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A Fine Mess (1986)
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A Fine Mess (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it who are trying to silence them. And there's also the mob boss whom the two guys work for who planned the fixing thing whose wife is having an affair with the actor.
Style: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, art deco
Plot: horse race, chase, gambling, partner, gangster, chases and races, fighting crime, disorder, odd couple, dishonesty, cons and scams, husband wife relationship, restaurant, comedian, on the run, mafia, horse, scientist, female nudity, adultery, arm wrestling, actor, waiter, car accident, telephone call ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Keyword: gangsters, partners

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Most similar movies to A Fine Mess

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, cons and scams, partner, gangster, chases and races and criminal heroes mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like A Fine Mess: Grand Theft Auto (1977), Wise Guys (1986), Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988), Why Me? (1990), Cold Feet (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Grand Theft Auto (1977)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.
Style: realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, police chase, car, carsploitation, couples, disorder, eccentric family, partner, young lovers, odd couple, criminal heroes, on the road ...
Time: 70s
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.6
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Wise Guys (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Style: buddy comedy, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gambling, hitman, gangster, buddies, frame up, criminal heroes, dishonesty, goofy hero, siblings relations, cons and scams, heist ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two go-go dancers, Lulu and Peaches, are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie. Picking up waitress Darlene along the way, the three are involved in wild car chases with cops as they head south to cross ...
Style: independent film, sexy, teen sex comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: on the run, nudity, gangster, chase, shootout, car crash, stripper, female nudity, strip club, misunderstanding, kidnapping, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 5.8
 1K
Why Me? (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious, captivating, absurd ...
Plot: on the run, partner, danger, rivalry, disorder, cons and scams, heist, ruby, pursuit, chase, jewel thief, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Cold Feet (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The leader of a group of misfits, his girlfriend and an assassin have devised a bizarre plan to smuggle stolen jewelry over the US/Mexican border. They implant the jewelry in a racing horse.
Style: independent film, cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: rock, hitman, psychopath, disorder, down on your luck, cons and scams, dishonesty, on the run, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, partner, criminal ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 4.8
 1K
The Squeeze (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Harry Berg is both a con artist and an actual artist -- he constructs large sculptures out of television sets -- but he is not particularly successful in either role. He owes some money, which gets him involved with Rachel Dobs, a police detective ...
Style: humorous, exciting, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: lottery, inventor, murder, partner, disorder, cons and scams, gambling, dishonesty, law enforcement, corpse, police, amateur detective ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Let's Do It Again (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New ...
Style: black comedy, action comedy, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: blaxploitation, boxing, black, african american, hypnosis, gambling, urban, fight, church, gang, money, gangster ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
We're Talkin' Serious Money (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: mobster, scam, sting operation, politician, mafia, get rich quick scheme, gangster, partner, violent content, best friend, disorder, friends ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up in this hilarious misadventure as buddies Steve and Wardell, who head uptown to a swanky nightclub. Unfortunately, thieves hit the club and steal Steve's wallet -- which happens to hold a winning lottery ...
Style: funny, parody, humorous, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: blaxploitation, african american, black, caper, hip hop, robbery, chase, urban, gangster, gambling, lottery, lottery winner ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 ⇓
58%
 6.9
 7K
The ComDads (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, clever ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: reluctant partners, partner, odd couple, dishonesty, family conflict, disappearance, disorder, buddies, nothing goes right, teenage life, cons and scams, father son relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: france, nice france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mordrcai Jones (George C. Scott) is a rural con artist (a 'flim flam man') who takes on a young army deserter Curley (Michael Sarrazin) as his protégé and teaches him the tricks of the trade. Sheriff Slade (Harry Morgan) is in hot ...
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
Plot: chase, gambling, desertion, great depression, drifter, stage play, sheriff, con men, friendship, prison, going straight, rural setting ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The Charismatic black nationalist leader Rev Deke O'Malley is trying to sell the people of Harlem a dream. Invest $100 in his company and live in Africa. But cops Gravedigger and Coffin know all about Deke and his fraudulent schemes that take ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, police investigation, odd couple, investigation, buddies, tough law enforcer, partners against crime, dishonesty, master criminal, law enforcement, partner, racial slur ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A Cherry Pontiac Lemans Convertible...Two Days...Two-Hundred & Fifty Grand. When your lemon lot hits the skids you glom the gig no matter what the smell. For Bob and Sid, two slicked-back burnouts, bum luck runs in spades. With a goose-egg ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, dark humor, car, partner, wooing, cons and scams, drug abuse, dishonesty, on the run, chases and races, criminal, car salesman ...
Time: 90s
Place: latin america, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 7K
Let It Ride (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gambler used to losing is having a very good day.
Style: entertaining, semi serious, humorous, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: gambling, addiction, horse race, drinking, horse, self discovery, drug addict, con artists, trap, casino, security guard, bet ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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No Problem (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Sanjay and Akshaye, childhood friends and small time crooks rob a bank managed by Paresh. The two of them specially, Akshaye, on and off contemplates changing tracks and leaving the world of crime. Sanjay on the other hand almost every time manages ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, slapstick, fast ...
Plot: heist, misfit partners, crime gone awry, chase, cons and scams, partner, silly humor, friends, disorder, dishonesty, love and romance, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Trinity: Good Guys and Bad Guys (1985)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, law enforcement, gang, disorder, heist, crime gone awry, confined, dishonesty, kidnapping, missing person, gangster, partner ...
Time: 80s
Place: miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.5
 2K
Bullseye! (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michael Caine, Roger Moore and Sally Kirkland star as three of the most unlikely rogues to ever score a heist. Hidden away in a vault is a fortune in diamonds, payment for a secret formula two government scientists have unscrupulously sold to the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, independent film, captivating, light ...
Plot: scientist, disorder, undercover, cons and scams, nothing goes right, chases and races, goofy hero, intrigue, dishonesty, experiment, disguise, con artists ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Paper Soldiers (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paper Soldiers follows an overeager burglar named Shawn (Kevin Hart) through the ups and downs of his short, stressful career.
Style: semi serious, humorous, hood, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: african american, hip hop, gangster, partner, drug dealing, dishonesty, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, ambition, unlikely criminals, disorder, urban ...
Place: usa, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Longshot (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.
Style: independent film, realistic, exciting, humorous
Plot: horse race, ambition, criminal heroes, dishonesty, disorder, down on your luck, cons and scams, gambling, gangster, horse, mafia, mob boss ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Mr. Billion (1977)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A fortuneless auto mechanic inherits a billion dollar financial empire when his uncle dies. However, there is one stipulation. In order to claim his fortune he must arrive in San Francisco within twenty days, and along the way there are a number of ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: race against time, mechanic, chase, gangster, inheritance, cons and scams, rich and poor, kidnapping, fish out of water, rise to the top, misfit, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, europe, italy, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
True Identity (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.
Style: light, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot: hitman, satire, mafia, gangster, silly humor, disorder, switching roles, on the run, opposites attract, hidden identity, dishonesty, society ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds that was stolen and subsequently hidden more than 20 years earlier.
Style: entertaining, clever, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: mistaken identity, heist, partner, cons and scams, criminal heroes, goofy hero, disorder, hidden identity, dishonesty, diamond, hitman, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Special Delivery (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he is ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: vietnam war, bank robbery, on the run, heist, caper, gangster, unlikely criminals, chase, chases and races, dishonesty, criminal heroes, crime gone awry ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Avenging Angelo (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA, France, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman who has recently discovered that she is the daughter of Angelo, a major mafia boss, decides to wreak vengeance when he is killed by a hitman. She's aided by his faithful bodyguard, with whom she soon falls in love.
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, action comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mafia, hitman, organized crime, one man army, gangster, vengeance, hidden identity, dangerous attraction, love and romance, unlikely partners, parents and children, assassination attempt ...
Time: year 2002
Place: sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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In Security (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious, light, entertaining ...
Plot: heist, crime gone awry, cons and scams, disorder, dishonesty, couples, danger, robbery, profanity
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.2
 8K
Tough Guys (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of ...
Style: entertaining, road movie, funny, light, humorous ...
Plot: prison, aging, gangster, police investigation, partner, unlikely friendships, odd couple, nothing goes right, elderly, dishonesty, stalking, buddies ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, year 1956
Place: bolivia, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Gangster Exchange (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Karate meets Kalashnikovs as the uncontrollable force and the immovable object are thrown together in this bloody hilarious action comedy! Hiro's a Tokyo cyber-punk Yakuza with a simple mission: smuggle a toilet made of pure heroin to New York ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, stylized, realistic, clever ...
Plot: chase, partner, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, misfit partners, buddies, drug dealing, odd couple, disorder, gang, unlikely partners, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Deal of the Century (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, political ...
Plot: cons and scams, cold war, disorder, dark humor, technology gone awry, chase, nothing goes right, greed, satire, aggression, arms deal, aviation ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 7K
The Crew (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
Style: humorous, funny, stylized, witty, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, unlikely criminals, hitman, partner, farce, dishonesty, rivalry, human nature, dark humor, disorder, cons and scams, aging ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, usa, florida, miami beach
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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