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Movies Like Convention City

If you liked Convention City (1933), a comedy movie directed by Archie Mayo, 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. 1Taking Care of Business

    Taking Care of Business (1990)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

  2. 2Footlight Parade

    Footlight Parade (1933)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

  3. 3The Twelve Chairs

    The Twelve Chairs (1970)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

  4. 4The Geisha Boy

    The Geisha Boy (1958)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.

  5. 5Beau Hunks

    Beau Hunks (1931)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

  6. 6Hail, Caesar!

    Hail, Caesar! (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

  7. 7A Burlesque on Carmen

    A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy

    A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

  8. 8Dough and Dynamite

    Dough and Dynamite (1914)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Pierre 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.

  9. 9Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness

    Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness (2022)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

    A brave young animal explorer teams up with two trusty friends to find a powerful artifact before his greedy uncle can get his paws on it.

  10. 10Black Sheep

    Black Sheep (1996)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media. To baby-sit Mike, the campaign assigns sarcastic Steve, who gets…

  11. 11Slumberland

    Slumberland (2022)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

    A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.

  12. 12Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

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

  13. 13Airborne

    Airborne (1993)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to…

  14. 14My Wife's Relations

    My Wife's Relations (1922)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    Buster 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.

  15. 15Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring

    Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (2002)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    The Oscar-winning cat-and-mouse twosome--Tom and Jerry--returns with another adventure. When Tom and Jerry's irrepressible curiosity gets the best of them, the mysterious magic ring that Tom guards with his life ends…

  16. 16Tommy Boy

    Tommy Boy (1995)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.

  17. 17The Fox and the Hound 2

    The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    Best friends Tod, a fox kit, and Copper, a hound puppy, visit a country fair when they see a band of dogs called "The Singin' Strays". The band has five members: Dixie, Cash, Granny Rose, and twin brothers Waylon and…

  18. 18Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster

    Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    Scooby-Doo and the gang are on the case when a mysterious lake monster starts scaring the guests at a summer resort in Erie Point, where Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy have taken on seasonal jobs to pay for a barn they…

  19. 19Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

    Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

    The maniacal baby of the Griffin family, Stewie, meets his future self. In doing this he discovers that his future image is not what he has anticipated because of a near death experience.

  20. 20Rookie of the Year

    Rookie of the Year (1993)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    When the cast comes off his once broken arm, a 12-year-old boy can throw a 100-mile-an-hour fastball, and the Chicago Cubs want him as their new pitcher.

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