Top 20 movies like Get Shorty

Get Shorty

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

Get Shorty is of 1 hour(s) and 45 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Jersey Films. It was released on 1995-10-20. It has the tagline: Attitude plays a part. It has an average vote of 6.463 on TMDB.

Genres: ComedyThrillerCrime

1. Be Cool

Be Cool

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.

It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.

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2. Go West

Go West

Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner , has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.

It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.

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3. Fast Food Fast Women

Fast Food Fast Women

How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul is a widower, facing old age alone. Bella's mother sets her up with Bruno, a novelist/cabbie who likes to bed-hop and whose ex-wife expects their two children to stay with him for awhile. While Bruno learns some maturity from his young daughter, Paul answers a personals ad placed by a "widow, 60." The two couples - along with one of Paul's older pals and a Jungian stripper - sort out how to initiate a relationship these days, what to do when someone you like disappoints you, and when to tell the truth.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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4. Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction

Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction

HBO presents one of the most gifted and revered performers of our time, Academy-Award winning Robin Williams, starring in his fifth exclusive HBO special, taped before a live audience at Washington's Constitution Hall.

It has an average vote of 7.407 on TMDB.

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5. Alex & the List

Alex & the List

Alex, a lovable, unassuming dog trainer is in love with a great woman - Katherine - smart, talented, from a good family. Katherine adores Alex's quirky sense of humor, honesty and capacity to listen. Having decided to pop the question, Alex is blindsided when Katherine produces a detailed list of well-thought-out "improvements" she feels will tweak Alex on their way to becoming the ideal couple. Alex instinctively rejects the suggestion that he needs to change anything. But with the threat of a new competitor, Alex decides to "do the list." Guided by a coterie of friends that include: Dave, Alex's loyal childhood buddy, best female friend Lily, her husband Michael, and their 8 year old son, Nicky, Alex's journey has him reconsider and question his beliefs, values and world.

It has an average vote of 5.659 on TMDB.

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6. The Man Who Sued God

The Man Who Sued God

A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.

It has an average vote of 6.532 on TMDB.

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7. Human Lanterns (人皮燈籠)

Human Lanterns

A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source.

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

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8. Dollman

Dollman

Brick Bardo is a traveller from outer space who is forced to land on Earth. Though regular sized on his home planet, he is doll-sized here on Earth, as are the enemy forces who have landed as well. While Brick enlists the help of an impoverished girl and her son, the bad guys enlist the help of a local gang. When word leaks out as to his location, and all hell breaks loose. Brick is besieged by an onslaught of curious kids, angry gang members, and his own doll-sized enemies, and he must protect the family who has helped him and get off the planet alive.

It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.

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9. In Like Flint

In Like Flint

Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minutes while golfing with the President. Flint finds that the President has been replaced by an actor Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own.

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

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10. The Last in the Class (Ultimi della classe)

The Last in the Class

Michele is not so successful at school, and with the girls he is desperately unlucky. To bring up grades parents hired him a tutor. While browsing the Internet, Michele discovered that his teacher posed nude for an erotic calendar. In exchange for good grades Michele agrees with the beauty to recreate the photoshoot in real life ...

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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11. Pessoas (Pessoas)

Pessoas

(Pessoas)

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

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12. Apache Rifles

Apache Rifles

A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.

It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.

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13. Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

It has an average vote of 6.031 on TMDB.

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14. Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview

In a television interview filmed in 1995, Steve Jobs talks frankly about his early life, competition with Microsoft and his vision for the future, while he was running NeXT, the company he founded after leaving Apple.

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

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15. Primary Colors

Primary Colors

In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.

It has an average vote of 6.261 on TMDB.

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16. Uncommon Valor

Uncommon Valor

A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

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17. Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd

A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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18. Redline

Redline

A gorgeous young automobile fanatic--and front to the hottest unsigned band on the West coast--finds herself caught up in illegal drag-racing competitions organized by exotic car fanatics

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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19. Wag the Dog

Wag the Dog

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.

It has an average vote of 6.96 on TMDB.

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20. Shadowlands

Shadowlands

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.

It has an average vote of 6.918 on TMDB.

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