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Movies that feel like A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

If you loved A Fish Called Wanda, the closest films we have are The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Bottle Rocket (1996) and Chicago (2002). All three share A Fish Called Wanda's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Charles Crichtonwittyplayfulgritty
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The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 100%7.5comedy · crime

Both are Charles Crichton's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

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Bottle Rocket
1996 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 86%6.9comedy · crime · drama

The same two preoccupations: robbery, and heist

The difference: Leans harder into drama than A Fish Called Wanda does

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 harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

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Chicago
2002 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 87%7.2comedy · crime · drama

Two things both keep coming back to: infidelity and lawyer

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

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Police Academy
1984 · dir. Hugh Wilson
🍅 58%6.7comedy · crime

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · dir. Peter Segal
🍅 66%6.5comedy · crime

Comedy with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.

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Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958 · dir. Mario Monicelli
🍅 89%7.9comedy · crime

One thread runs through both: heist

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

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Hera Pheri
2000 · dir. Priyadarshan
8.2comedy · crime

Witty crime, and it commits to that

Two tenants and a landlord, in desperate need of money, chance upon a ransom call via a cross connection. They hatch a plan to claim the ransom for themselves.

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🍅 72%7comedy · crime

Both lean on play more than on comedy

As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.

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Big Momma's House
2000 · dir. Raja Gosnell
🍅 31%5.3crime · comedy

Crime built on grit, twice over

When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.

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My Name Is Nobody
1973 · dir. Tonino Valerii
🍅 100%7.3comedy · western

Witty comedy in both cases

Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idolizes Beauregard wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So, he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.

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The Big Lebowski
1998 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 79%8.1comedy · crime

Common ground: heart attack

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

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Austin Powers in Goldmember
2002 · dir. Jay Roach
🍅 52%6.3comedy · crime

Crime with a pulse of play, in both cases

The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe—'70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world domination, Austin gets help from his dad and an old girlfriend.

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