bumbling criminals

The Coen Brothers' filmography is defined by incompetent criminals whose plans spiral into chaos, from Raising Arizona to Fargo to No Country for Old Men.

Ritchie specializes in darkly comedic crime films featuring bumbling, interconnected criminals whose schemes collide in tragicomic ways, as seen in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.

Tarantino's films consistently feature well-meaning but catastrophically incompetent criminals whose attempts at simple jobs devolve into bloody, absurdist disasters, particularly evident in Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds.