Movies Like Once Upon a Fish

If you liked Once Upon a Fish (2014), a comedy movie directed by Francisco Adolfo Valdez, 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
Gringo (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.
2
Ruthless People (1986)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
Sam 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…
3
Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.
4
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one-night stand, Mary, tags…
5
Colao (2017)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy
A coffee grower, still single at 40, decides to finally start his search for love by going to the capital city on the Dominican Republic.
6
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.
7
Money Talks (1997)
★ 6/10Also comedy
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
8
Excess Baggage (1997)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.
9
Killing Cabos (2004)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy
Two young men get involved with some criminals while trying to free the tycoon they kidnapped.
10
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty…
11
The In-Laws (1979)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of…
12
Baby's Day Out (1994)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is…
13
The Key Game (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
Laura has been with Antonio all her life and, just when she begins to wonder if that is really the life she wants, Sergio and Siena cross paths in their lives. Sergio is a former high school classmate and Siena, his…
14
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding…
15
Analyze This (1999)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family,"…
16
Cul-de-sac (1966)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
17
Problem Child (1990)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.
18
Shadows and Fog (1991)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
19
Foul Play (1978)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
20
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.