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Movies that feel like The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

If you loved The Lavender Hill Mob, the closest films we have are The Big Lebowski (1998), We're the Millers (2013) and Snatch (2000). All three share The Lavender Hill Mob's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Sundance Now and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 100% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Charles Crichtonwittyplayfulgritty

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

The same mix in both: wit, then play

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

Both trade on grit more than on being comedy

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Crime built on wit, twice over

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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Seven Psychopaths
2012 Β· dir. Martin McDonagh
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· crime

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

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

Gritty 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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πŸ… 72%β˜… 7comedy Β· crime

Witty 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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White Chicks
2004 Β· dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
πŸ… 15%β˜… 5.9comedy Β· crime

Playful crime, and it commits to that

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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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 Β· dir. Robert Hamer
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8comedy Β· crime

Grit is the shared currency

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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πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· crime

The same comedy instincts

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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Raising Arizona
1987 Β· dir. Joel Coen
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· crime

Cut from the same crime cloth

When a childless coupleβ€”an ex-con and an ex-copβ€”take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

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Horrible Bosses
2011 Β· dir. Seth Gordon
πŸ… 69%β˜… 6.9comedy Β· crime

Both are comedy through and through

For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers... permanently.

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

Comedy approached the same way

The difference: Leans western where The Lavender Hill Mob does not

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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