Movies like We're the Millers
We're the Millers (2013) is a comedy movie directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Heat (2013)
★ 6.6 · 4,295 votes · Action, Comedy, Crime
Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence--and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins, one of Boston P.D.'s "finest," is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut instinct and street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals. Neither has ever had a partner, or a friend for that matter. When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies.
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2. Bad Boys (1995)
★ 6.8 · 7,198 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
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3. Traffic (2000)
★ 7.1 · 2,525 votes · Thriller, Drama, Crime
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
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4. Desperado (1995)
★ 6.9 · 3,283 votes · Thriller, Action, Crime
El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, El Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves his own trail of blood.
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5. Romancing the Stone (1984)
★ 6.8 · 2,141 votes · Romance, Comedy, Adventure
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
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6. Pineapple Express (2008)
★ 6.6 · 4,359 votes · Action, Comedy, Crime
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
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7. Sicario (2015)
★ 7.4 · 9,970 votes · Action, Crime, Thriller
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
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8. Trainspotting (1996)
★ 8.0 · 10,746 votes · Drama, Crime
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
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9. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
★ 6.8 · 2,651 votes · Action, Comedy, Crime
Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.
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10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
★ 7.2 · 5,217 votes · Adventure, Drama, Comedy
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.
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11. Pulp Fiction (1994)
★ 8.5 · 31,085 votes · Thriller, Crime, 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. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
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12. Triple Frontier (2019)
★ 6.3 · 3,677 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
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13. Go (1999)
★ 7.0 · 872 votes · Crime, Comedy, Thriller
A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.
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14. Up in Smoke (1978)
★ 6.6 · 656 votes · Adventure, Comedy
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."
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15. Very Bad Things (1998)
★ 6.3 · 720 votes · Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...
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16. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
★ 6.8 · 682 votes · Comedy, Adventure, Crime
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
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17. Breakdown (1997)
★ 7.0 · 1,172 votes · Crime, Mystery, Thriller
On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy isn't there. He tracks down the trucker ― who tells the police he's never seen Jeff or his wife before. Jeff then begins a desperate, frenzied search for Amy.
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18. Tango & Cash (1989)
★ 6.5 · 2,234 votes · Action, Crime, Comedy
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income they have caused him, plots an elaborate revenge against them.
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19. Half Baked (1998)
★ 6.3 · 677 votes · Comedy, Crime
Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.
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20. Kalifornia (1993)
★ 6.6 · 911 votes · Thriller, Crime
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
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