If you loved Deal of the Century, try Burglar

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Deal of the Century

1983 · dir. William Friedkin

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Burglar

1987 · dir. Hugh Wilson

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Crime territory. If that's the register that drew you to Deal of the Century, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Burglar is

This one wants to be a zany caper so badly. A bookstore-owning burglar finds a corpse during a routine heist. Now she has to solve the murder to avoid charges for that and the initial crime. It’s mostly a very late entry in a specific '80s filmography.

If you loved Deal of the Century, try Burglar

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What they share

What Burglar is

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