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Movies Like Paper Moon

If you liked Paper Moon (1973), a comedy and crime movie directed by Peter Bogdanovich, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Hustle

    The Hustle (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

    Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

  2. 2Swindle

    Swindle (2014)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and crime

    A boy named Griffin finds a valuable multi-million dollar baseball card. After accidentally selling the card for a million dollar loss, he enlists the help of his best friend Ben and his colleagues to regain the…

  3. 3The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers (2004)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crime

    An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.

  4. 4Ana

    Ana (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy

    Ana meets Rafa in a chance encounter and they embark on a road trip to try and save him from bankruptcy, or worse.

  5. 5My Own Love Song

    My Own Love Song (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

  6. 6Bottle Rocket

    Bottle Rocket (1996)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and crime

    Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an…

  7. 7Death at a Funeral

    Death at a Funeral (2007)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama

    A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.

  8. 8Bernie

    Bernie (2012)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and crime

    In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to…

  9. 9Matchstick Men

    Matchstick Men (2003)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and drama

    A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

  10. 10Millions

    Millions (2005)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and crime

    Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid…

  11. 11Where the Money Is

    Where the Money Is (2000)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and crime

    Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing…

  12. 12O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy and crime

    In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

  13. 13Six Degrees of Separation

    Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy

    The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.

  14. 14Catch Me If You Can

    Catch Me If You Can (2002)

    ★ 8/10Also drama and crime

    A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him…

  15. 15Maverick

    Maverick (1994)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a…

  16. 16Nothing to Lose

    Nothing to Lose (1997)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and crime

    Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary…

  17. 17Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

    Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama

    When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

  18. 18The Night of the Hunter

    The Night of the Hunter (1955)

    ★ 7.9/10Also crime and drama

    In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

  19. 19The Happiest Millionaire

    The Happiest Millionaire (1967)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama

    A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the unusual antics of her…

  20. 20The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers (1955)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy and crime

    Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

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