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Movies that feel likeThe Big Lebowski (1998)

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.

If you loved The Big Lebowski, the closest films we have are O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018). All three share The Big Lebowski'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).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joel Coenwittyplayfulgritty
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? poster
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 78%★ 7.7adventure · comedy · crimePrime Video

The Coens sending holy fools on a ramshackle odyssey

The difference: Period Americana and song — a folk yarn, not LA haze

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

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

A dumb debt spiraling through a city's criminal food chain

The difference: Hyper-caffeinated plotting — no Dude-level serenity

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

Coen absurdity riding shotgun with sudden death

The difference: Six stories, bleaker punchlines — mortality is the theme

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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Snatch
2000 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 74%★ 8.2crime · comedyPrime Video

Lowlifes, botched deals and one prize everyone wants

The difference: Frantic cutting and slang — momentum over hangout charm

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

A wrong-number ransom scheme escalating into chaos

The difference: Broad Bollywood farce — mile-a-minute, zero cool

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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A Fish Called Wanda
1988 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 96%★ 7.5comedy · crime

Greedy schemers double-crossing each other into farce

The difference: A tight caper machine — precision where Lebowski meanders

While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.

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

A kidnapping caper tangled up with LA's weirdest men

The difference: Meta and blood-soaked — it turns its violence up loud

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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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · dir. Peter Segal
🍅 66%★ 6.5comedy · crimeParamount+

Crime played entirely for gleeful stupidity

The difference: Wall-to-wall spoofery — gags with no character underneath

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.

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🍅 72%★ 7comedy · crime

A ridiculous hero wandering through a criminal plot

The difference: Pure parody — catchphrases where the Coens build character

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

A fake setup snowballing into real criminal trouble

The difference: Studio-formula laughs — raunch instead of eccentricity

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

An undercover farce built on absurd mistaken identity

The difference: Lowest-common-denominator gags — the wit is a costume

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 white women.

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

The Coens' loopy criminals in over their harebrained heads

The difference: Manic and cartoonish — a sprint next to the Dude's amble

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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