Movies like The Joint Brothers

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The Joint Brothers (1986)
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The Joint Brothers (1986)
Original name: Les frères Pétard
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: le chichon
Style: humorous, realistic, controversial, semi serious, cult film
Plot: drug dealing, friends, police station, partner, dishonesty, thief, police officer, police, theft, drug dealer, heroin, drug use, cleaning lady, burglary, controversy, buddy, drug, vacuum cleaner, crime, drugs, crimes
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, holland
Keyword: partners

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Most similar movies to The Joint Brothers

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and suspenseful films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, partner, police, buddies, friends and heist mostly in Comedy, Crime and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Joint Brothers: My New Partner (1984), Inspector Blunder (1980), The Goat (1981), The Shipment (2001), Framed (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My New Partner (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the ...
Style: exciting, witty, suspenseful, neo noir, anthology ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, buddy cop, prostitute, corrupt cop, police corruption, corruption, disorder, misfit partners, odd couple, buddies, law enforcement, bad guy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Inspector Blunder (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, detective
Plot: law enforcement, french police, reporter, rescue, kidnapping, gangster, confined, dishonesty, journalism, disorder, silly humor, son ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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The Goat (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Style: funny, humorous, laugh out loud, buddy comedy, sweet ...
Plot: bad luck, private detective, farce, amnesia, love and romance, memory loss, cigarette smoking, partner, accountant, goofy hero, nothing goes right, odd couple ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: france, paris france, latin america, mexico, acapulco mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Move Along, There is Nothing to See (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful
Plot: art theft, performer's life, couples, fighting the system, tragic hero, criminal heroes, boss and employee, love and romance, fall in love, destructive relationship, kidnapping, workplace romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Shipment (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A mob enforcer is hired to recover a shipment of Viagra gone awry.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot: gangster, hitman, drug dealing, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, disorder, partner, sexual humor, viagra
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 5.3
 441
Framed (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.
Style: exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: frame up, partner, violent content, profanity, performer's life, disorder, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, criminal's revenge, forgery, rivalry, unlikely partners ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
L'amour aux Trousses (2005)
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Franck and Paul are working as team buddies in their Paris police unit. They are sent on a mission in Toulon to solve a drug traffic mystery, but things get out of hand when Paul learns that Franck has an affair with Valeria, his wife, who also ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting
Plot: police investigation, partners against crime, love triangle, drug dealing, couple relations, law enforcement, partner, buddies, friendship, infidelity, betrayal, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.3
 697
The Supergrass (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girlfriend. Although he fails to gain any interest from the girl, the police take a great interest ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: drug dealing, cross dressing, undercover agent, gangster, partner, disorder, couples, mistaken identity, farce, sexual relations, frame up, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1985, 80s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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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 ⇓
68%
 6.3
 7K
The Mule (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, realistic, stylized
Plot: drug, dark humor, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, disorder, drug dealing, escapades, drug dealer, prison, stoned, house arrest, police ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: thailand, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
My New Partner II (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more ...
Style: action comedy, exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, buddy cop, bad guy, guy, prostitute, planting evidence, cop, false accusation, bank, trap, partner, misfit partners ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, normandy, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 7.3
 8K
The Sucker (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Audience: kids
Plot: car chase, anti hero, hitchhiker, gangster, odd couple, dishonesty, partner, disorder, drug dealing, criminal heroes, chase, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france, naples italy, rome italy, southern italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.2
 2K
Crackers (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, ...
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, political ...
Plot: unemployment, cons and scams, disorder, heist, gang, dishonesty, goofy hero, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, comedy of errors, love, theft ...
Time: 80s
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 4.2
 530
Turf (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Plot: ambition, partner, rivalry, friends, contests and competitions, gambling, misfit partners, disorder, buddies, dishonesty, horse
Time: 21st century
Place: france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 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 ⇓
57%
Let's Rob the Bank (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, spoof ...
Plot: heist, tunnel, bank, cons and scams, dark humor, parents, gold, disorder, crime gone awry, dancer's life, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.3
 1K
The Dope (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of ...
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good, light ...
Plot: drug dealing, friends, partner, misfit partners, buddies, nothing goes right, chase, chases and races, drug abuse, disorder, silly humor, marijuana ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
A Crime in Paradise (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: unhappy marriage, couple relations, husband wife relationship, notoriety, lawyer, farmer, divorce, french countryside, village, small town, village life, countryside ...
Time: year 2001, 80s
Place: los angeles, france, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Frenchman's Son (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure. Benjamin, whose mom is dead and whose dad is off in the jungle searching for gold, is more cool-headed ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous
Plot: escapades, chase, jungle, amazon jungle, amazon tribe, disorder, family relations, chases and races, on the run, nothing goes right, danger, misfit partners ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: brazil, latin america, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 1K
The Escape (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: escape, on the run, murder, disorder, society, fugitives, politics, nothing goes right, legal, dishonesty, chases and races, confined ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
High Rolling in a Hot Corvette (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is fulfilled when they encounter a dope-peddler and two exotic nightclub dancers.
Style: road movie, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: stoner, woman with a gun, on the road, heist, partner, friends, disorder, looking for sex, nothing goes right, buddies, womanizer, drug dealing ...
Time: 70s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.9
 1K
The Red Inn (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk ...
Style: humorous, captivating, tense, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, hotel, murder, isolation, dark humor, family relations, priest, murderer, criminal, satire, danger, serial murder ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.5
 3K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Special Correspondents (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: R2I, a famous news radio station, sends its best reporting duo to Iraq: Frank, journalist, and Poussin, sound engineer. Very quickly, millions of listeners follow their highly documented stories, reflecting the hot intensity of the fighting and the ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: journalism, misfit, farce, partner, media, cons and scams, buddies, heroes, dishonesty, nothing goes right, friends, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, france, europe, middle east, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Let's Not Get Angry (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding; Antoine intends to recover his ...
Style: dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot: gangster, criminal heroes, englishman, thief, haunted by the past, escape, killing, theft, car trunk, gang, horse, hotel room ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: french riviera, france, riviera, south of france, nice france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 3.5
 996
The Race (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot: dishonesty, mistaken identity, criminal heroes, disorder, hitman, friendship, husband wife relationship, travel, infidelity, male female relationship, chases and races, ocean ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, latin america, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.3
 4K
High Rollers (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that ...
Style: humorous, cynical, realistic, poliziottesco, semi serious
Plot: cons and scams, betrayal, twists and turns, partner, friends, dishonesty, criminal heroes, swamp, trick, strong female character, thief, jail ...
Time: 1930s
Place: france, europe, charleston south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains...
Style: semi serious, not serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful
Plot: heist, european, partner, farce, cons and scams, master criminal, criminal heroes, dishonesty, gang, disorder, silly humor, gold bar ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.7
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Tip Top (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two policewomen from Internal Affairs arrive in a provincial precinct to investigate the death of an Algerian woman who was an informer. One punches, the other eyes, tip top.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, partners against crime, uncover truth, partner, police detective, danger, corrupt officer, workplace intrigue, police station, police investigation, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.7
 2K
Serial Lover (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dark humor, disorder, looking for love, thirty something, writers, dinner, misfit, freak, gory, blood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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