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Movies that feel like Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

If you loved Support Your Local Sheriff!, the closest films we have are A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). All three share Support Your Local Sheriff!'s witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, Starz Amazon Channel and Starz and others, checked against today's data.

In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.

πŸ… 80% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Burt Kennedywittyplayfulgritty

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A Million Ways to Die in the West poster
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014 Β· dir. Seth MacFarlane
πŸ… 33%β˜… 6.1comedy Β· western

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.

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Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958 Β· dir. Mario Monicelli
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.9comedy Β· crime

Gritty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Played as crime first

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

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The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 Β· dir. Charles Crichton
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· crime

Western with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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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The Big Lebowski
1998 Β· dir. Joel Coen
πŸ… 79%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· crime

Comedy built on play, twice over

The difference: A 1990s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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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πŸ… 72%β˜… 7comedy Β· crime

Both trade on grit more than on being western

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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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 Β· dir. Guy Ritchie
πŸ… 75%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· crime

Witty comedy in both cases

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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Snatch
2000 Β· dir. Guy Ritchie
πŸ… 74%β˜… 8.2crime Β· comedy

Playful western, and it commits to that

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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We're the Millers
2013 Β· dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
πŸ… 48%β˜… 7comedy Β· crime

Both work the same grit

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 Β· dir. Martin McDonagh
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· crime

Both are comedy through and through

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 Β· dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
πŸ… 15%β˜… 5.9comedy Β· crime

Comedy approached the same way

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 Party
1968 Β· dir. Blake Edwards
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.4comedy

The same comedy instincts

The difference: Not nearly as gritty

Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 Β· dir. Joel Coen
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.2western Β· comedy Β· drama

Cut from the same western cloth

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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