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Movies that feel like Raising Arizona (1987)

If you loved Raising Arizona, the closest films we have are The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), The Big Lebowski (1998) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). All three share Raising Arizona's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium and Paramount Plus Essential and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joel Coenwittyplayfulgrittydarkly funny

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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! poster
🍅 88%7.6comedy · crime

The same preoccupation in both: satire

When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

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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: None of the dark humor that defines Raising Arizona

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: A 1940s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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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🍅 72%7comedy · crime

Gritty comedy 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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Snatch
2000 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 74%8.2crime · comedy

Robbery is the engine of both

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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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 75%8.1comedy · crime

Witty crime, and it commits to that

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.

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

Joel Coen directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans adventure where Raising Arizona does not

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

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

Both trade on play more than on being comedy

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Seven Psychopaths
2012 · dir. Martin McDonagh
🍅 82%7.1comedy · crime

Crime built on grit, twice over

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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White Chicks
2004 · dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
🍅 15%5.9comedy · crime

Comedy with a pulse of wit, 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 European-American women.

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The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 100%7.5comedy · crime

Both trade on play more than on being crime

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

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

Both keep circling back to satire

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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