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Movies Like The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

If you liked The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964), a crime and comedy movie directed by Roman Polanski and Ugo Gregoretti, 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. 1The Gentleman from Epsom

    The Gentleman from Epsom (1962)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

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

  2. 2Guardian Angels

    Guardian Angels (1995)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crime

    A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.

  3. 3Hold-up

    Hold-up (1985)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

    Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a…

  4. 4Wrong 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.

  5. 5There Once Was a Cop

    There Once Was a Cop (1972)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and comedy

    Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to…

  6. 6Let's Not Get Angry

    Let's Not Get Angry (1966)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and comedy

    One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding…

  7. 7Umbrella Coup

    Umbrella Coup (1980)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and crime

    Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman…

  8. 8Buffet Froid

    Buffet Froid (1979)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and crime

    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…

  9. 9Cloportes

    Cloportes (1965)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crime

    Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join…

  10. 10Johnny 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.

  11. 11Cotton Comes to Harlem

    Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

    Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger…

  12. 1268 Kill

    68 Kill (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and crime

    Chip's problem is that he can't say no to beautiful women. This weakness gets him into a world of trouble when he agrees to help his girlfriend steal $68,000.

  13. 13Cop or Hood

    Cop or Hood (1979)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crime

    When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti,"…

  14. 14Incorrigible

    Incorrigible (1975)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

    Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished…

  15. 15Ca$h

    Ca$h (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and comedy

    A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a…

  16. 16Deadly Circuit

    Deadly Circuit (1983)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

  17. 17Henry's Crime

    Henry's Crime (2010)

    ★ 5.8/10Also crime and comedy

    An aimless man is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.

  18. 18One Night at McCool's

    One Night at McCool's (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and crime

    On an ordinary night, in an ordinary part of town, a beautiful young woman walks into a bar. Her name is Jewel, and before long she is chatting to bartender Randy. The pair leave together, but he ends up getting into a…

  19. 19Fun 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.

  20. 20Welcome to Collinwood

    Welcome to Collinwood (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crime

    Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.

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