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Movies that feel likeManitou's Shoe (2001)

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

If you loved Manitou's Shoe, the closest films we have are Shanghai Noon (2000), The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) and Fantomas (1964). All three share Manitou's Shoe'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 Hera Pheri (2000).

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Shanghai Noon
2000 · dir. Tom Dey
🍅 80%★ 6.6adventure · comedy · western

The same preoccupation in both: native american

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 81%★ 7.2action · adventure · comedy

Gritty where it counts, witty underneath

The difference: Sits closer to action than Manitou's Shoe does

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

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

Playful and epic in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

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

Gritty comedy in both cases

The difference: Easier on the scale than Manitou's Shoe

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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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 78%★ 7.7adventure · comedy · crimePrime Video

Both lean on wit more than on adventure

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 · dir. Michel Hazanavicius
🍅 76%★ 7crime · action · adventure

Western built on play, twice over

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

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(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
2004 · dir. Michael Herbig
★ 5.5comedy · science fiction · adventure

Both are Michael Herbig's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Manitou's Shoe does

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the Dreamship Surprise – Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty – for help.

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🍅 54%★ 6.7comedy · adventure · crime

Epic comedy, and it commits to that

When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell - to stop the dastardly plan. Once there, Austin faces off against Dr. Evil's army of minions to try to save the world in his own unbelievably groovy way.

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Police Story 4: First Strike
1996 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 52%★ 6.6action · adventure · comedy

Adventure with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realises that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organisation posing as Russian intelligence.

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Taxi 2
2000 · dir. Gérard Krawczyk
★ 6.5action · comedy · adventure

Witty western in both cases

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995 · dir. Steve Oedekerk
🍅 23%★ 6.4crime · comedy · adventure

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

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A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014 · dir. Seth MacFarlane
🍅 33%★ 6.1comedy · western

The same western instincts

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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