafia and so they seek help with the veterans of the Police Academy. They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantin Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is ...
Style: absurd, slapstick, humorous, spoof, disgusting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police academy, police, car chase, mafia, video game, farce, chase, police investigation, gangster, destiny, satire, commander ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Hollywood Sign (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: hollywood, nothing goes right, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, gangster, elderly, criminal heroes, dishonesty, disorder, cons and scams, heist, filmmaking ...
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Thief Kevin Caffery attempts to rob from the home of rich businessman Max Fairbanks. But Fairbanks catches him and steals his cherished ring that his girlfriend gave him. Caffery is then bent on revenge and getting his ring back with the help of his ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, funny, intense, semi serious ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: robbery, storytelling, nothing goes right, disorder, cons and scams, rivalry, dishonesty, destiny, black, stoner, hip hop, thief ...
Place: washington d.c., boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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