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Films like Caught Stealing (2025)

Published: Mar 13, 2026

This collection features crime thrillers and dark comedies about characters who unwillingly get drawn into dangerous criminal stories involving money, drugs, jewels, and underworld dealings. These are tense, absurd, and darkly funny films filled with vivid, charismatic characters, where every unlucky twist of fate pulls the heroes even deeper into chaos. The list includes cult classics such as Snatch, Pulp Fiction, and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, as well as more recent hits like Good Time and Bullet Train.

Snatch

1. Snatch

Crime Comedy
8.2

2000 · 1h 43min

United Kingdom

Director: Guy Ritchie

Four-Finger Frankie is supposed to deliver a stolen diamond from the U.S. to England for his boss, but while placing a bet at a bookie, he’s kidnapped by gangsters who want the stone for themselves.

Similarity

Closest characteristics: Tone, Conflict

Notable differences: Bleakness (-15%), Darkness (-15%), Tension (-15%), Pacing (-12%), Humor (+32%), Violence (-18%), Action (-15%), Complexity (+28%)

Shared keywords

Violent, Mistrust, Betrayal, Corruption

Style

Pacing
78%
Humor
72%
Tension
70%

Running Scared

2. Running Scared

Action Crime Drama Thriller
7.3

2006 · 2h 2min

United States, Germany

Director: Wayne Kramer

After a botched criminal job, corrupt cops are killed in a shootout with gangsters. One of the gangsters is ordered to get rid of the gun used to kill them, but due to an unfortunate chain of events, the weapon ends up in the hands of a neighbor boy, who uses it to shoot his stepfather.

Similarity

Closest characteristics: Bleakness, Violence, Action, Tone, Tropes

Notable differences: Darkness (+11%)

Shared keywords

Violent, Moral ambiguity, Corruption, Neo noir

Style

Tension
88%
Darkness
86%
Pacing
84%

Good Time

3. Good Time

Crime Thriller Drama
7.3

2017 · 1h 42min

United States

Director: Benny Safdie

A bank robbery by two brothers, Connie and Nick, turns into a disaster: Nick ends up in prison and most of the money is lost without a trace. Connie will do anything to find the cash and get his brother out—but they only have until morning.

Similarity

Closest characteristics: Darkness, Pacing, Tension, Tone, Tropes

Notable differences: Bleakness (+12%), Violence (-25%)

Shared keywords

Moral ambiguity, Neo noir

Style

Tension
92%
Pacing
84%
Darkness
78%

Bullet Train

4. Bullet Train

Action Comedy Thriller
7.3

2022 · 2h 6min

United States

Director: David Leitch

A hitman plagued by a streak of bad luck is assigned to retrieve a suitcase aboard a Japanese high-speed train. However, the job becomes far more complicated when he discovers that five other assassins on the train are connected to the same mission.

Similarity

Closest characteristics: Violence, Action, Tone, Themes

Notable differences: Bleakness (-25%), Darkness (-20%), Tension (-15%), Pacing (-12%), Humor (+25%), Complexity (+20%)

Shared keywords

Violent, Mistrust, Betrayal, Twist, Revenge, Twist ending

Style

Action
80%
Pacing
78%
Tension
70%

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

5. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Comedy Crime
8.1

1998 · 1h 45min

United States, United Kingdom

Director: Guy Ritchie

Four friends scrape together 100,000 pounds to take part in a high-stakes card game run by local gangster Harry, hoping to hit a big jackpot. But Eddie loses all the money and, on top of that, ends up owing another 500,000. Now the boys have one week to come up with the cash, or they will have to deal with Harry’s gang.

Similarity

Closest characteristics: Tone, Themes

Notable differences: Bleakness (-15%), Darkness (-15%), Tension (-15%), Pacing (-12%), Humor (+32%), Violence (-18%), Action (-15%), Complexity (+28%)

Shared keywords

Violent, Mistrust, Betrayal

Style

Pacing
78%
Humor
72%
Tension
70%

Pulp Fiction

6. Pulp Fiction

Thriller Crime Comedy
8.8

1994 · 2h 34min

United States

Director: Quentin Tarantino

The film tells three nonlinearly intertwined stories: about two gangsters, Vincent and Jules, who collect debts for their boss Marsellus; about boxer Butch, who is supposed to lose a fight as arranged with Marsellus; and about Vincent’s date with Marsellus’s wife, which turns into a catastrophe.

Similarity

Closest characteristics: Darkness, Violence, Tone, Conflict

Notable differences: Bleakness (-15%), Tension (-13%), Pacing (-22%), Humor (+22%), Action (-15%), Complexity (+32%)

Shared keywords

Violent, Neo noir

Style

Violence
75%
Tension
72%
Complexity
72%

Seven Psychopaths

7. Seven Psychopaths

Comedy Crime
7.1

2012 · 1h 50min

United States, United Kingdom

Director: Martin McDonagh

Writer Marty is struggling with a lack of ideas for the screenplay of his new film. His friends make money by kidnapping dogs and returning them to their owners for a reward. But one day they steal the dog of a local gangster, and all of them end up drawn into an absurd and very dangerous adventure.

Similarity

Closest characteristics: Bleakness, Darkness, Tone, Themes

Notable differences: Tension (-20%), Pacing (-28%), Humor (+35%), Violence (-12%), Action (-15%), Complexity (+20%)

Shared keywords

Violent, Revenge

Style

Humor
75%
Darkness
70%
Violence
68%

The Nice Guys

8. The Nice Guys

Comedy Crime Action
7.4

2016 · 1h 56min

United States

Director: Shane Black

An inept private detective, used to investigating small-time cases, is forced to team up with a tough debt collector on a case involving a missing girl, which gradually leads them to a much larger criminal conspiracy.

Similarity

Closest characteristics: Action, Tone, Themes

Notable differences: Bleakness (-25%), Darkness (-20%), Tension (-25%), Pacing (-20%), Humor (+35%), Violence (-25%), Complexity (+20%)

Shared keywords

Corruption, Mystery, Neo noir

Style

Humor
75%
Pacing
70%
Action
65%

Blindspotting

9. Blindspotting

Comedy Crime Drama
7.4

2018 · 1h 35min

United States

Director: Carlos López Estrada

After getting out of prison, petty criminal Collin tries to live an honest life. He only has to make it through the last three days of his probation without breaking the law. But one evening, he witnesses a police officer shoot an unarmed man and flee the scene.

Similarity

Closest characteristics: Bleakness, Darkness, Tone, Tropes

Notable differences: Tension (-13%), Pacing (-28%), Violence (-45%), Action (-40%), Complexity (+20%)

Style

Tension
72%
Darkness
65%
Pacing
62%

The Big Lebowski

10. The Big Lebowski

Comedy Crime
8.1

1998 · 1h 57min

United States, United Kingdom

Director: Joel Coen

The peaceful life of a slacker nicknamed the Dude is turned upside down when gangsters, mistaking him for a millionaire, break into his home and urinate on his favorite rug. Trying to get compensation from the wealthy man, the Dude finds himself drawn into an absurd criminal story involving kidnapping and ransom.

Similarity

Closest characteristics: Tone, Tropes

Notable differences: Bleakness (-25%), Darkness (-35%), Tension (-40%), Pacing (-35%), Humor (+40%), Violence (-45%), Action (-40%)

Style

Humor
80%
Pacing
55%
Complexity
55%

About the movie Caught Stealing (2025)

Caught Stealing plot: Former baseball player Hank Thompson lives a quiet, ordinary life and works as a bartender. One day his punk neighbor asks him to watch his cat for a few days because he has to leave town. From then on, Hank’s life takes a hard turn, and without meaning to, he ends up at the center of a criminal mess.

Keywords: Violent, Mistrust, Crime drama, Betrayal, Crime thriller, Moral ambiguity, Corruption, Twist, Revenge, Trauma

Style characteristics: Pacing, Tension, Violence, Darkness, Action, Bleakness

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