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10 Best Movies Like Bottle Rocket

If you loved Bottle Rocket, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Bandits

Bandits

2001★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bottle Rocket for fans of Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfo...

#2
Small Apartments

Small Apartments

2012★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bottle Rocket for fans of Comedy & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved br...

#3
Things Change

Things Change

1988★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bottle Rocket for fans of Comedy & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mi...

#4
Intermission

Intermission

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bottle Rocket for fans of Comedy & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconcepti...

#5
Where the Money Is

Where the Money Is

2000★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bottle Rocket for fans of Comedy & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned ...

#6
Barefoot

Barefoot

2014★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bottle Rocket for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The "black sheep" son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his brother's we...

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