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Movies Like Bowery Blitzkrieg

If you liked Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941), a comedy and crime movie directed by Wallace Fox, 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.

  1. 1Dick Tracy

    Dick Tracy (1990)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

    The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

  2. 2Rush Hour 2

    Rush Hour 2 (2001)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and crime

    It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be…

  3. 3Rush Hour 3

    Rush Hour 3 (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crime

    After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous crime syndicate's henchmen try their best to stop them. Once more…

  4. 4The Brink's Job

    The Brink's Job (1978)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

    In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis, who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs…

  5. 5Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

    Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and crime

    When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who…

  6. 6Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crime

    An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

  7. 7Keeping Up with the Joneses

    Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors – especially when they discover that Mr. and Mrs. “Jones” are covert…

  8. 8Tough Guys

    Tough Guys (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and crime

    Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new…

  9. 9Kindergarten Cop

    Kindergarten Cop (1990)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against…

  10. 10Wrong Cops

    Wrong Cops (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and comedy

    A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.

  11. 11Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

    Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crime

    Officer Carey Mahoney and his cohorts have finally graduated from the Police Academy and are about to hit the streets on their first assignment. Question is, are they ready to do battle with a band of graffiti-tagging…

  12. 12The Other Guys

    The Other Guys (2010)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crime

    Unlike their heroic counterparts on the force, desk-bound NYPD detectives Gamble and Hoitz garner no headlines as they work day to day. When a seemingly minor case turns out to be a big deal, the two cops get the…

  13. 13How to Rob a Bank

    How to Rob a Bank (2007)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and crime

    Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.

  14. 14Blue Streak

    Blue Streak (1999)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crime

    Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of…

  15. 15The Paper Tigers

    The Paper Tigers (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    Three middle aged men polish their martial arts skills to avenge their fallen master.

  16. 16Analyze This

    Analyze This (1999)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crime

    Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family,"…

  17. 17Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and crime

    When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

  18. 18Oscar

    Oscar (1991)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and crime

    Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets…

  19. 19Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

    After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty…

  20. 20The Street with No Name

    The Street with No Name (1948)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime

    After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the…

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