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Movies that feel likeRaising Arizona (1987)

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.

If you loved Raising Arizona, the closest films we have are The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), Blazing Saddles (1974) and In China They Eat Dogs (1999). All three share Raising Arizona'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 Lost in America (1985).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joel Coenwittyplayfulgrittydarkly funny
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · dir. David Zucker
🍅 77%★ 6.9comedy · crimeParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: satire

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

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Blazing Saddles
1974 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 89%★ 7.7western · comedy

Common ground: satire

The difference: Sits closer to western than Raising Arizona does

Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.

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In China They Eat Dogs
1999 · dir. Lasse Spang Olsen
★ 7.3action · comedy · crime

Both are built on the same subject: robbery

Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works.

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Adam's Apples
2005 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%★ 7.7drama · comedy · crime

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

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Lost in America
1985 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 95%★ 7comedy

Darkly funny comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Trades the grit of Raising Arizona for an angle of its own

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

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The Ladykillers
1955 · dir. Alexander Mackendrick
🍅 100%★ 7.6comedy · crime

Both lean on grit more than on crime

The difference: 32 years apart, and the 1950s show

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

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Trading Places
1983 · dir. John Landis
🍅 87%★ 7.5comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · dir. Robert Hamer
🍅 100%★ 8comedy · crime

Playful crime in both cases

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.

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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · dir. Michael Patrick Jann
🍅 47%★ 6.7comedy

Comedy built on dark humor, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

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The Gentlemen
2020 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 75%★ 7.8comedy · crimeNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: robbery

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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The Producers
1968 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 92%★ 7.5comedy

Crime built on wit, twice over

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.

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Office Space
1999 · dir. Mike Judge
🍅 82%★ 7.6comedyParamount+

Both sit in the same playful register

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

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