Movies Like A Slight Case of Murder
If you liked A Slight Case of Murder (1938), a comedy and crime movie directed by Lloyd Bacon, 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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Take the Money and Run (1969)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and crimeVirgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
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Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crimeSet in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives…
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Wrong Cops (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and comedyA group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.
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Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crimeFive hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
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Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and crimeTwo young insurance corporation employees try to pretend that their murdered employer is alive by puppeteering his dead body, leading a hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
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My Blue Heaven (1990)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crimeFBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli…
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and crimeWhen the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
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Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
★ 7/10Also comedy and crimeWhile attending a major horse race with their young son, Nick Jr., Nick and Nora Charles witnesse a shocking murder from the crowded grandstand. What first appears to be an isolated killing soon leads to a maze of…
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crimeAn LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the…
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Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crimeAfter 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…
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and crimeWhen police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in…
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The Ladykillers (1955)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and crimeFive 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.
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and crimeCharles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
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Ocean's Eleven (1960)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and comedyDanny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
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Pardon Us (1931)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyIt's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.
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Fletch (1985)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and crimeWhen investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With…
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The Honey Pot (1967)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crimeIn Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy exes into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.
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Clue (1985)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and crimeClue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and…
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and crimeMortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts…
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and crimeJuliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the…