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Movies that feel like Manitou's Shoe (2001)

If you loved Manitou's Shoe, the closest films we have are (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004), The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) and Police Story 4: First Strike (1996). All three share Manitou's Shoe's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 4 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Criterion Channel and OVID and others, checked against today's data.

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

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(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
2004 · dir. Michael Herbig
5.5comedy · science fiction · adventure

Both are Michael Herbig's work, and they rhyme

The difference: None of the grit Manitou's Shoe is built on

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the Dreamship Surprise – Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty – for help.

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 81%7.2action · adventure · comedy

Gritty where it counts, witty underneath

The difference: Sits closer to action than Manitou's Shoe does

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

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

The same mix in both: play, then scale

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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Hera Pheri
2000 · dir. Priyadarshan
8.2comedy · crime

Gritty comedy in both cases

The difference: Not nearly as epic as Manitou's Shoe

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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The Castle of Cagliostro
1979 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 95%7.6animation · adventure · comedy

Both lean on wit more than on adventure

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.

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

Common ground in both: native american and parody

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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Taxi 2
2000 · dir. Gérard Krawczyk
6.5action · comedy · adventure

Western built on play, twice over

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

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Fantomas
1964 · dir. André Hunebelle
6.9comedy · crime · adventure

Epic comedy, and it commits to that

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

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🍅 72%7comedy · crime

One thread runs through both: parody

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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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 78%7.7adventure · comedy · crime

Adventure with a pulse of grit, in both cases

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995 · dir. Steve Oedekerk
🍅 23%6.4crime · comedy · adventure

Witty western, and it commits to that

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 · dir. Michel Hazanavicius
🍅 76%7crime · action · adventure

Comedy built on play, twice over

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

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