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Movies that feel likeThe Italian Job (1969)

Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.

If you loved The Italian Job, the closest films we have are Le Cercle Rouge (1970), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Pink Panther (1963). All three share The Italian Job's gritty 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).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Peter Collinsongrittywittyplayfultense
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Le Cercle Rouge
1970 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 96%★ 7.9crime · drama · thriller

Both are working the same pair: prison, thief

The difference: Takes it somewhere less witty than The Italian Job does

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: gold

The difference: Easier on the tension than The Italian Job

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

Both land grit and wit at once

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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Caliber 9
1972 · dir. Fernando Di Leo
★ 7.4crime · thriller

Tense crime in both cases

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

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

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

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

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into western than The Italian Job 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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My Name Is Nobody
1973 · dir. Tonino Valerii
🍅 100%★ 7.3comedy · westernPrime Video

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idolizes Beauregard wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So, he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.

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Yes, Madam!
1985 · dir. Corey Yuen
🍅 100%★ 6.6action · comedy · crimePrime Video

Both lean on play more than on crime

Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidden microfilm, wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.

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

One thread runs through both: thief

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

Thriller built on grit, twice over

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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Bad Genius
2017 · dir. Nattawut Poonpiriya
🍅 100%★ 7.6drama · crime · thrillerNetflix

Tense crime, and it commits to that

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

Lynn, a brilliant student, after helping her friends to get the grades they need, develops the idea of starting a much bigger exam-cheating business.

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Rififi
1955 · dir. Jules Dassin
🍅 92%★ 8.1crime · thriller · drama

Playful thriller in both cases

Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.

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