20 best movies like Shooting Fish (1997)

List of the best movies like Shooting Fish (1997): Mortdecai, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Money for Nothing, Betty Fisher and Other Stories, The Chase, Feeling Minnesota, Lost in London, 4.3.2.1, Sweethearts, A Life Less Ordinary.

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Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:28

    Art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:05

    Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments. Can the sleuths make sense of all this and solve the mystery

    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: 6.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Canada

    Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. The girl happens to be the only daughter of one of the richest men in the state. In a while the car chase is being broadcast live on every TV-channel.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Sam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red, a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jjaks, Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:23

    Within the course of a night, Woody Harrelson finds himself in a misadventure in London that winds him up in prison.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:57

    Jo is chained down in a dead end supermarket job while all her friends are all out on their own separate adventures. But a chance encounter with some diamond thieves sends their separate worlds on a collision course with not only each other, but fate itself.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryGermany

    It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Lise together in a race and chase against time.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:43

    A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is kidnapped by janitor Robert. Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue, hoping to unite the prospective lovers.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryYugoslavia, France, Germany, Austria, Greece
    Duration02:15

    Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.

    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: 4.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance.

    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: 7.2
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:56

    Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:43

    After attending a gathering on a billionaire's yacht during a European vacation, a New York cop and his wife become prime suspects when he's murdered.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryNew Zealand

    This remake of 1981’s Goodbye Pork Pie tracks the escapades of a trio of accidental outlaws as they travel the length of New Zealand protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with a posse of cops and a media frenzy in pursuit.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryItaly, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:45

    Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:50

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

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals...

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA, Italy
      Duration01:33

      The eighth and last of the Pink Panther series. The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

      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: 6.9
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
      Duration02:10

      Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA

      While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime
      CountryHong Kong
      Duration01:42

      Two parallel stories of Wah caught in the mist of a love affair with his beloved cousin, Ngor, and his relationship with his triad brother, Fly, who seems to never fall out of trouble.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime, music
      CountrySweden, France, Denmark
      Duration01:42

      A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
      Duration01:40

      Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny 'Spit' Spiteri and reformed gangster turned restaurateur Dabba, he finds out the hard way that there are old scores and a few new ones that'll make getting square a lot harder than he thought.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      Four tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girlfriend. En route to the wedding, one of the men asks to stop by a bank to pick up some cash. As it turns out, he is a wanted bank robber who uses Shakespeare passages during his robberies and thus has become known as "Hamlet". Soon all five men are caught up in the bank and involved in the robbery as they end up in a hostage situation. The hostage negotiator shows up who turns out to be Hamlet's father.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
      Duration01:45

      A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:12

      1994, a small town in central Scotland. Best mates Johnno and Spanner, despite being total opposites, have a deep bond. Now on the cusp of adulthood, life is destined to take them in different directions – Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind to face a precarious future. But this summer is going to be different for them, and for the country. The explosion of the free party scene and the largest counter-cultural youth movement in recent history is happening across the UK.

      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: 7.3
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      The Four Faced Liar is a story of love and lies for four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City... A story of love and lies for four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City. A pair of best friends and a seemingly perfect couple meet at a local Irish pub tucked in the winding streets of the West Village. Through their chance meeting, the four bond and over time all of their relationships with one another morph into love, betrayal and heartbreak for all.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.

      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: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:31

      Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their impending releases. While there, he discovers he has a talent for growing flowers. His talent is recognized by a gardening guru who encourages him and four other inmates to enter a national gardening competition

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:27

      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.

      Markimdb: 3.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:37

      Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:41

      After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, Germany, USA
      Duration01:36

      When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior to the nuptials, Olly is drawn to a woman whom he thinks is the bride's sister -- only she turns out to be the bride, Sarah. Can Murray, who dislikes James, help get Sarah and Olly together?

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryNetherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom

      Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yugoslavian who keeps blowing things up unintended. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver. Complicating matters are that Bennie is being stalked by gangsters who want him to pay back a debt, the employees are more interested in cooking than in criminality, nobody can communicate with the Yugoslavian, the adoptive and biological son don't get along, and everything that can go wrong does go wrong - leaving a path of damaged buildings, people and - especially - vehicles behind.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Wayne Dobie is a shy cop whose low-key demeanor has earned him the affectionate nickname "Mad Dog." After Mad Dog saves the life of Frank Milo, a crime boss and aspiring stand-up comedian, he's offered the company of an attractive young waitress named Glory for a week. At first both are uneasy about the arrangement, but they eventually fall in love. However, the situation becomes complicated when Milo demands Glory back.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:36

      A teen winds up in over his head while dealing drugs with a rebellious partner and chasing the young man's enigmatic sister during the summer of 1991 that he spends on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

      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: 6.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, Germany, USA
      Duration01:31

      Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. However, Victor is about to embark on an unexpected emotional journey which will make him confront his future and his past mistakes.




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