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Movies Like Philanthropy

If you liked Philanthropy (2020), a movie directed by Alison Turner, 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. 1Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

    ★ 6.6/10

    When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

  2. 2Weekend at Bernie's

    Weekend at Bernie's (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Two young insurance corporation employees try to pretend that their murdered employer is alive by puppeteering his dead body, leading a hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.

  3. 3Clue

    Clue (1985)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and…

  4. 4Sex and the Single Girl

    Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.

  5. 5An Autumn Romance

    An Autumn Romance (2021)

    ★ 7/10

    When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who…

  6. 6Murder by Death

    Murder by Death (1976)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and…

  7. 7Keeping Mum

    Keeping Mum (2005)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.

  8. 8Glengarry Glen Ross

    Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

    ★ 7.3/10

    An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.

  9. 9Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

    Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is…

  10. 10The Honey Pot

    The Honey Pot (1967)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy exes into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.

  11. 11The Cheap Detective

    The Cheap Detective (1978)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.

  12. 12The Freshman

    The Freshman (1990)

    ★ 6.3/10

    After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine…

  13. 13What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

    What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way…

  14. 14Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  15. 15The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

    The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

    ★ 7.3/10

    When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

  16. 16Send Me No Flowers

    Send Me No Flowers (1964)

    ★ 6.8/10

    When a hypochondriac assumes that he is dying, he makes an elaborate plan to ensure his wife's happiness. However, trouble ensues when she misunderstands his intentions.

  17. 17The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while…

  18. 18The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

    The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

  19. 19Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

  20. 20Dick Tracy

    Dick Tracy (1990)

    ★ 6.2/10

    The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

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