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Movies that feel like Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)

If you loved Knockin' on Heaven's Door, the closest films we have are Kopps (2003), Ernest & Celestine (2012) and The Legend of Drunken Master (1994). All three share Knockin' on Heaven's Door's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Rakuten Viki and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Thomas Jahnwittyplayfulgrittykineticcontemplativewarm

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Kopps
2003 · dir. Josef Fares
6.7action · comedy

Common ground in both: friendship and hostage situation

The difference: Not nearly as gritty

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

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Ernest & Celestine
2012 · dir. Stéphane Aubier
🍅 98%7.8animation · family · crime

Common ground: friendship

The difference: Leans further into animation

Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.

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The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · dir. Lau Kar-leung
🍅 85%7.5action · comedy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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I Went Down
1997 · dir. Paddy Breathnach
🍅 84%6.7action · comedy · crime

Gritty and kinetic in the same breath

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?

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Flickering Lights
2000 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%7.5action · comedy · crime

Warm comedy in both cases

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

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Twin Dragons
1992 · dir. Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
🍅 43%6.4action · comedy · crime

Crime built on wit, twice over

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

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Extreme Job
2019 · dir. Lee Byeong-heon
🍅 83%7.1action · comedy · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: police

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

A drug squad attempts to take down a criminal organization and they must go undercover to do so, so they begin working at a chicken restaurant, that becomes famous for its delicious chicken. Due to the unexpected popularity, the detectives find themselves in a situation they never expected.

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The Bucket List
2007 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 40%7.3drama · comedy

Both are working the same pair: mortality, brain tumor

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

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Mr. Nice Guy
1997 · dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
🍅 45%6.2crime · action · comedy

Action with a pulse of play, in both cases

A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.

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Police Story 4: First Strike
1996 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 52%6.6action · adventure · comedy

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Played as adventure first

Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organization posing as Russian intelligence.

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Dead Presidents
1995 · dir. Albert Hughes
🍅 47%6.9crime · drama · action

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

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Millions
2005 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 87%6.8comedy · crime · drama

Contemplative comedy in both cases

Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?

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