50 Movies Like The Big Lebowski (1998) You Need to Watch Next
Updated August 2026
View The Big Lebowski details →Joel Coen's 1998 comedy-crime tale follows Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who wants nothing more than to bowl and sip White Russians. Mistaken for a wheelchair-bound millionaire of the same name, he's dragged into a tangle of nihilists, adult-film producers, ferrets, an errant toe and large sums of money. It's a shaggy, deadpan riff on the crime caper, more interested in oddball digressions and quotable rhythm than tidy plotting. The humor is dry, profane and often absurd, rewarding patience over payoff. Viewers who savor character over story, and who enjoy a mystery that never quite behaves, tend to adopt it as a lifelong favorite.
If you loved The Big Lebowski (1998) by Joel Coen, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, Knives Out. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
The Best Movies Similar to The Big Lebowski
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the movies that share the most with The Big Lebowski in terms of theme, narrative tone, and cinematic style. Every recommendation goes beyond genre — we evaluate the type of conflict, pacing, dramatic context, and the experience they create for viewers.
In Bruges
2008 · Martin McDonagh
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 Ke
In common: Comedy · Crime
Seven Psychopaths
2012 · Martin McDonagh
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Knives Out
2019 · Rian Johnson
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From
In common: Comedy · Crime
The Nice Guys
2016 · Shane Black
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Little Man
2006 · Keenen Ivory Wayans
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 Cal
In common: Comedy · Crime
Police Academy
1984 · Hugh Wilson
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter th
In common: Comedy · Crime
Horrible Bosses
2011 · Seth Gordon
For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-to
In common: Comedy · Crime
The Instigators
2024 · Doug Liman
Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up with an unusual accomplice — Rory's therapist — to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a veng
In common: Comedy · Crime
Pink Flamingos
1976 · John Waters
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given t
In common: Comedy · Crime
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Guy Ritchie
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 oper
In common: Comedy · Crime
Going in Style
2017 · Zach Braff
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
In common: Comedy · Crime
White Chicks
2004 · Keenen Ivory Wayans
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 disf
In common: Comedy · Crime
Life
1999 · Ted Demme
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Heathers
1989 · Michael Lehmann
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
In common: Comedy · Crime
The Hustle
2019 · Chris Addison
Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
In common: Comedy · Crime
Wolfs
2024 · Jon Watts
Hired to cover up a high-profile crime, a fixer soon finds his night spiralling out of control when he's forced to work with an unexpected counterpart.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 · Robert Zemeckis
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acm
In common: Comedy · Crime
Pulp Fiction
1994 · Quentin Tarantino
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that i
In common: Comedy · Crime
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 · David Zucker
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · Peter Segal
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wif
In common: Comedy · Crime
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · David Zucker
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
In common: Comedy · Crime
We're the Millers
2013 · Rawson Marshall Thurber
A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Baby's Day Out
1994 · Patrick Read Johnson
Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone
In common: Comedy · Crime
War Dogs
2016 · Todd Phillips
Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997 · Jay Roach
As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes
In common: Comedy · Crime
American Made
2017 · Doug Liman
The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Sneakers
1992 · Phil Alden Robinson
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncove
In common: Comedy · Crime
Hustlers
2019 · Lorene Scafaria
A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Rounders
1998 · John Dahl
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best fri
In common: Crime
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995 · Steve Oedekerk
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this b
In common: Comedy · Crime
BlacKkKlansman
2018 · Spike Lee
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
In common: Comedy · Crime
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · Joel Coen
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
In common: Comedy · Crime
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013 · Martin Scorsese
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Cruella
2021 · Craig Gillespie
In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appet
In common: Comedy · Crime
Roofman
2025 · Derek Cianfrance
A former Army Ranger and struggling father turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname "Roofman." After escaping prison, he secretly lives inside
In common: Comedy · Crime
Taxi Driver
1976 · Martin Scorsese
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the f
In common: Crime
Snatch
2000 · Guy Ritchie
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
1996 · Paris Barclay
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 co
In common: Comedy · Crime
Baywatch
2017 · Seth Gordon
Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
In common: Comedy · Crime
Bad Boys II
2003 · Michael Bay
Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Jo
In common: Comedy · Crime
21 Jump Street
2012 · Phil Lord
When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set o
In common: Comedy · Crime
Hit Man
2024 · Richard Linklater
A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.
In common: Comedy · Crime
22 Jump Street
2014 · Phil Lord
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on th
In common: Comedy · Crime
Some Like It Hot
1959 · Billy Wilder
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
In common: Comedy · Crime
48 Hrs.
1982 · Walter Hill
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
In common: Comedy · Crime
One Battle After Another
2025 · Paul Thomas Anderson
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missi
In common: Comedy · Crime
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
2024 · Adil El Arbi
After their late former Captain is framed, Lowrey and Burnett try to clear his name, only to end up on the run themselves.
In common: Comedy · Crime
The Naked Gun
2025 · Akiva Schaffer
Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world: Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. Following in his father's footsteps, he must solve a murder case to prevent Police Squad
In common: Comedy · Crime
Beverly Hills Cop
1984 · Martin Brest
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case l
In common: Comedy · Crime
The Blues Brothers
1980 · John Landis
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
In common: Comedy · Crime
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