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Movies that feel likeThunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

If you loved Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, the closest films we have are Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997), Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) and Son of Rambow (2007). All three share Thunderbolt and Lightfoot'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).

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Ciminowittyplayfulgrittywarm
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997 · dir. Thomas Jahn
★ 7.8comedy · crime · action

Common ground: friendship

The difference: Leans further into action

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: heist

The difference: Less warm, more its own thing

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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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%★ 7comedyParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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Dead Presidents
1995 · dir. Albert Hughes
🍅 47%★ 6.9crime · drama · actionStarz

The same preoccupation in both: heist

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

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

Both land wit and play 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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Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969 · dir. Burt Kennedy
🍅 80%★ 7.4comedy · western

Comedy built on grit, twice over

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 crime

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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T2 Trainspotting
2017 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 81%★ 7.1drama · comedy · crimeNetflix

Warm comedy, and it commits to that

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

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I Vitelloni
1953 · dir. Federico Fellini
🍅 100%★ 7.8comedy · dramaMax

Crime with a pulse of play, in both cases

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

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That's Life
1998 · dir. Massimo Venier
★ 7comedy

Warm comedy in both cases

While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.

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My Name Is Nobody
1973 · dir. Tonino Valerii
🍅 100%★ 7.3comedy · westernPrime Video

Both lean on grit more than on crime

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

The shared currency is wit

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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