Movies like The Pickup
If The Pickup's mix of robbery, armored car and organized crime stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Pickup's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Beverly Hills Cop II
1987 · Directed by Tony Scott · 103 min6.5
Why you'll like itWith Eddie Murphy · Shares: armored car, shootout, amused · Also action and comedy
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det.
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Shaft
2019 · Directed by Tim Story · 111 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Tim Story · Shares: shootout · Also action and crime
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide.
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Baby Driver
2017 · Directed by Edgar Wright · 113 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: robbery, shootout · Also action and crime
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
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Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000 · Directed by Dominic Sena · 118 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: organized crime, shootout · Also action and crime
Ex-car thief Randall Raines is forced out of retirement to save his brother Kip after a boost gone wrong. With the help of allies old and new, they race to meet the demands of notorious crime boss Raymond Calitri as…
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The Gentlemen
2020 · Directed by Guy Ritchie · 113 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: robbery · Also action and comedy · From the same decade (2020s)
American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an…
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Beverly Hills Cop
1984 · Directed by Martin Brest · 105 min7.2
Why you'll like itWith Eddie Murphy · Also comedy and crime
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 like only he can.
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11:14
2004 · Directed by Greg Marcks · 86 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: robbery · Also comedy and crime
Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines…
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Shrek
2001 · Directed by Andrew Adamson · 90 min7.8
Why you'll like itWith Eddie Murphy · Shares: witty
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely…
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Smokin' Aces
2006 · Directed by Joe Carnahan · 109 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: shootout · Also action and comedy
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
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Flypaper
2011 · Directed by Rob Minkoff · 87 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: shootout · Also comedy and crime
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
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Pulp Fiction
1994 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 154 min8.5
Why you'll like itAlso crime and comedy
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.
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Directed by Guy Ritchie · 105 min8.1
Why you'll like itAlso comedy and crime
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…