31 Best Movies Like Raising Arizona ...

31 Best Movies Like Raising Arizona ...

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1. Ruthless People (1986)

1h 33m Comedy

A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation—without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.

2. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

1h 40m Comedy Drama

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

3. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

1h 47m Adventure Comedy Crime

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's 'Odyssey'.

4. Take the Money and Run (1969)

1h 25m Comedy Crime

Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

5. Trapped in Paradise (1994)

1h 51m Action Comedy

Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.

6. King&`s Ransom (2005)

7. Stealing Harvard (2002)

1h 25m Action Comedy Drama

John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her tuition (nearly $30,000). John's friend Duff convinces him to turn to petty crime to make the payment … but Duff's hare-brained schemes spin quickly out of control.

8. Gambit (2012)

1h 29m Comedy Crime

An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.

9. Amos & Andrew (1993)

1h 36m Action Comedy

When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.

10. Small Time Crooks (2000)

1h 34m Comedy Crime

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

11. Chain of Fools (2000)

1h 36m Action Comedy Crime

An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.

12. Screwed (2000)

1h 21m Action Comedy

A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.

13. Crimewave (1985)

14. Bottle Rocket (1996)

1h 31m Comedy Crime Drama

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 hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

15. Lucky Numbers (2000)

1h 45m Comedy Crime

Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.

16. Quick Change (1990)

1h 29m Comedy Crime

With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.

17. The Ladykillers (2004)

18. Burn After Reading (2008)

1h 36m Comedy Drama

When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.

19. Snatch (2000)

1h 44m Crime Comedy

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

20. Palookaville (1995)

21. The Big White (2005)

1h 40m Comedy Crime Drama

To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.

22. Safe Men (1998)

1h 28m Comedy Crime

Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.

23. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

1h 43m Comedy Crime

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

24. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2003)

1h 36m Comedy

A man decides he needs to help his younger brother lose his virginity and hires a prostitute named Dominique. But hilarious high jinks ensue when a French exchange student with the same name also shows up at his brother's dorm room.

25. Wild at Heart (1990)

2h 4m Comedy Crime Thriller

After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.

26. Seven Psychopaths (2012)

1h 50m Comedy Crime

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

27. The Crew (2000)

1h 28m Action Comedy

Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.

28. Stir Crazy (1980)

1h 51m Comedy

New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment—they're sent to prison.

29. Scotland, Pa. (2001)

1h 44m Comedy Crime

Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the cops off their trail.

30. Dragnet (1987)

1h 46m Action Comedy Crime

LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.

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