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Movies that feel likeA Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.

If you loved A Million Ways to Die in the West, the closest films we have are Horrible Bosses (2011), Seven Psychopaths (2012) and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018). All three share A Million Ways to Die in the West's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Shanghai Noon (2000).

🍅 33% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Seth MacFarlanewittyplayfulgritty
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Horrible Bosses
2011 · dir. Seth Gordon
🍅 69%★ 6.9comedy · crimeParamount+

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers... permanently.

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Seven Psychopaths
2012 · dir. Martin McDonagh
🍅 82%★ 7.1comedy · crime

Comedy built on grit, twice over

The difference: Leans further into crime

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 90%★ 7.2western · comedy · dramaNetflix

Western with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

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🍅 72%★ 7comedy · crime

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

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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Shanghai Noon
2000 · dir. Tom Dey
🍅 80%★ 6.6adventure · comedy · western

Both lean on grit more than on western

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

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We're the Millers
2013 · dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
🍅 48%★ 7comedy · crimeParamount+

Witty comedy in both cases

A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.

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Get Hard
2015 · dir. Etan Cohen
🍅 28%★ 6comedy · crimeParamount+

Playful western, and it commits to that

When millionaire hedge fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell-- a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket -- for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.

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The Hustle
2019 · dir. Chris Addison
🍅 13%★ 5.5comedy · crimeParamount+

Both sit in the same gritty register

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

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Identity Thief
2013 · dir. Seth Gordon
🍅 20%★ 5.7comedy · crimeStarz

Both play comedy straight

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

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Happy New Year
2014 · dir. Farah Khan
🍅 40%★ 5.1crime · comedyNetflix

Both are comedy through and through

Six would-be thieves enter a prestigious dance competition as a cover for their larger goal of pulling off a major heist.

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Fun with Dick and Jane
2005 · dir. Dean Parisot
🍅 30%★ 6.2comedy · crime

Both know what they want from comedy

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 even enjoy it – but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.

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White Chicks
2004 · dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
🍅 15%★ 5.9comedy · crimeNetflix

Comedy approached the same way

Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich white women.

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