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Movies that feel likeA Fish Called Wanda (1988)

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.

If you loved A Fish Called Wanda, the closest films we have are The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) and Hera Pheri (2000). All three share A Fish Called Wanda'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 Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Charles Crichtonwittyplayfulgritty
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The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 100%★ 7.5comedy · crime

Both are Charles Crichton's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

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

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

Gritty comedy, and it commits to that

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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Bottle Rocket
1996 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 86%★ 6.9comedy · crime · drama

The same two preoccupations: robbery, and heist

The difference: Leans harder into drama than A Fish Called Wanda does

Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

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🍅 72%★ 7comedy · crime

Crime with a pulse of wit, 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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Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958 · dir. Mario Monicelli
🍅 89%★ 7.9comedy · crime

One thread runs through both: heist

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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Police Academy
1984 · dir. Hugh Wilson
🍅 58%★ 6.7comedy · crime

Both lean on play more than on comedy

New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

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Chicago
2002 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 87%★ 7.2comedy · crime · dramaParamount+

Two things both keep coming back to: infidelity and lawyer

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

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Big Momma's House
2000 · dir. Raja Gosnell
🍅 31%★ 5.3crime · comedyStarz

Crime built on grit, twice over

When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.

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Fun with Dick and Jane
2005 · dir. Dean Parisot
🍅 30%★ 6.2comedy · crime

Witty comedy in both cases

After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it – but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.

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The Pink Panther
1963 · dir. Blake Edwards
🍅 89%★ 7comedy · crime

Crime built on play, twice over

The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...

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Logan Lucky
2017 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 92%★ 7comedy · crime

Both run gritty where it counts

Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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