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Movies that feel likeThe Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

If you loved The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, the closest films we have are Raising Arizona (1987), Blazing Saddles (1974) and Adam's Apples (2005). All three share The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!'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 Lost in America (1985).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Zuckerwittyplayfulgrittydarkly funny
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) · Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)

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

Common ground: satire

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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Blazing Saddles
1974 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 89%★ 7.7western · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: parody

The difference: Leans further into western

Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.

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Adam's Apples
2005 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%★ 7.7drama · comedy · crime

Both are built on the same subject: satire

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

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The Ladykillers
1955 · dir. Alexander Mackendrick
🍅 100%★ 7.6comedy · crime

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: 33 years apart, and the 1950s show

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

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Trading Places
1983 · dir. John Landis
🍅 87%★ 7.5comedy

Darkly funny comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Goes its own way on the grit

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

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Life of Brian
1979 · dir. Terry Jones
🍅 96%★ 8comedyPrime VideoPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: parody

Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.

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In China They Eat Dogs
1999 · dir. Lasse Spang Olsen
★ 7.3action · comedy · crime

Both lean on grit more than on crime

Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works.

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Lost in America
1985 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 95%★ 7comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

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Office Space
1999 · dir. Mike Judge
🍅 82%★ 7.6comedyParamount+

Crime built on play, twice over

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

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The Gentlemen
2020 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 75%★ 7.8comedy · crimeNetflix

Gritty comedy in both cases

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · dir. Robert Hamer
🍅 100%★ 8comedy · crime

Darkly funny crime, and it commits to that

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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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · dir. Michael Patrick Jann
🍅 47%★ 6.7comedy

A streak of wit through both

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

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