Movies like Big Nothing (2006)
The best movies like Big Nothing (2006) are The 51st State (2001), Birthday Girl (2001) and The Bank Job (2008). If Big Nothing hooked you with its action and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)8.1/10 from 7,514 votes
- NewestPixie (2020)Released 2020
The 51st State (2001)
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBirthday Girl (2001)
John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Bank Job (2008)
Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRedirected (2014)
Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlue Iguana (2018)
He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their anger and hostility makes them serious criminals. Love happens in the strangest of places.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Trust (2016)
A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTriggermen (2002)
Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival gangster. Keen to make a fast buck, they pretend they are the hitmen but soon find they get more than they bargained for when the real ones turn up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Going Off Big Time (2000)
After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & thriller
Plastic (2014)
Sam and Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlitz (2011)
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Big Bounce (2004)
A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischievous, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisOld Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II (2002)
The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPixie (2020)
To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisCa$h (2010)
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 tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence – all in the name of money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHow to Rob a Bank (2007)
Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Matador (2005)
The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that will change their lives forever, as Wright is suddenly thrust into a far-from-mundane existence that he takes to surprisingly well … once he gets acclimated to it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNext Day Air (2009)
Two inept criminals are mistakenly delivered a package of cocaine and think they've hit the jackpot, triggering a series of events that changes ten people's lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPocket Listing (2016)
A satirical thriller about L.A.'s real estate roller coaster. Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensues when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGet the Girl (2017)
A wealthy young man is conned into staging a fake kidnapping in order to be a hero and win the affection of a girl he's madly in love with. But when one of the hired kidnappers is accidentally killed during the charade, he's forced to actually save her life while not revealing that it's been a ruse all along.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCat Run (2011)
When a sexy, high-end escort holds the key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up, two bumbling young detectives become her unlikely protectors from a ruthless assassin hired to silence her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Liability (2012)
When 19-year-old Adam agrees to do a day's driving for his mum's gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge, in the company of aging hit man Roy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMasterminds (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 action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGun Shy (2017)
A mega-platinum, aging rock star's supermodel wife is abducted by pirates while vacationing in Chile.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCut to the Chase (2017)
An ex-con sets out in search of his kidnapped sister through the criminal underbelly of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Snatch (2000)
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn Bruges (2008)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSnowflake (2017)
Hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic Berlin of the near future, the outlaws Tan and Javid find themselves trapped in the wicked fairytale of a mysterious screenplay that entangles them in a vicious circle of revenge – apparently all written by a clueless dentist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Serial Killer's Guide to Life (2020)
Louise Farnt is obsessed with the world of self-help. And when she meets the not necessarily sane guru wannabe Val Stone, a murderous spree begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
Lulu Danger's unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called "An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn: For One Magical Night Only."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Big Nothing?
The closest matches to Big Nothing are The 51st State (2001), Birthday Girl (2001) and The Bank Job (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Big Nothing?
People who watched Big Nothing most often go on to The 51st State (2001), Birthday Girl (2001) and The Bank Job (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like Big Nothing?
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), rated 8.1/10 by 7,514 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Big Nothing?
Pixie (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Big Nothing?
Yes: The 51st State (2001), Birthday Girl (2001) and The Bank Job (2008).
How are movies similar to Big Nothing chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Big Nothing, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.