Instead, he likes small, personal, character-driven films about everyday people. That's the big difference between European films and American films.
European films are about everyday, working-class people.
American films are about rich people, powerful people, or highly unusual people. Joe sets out to replace them. His crimes escalate. He breaks into a car and then breaks into a cafe, stealing a cache of money from a pornographic photo operation. He gets enough money to replace his mother's record collection and even pays off some of his father's debts.