Best movies like Loot
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies related to Loot? Share your familiarity to steer others to movies and tv shows you've viewed previously that might likewise captivate them. Assist in enlarging the network of people mentioning videos to each other. We value your involvement!
Plot Summary:
Based on the play by 'Joe Orton' this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately (?) one of them works in a funeral parlour and they have a coffin to spare.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, crying, independent film, detective
Best tv shows and movies like Loot (1970):
Similar in 77%
The World is Ours (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Culebra and Cabesa, a pair of criminals, decide to take a bank at gunpoint, dressed as penitents. The plan is simple: Get in, get the money, take off all the loot quickly and catch the first flight to Brazil. But things get complicated when a man on his fifties, victim of the economic crisis goes into the bank loaded with explosives, threatening suicide. What would be the easiest shot in history, becomes a nightmare carnival.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, light, social, realistic, not serious, crying, detective
Similar in 82%
Mushrooms (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the tradition of Arsenic and Old Lace, comes this morbidly funny Australian tale of murder and mayhem at the hands of two charming old ladies.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, experimental, absurd, crying, detective, black comedy
Similar in 85%
Hubert the Smart Boy (1985)
Plot Summary:
Titulní hrdina komediálního filmu je typický žižkovský frajer. S chytrostí a šarmem si vyřizuje otevřené účty s policejním inspektorem Mourkem, který ho chce stůj co stůj dostat do kriminálu. Jenže Fešák Hubert unikne z každé nastražené pasti a nakonec připraví na zavilého policistu a jeho podřízené elegantní podraz. Z hledaných zločinců, které Mourek díky Hubertovi se slávou dopadne, se vyklubou nevinní lidé. Děj se odehrává na počátku třicátých let, v době hospodářské krize. Snímek vychází z tradičního pojetí žánru a pohybuje se v rovině určité nadsázky.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, poliziottesco
Similar in 76%
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunningly uses his horrifying reputation to get the respect and heart of his beloved Sabrina, a journalist from a local newspaper. But this game turns out to be risky and in the end, both gangs don't hesitate to seize the check at all costs, including an improvised operation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, psychedelic, psychotronic, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, poliziottesco, metafiction
Similar in 81%
The Running Man (1963)
Plot Summary:
An insurance man (Alan Bates) gets chummy in Spain with a couple (Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick) who have collected on a fake death.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: noir, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, independent film, freeze frame
Similar in 78%
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks (1970)
Plot Summary:
Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, black comedy, freeze frame
Similar in 88%
Ferpect Crime (2004)
Plot Summary:
A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman in this black comedy from Spain.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, surreal, funny, black comedy, cynical, hilarious, sexy, talky, suspense
Similar in 89%
Wave of Crimes (2018)
Plot Summary:
Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, crying, detective, black comedy
Similar in 84%
Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)
Plot Summary:
Ultra-low-budget Florida cult film featuring a transvestite fugitive criminal and his homosexual (and mentally unstable) lover on the lam in a Miami suburb.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, campy
Similar in 86%
The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
Plot Summary:
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black comedy, black and white, dark comedy, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, independent film
Similar in 78%
Poor White Trash (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mike and Lenny are two buddies who dream of getting out of the trailer park. Out of desperation they resort to burglary as a means of financing Mike's college education. Their dream is jeopardized one summer day when their ploy to shoplift Near Beer begins a crime spree and a series of mishaps during which they are threatened with jail.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, dark comedy, independent film, hot
Similar in 82%
Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sloane, a handsome, sexy and completely amoral young man, joins Kath's household as a lodger and proceeds to manipulate her and her brother, Ed. He is recognized by Kemp (Dadda) as the murderer of Kemp's former employer, whereupon Sloane murders Kemp. Sloane's "just desserts" are not what one would expect.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, lgbt cinema, crying, freeze frame, sexy
Similar in 86%
Get Charlie Tully (1972)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss Bank and after Charlie is released is about to tell him which Bank when he is killed by Sid Sabbath's gang whose girlfriend Reggie had an affair with. The only lead is four tattoos that is on the girls Reggie had affairs with while Charlie was in jail. But Sabbath is on Charlie's trail to kill him and the Italians contract the mob - to find the money and then kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
Similar in 79%
Palookaville (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and an old black-and-white film) convinces them that they can pull off an armored-truck robbery. While they are busy plotting their caper, their dysfunctional families spin out of control, all around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, crime thriller, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, funny, sexy, clever, touching
Similar in 85%
Enid Is Sleeping (1990)
Plot Summary:
Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the authorities, including her police-officer husband Floyd. Then she decides to reveal Enid's demise, albeit rearranging the damning evidence to make the whole thing look like the accident it really was.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, surprise ending, twist ending
Similar in 84%
Terminal Exposure (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two beach combing-shutterbugs accidentally capture a murder on film. Now detectives, the boys set out to capture a murderess shot only from behind, with a rose tattoo on her behind. Fun in the sun turns dangerous when they end up shooting bullets instead of film.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective, cult classic, neo noir, independent film, dark comedy, cult film
Similar in 88%
Cops and Robbers (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, crying
Similar in 83%
Who Killed Bambi? (2013)
Plot Summary:
It tells the story of two young friends who must find a way for the president of the company in which they work (and father of one of them) safe return home, and that is enclosed strange circumstances naked in the trunk of his car.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, dark comedy, exciting, realistic, semi serious, crying, freeze frame
Similar in 90%
The Actors (2003)
Plot Summary:
During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum of money. Seeing an opportunity to make some fast money, O'Malley convinces hapless extra, Tom, to meet Barreller as the debt collector.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat
Similar in 76%
Jackpot (2011)
Plot Summary:
Terrified and bloody, Oscar Svendsen awakes clinched to a shotgun in a strippers joint. Around him 8 dead men, and police aiming at him. To Oscar it's clear that he is innocent. It all started when four chaps won 1,7 million on the pools.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, dark, exciting, clever, offbeat, realistic, detective
Similar in 90%
9 Dead Gay Guys (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, queer cinema, campy
Similar in 87%
Half Baked (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, hood, slapstick comedy, mysterious, black comedy, independent film
Similar in 89%
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Plot Summary:
Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, entertaining, satirical, hilarious, not serious, exciting, realistic, action packed
Similar in 79%
Eating Raoul (1982)
Plot Summary:
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, funny, dark, surreal, humorous, witty, erotic, psychedelic
Similar in 90%
Common Wealth (2000)
Plot Summary:
Julia finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man's house while selling an apartment. She's a 40-ish real estate agent now forced to face the wrath of a very peculiar community (of neighbors), headed by an unscrupulous administrator. Black humor gives way to suspense, closely followed by horror that doesn't take long in coming to a head in undisguised pandemonium.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, enigmatic, disturbing, bleak, horror comedy, witty, scary, manga
Similar in 81%
Something for Everyone (1970)
Plot Summary:
An opportunistic young man working as a servant to a European countess uses his sexual talents to better his station in life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, fairy tale
Similar in 77%
Happy New Year (1973)
Plot Summary:
Gangster (Lino Ventura) with his accomplice (Charles Gérard), prepares to take part in the "first psychological hold-up in the history of crime". Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, the find the shop of a beautiful antiques dealer (Françoise Fabian) who befriends the group. The driver and the antiques dealer fall in love. He is friendly but unrefined, she is cultivated and independent, but discovers that talking with Simon shows up her vanity, and she desires a simple and clean love. The hold-up which had been planned for a long time by the driver is shown to be more sophisticated than his methods of seduction.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, non-linear, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco
Similar in 87%
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Plot Summary:
A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, humorous, light, satirical, dramatic, hilarious, feel good
Similar in 88%
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Plot Summary:
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 271000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy, talky, humorous, surreal, black comedy, funny, witty, clever, cult classic
Similar in 78%
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Plot Summary:
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 607000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, clever, witty, cynical, black comedy, entertaining, funny, exciting, neo noir