Movies like White Chicks

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   Little Man

   Same director

   2006 · 98 min · Comedy · Crime

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   After leaving prison, dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins his moron brother Percy in stealing an expensive huge diamond from a jewelry store for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of 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' 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.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • several principal cast members

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   The Other Guys

   Strong story similarity

   2010 · 107 min · Action · Comedy · Crime

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   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 opportunity to finally prove to their comrades that they have the right stuff.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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

   Shared cast

   1996 · 89 min · Comedy · Crime

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   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 along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • principal cast overlap

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   Blue Streak

   Similar atmosphere

   1999 · 93 min · Action · Comedy · Crime

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   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 the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an LAPD detective.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Welcome to Collinwood

   Similar atmosphere

   2002 · 86 min · Comedy · Crime

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

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   In Bruges

   Strong story similarity

   2008 · 108 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama

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   Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Go

   Strong story similarity

   1999 · 102 min · Comedy · Crime · Thriller

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   A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Fun with Dick and Jane

   Similar atmosphere

   2005 · 90 min · Comedy · Crime

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   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 good at robbing people and even enjoy it – but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Hollywood Homicide

   Strong story similarity

   2003 · 116 min · Action · Adventure · Comedy · Thriller

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   Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan moonlights as a real estate broker, and Calden is an aspiring actor moonlighting as a yoga instructor. When the two are assigned a big case they must work out whether they want to solve the case or follow their hearts.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era
   • shared production studio: Revolution Studios

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    Bandits

    Similar atmosphere

    2001 · 123 min · Comedy · Crime

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    After 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 when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era

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