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Movies Like The Bookworm Turns

If you liked The Bookworm Turns (1917), a comedy movie directed by Charles Avery, 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. 1Solid Serenade

    Solid Serenade (1946)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy

    Tom ties up Spike and sneaks into the courtyard of the glamorous Toodles Galore with his bass, hoping to woo her with his song, much to the annoyance of a sleeping Jerry.

  2. 2Casanova Cat

    Casanova Cat (1951)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    Tom heads for a big city penthouse to become acquainted with a rich pretty female cat that lives there. He brings her Jerry as a gift and does some humiliating things to Jerry. Jerry, in turn, attracts the attention of…

  3. 3The Bodyguard

    The Bodyguard (1944)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy

    Spike the bulldog, grateful to Jerry for getting him out of the dogcatcher's van, offers to help the little mouse any time he whistles. Tom, Jerry's feline tormentor, seeks to overcome this new disadvantage.

  4. 4Sea Scouts

    Sea Scouts (1939)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    Donald is an admiral on a seagoing voyage with his nephews in which they encounter a ravenous shark.

  5. 5The Big Bad Wolf

    The Big Bad Wolf (1934)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

  6. 6A Knight for a Day

    A Knight for a Day (1946)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    By accident, Cedric (Goofy), replaces his master, Sir Loinsteak, in the armor just before the joust with champion Sir Cumference.

  7. 7Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry

    Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry (2016)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy

    Hawaiian-shirt enthusiast Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias finds the laughs in racist gift baskets, Prius-driving cops and all-female taco trucks.

  8. 8Screwball Squirrel

    Screwball Squirrel (1944)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    A crazy squirrel provokes a dog into trying to catch him throughout the picture.

  9. 9Barbecue Brawl

    Barbecue Brawl (1956)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    Spike is showing his son Tyke how to barbecue when his cooking is disrupted by a typical Tom-and-Jerry chase.

  10. 10Eddie Murphy Raw

    Eddie Murphy Raw (1987)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

    Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on '80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom's hamburgers and much more.

  11. 11The Yankee Doodle Mouse

    The Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

    As Tom and Jerry stage their typical fight sequences, the patriotic soldier theme of the title is evidenced by such things as a carton of eggs labeled "Hen Grenades"; Jerry dropping light bulbs from an airplane like…

  12. 12Good Scouts

    Good Scouts (1938)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    Donald is leading a scout troop consisting of his nephews on a hike in the woods. Donald isn't nearly the expert on the woods that he thinks he is, much to the amusement of the boys. In a bid for sympathy, he douses…

  13. 13His Mouse Friday

    His Mouse Friday (1951)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Tom is shipwrecked on an island, which is inhabited by at least one mouse - Jerry. To thwart the hungry cat, Jerry disguises himself as a cannibal.

  14. 14The Fixer Uppers

    The Fixer Uppers (1935)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.

  15. 15Taking 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.

  16. 16No Time for Nuts

    No Time for Nuts (2006)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy

    Scrat comes across a time machine and is transported to various times all in pursuit of his beloved acorn.

  17. 17The Wedding Year

    The Wedding Year (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    A commitment-phobic 27-year old’s relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year.

  18. 18Beau Hunks

    Beau Hunks (1931)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

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

  19. 19Monster Truck Mater

    Monster Truck Mater (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    As a professional monster truck wrestler, Mater must work his way up through the ranks from an amateur tow truck to World Champion Monster Truck Wrestler. But rival wrestlers I-Screamer, Captain Collision, and The…

  20. 20Hard to Die

    Hard to Die (1990)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series…

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