Movies Like The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
If you liked The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders (1979), a family and comedy movie directed by Erik Balling, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Olsen Gang Jumps the Fence (1981)
★ 7/10Also family and comedyAs usual, Egon has an ingenious plan. And, as usual, it works just fine until one of the gang members makes some kind of funny error. This time, however, even Egon's life is in danger, for some international criminals…
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The Olsen Gang's Big Score (1972)
★ 6.8/10Also family and comedyAfter his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's stolen by "Kongen" and…
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The Olsen Gang (1968)
★ 7/10Also family and comedyThe first of 14 Olsen Gang films presents us with Egon Olsen, head of the gang, and his friends Benny and Kjeld, who want to become the best known gang in Denmark and eventually Europe by stealing a famous Bavarian…
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The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang (1974)
★ 7.1/10Also family and comedyThe Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to open a safe at a restaurant to get some. As usual, however, Egon ends…
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The Olsen Gang Runs Amok (1973)
★ 6.9/10Also family and comedyWhen Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else…
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See Spot Run (2001)
★ 6.1/10Also family and comedyA drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James in the care of her irresponsible…
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Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and crimeWhen an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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The Cheap Detective (1978)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and crimeA spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
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The Olsen Gang on the Track (1975)
★ 7.3/10Also family and comedyEgon and his two cronies managed to sneak a fortune with them to Spain. Here they live a life in a whirl of pleasures, but they are not truly happy. While Egon always has the money chained to him, Bøffen still manages…
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The Olsen Gang in a Fix (1969)
★ 6.6/10Also family and comedyA good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank and the police think its Egon's work, he has to get back to work to…
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Mad Money (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crimeThree female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.
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The Olsen Gang Sees Red (1976)
★ 7.4/10Also family and comedyEgon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challenged baron. Naturally they fooled, which infuriates Egon. The gang tries to get back at the baron by switching the…
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Bandits (2001)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crimeAfter escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated…
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The Olsen Gang's Last Trick (1998)
★ 5.9/10Also family and comedyEgon escapes from the psychiatric ward, where he has been incarcerated since the gang's last coup. Keld and Benny pick him up, and when Egon, as always, is planning the big heist, the Olsen Gang is once again on the…
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The Ladykillers (2004)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crimeAn eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
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Take the Money and Run (1969)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and crimeVirgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
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Johnny Dangerously (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crimeAn honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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Stark Raving Mad (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crimeA crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
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Lift (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and crimeAn international heist crew, led by Cyrus Whitaker, race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet.
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The League of Gentlemen (1960)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and crimeInvoluntarily-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…