Movies like Where the Money Is

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Where the Money Is (2000)
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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 McKay (Linda Fiorentino), has a plan of her own.
Style: clever, light, humorous, semi serious, action thriller, offbeat, realistic, exciting, funny, sexy ...
Plot: bank robbery, chase, retirement home, caper, elderly, aging, cons and scams, couples, nursing, one last job, dishonesty, criminal heroes, couple relations, robbery, secret, nurse, hustler, heist, prison, escape, dark humor, old age, gangster, mobster, outlaw ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, oregon, new jersey
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Where the Money Is

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and clever films with plots about cons and scams, heist, dishonesty, criminal heroes, robbery, unlikely criminals and caper mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Where the Money Is: Tough Guys (1986), Bandits (2001), Going in Style (1979), Money for Nothing (1993), Public Friends (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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
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Bandits (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, friendship, love triangle, on the run, bank robber, stockholm syndrome, bored housewife, thief, caper, prison, hostage, robbery ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, oregon, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
Money for Nothing (1993)
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: light, intense, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: money, stolen money, chase, runaway, corruption, disorder, friends, nothing goes right, dishonesty, heist, gangster, police ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Public Friends (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In order to make his little sick brother's dream come true, Leo and his best mates organize a fake score...but on the d day, they make a mistake and the fake score becomes a real hold up.Here starts the extraordinary adventure of PUBLIC Amis.
Plot: child cancer, cancer, money, siblings, nudity, prison, soccer, elderly woman, police, flashback, cigarette smoking, poker ...
Place: lyon, argentina
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Hunting Elephants (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery in order to seek revenge on the institution for cheating the youngster after the death of his father.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, biting
Plot: unlikely criminals, partner, disorder, friends, elderly, cons and scams, friendship, retirement home, youth, dishonesty, one last job, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, jerusalem
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49%
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The Sting (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Style: entertaining, atmospheric, witty, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: con artists, gambling, chase, cons and scams, caper, twists and turns, organized crime, manipulation, con man, plot twist, train, mafia ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1936
Place: chicago, usa, persia, new york, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Style: humorous, feel good, intense, light, semi serious ...
Plot: heist, unemployment, unlikely criminals, bank robbery, police investigation, couples, robbery, bankruptcy, cons and scams, survival, couple relations, kids and family ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Small Time (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Follows a gang of small time crooks in an English town. Malc is in danger of losing his girlfriend Kate if he doesn't spend more time at home and the gang leader Jumbo looks like he is about to lose control.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, offbeat ...
Plot: working class, friends, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, gang, buddies, criminal heroes, heist, cons and scams, sex, robbery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Now or Never (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting
Plot: retirement home life, friendship, down on your luck, unlikely criminals, elderly, disorder, retirement, cons and scams, mistaken identity, criminal heroes, vengeance, aging ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
Style: harsh, captivating, humorous, entertaining, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang of thieves, organized crime, gangster, robbery, justice, depression, happy ending, crime gone awry, redemption, adaptation, bank robbery, master criminal ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Curse of Inferno (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the money back into the bank is much more difficult than taking it out.
Style: independent film, realistic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
Plot: partner, wedding, escape, heist, crime gone awry, love and romance, fall in love, couples, wooing, dishonesty, babies and infants, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 ⇓
46%
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Dollars (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, humorous, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, robbery, caper, minimal dialogue, bank, heist, partner, hostage, disorder, chase, law enforcement, on the run ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany, copenhagen, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 ⇓
46%
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: talky, humorous, melancholic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: heist, love and romance, caper, corruption, robbery, unlikely criminals, disorder, couple relations, overnight success, cons and scams, bank robbery, art ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Opportunists (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up ...
Style: talky, independent film, suspense, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: heist, gangster, crime gone awry, character study, cons and scams, robbery, auto mechanic, rock, couples, urban ghetto, down on your luck, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, ireland, new york, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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45%
The Linguini Incident (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A waitress (Rosanna Arquette), a barman (David Bowie) and an underwear designer (Eszter Balint) try to rob a New York restaurant where two of them work.
Style: offbeat, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: robbery, food, deaf, rock, escape artist, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, love and romance, opposites attract, fall in love, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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After the Sunset (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two master thieves (Brosnan and Hayek) are finally retiring after one last succesful mission. Residing in their own tropical paradise, their old nemesis, FBI Agent Stan P. Lloyd shows up to make sure they really are retired. Docked in the port is an ...
Style: humorous, sexy, feel good, exciting, light ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: heist, island, one last job, fbi, robbery, voyeur, caper, cons and scams, chase, 007, relationships, diamond ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: bahamas, caribbean, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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99 (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: 99 is an original story inspired by real events. It is as much "What could have been" as it is "What really happened." In other words, it is historical fiction - fiction being the keyword. It spans a few genres; it is slick, ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, black comedy, freeze frame ...
Plot: gambling, chase, gangster, cons and scams, dishonesty, buddies, crime boss, heist, caper, loss of fortune, once in a lifetime opportunity, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new delhi, india, asia
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45%
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Bottle Rocket (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that ...
Style: road movie, witty, humorous, talky, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, on the run, love, heist, motel, psychiatric hospital, road trip, gangster, bookstore, sibling relationship, disorder, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Brink's Job (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After a long time of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang successfully rob one of Brink's security transport, taking $30,000. Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out their headquarters and finds ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, master criminal, crime gone awry, dishonesty, gang, cons and scams, rivalry, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, law enforcement, unlikely criminals, buddies ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1978, 50s, year 1950 ...
Place: boston, usa, new england, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ...
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44%
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Little Cigars (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot: gangster, on the run, disorder, dishonesty, love and romance, unlikely criminals, rivalry, criminal's revenge, crime gone awry, gang, chases and races, criminal heroes ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Kicked in the Head (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Redmond is a young guy who can't find what to do with his life. When his uncle Sam gives him the bag to deliver to some uptown connection he fails to do so and it gets them in trouble with Jack, low-key criminal. After that tough guy Stretch ...
Style: independent film, humorous, offbeat, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: gangster, stewardess, marijuana, self discovery, farce, parents and children, twentysomething life, cons and scams, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood, gambling, disorder ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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 ⇓
44%
Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Wayne Dobie is a shy cop whose low-key demeanor has earned him the affectionate nickname "Mad Dog." After Mad Dog saves the life of Frank Milo, a crime boss and aspiring stand-up comedian, he's offered the company of an attractive ...
Style: sweet, clever, detective, neo noir, cult classic ...
Plot: organized crime, nudity, photograph, photographer, drinking, gangster, police, fistfight, making love, sex scene, exodus, caper ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ 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%
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 ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
43%
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