Highest-Rated Movies about 'Incompetency', Sort by Popularity

Take the Money and Run (1969), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Too Many Crooks (1959), Nothing to Lose (1997), The Affairs of Cellini (1934), McHale's Navy (1964), Caffeine (2006), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Incompetency movies.

#1. Take the Money and Run (1969)

Storyline: This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell. It describes the early childhood and youth of Virgil, his failure at a musical career, and his obsession with bank robberies. The film uses a voice over narrative and interviews with his family, friends and acquaintances.

Plot Keywords: criminal, wife, police officer, amusing, hilarious, san francisco, san quentin penitentiary ...

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#2. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Storyline: Doctors are being murdered in bizarre manners - bats, bees, a killer frog mask, etc. - which represent the nine Biblical plagues of Egypt. The crimes are orchestrated by an organ-playing, demented madman (from his home base, replete with a clockwork orchestra and help from a beautiful, mute assistant). Detectives are stumped until they find that all the slain doctors once assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of organist Dr. Phibes, killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death. He couldn't be the culprit, could he?

Plot Keywords: organist, assistant, surgeon, nurse, creepy, shocking, england ...

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#3. Too Many Crooks (1959)

Storyline: Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spurring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: millionaire, kidnapper, criminal, wife, husband, amusing, madcap ...

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#4. Nothing to Lose (1997)

Storyline: When a man (Robbins) believes he has discovered that his wife is having an affair with his boss, it sets off a chain reaction of events. First he wanders into a ghetto where a robber (Lawrence) tries to take his money at gunpoint, but instead sets a wild ride from California to Arizona. The two eventually become reluctant friends. Discussing robbery techniques, they decide to get back at the boss by robbing an office safe containing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Life is further complicated by another pair of robbers who chase the first two for infringing on their territory.

Plot Keywords: advertising executive, thief, boss, wife, robber, criminal, madcap ...

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#6. McHale's Navy (1964)

Storyline: Lt. Quinton McHale (Ernest Borgnine) and his navy crew concoct a plot to make some money from horse racing results, but the plan flops and they ring up a $2,000 debt to a troop of Marines. When they try to recoup their losses, their ship runs into a building, which only compounds their debt. Soon McHale and the klutzy Parker (Tim Conway) devise a new idea: They will steal a racehorse and enter it in a race in disguise, hoping to win the prize money.

Plot Keywords: lieutenant, captain, seaman, radio operator, mechanic, cheeky, hilarious ...

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#8. Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

Storyline: Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's worst detective, N.Y.P.D. Sergeant Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.—<rth@ece.arizona.edu>

Plot Keywords: police officer, inspector clouseau, manservant, mafia boss, jewel thief, nephew, madcap ...

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