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Movies that feel like Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)

If you loved Big Deal on Madonna Street, the closest films we have are The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Snatch (2000) and The Big Lebowski (1998). All three share Big Deal on Madonna Street'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 FlixFling, Sundance Now and Netflix and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 89% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Mario Monicelliwittyplayfulgritty

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Across 110th Street (1972) Β· A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Β· 21 Jump Street (2012) Β· The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Β· 22 Jump Street (2014) Β· Sing Street (2016)

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The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 Β· dir. Charles Crichton
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· crime

Both land wit and play at once

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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Snatch
2000 Β· dir. Guy Ritchie
πŸ… 74%β˜… 8.2crime Β· comedy

Boxer sits at the heart of each

The difference: A 2000s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

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The Big Lebowski
1998 Β· dir. Joel Coen
πŸ… 79%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· crime

Gritty comedy, and it commits to that

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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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 Β· dir. Guy Ritchie
πŸ… 75%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· crime

Both trade on wit more than on being crime

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.

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We're the Millers
2013 Β· dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
πŸ… 48%β˜… 7comedy Β· crime

Comedy built on play, twice over

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Seven Psychopaths
2012 Β· dir. Martin McDonagh
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· crime

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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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πŸ… 72%β˜… 7comedy Β· crime

Witty comedy in both cases

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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White Chicks
2004 Β· dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
πŸ… 15%β˜… 5.9comedy Β· crime

Both trade on play more than on being crime

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 European-American women.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 Β· dir. Robert Hamer
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8comedy Β· crime

Both work the same grit

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

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Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969 Β· dir. Burt Kennedy
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· western

The same comedy instincts

The difference: Played as western first

In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.

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πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· crime

Cut from the same crime cloth

When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

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Raising Arizona
1987 Β· dir. Joel Coen
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· crime

Comedy approached the same way

When a childless coupleβ€”an ex-con and an ex-copβ€”take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

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