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Movies that feel likeLock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

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.

If you loved Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, the closest films we have are Snatch (2000), The Big Lebowski (1998) and Hera Pheri (2000). All three share Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Fish Called Wanda (1988).

🍅 75% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Guy Ritchiewittyplayfulgritty
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Snatch
2000 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 74%★ 8.2crime · comedyPrime Video

Guy Ritchie directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 79%★ 8.1comedy · crime

Common ground: marijuana

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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Hera Pheri
2000 · dir. Priyadarshan
★ 8.2comedy · crime

The same mix in both: wit, then play

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

Comedy with a pulse of grit, 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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Seven Psychopaths
2012 · dir. Martin McDonagh
🍅 82%★ 7.1comedy · crime

One thread runs through both: alcohol

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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A Fish Called Wanda
1988 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 96%★ 7.5comedy · crime

Both lean on wit more than on crime

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.

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

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

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

Gritty crime in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: marijuana

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

Comedy built on wit, 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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White Chicks
2004 · dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
🍅 15%★ 5.9comedy · crimeNetflix

Crime with a pulse of play, in both cases

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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Horrible Bosses
2011 · dir. Seth Gordon
🍅 69%★ 6.9comedy · crimeParamount+

Both sit in the same gritty register

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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