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Movies that feel likeO Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

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

If you loved O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the closest films we have are The Big Lebowski (1998), Shanghai Noon (2000) and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018). All three share O Brother, Where Art Thou?'s witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Hera Pheri (2000).

🍅 78% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joel Coenepicwittyplayfulgritty
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The Big Lebowski
1998 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 79%★ 8.1comedy · crime

The same hand behind both of them: Joel Coen

The difference: Lighter on scale

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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Shanghai Noon
2000 · dir. Tom Dey
🍅 80%★ 6.6adventure · comedy · western

Both land scale and wit at once

The difference: Played as western first

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

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

Both are Joel Coen's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Less epic, more its own thing

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
1998 · dir. Gérard Pirès
★ 7action · comedy · crimePrime Video

Playful and gritty in the same breath

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

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Raising Arizona
1987 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 91%★ 7.3comedy · crime

One thread runs through both: amused

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

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

Adventure built on scale, 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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🍅 54%★ 6.7comedy · adventure · crime

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell - to stop the dastardly plan. Once there, Austin faces off against Dr. Evil's army of minions to try to save the world in his own unbelievably groovy way.

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

Both lean on play more than on crime

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Manitou's Shoe
2001 · dir. Michael Herbig
★ 6.7western · comedy · adventure

Gritty adventure in both cases

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

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

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

Crime built on scale, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

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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Adaptation.
2002 · dir. Spike Jonze
🍅 90%★ 7.7comedy · crime · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: philosophical

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.

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