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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.

A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.

8.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Leonid Gaidaiepicwittyplayfulgrittydreamlike
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Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures poster
8.4comedy

Leonid Gaidai directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the scale The Diamond Arm is built on

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.

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Fantomas
1964 · dir. André Hunebelle
6.9comedy · crime · adventure

Both land scale and wit at once

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973 · dir. Leonid Gaidai
8.2comedy · science fiction

Both are Leonid Gaidai's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than The Diamond Arm does

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

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Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969 · dir. Burt Kennedy
🍅 80%7.4comedy · western

The same mix in both: play, then grit

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

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The Castle of Cagliostro
1979 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 95%7.6animation · adventure · comedy

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.

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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974 · dir. Michael Cimino
🍅 89%7comedy · adventure · crime

Comedy built on wit, twice over

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

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

Both lean on play more than on 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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Mafioso
1962 · dir. Alberto Lattuada
🍅 96%7.6crime · drama · comedy

Gritty comedy, and it commits to that

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

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Jamaica Inn
1939 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 54%6.3crime · adventure

Common ground in both: smuggling (contraband) and undercover agent

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

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Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958 · dir. Mario Monicelli
🍅 89%7.9comedy · crime

Witty crime in both cases

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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Hera Pheri
2000 · dir. Priyadarshan
8.2comedy · crime

Playful adventure in both cases

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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Project A
1983 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 81%7.2action · adventure · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: smuggling (contraband)

In late 19th century Hong Kong, the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. Coast Guard officer Dragon Ma is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made a fool of.

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