Movies like Cops and Robbersons
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Cops and Robbersons (1994)
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Original name: Cops & Robbersons
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Hard-as-nails cop Jake Stone moves in with the Robbersons so he can watch a hitman who has moved in next door. The Hitman is one thing, but can you survive the Robberson family.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, emotional, sitcom, realistic, semi serious, talky, scary, ridiculous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, unlikely friendships, justice, family relations, police surveillance, frame up, disorder, nothing goes right, fish out of water, odd couple, goofy hero, suburbs, vampire, chase, nude, catastrophe, spy, killer, natural disaster, friendship, writers, obsession, death, car chase, lone hero ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, cult film and melancholic films with plots about adaptation, first contact, dialogue, fantasy world, brutality, catastrophe and mentor mostly in Comedy, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Cops and Robbersons: Funny Farm (1988), Screwed (2000), Oscar (1991), Big Bully (1996), Burglar (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his ...
Style:
witty, humorous, talky, feel good, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
gangsters, farce, mistaken identity, accountant, disorder, parents and children, fish out of water, couples, dishonesty, going straight, goofy hero, cons and scams ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A writer returns to his hometown where he faces the childhood nemesis whose life he ultimately ruined, only the bully wants to relive their painful past by torturing him once again.
Style:
humorous, touching, funny, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
school, bullying, unlikely friendships, justice, prank, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, homecoming, teenage life, disorder, switching roles, adolescence vs adulthood ...
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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 ...
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chase, murder, thief, nothing goes right, protagonist as suspect, partners, odd couple, disorder, who done it, false accusation, heist, police investigation ...
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Place:
california, usa, san francisco
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37%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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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 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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teens, girls' night
Plot:
fbi, law enforcement, odd couple, police detective, partners, partners against crime, friendship, women, police investigation, female protagonist, strong female character, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
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Place:
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37%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, harsh, feel good, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mental illness, murder, mental institution, farce, mistaken identity, hospital, psychiatrist, life philosophy, mad scientist, mentor, fantasy world, police investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Cookie Voltecki (Emily Lloyd) is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco (Peter Falk), who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost ...
Style:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ...
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Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
humorous, clever, funny, light, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for ...
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Audience:
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Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Ray, an ex-con and widower, is planning a coin heist with two accomplices to help him to buy his own bakery. However, he doesn't expect his son Timmy, who was living with Ray's sister, to show up at the house right in the middle of ...
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Back in sunny southern California and on the trail of two murderers, Axel Foley again teams up with LA cop Billy Rosewood. Soon, they discover that an amusement park is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring – and it's run by ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, Fletch becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name. In the ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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