Movies Like Scorching Sands
If you liked Scorching Sands (1923), a comedy movie directed by Hal Roach and Robin Williamson, 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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The Bank (1915)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyA janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too.
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Hard Luck (1921)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyA down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his…
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The Tramp (1915)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyThe Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life…
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My Wife's Relations (1922)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyBuster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
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Sketch (2025)
★ 7/10Also comedyWhen a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to…
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Beau Hunks (1931)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyStan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
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The Railrodder (1965)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyAfter literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.
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Perfect Day (1929)
★ 7/10Also comedyTwo families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and…
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Dough and Dynamite (1914)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyPierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
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A Woman (1915)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyMother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for…
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Shanghaied (1915)
★ 6/10Also comedyA shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The…
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Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyMama Buzzard wants her children to learn to bring back meat for dinner. One buzzardling is shy and has to be kicked out of the nest. He's told to at least bring back a rabbit.
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Mike's New Car (2002)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyMike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't…
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A Jitney Elopement (1915)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyEdna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her…
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The Hoose-Gow (1929)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyStan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching. The usual mayhem ensues.
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Poison (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyWhen a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.
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Groot's Pursuit (2022)
★ 7/10Also comedyGroot investigates a spooky noise that’s been haunting the Quadrant, which leads to an intense dance off.
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Our Wife (1931)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyOliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to…
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Groot Takes a Bath (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyEverybody needs some alone time to relax and wash up, but things go quite differently when you’re a Flora Colossi toddler.
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A Night in the Show (1915)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyTwo disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by Chaplin), attend a live vaudeville theater production. Their constant antics…