20 best movies like Malcolm (1986)

List of the best movies like Malcolm (1986): The Hard Word, The Old Man & the Gun, Trapped in Paradise, Grindhouse, Take the Money and Run, RRRrrrr!!!, Money for Nothing, Robot & Frank, The League of Gentlemen, Flypaper.

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Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
Duration01:44

Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

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: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

The Firpo Brothers can get away with anything. They just can't get away!

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration03:11

    Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

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

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:38

    37 000 years ago, two neighboring tribes lived in peace ... not fully in peace. While the tribe clean hair flowed peaceful days by keeping to herself the secret formula shampoo, Tribe Hair Sales lamented. Its leader decided to send a spy to steal the recipe ...

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    A delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and, for good measure, a heist film. Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:56

    Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, crime, detective
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration01:25

    A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:43

    A 19 year old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Russia
    Duration01:31

    Two brothers, both with troubled paths, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada, Germany
    Duration01:37

    The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are planning the same heist as well. Chaos ensues, and now the Postal Dude must not only take on terrorists but also political figures.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Africa, USA
    Duration02:04

    When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:31

    Two 19th-century opportunists (Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis) become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist (Tom Wilkinson).

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:17

    A safe cracker claims he has lost his memory when two criminals come calling for their cut of the bank heist loot.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, family, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wrist watch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:30

    A gangster in Busan is caught having an affair with his boss' mistress and the two run off with their organization's money.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:30

    Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:31

    A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two-room apartment in an old house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The group's mastermind, Professor Marcus, tells her a cover story that they are members of an amateur string quintet and would like to use the rooms to hone their musical skills. In reality, they're plotting to rob an armored bank van and plan to use Mrs. Wilberforce's naiveté and her Victorian sensibilities to their advantage.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama, crime, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium, USA, Germany, France
    Duration01:43

    London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with millions in goods and money. But soon the cracks between the gang members begin to appear when they discuss how to share the loot.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and advise him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else...

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:29

    An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime. The film is based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:03

    To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    Gabriella, a Columbian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by "The Blue Blood Killer" of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death. She lands a job with a post-murder cleaning service and during a Blue-Blood clean-up job, discovers evidence that police have overlooked.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:38

    After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewelry for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of the executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards's house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA

    Two inept criminals are mistakenly delivered a package of cocaine and think they've hit the jackpot, triggering a series of events that changes ten people's lives forever.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryDenmark
    Duration01:33

    The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell...

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:48

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Earl and Baby, two young lovers with a plan to escape their small Texas town. But when Baby's dim-witted cousin Junior gets tangled up in a whole heap of trouble, Earl has just 48 hours to save the day, rescue Junior and keep his promise to get his Baby to Los Angeles in time for sweeps.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, South Africa
    Duration02:17

    Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:56

    A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:22

    A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime (Louis de Funès), is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryBrazil

    "The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever.

    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: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryGermany

    Four men, betrayed by the bank, unite to take revenge.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain

    This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes near the station transforming the woman into an alien being with a gigantic voracious tongue and her poodles are transformed into four drag queens. The whole thing grows even weirder as her boy friend escapes from prison and also encounters the meteorite, as does a mute Nun who is converted into a sexy drum majorette. Pursued by the prison officials who are after him, the whole group eventually come into conflict.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    When Jack and Diane find themselves in an unexpected adult situation, the A-Squad comes to their rescue. In order to help their friend Diane, the A-Squad goes where no cheerleader has gone before: taking on a little after-school project known as bank robbery. But the A-Squad does things their way -- with sugar and spice -- forever changing their friendship, their future and the nation's notion of teen spirit.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, drama, crime
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:43

    10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his car through the lawless wasteland of the Australian outback, aided by the brother of one of the thieves.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    Erin Bell is an LAPD detective who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama, adventure, crime
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:28

    Teens P.J. and Goose get their thrills on BMX bikes, performing hair-raising tricks all across Sydney, Australia. Along with their new friend Judy, they discover a box of walkie-talkies -- and find out that a gang of criminals intends to use them to monitor police signals during a bank robbery. When the young trio snatches the devices, it propels them on a hair-raising adventure in which their pedaling skills might just save their necks.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
    CountryCanada, USA, Australia

    Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson, along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there’s nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret agent Matt Helm to stop him.




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