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Movies that feel like Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

If you loved Kind Hearts and Coronets, the closest films we have are The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), Raising Arizona (1987) and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). All three share Kind Hearts and Coronets'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 fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium and Paramount Plus Essential and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 100% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Robert Hamerwittyplayfulgrittydarkly funny

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If Kind Hearts and Coronets hit the spot, these will too

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! poster
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· crime

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: A 1980s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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

Gritty and darkly funny in the same breath

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

Both trade on wit more than on being comedy

The difference: None of the dark humor that defines Kind Hearts and Coronets

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

Crime built on play, twice over

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

Comedy with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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

Witty crime in both cases

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

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

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

Both trade on grit more than on being 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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πŸ… 72%β˜… 7comedy Β· crime

Comedy approached the same way

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

Cut from the same crime cloth

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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The Gentlemen
2020 Β· dir. Guy Ritchie
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.8action Β· comedy Β· crime

Both built around dark comedy

The difference: Leans action where Kind Hearts and Coronets does not

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022 Β· dir. Rian Johnson
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· crime Β· mystery

The same preoccupation in both: dark comedy

The difference: Plays it as mystery more than Kind Hearts and Coronets does

World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.

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