Movies Like The Bowling Alley-Cat
If you liked The Bowling Alley-Cat (1942), a animation and comedy movie directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, 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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Just Ducky (1953)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyJerry Mouse befriends a newly hatched duckling who can't swim and ends up protecting him against his feline nemesis, Tom.
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Mice Follies (1954)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and comedyJerry and his diapered little mouse friend flood the kitchen, then use the freezer to turn it into a skating rink. Even though Tom finds a pair of ice skates, the mice have no problem outmaneuvering him.
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The Lonesome Mouse (1943)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedyJerry crashes a vase onto Tom's head, which gets Mammy to throw Tom out. Jerry at first revels in his freedom, but soon tires of this, and, under a flag of truce, hatches a plan with Tom.
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Professor Tom (1948)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and comedyTom, complete with mortarboard, is teaching a kitten the basics: "cats chase mice." But Jerry keeps subverting this lesson at every opportunity.
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Pet Peeve (1954)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and comedyThe couple that owns Tom and Spike decides they can't afford to keep both. They agree that the first one to catch the mouse can stay - bad news for Jerry.
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The Mouse Comes to Dinner (1945)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and comedyTom invites Toots to an elegant dinner. However, he's made the mistake of trying to put Jerry to work, as a serving boy, a corkscrew, and other tasks. Jerry puts up with a little of this, but mostly gets revenge on Tom.
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Polka-Dot Puss (1949)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyTom pretends to have a cold in order to trick Mammy into letting him stay inside for the night. Jerry tricks Tom by making him think he really is sick - with the measles.
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The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse: Steamboat Silly (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyMickey and gang must stop hundreds of old film reel versions of Mickey from wreaking havoc all over town.
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and comedyThe popular cartoon cat and mouse are thrown into a feature film. The story has the twosome trying to help an orphan girl who is being berated and exploited by a greedy guardian.
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Little Quacker (1950)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedyTom steals an egg from a mother duck's nest, but soon the resultant hatchling runs away from the cat and into a mouse hole, where it finds an able protector in Jerry.
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Mouse Cleaning (1948)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyMammy Two-Shoes threatens to throw Tom out of the house if he makes a mess. Jerry sees an opportunity to rid himself of his feline nemesis.
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Tee for Two (1945)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedyTom is golfing, but having no success. Jerry insures that remains the case.
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The Million Dollar Cat (1944)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedyTom inherits $1,000,000 from an eccentric aunt on the condition that he not harm any living thing - even a mouse. And guess which mouse keeps following him around and pointing this out to him?
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Puss Gets the Boot (1940)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedyJasper is given an ultimatum by his master: break one more thing and you're out. Rodent Jerry does his best to make sure that his tormentor "gets the boot".
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Cat Napping (1951)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedyTom has plans to take a nice long nap in a hammock, but Jerry has gotten there first and is snoozing happily, so the two fight it out to see who gets to sleep there.
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Pecos Pest (1955)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedyJerry's eccentric uncle, Pecos, a Texan mouse, comes to spend the night with him before his musical performance on television the next day. He decides to rehearse with his guitar for the performance but each time he…
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Jerry and the Lion (1950)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyJerry agrees to help an escaped circus lion, whose first need is food. But first they'll have to evade Tom, who heard the news bulletin and is armed with a shotgun.
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The Amazing Maurice (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and comedyMaurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rodents meet a bookworm called Malicia, their little con soon goes down…
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Baseball Bugs (1946)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyBugs Bunny single handedly takes on the “Gas-House Gorillas,” a baseball team of hulking, cigar-chomping bullies.
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Kitty Foiled (1948)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and comedyTom subjects Jerry to his usual harassment; but the cat finds a new enemy, and the mouse finds a new friend, in the canary of the house.