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Small Time Crooks (2000)
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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: humorous, talky, melancholic, stylized, feel good, realistic, semi serious, hilarious, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot: heist, love and romance, caper, corruption, robbery, unlikely criminals, disorder, couple relations, cons and scams, overnight success, bank robbery, art, crime gone awry, criminal, restaurant, swindle, business, rags to riches, screwball, gambling, wife, accountant, labor, assassination, hustler ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa, new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and witty films with plots about dishonesty, cons and scams, robbery, couples, disorder, heist and caper mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Small Time Crooks: Quick Change (1990), Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), The Hot Rock (1972), Chain of Fools (2000), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). 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%
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
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, humorous, feel good, satirical ...
Audience: family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: unemployment, robbery, heist, caper, loss of job, bankruptcy, business, gangster, husband wife relationship, satire, greed, couples ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Hot Rock (1972)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
Style: humorous, talky, suspense, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heist, robbery, bank robbery, storytelling, revenge, organized crime, police corruption, crime gone awry, museum, jewel thief, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Chain of Fools (2000)
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, witty, clever, light, absurd ...
Plot: love and romance, suicide, eccentricity, drug, violence, childhood, dark humor, mentor, adaptation, dysfunctional family, twists and turns, transvestite ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Style: philosophical, talky, humorous, witty, meditative ...
Plot: adultery, murder, infidelity, mistress, existentialism, justice, guilt, blackmail, satire, couple relations, moral dilemma, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Object of Beauty (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A valuable piece of art is stolen from a couple.
Style: talky, stylized, clever, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: art, greed, infidelity, painter, sign language, art history, deaf girl, insurance scam, mute or deaf, love and romance, dishonesty, master and servant ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: london, england, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Stealing Harvard (2002)
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, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, partner, disorder, cons and scams, nothing goes right, buddies, couple relations, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, toilet humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: harvard university, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A kidnapped mobster (Vittorio De Sica) persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, stylized, humorous
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, kidnapping, train robbery, exploitation, gangster, mafia, disorder, rescue, unlikely criminals, betrayal, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, europe, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Take the Money and Run (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.
Style: mockumentary, humorous, clever, witty, funny ...
Plot: prison, robbery, heist, fighting the system, goofy hero, couples, petty criminal, unlikely criminals, misfit, couple relations, hapless, cons and scams ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 50s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: persia, turkey, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.
Style: clever, feel good, funny, humorous, surprise ending ...
Audience: kids, family friendly
Plot: con artists, con men, rivalry, cons and scams, bet, twists and turns, competition, farce, caper, high society, gigolo, entrepreneur ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: french riviera, france, arizona, riviera, south of france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. ...
Style: black and white, funny, talky, clever, touching ...
Plot: screwball, showbiz, gangster, thanksgiving, mafia, female protagonist, art, comedian, girlfriend, artist, profanity, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, talky, clever, humorous ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: summer, shakespeare, farce, infidelity, couples, older man younger woman relationship, chess, love, marriage, professor, doctor, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they ...
Style: witty, humorous, detective, neo noir, realistic ...
Plot: hypnosis, investigation, workplace, insurance investigator, heist, plot twist, justice, unlikely criminals, love and romance, power relations, murder mystery, false accusation ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, year 1940, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, madagascar, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Hollywood Ending (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, light, stylized ...
Plot: movie business, blindness and impaired vision, filmmaking, adultery, dysfunctional family, justice, showbiz, one more chance, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, couple relations ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
Style: humorous, hilarious, romantic comedy, witty, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: mafia, mistaken identity, fish out of water, marriage proposal, fbi, family relations, comedy of errors, fall in love, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, kansas city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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 ⇓
46%
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Scorched (2003)
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, melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: heist, bank robber, robbery, small town, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, friends, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, employee, partner, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 2003
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him ...
Style: talky, humorous, surreal, cult classic, funny ...
Plot: art, writers, psychiatrist, writer's life, human nature, alienation, relationships, philosophy, satire, sexual content, eternal love, depression ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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King's Ransom (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: kidnapping, dishonesty, nothing goes right, breakup, disorder, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, unlikely criminals, love and romance, crime gone awry, cons and scams ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda ...
Style: surreal, funny, talky, humorous, witty ...
Plot: child, adoption, adopted son, adoptive mother, prostitution, loneliness, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, family relations, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, ancient greece, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Kaleidoscope (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because ...
Style: psychological thriller, semi serious, realistic, stylized, feel good ...
Plot: casino, gambling, poker, robbery, gambler, con artists, disorder, couples, mind game, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place: europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
44%
 5.4
 1K
Bank Shot (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
Style: cynical, semi serious, realistic, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: bank, bank robbery, bank robber, robbery, humour, judiciary, disorder, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, chase, gang ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century. They gain the enmity of the most famous bank Robber in the world and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman.
Style: offbeat, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, bank robbery, prison escape, robbery, caper, female journalist, safecracker, odd couple, nothing goes right, dishonesty, misfit partners, crime gone awry ...
Time: victorian era, year 1976, 19th century, 1890s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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%
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
Style: atmospheric, talky, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, jazz, art, infidelity, love and romance, musician's life, fall in love, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, writers, addiction, dark humor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Maiden Heist (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.
Style: exciting, light, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: heist, art theft, museum, caper, bank robbery, happy ending, unlikely criminals, buddies, robbery, husband wife relationship, bank robber, obsession ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: denmark, new york, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 11K
Lucky Numbers (2000)
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 ...
Style: stylized, humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good ...
Plot: lottery, small town, justice, weatherman, dark humor, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, couple relations, cons and scams, stripper, gambling ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 80s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Style: suspenseful, dark comedy, witty, feel good, clever ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: murder mystery, investigation, obsession, murder, women, death, marriage, paranoia, hotel, sherlock holmes, mysticism, truth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to ...
Style: scenic, grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heist, shopping mall, caper, money, disorder, friends, couples, contests and competitions, buddies, society, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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