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Movies like The Big Bounce (2004)

The best movies like The Big Bounce (2004) are King's Ransom (2005), Be Cool (2005) and The In-Laws (2003). If The Big Bounce hooked you with its comedy and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. King's Ransom (2005)

    Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  2. Be Cool (2005)

    Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  3. The In-Laws (2003)

    Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  4. Analyze That (2002)

    The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  5. Funny Money (2006)

    Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man, to find out that there's a million dollars inside. Henry tells his unsuspecting wife of their new-found fortune, but she doesn't embrace it as well as he does. Soon they're joined by their best friends, a cop on the take, a cop on the hunt, and the dreaded Mr. Big, who has come to claim his money.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  6. The Honeymooners (2005)

    Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is always coming up with get-rich-quick schemes for him and his best friend, Ed Norton, who's always around to help him get in (and out of) trouble.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  7. Lucky Numbers (2000)

    Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  8. Little Man (2006)

    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 matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  9. Big Stan (2007)

    A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

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  10. 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)

    It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, Michael must track down Murphy.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  11. Analyze This (1999)

    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," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

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  12. The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

    After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbours figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit—suburban style.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

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  13. Let's Go to Prison (2006)

    When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

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  14. Madea Goes to Jail (2009)

    After a high-speed car chase, Madea winds up behind bars because her quick temper gets the best of her. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Josh Hardaway lands a case that's too personal to handle: that of a young prostitute and former drug addict named Candace, also a childhood friend. When Candace winds up in jail, Madea takes the young woman under her protective wing.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

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  15. Middle Men (2009)

    Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

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  16. All About the Benjamins (2002)

    Bounty hunter Bucum Jackson teams with the small-time con artist, Reggie Wright, that he is pursuing, in an attempt to locate a missing stash of diamonds and a lottery ticket worth millions of dollars. Bucum and Reggie find themselves in a race to the finish as they embark on an unlikely partnership that should -- when all is said and done -- prove beneficial to them both.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  17. What Happens in Vegas (2008)

    During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

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  18. Madea's Witness Protection (2012)

    For years, mild-mannered Wall Street banker George Needleman has meandered through life oblivious to his family's dysfunction and his company's malfeasance, but he's forced to wake up when he learns that he's been framed in a mob-backed Ponzi scheme. Placed under federal protection, George and his family are shipped down South to Madea's house, where the no-nonsense matriarch whips them all into shape using her special brand of tough love.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

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  19. Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)

    A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  20. Masterminds (2016)

    A night guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  21. White Chicks (2004)

    Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich white women.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

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  22. Big Momma's House (2000)

    When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & comedy

  23. Scorched (2003)

    Three mischievous employees of a bank in a small deserted town all make plans to rob it at the same time, however none of them knows about the others.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  24. Blue Streak (1999)

    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.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

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  25. Big Nothing (2006)

    A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

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  26. The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

    Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep; it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife, Cynthia.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

  27. Buying the Cow (2002)

    A commitment-averse man frantically hits the dating scene after his girlfriend starts pressuring him to pop the question.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  28. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

    CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime

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  29. Let Go (2011)

    Walter Dishman, a married and melancholy parole officer, deals with three eccentric ex-convicts who have been placed under his supervision.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

  30. The Last Shot (2004)

    A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.

    Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like The Big Bounce?

The closest matches to The Big Bounce are King's Ransom (2005), Be Cool (2005) and The In-Laws (2003). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after The Big Bounce?

People who watched The Big Bounce most often go on to King's Ransom (2005), Be Cool (2005) and The In-Laws (2003).

What is the highest-rated movie like The Big Bounce?

White Chicks (2004), rated 7.0/10 by 4,845 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like The Big Bounce?

Masterminds (2016) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like The Big Bounce?

Yes: King's Ransom (2005), Be Cool (2005) and The In-Laws (2003).

How are movies similar to The Big Bounce chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Big Bounce, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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