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Movies that feel likeThe Diamond Arm (1969)

A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.

If you loved The Diamond Arm, the closest films we have are Fantomas (1964), Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965) and Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969). All three share The Diamond Arm'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 Mafioso (1962).

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

Both land scale and wit at once

The difference: Trades the dream logic of The Diamond Arm for an angle of its own

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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★ 8.4comedy

Leonid Gaidai directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.

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Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969 · dir. Burt Kennedy
🍅 80%★ 7.4comedy · western

The same mix in both: play, then grit

The difference: Sits closer to western than The Diamond Arm does

In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.

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The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 100%★ 7.5comedy · crime

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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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Monster Hunt
2015 · dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai
🍅 68%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy · adventure

Dreamlike adventure in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.

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Mafioso
1962 · dir. Alberto Lattuada
🍅 96%★ 7.6crime · drama · comedy

Playful crime, and it commits to that

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973 · dir. Leonid Gaidai
★ 8.2comedy · science fiction

Both are Leonid Gaidai's work, and they rhyme

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

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Jamaica Inn
1939 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 54%★ 6.3crime · adventure

Both keep coming back to the same thing: undercover agent

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

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Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958 · dir. Mario Monicelli
🍅 89%★ 7.9comedy · crime

Comedy built on grit, twice over

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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A Touch of Zen
1970 · dir. King Hu
🍅 97%★ 7.5action · adventure · fantasy

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Yang Hui-zhen, a mysterious princess on the run from corrupt government officials, is joined in her endeavors by skilled Buddhist monks and an unambitious painter named Gu Sheng-zhai.

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

Witty crime in both cases

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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Harvey
1950 · dir. Henry Koster
🍅 88%★ 7.9comedy · fantasy

Dreamlike comedy, and it commits to that

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

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