Movies like Lucky Numbers
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Lucky Numbers (2000)
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.
Style:
humorous, stylized, feel good, realistic, not serious, clever, sexy, funny, light, road movie ...
Plot:
small town, justice, dark humor, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, couple relations, cons and scams, stripper, lottery, gambling, murder, catastrophe, end of the world, gangsters, twists and turns, money, natural disaster, caper, writers, death, betrayal, male nudity, lone hero, fantasy world ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, new jersey, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, clever, realistic and melancholic films with plots about life philosophy, dialogue, brutality, mentor, storytelling, adaptation and catastrophe mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Lucky Numbers: Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), Duplex (2003), The Big White (2005), Screwed (2000), Burglar (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.
Style:
entertaining, parody, not serious, realistic, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
workplace, sex tape, kidnapping, twists and turns, obnoxious boss, vengeance, happy ending, stupidity, revenge, nothing goes right, friendship, sex addict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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59K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Style:
humorous, stylized, feel good, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
twists and turns, neighbor neighbor relationship, dark humor, couple relations, cons and scams, writers, old woman, autumn, hitman, transformation, life philosophy, lone hero ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.
Style:
humorous, clever, realistic, tense, bad ending ...
Plot:
kidnapping, murder, dark humor, disorder, down on your luck, comedy of errors, insurance fraud, life insurance, frozen body, winter, insurance agent, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska, minnesota, usa
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100%
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 ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, mistaken identity, crime gone awry, fish out of water, comedy of errors, friendship, nothing goes right, hostage, disorder, cons and scams, odd couple, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
new jersey, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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 ...
Style:
humorous, sexy, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, murder, thief, nothing goes right, protagonist as suspect, partners, odd couple, disorder, who done it, false accusation, heist, police investigation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, disorder, cons and scams, partners, buddies, nothing goes right, dishonesty, couple relations, father daughter relationship, farce ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, harvard university, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and ...
Style:
humorous, sexy, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, affectionate ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, robbery, dark humor, crime gone awry, heist, writers, loneliness, mentor, betrayal, brutality, fantasy world, culture clash ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, california, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, stylized, not serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, mob hit, gangsters, prison, psychiatrist, going straight, introspection, family problems, buddies, hopes, doctors and patients ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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:
women, stupidity, brutality, adaptation, murder, erotica, friends, buddies, partners, dishonesty, disorder, intrigue ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three bank tellers. One goal: knock the place over. The ultimate inside jobs, plotted by three people with nothing to lose.
Style:
funny, humorous, melancholic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
heist, bank robber, small town, robbery, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, friends, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, employee, criminal heroes, boss and employee ...
Place:
nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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:
gangsters, vengeance, farce, unlikely criminals, hitman, human nature, rivalry, partners, dishonesty, dark humor, disorder, aging ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, miami, florida, usa, miami beach
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
Style:
humorous, feel good, clever, light, exciting ...
Plot:
prison, mistaken identity, small town, religion, fake priest, priest, monk, fish out of water, buddies, on the run, clergy, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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, farce, justice, crime boss, unlikely criminals, hidden identity, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the ...
Style:
funny, humorous, absurd, parody, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
prank telephone call, gangsters, vengeance, dishonesty, sarcasm, mafia, dumb, fantasy world, fight scenes, first contact, technology, violence ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago illinois, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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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:
90s, 1930s
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being ...
Style:
humorous, harsh, stylized, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, hip hop, heroin, drugs, drug abuse, murder, gangsters, brutality, culture clash, justice, crime gone awry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, detroit, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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, semi serious ...
Plot:
heist, love and romance, corruption, unlikely criminals, overnight success, disorder, cons and scams, couple relations, bank robbery, caper, art, crime gone awry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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, feel good, humorous, satirical ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
unemployment, caper, robbery, gangsters, money, heist, loss of job, bankruptcy, business, husband wife relationship, greed, satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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:
funny, feel good, witty, humorous, clever ...
Plot:
ransom, kidnapping, hostage, greed, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, farce, misunderstanding, fashion, revenge, vengeance, manipulation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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:
humorous, intense, melancholic, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience:
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:
80s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing ...
Style:
humorous, disturbing, witty, talky, parody ...
Plot:
murder, crime gone awry, eccentricity, shakespeare, disorder, police detective, law enforcement, couple relations, goofy hero, nothing goes right, farce, comedy of errors ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 1930s, 18th century
Place:
pennsylvania, scotland, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren't always as they seem. Anything can happen in that town of many possibilities...especially ...
Style:
humorous, talky, stylized, entertaining, road movie ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, crime gone awry, destiny, multiple storylines, brutality, expectant father, desert, disorder, criminal heroes, gang, on the run, partners ...
Place:
las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young Tommy Hudler decides to become a security systems salesman, and is an instant success. Everything seems to be going great until he discovers there's more to this business and his boss Heinrich than he previously suspected.
Style:
humorous, sexy, witty, light, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
satire, dark humor, runaway, wartime, shopping, writers, violence, vengeance, stupidity, revenge, life philosophy, happy ending ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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:
island, mistaken identity, police investigation, brutality, racism, bad cop, interracial relations, resort, social differences, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new england
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49%
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 ...
Plot:
vengeance, robbery, nothing goes right, cons and scams, disorder, dishonesty, rivalry, destiny, lone hero, justice, life philosophy, adaptation ...
Place:
washington d.c., boston, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Films like Delicatessen
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. ...
Style:
witty, humorous, clever, intense, visually appealing ...
Plot:
gangsters, gambling, vengeance, boxer, cons and scams, friends, revenge, boxing, artist, buddy, nude, computer game ...
Time:
1940s, 80s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, california, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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:
humorous, clever, light, semi serious, sexy ...
Plot:
robbery, bank robbery, chase, retirement home, aging, elderly, cons and scams, dishonesty, golden years, couple relations, criminal heroes, couples ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new jersey, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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:
intense, light, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gangsters, money, chase, runaway, corruption, stolen money, disorder, friends, dishonesty, nothing goes right, heist, gang ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new jersey, california, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.
Style:
humorous, clever, witty, funny, absurd ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, heist, love and romance, suicide, eccentricity, childhood, dark humor, violence, drugs, mentor, adaptation, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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, clever, satirical ...
Plot:
heist, prison, greed, runaway, safecracker, cons and scams, criminal heroes, dishonesty, robbery, planning, farce, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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