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Tough Guys (1986)
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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 freedom. Harry and Archie realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt. Archie, who spent his prison time pumping himself up, easily picks up a 20-year-old aerobics instructor. Harry, on the other hand, has to waste away his days in a nursing home. They both have festering resentments -- Archie for having to endure a humiliating job as a busboy; Harry for having to endure patronizing attitudes toward senior citizens. The two old pals finally go back to what they know best. After successfully robbing an armored car, they decide to rob the same train that they robbed thirty years ago.
Style: entertaining, funny, light, road movie, humorous, touching, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prison, aging, gangster, police investigation, partner, unlikely friendships, nothing goes right, odd couple, stalking, elderly, disorder, buddies, dishonesty, cons and scams, friendship between men, train robbery, old age, bank robbery, violence, gunfight, robbery, buddy, ex convict, stranger on a train, parole officer ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, year 1956
Place: bolivia, mexico, california, new jersey
Keyword: gangsters, partners, buddy movie, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and funny films with plots about disorder, partner, buddies, dishonesty, friends, cons and scams and heist mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Tough Guys: Stealing Harvard (2002), Masterminds (2015), Going in Style (1979), Twins (1988), Where the Money Is (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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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 ⇓
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Masterminds (2015)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A night guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history.
Style: humorous, intense, stylized, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: heist, armored car robbery, robbery, workplace, surveillance, stupidity, twists and turns, criminal heroes, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, workplace situations, cons and scams ...
Time: year 2016, 90s, 20th century, year 1997, year 2004 ...
Place: usa, southern usa, north carolina, mexico
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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 ⇓
100%
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Twins (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, road movie, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, date night
Plot: twins, road trip, buddy, fish out of water, family relations, on the road, partner, brothers, buddies, culture clash, brother brother relationship, siblings ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: usa, los angeles, arizona, austin texas, santa fe new mexico ...
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Where the Money Is (2000)
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: clever, light, semi serious, humorous, action thriller ...
Plot: bank robbery, chase, retirement home, caper, elderly, aging, cons and scams, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, criminal heroes, nursing ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, oregon
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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 ⇓
100%
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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%
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Ruby & Quentin (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, inspirational, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison escape, buddies, prison, unlikely partners, buddy, partner, runaway, odd couple, criminal heroes, bank robbery, friendship, police investigation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
Another Stakeout (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Chris and Bill are called upon for their excellent surveillance record to stakeout a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading or already hiding. Unlike their earlier _Stakeout_, this time they are accompanied by Gina ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, buddy cop, odd couple, partner, cop, disorder, fall in love, gangster, buddies, law enforcement, witnessing a crime, goofy hero ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, seattle, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
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Amos & Andrew (1993)
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: clever, funny, light, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: island, bad cop, mistaken identity, police investigation, brutality, racism, interracial relations, buddies, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, social differences, resort ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
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Stark Raving Mad (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: bank robbery, nightclub, clubbing, cons and scams, disorder, nothing goes right, rivalry, buddies, vengeance, partner, heist, friends ...
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Lone Star State of Mind (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Earl and Baby, two young lovers with a plan to escape their small Texas town. But when Baby's dim-witted cousin Junior gets tangled up in a whole heap of trouble, Earl has just 48 hours to save the day, rescue Junior and keep his promise to get ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: stupidity, debt, misfit, partner, babies and infants, small town life, heist, friends, male female relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, bowling ...
Place: texas, los angeles, usa, las vegas, pacific ocean
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I Got the Hook Up (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the phones develop faults. The two friends then not only have to deal with unsatisfied ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, hood, semi serious ...
Plot: hip hop, gangster, justice, ghetto, dishonesty, disorder, stoner, odd couple, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, buddies, misfit ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: los angeles, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6K
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 ⇓
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 ⇓
100%
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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
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All for One (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four rogues, who were best friends as kids, have one big problem: they're sitting on both sides of the law. Martin is a policeman, while Nikolai, Ralf, and Timo can't distinguish between personal possessions and the possessions of others! ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, exciting ...
Plot: friendship, buddies, partner, disorder, cons and scams, nothing goes right, unfulfillment, undercover, police officer, escapades, rivalry, friends ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
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Gold Diggers (2003)
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: buddies, women, stupidity, brutality, adaptation, murder, erotica, partner, dishonesty, friends, criminal heroes, intrigue ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, talky, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dark humor, dog, psychopath, screenwriter, serial killer, gangster, crime gone awry, strong violent content, gunfight, murder, mob boss, weirdo ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 1963, year 1954, year 1975 ...
Place: los angeles, california, united kingdom, america, usa ...
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100%
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High Life (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: morphine, robbery, buddies, nothing goes right, disorder, friends, greed, attempted robbery, gang, escapades, criminal, financial problem ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 40K
Bulletproof (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is ...
Style: funny, entertaining, semi serious, humorous, buddy comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, buddy, drug lord, betrayal, buddy cop, justice, police, unlikely friendships, adaptation, criminal heroes, working undercover, hidden identity ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Half Baked (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.
Style: funny, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, hood ...
Plot: weed, marijuana, stoner, drug, stupidity, drug dealer, satire, drug addict, urban, voice over narration, breaking the fourth wall, rottweiler ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Blue Streak (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to ...
Style: funny, exciting, detective, humorous, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, african american, law enforcement, farce, police station, police officer, safecracker, impersonating a police officer, police, chase, bank robbery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, latin america, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
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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 ⇓
100%
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