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Movies Like Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

If you liked Uncle Marin, the Billionaire (1979), a comedy movie directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu, 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 Cocoanuts

    The Cocoanuts (1929)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

  2. 2Room Service

    Room Service (1938)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.

  3. 3Mystery Train

    Mystery Train (1989)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy

    In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an…

  4. 4Four Rooms

    Four Rooms (1995)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable…

  5. 5Buddy Buddy

    Buddy Buddy (1981)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.

  6. 6Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost

    Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018)

    ★ 7.9/10Also comedy

    The Scooby gang visits a culinary resort run by Fred's uncle, Bobby Flay. While enjoying the sights, a ghost attacks the guests and destroys the resort, leaving the gang to put a stop to its threat.

  7. 7The Green Man

    The Green Man (1956)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and…

  8. 8The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers (1955)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy

    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.

  9. 9Hotel Transylvania

    Hotel Transylvania (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate…

  10. 10Beat the Devil

    Beat the Devil (1953)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

  11. 11Take the Money and Run

    Take the Money and Run (1969)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy

    Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

  12. 12Joe's Apartment

    Joe's Apartment (1996)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy

    A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

  13. 13Carry On Regardless

    Carry On Regardless (1961)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    After 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.

  14. 14The Bellboy

    The Bellboy (1960)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that…

  15. 15Cedar Rapids

    Cedar Rapids (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.

  16. 16Army of Thieves

    Army of Thieves (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.

  17. 17Big Trouble

    Big Trouble (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad…

  18. 18A Night in Casablanca

    A Night in Casablanca (1946)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.

  19. 19Why Worry?

    Why Worry? (1923)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

  20. 20Carry On Abroad

    Carry On Abroad (1972)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something…

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