20 best movies like Holy Year (1976)

List of the best movies like Holy Year (1976): Ruby & Quentin, City Hunter, Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard, Closer to the Moon, Hallelujah!, Amis publics, Knock on Wood, Lucky Day, Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Mama Weed.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryFrance, Italy
Duration01:25

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryFrance

Nicky Larson is tasked to recover the perfume of Cupid, a perfume that would make anyone who uses it irresistible.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountryFrance, Italy

In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryRomania, USA, Italy, Poland, France
Duration01:50

A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:30

Following his release from a seven-year stretch in prison, Mario Diccara discovers that his affairs with the underworld aren't completely settled. His brother Patrick, a priest, suggests that he stays with elderly Father Etienne in a small village in Ardeche until the conflict blows over. But their plan takes an unexpected turn when Father Etienne dies.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance

In order to make his little sick brother's dream come true, Leo and his best mates organize a fake score...but on the d day, they make a mistake and the fake score becomes a real hold up.Here starts the extraordinary adventure of PUBLIC Amis.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountryFrance, Mexico, Malta
Duration01:31

When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryFrance, Canada

Red, a safe cracker who has just been released from prison, is trying to hold his family together as his past catches up with him in the form of Luc, a psychopathic contract killer who's seeking revenge for the death of his brother.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, military
CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Russia

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Belgium

Patience Portefeux is a French-Arabic police translator, specialized in phone tappings for the anti-narcotics unit. The job is tough and low-paid, but the commander is charming... One day, whilst listening to wanted drug dealers, she discovers one of them is the son of the fantastic woman who takes care of her mother. She decides to protect him and is brought in the middle of a drug network. When she gets her hands on a huge load of hash, with the help of her new partner, the former police dog DNA, she seizes the opportunity and becomes Mama Weed, drug wholesaler, thanks to her field experience... and all the information she gets in her job!

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryJapan, USA
Duration01:20

In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountrySpain, Mexico

Álvaro, a man obsessed with the idea of writing what he brands as “high literature,” manipulates the lives and feelings of the people around him to write about the consequences caused by his devious acts.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:53

When a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local officer to bring down the criminals.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Japan, Colombia
Duration02:32

    The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryFrance

    Two young friends embark on a road trip across France in a vehicle they built themselves.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryFrance

    Rayane is a scared and clumsy young cop who is constantly mocked by other cops. The day his doctor wrongly tells him that he has only thirty days to live, he understands that this is his last chance to become a hero within his police station and impress his colleague Stéphanie. The eternal fearful man then turns into a real hothead who will take all the risks to catch a big drug lord...

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, crime
    CountryRepublic of Ireland
    Duration01:29

    Two teenage boys cycle 160 km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.

    Markimdb: 3
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:36

    The remake of the soviet classic with a modern setting. Troshkin, a children's party entertainer, uncannily resembles the notorious criminal "Smilik". After the thief steals a valuable artifact, Troshkin is forced to act as his dead ringer in order to restore his reputation and good name.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy
    Duration01:46

    Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryItaly, France

    International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy

    Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:33

    The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman, who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy

    The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:46

    As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:12

    Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Crossing paths with Antoine, a victim of Santi, sets off a series of wild events.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy, West Germany

    An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryItaly
    Duration01:42

    Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:40

    A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy, Spain
    Duration01:51

    In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryFrance

    Selling author, Antoine Brisebard is a victim of a blackmailer, Jo, which threatens to jeopardize his reputation by revealing the past of his wife Sylvia. While the latter must pass the same night to take possession of the money required, Brisebard accidentally kills ...

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, West Germany
    Duration01:47

    A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryItaly
    Duration01:38

    Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, crime, detective
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration01:53

    A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and ...

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy

    The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, adventure
    CountryFrance, Italy

    Up the Himalayas... Up the Yang-tze... Up in a balloon... Up-stage with a stripper... Up-town in Hong Kong... You can't keep a great adventurer down

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy, Germany

    Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective, military
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:54

    Isabelle Adjani and Gerard Depardieu star in director Jean-Paul Rappenau's amusing farce set on the eve of World War II, which follows the intersecting lives of four Parisians as they cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. As the French government braces for impact, the lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy
    Duration01:40

    A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.




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