Movies Like The Last Payphone in New York
If you liked The Last Payphone in New York (2026), a comedy movie directed by Jared Evan and Taryn Brooke, 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.
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Quick Change (1990)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyWith the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio…
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
★ 7.5/10Also comedyIn New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers while the authorities question about the method of their escape.
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Cecil B. Demented (2000)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyA young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground movie.
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Money Train (1995)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyWhen a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.
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Ruthless People (1986)
★ 6.6/10Also comedySam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the…
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Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyWhen an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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The Big Hit (1998)
★ 6/10Also comedyAffable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin…
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Top Secret! (1984)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyPopular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance…
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Louis C.K.: Ridiculous (2026)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyFrom a bee getting shot in New York City to paying strangers to take his aging father, Louis C.K. unleashes the ridiculous thoughts in his mind.
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Bandits (2001)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyAfter escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated…
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The Mouse That Roared (1959)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyThe Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows…
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyA struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
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Desperate Living (1977)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyAfter killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
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Female Trouble (1976)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyTeenage delinquent Dawn Davenport, incensed after her parents do not give her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, runs away from home. After an illegitimate child and hairstylist husband bring her more misery…
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Carry On Regardless (1961)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyAfter a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
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Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyIt's the last day of Camp Firewood's season, but there's still time for the big talent show, a little romance… and for everyone to be wiped out by the piece of NASA's Skylab that's hurtling toward Earth.
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How to Rob a Bank (2007)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyCaught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.
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Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyJerry Seinfeld takes the stage in New York and tackles talking vs. texting, bad buffets vs. so-called "great" restaurants and the magic of Pop Tarts.
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White Chicks (2004)
★ 7/10Also comedyTwo FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car…
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Excess Baggage (1997)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyA rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.