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Movies that feel likeBig Momma's House (2000)

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.

If you loved Big Momma's House, the closest films we have are Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and Hera Pheri (2000). All three share Big Momma's House's gritty and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Bottle Rocket (1996).

🍅 31% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Raja Gosnellgrittywittyplayful
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · dir. Peter Segal
🍅 66%★ 6.5comedy · crimeParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: undercover

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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🍅 72%★ 7comedy · crime

The same preoccupation in both: undercover

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

Gritty and witty in the same breath

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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A Fish Called Wanda
1988 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 96%★ 7.5comedy · crime

Crime with a pulse of play, in both cases

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.

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Bad Santa
2003 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 78%★ 7drama · comedy · crimeMax

Both lean on grit more than on comedy

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Big Momma's House does

You'd better watch out - Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Willie's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.

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

Witty crime in both cases

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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White Chicks
2004 · dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
🍅 15%★ 6comedy · crimeNetflix

Common ground in both: fbi and impersonation

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 white women.

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Taxi 3
2003 · dir. Gérard Krawczyk
★ 5.8action · comedy · crime

Common ground: disguise

A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police time and time again, Daniel and his super-taxi pitch in.

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Get Hard
2015 · dir. Etan Cohen
🍅 28%★ 6comedy · crimeParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: fbi

When millionaire hedge fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell-- a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket -- for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.

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

Comedy built on play, twice over

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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Happy New Year
2014 · dir. Farah Khan
🍅 40%★ 5.1crime · comedyNetflix

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

Six would-be thieves enter a prestigious dance competition as a cover for their larger goal of pulling off a major heist.

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The Hustle
2019 · dir. Chris Addison
🍅 13%★ 5.5comedy · crimeParamount+

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

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