
Movies that feel like The Diamond Arm (1969)
If you loved The Diamond Arm, the closest films we have are Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965), Fantomas (1964) and Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973). All three share The Diamond Arm's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Criterion Channel, MGM Plus and FlixFling and others, checked against today's data.
If The Diamond Arm hit the spot, these will too

Leonid Gaidai directing both, with the same fingerprints on each
The difference: None of the scale The Diamond Arm is built on

Both land scale and wit at once

Both are Leonid Gaidai's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than The Diamond Arm does

The same mix in both: play, then grit

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Both lean on play more than on crime

Gritty comedy, and it commits to that

Common ground in both: smuggling (contraband) and undercover agent
The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

Witty crime in both cases


The same preoccupation in both: smuggling (contraband)
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