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Movies Like The Marriage Swindler

If you liked The Marriage Swindler (1938), a comedy movie directed by Herbert Selpin, here are 19 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Fun 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.

  2. 2Cold Feet

    Cold Feet (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    Although he actually just wanted to steal money, the crook Denis finds himself in the position of caretaking for the stroke patient Raimund. When Raimund's granddaughter Charlotte turns up, Denis has enough of it and…

  3. 3American Dreamer

    American Dreamer (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.

  4. 4Babes

    Babes (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.

  5. 5Louis C.K.: Ridiculous

    Louis C.K.: Ridiculous (2026)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    From 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.

  6. 6The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch

    The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (2018)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none of the woman pleases him…

  7. 7Thunderstruck

    Thunderstruck (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.

  8. 8Chris Rock: Never Scared

    Chris Rock: Never Scared (2004)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy

    Chris Rock, the three-time Emmy Award-winner, comedian, actor, and host of HBO's acclaimed The Chris Show, stars in his fourth solo stand-up special for HBO, Chris Rock: Never Scared. Featuring his unique, insightful…

  9. 9Impractical Jokers: The Movie

    Impractical Jokers: The Movie (2020)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    The story of a humiliating high school mishap from 1992 that sends the Impractical Jokers on the road competing in hidden-camera challenges for the chance to turn back the clock and redeem three of the four Jokers.

  10. 10The 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.

  11. 11Oscar

    Oscar (1991)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets…

  12. 12Ali G, Innit

    Ali G, Innit (1999)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Ali G travels throughout Britain, interviewing unsuspecting leaders and politicians.

  13. 13Support Your Local Gunfighter

    Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

  14. 14Beckenrand Sheriff

    Beckenrand Sheriff (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    A lifeguard tries by all means to keep his home, an open-air swimming pool, from being closed.

  15. 15High Heels and Low Lifes

    High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Two friends are drawn into a seedy underworld of extortion and violence when they try to blackmail a gang of bank robbers.

  16. 16Mr. Bones

    Mr. Bones (2001)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.

  17. 17Ricky Gervais: Mortality

    Ricky Gervais: Mortality (2025)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.

  18. 18Criminal

    Criminal (2004)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: selling a fake Silver Certificate to currency collector William…

  19. 19Easy Money

    Easy Money (1983)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.

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