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Foodland (2010)
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Foodland (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Foodland follows a naive grocery clerk, Trevor, as his life spirals out of control when he inadvertently helps his inept manger, Ian, rob the store. When the money is lifted off Trevor and Ian, they enlist the help of Glen, a slimy, incompetent detective, to retrieve the stolen cash. But events soon go awry and Trevor must now determine friend from foe, and get the cash back before it's too late.
Style: neo noir, independent film, detective, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: sex, heist, thief, money, karate, violence, caper, friendship, snow, jealousy, gunfight, conspiracy, robbery, rivalry, greed, femme fatale, secret, small town, sabotage, delusion, crush, crime gone awry, incompetence, cabaret singer, self delusion ...
Place: winnipeg

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and dark comedy films with plots about heist, dishonesty, disorder, robbery, cons and scams, caper and criminal heroes mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Foodland: High Life (2009), Scorched (2003), One Night at McCool's (2001), Gambit (2012), Going in Style (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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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
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61%
One Night at McCool's (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Every man has a different recollection of the beautiful young woman who wreaked havoc on their lives during one heated night.
Style: sexy, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, hilarious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: femme fatale, manipulation, obsession, dangerous attraction, seductress, dark humor, murder, seduction, nothing goes right, dishonesty, destructive relationship, danger ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.7
 26K
Gambit (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
Style: light, humorous, sexy, entertaining, absurd ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heist, caper, collector, revenge, art, con men, perfect crime, farce, brutality, stereotypes, screwball, greed ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Going in Style (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Style: light, feel good, entertaining, touching, humorous ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: bank robbery, elderly, old man, money, senior citizen, plan, retired, swearing, alibi, tattoo, caper, robbery ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
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55%
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Snatch (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the ...
Style: entertaining, witty, dark comedy, funny, clever ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, caper, gambling, organized crime, gangster, robbery, criminal heroes, cons and scams, group of criminals, sarcasm, master criminal, boxing ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 2000s, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, antwerp, belgium ...
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54%
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 ⇓
52%
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Loot (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the play by 'Joe Orton' this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately (?) one of them works in a funeral parlour and they have a coffin to spare.
Style: lgbt cinema, realistic, semi serious, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: friendship between men, caper, robbery, loot, gay, farce, heist, hotel, homoerotic friendship, father son relationship, money, male star appears nude ...
Time: 60s
Place: brighton, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Disorganized Crime (1989)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do have going for them are a cop and his partner, who are dumber than they are! By the time the gang ...
Style: parody, black comedy, detective, humorous, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, heist, robbery, on the run, bank, caper, river, sabotage, career criminal, sheriff, crime gone awry, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: montana, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
Style: funny, dark comedy, black comedy, dramatic, light ...
Plot: heist, zoophilia, manipulation, femme fatale, satire, eternal love, robbery, hustler, outlaw, mission, swindle, diamond ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: europe, britain, tower bridge london, london, england ...
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47%
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Down the Drain (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret ...
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, disorder, rivalry, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, farce, underworld, crooked lawyer, girlfriend ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 ⇓
45%
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 3K
Palookaville (1995)
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, crime thriller, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: robbery, heist, dysfunctional family, caper, dark humor, crime gone awry, interracial, armored truck, best friend, sexual harassment, infidelity, female nudity ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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
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44%
Santiago Violenta (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mauro, Noel and Broco have been an inseparable group of friends since grade school. All grown up, their lives are not what they hoped they would be. Life has become so routine that they do nothing more than wait for the weekends to drink themselves ...
Style: contemplative, suspense, exciting, tense, retro ...
Plot: friendship, gangster, criminal underworld, criminal, robbery, friend, violence, organized crime, heist, gang, respect, gunfight ...
Place: chile
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43%
Point of No Return (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vendetta, thief, caper, interwar period, gangster, hitman, heist, polish, disorder, uninhibited rivalry, law enforcement, chases and races ...
Time: 1930s, pre world war two
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland, switzerland, zurich switzerland
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42%
Frogs for Snakes (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater. As he decided to play "American Buffalo" there, a bloody battle for the favorite roles ...
Style: black comedy, neo noir, dark comedy, independent film
Plot: loan shark, stealing, greed, shooting, debt collector, ex husband ex wife relationship, actress, clique, dream, thief, theft, hitman ...
Time: year 1998
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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40%
Operation Merry Christmas: The Elf Con (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 77 min.
Story: The plan of three small-time pickpockets to pull the heist of their lives during Christmas, posing as elves in a Christmas show in one of the most exclusive shopping centers in the city where they will collect private information from some wealthy ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, semi serious, satirical, humorous ...
Plot: christmas, life lesson, children, criminal, mischievous children, satire, conspiracy, thief, heist, robbery, heist gone wrong, christmas season ...
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40%
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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
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38%
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Danger One (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: While transporting a dying man to the hospital, two paramedics find a million dollars in cash sewn into his clothing. When the man dies, they decide to keep it, setting them on a path for a hellish night of violence and mayhem.
Style: captivating, suspense, humorous, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot: greed, ambulance, betrayal, murder, car accident, moral dilemma, on the run, cover up, violence, danger, rivalry, panic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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37%
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, clever, witty, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, dark humor, organized crime, twists and turns, crime gone awry, disorder, gang, nothing goes right, debt, violent, friends ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, london, britain, europe
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37%
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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37%
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Hustle (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maya and Tony are a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Maya seduces businessmen while Tony copies their credit cards. It's a smooth con until one of their victims, Pierce, pulls a gun. Instead of killing them, Pierce offers the desperate couple a ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, neo noir
Plot: sexual content, femme fatale, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, heist, seductress, dishonesty, betrayal, chases and races, rivalry, intrigue, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Once a Thief (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: John Woo directs this action-packed comedy that stars Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung and Cherie Chung as a trio of art thieves who grew up together as orphans under the tutelage of a cruel crime boss named Chow (Kenneth Tsang). Although Red Bean ...
Style: suspense, stylized, heroic, fast, exciting ...
Plot: martial arts, heist, kung fu, gunfight, chase, art thief, art theft, heroic bloodshed, caper, friendship, betrayal, brutality ...
Time: 90s, year 1988
Place: british columbia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
34%
The Art of the Steal (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Crunch Calhoun, a third-rate motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief, teams up with his snaky brother to steal one of the most valuable books in the world. But it's not just about the book for Crunch — he's keen to rewrite some ...
Style: clever, entertaining, witty, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, art, robbery, con men, conspiracy, caper, revenge, motorcycle, police investigation, twists and turns, gang, cons and scams ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: canada, poland, detroit, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.9
 5K
Hit the Bank (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, suspense, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cons and scams, polish, vengeance, betrayal, vendetta, one last job, friends, criminal heroes, caper, thief, city, interwar period ...
Time: 1930s, pre world war two
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 ⇓
34%
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 3K
Free Money (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Swede (Marlon Brando), a prison warden, rules his family and his prison with an iron hand in one of the coldest parts of North Dakota. When an inmate dies under mysterious circumstances, however, the FBI sends in agent Karen Polarski (Mira ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Plot: prison, fbi, partner, government agency, cons and scams, special agent, criminal heroes, dishonesty, confined, heroes, friends, heist ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.7
 15K
Sugar & Spice (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When Jack and Diane find themselves in an unexpected adult situation, the A-Squad comes to their rescue. In order to help their friend Diane, the A-Squad goes where no cheerleader has gone before: taking on a little after-school project known as ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, heist, cheerleading, cheerleader, friendship, satire, teenage love, rebel, dark humor, girl gang, buddies, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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