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Movies Like The Comeback Trail

If you liked The Comeback Trail (2020), a comedy and crime movie directed by George Gallo, 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. 1Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crime

    An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

  2. 2Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

    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…

  3. 3Oscar

    Oscar (1991)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and crime

    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…

  4. 4Fletch

    Fletch (1985)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and crime

    When 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…

  5. 5Get Shorty

    Get Shorty (1995)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crime

    Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly…

  6. 6Family Plot

    Family Plot (1976)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and crime

    Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

  7. 7Bandits

    Bandits (2001)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crime

    After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated…

  8. 8Mad Money

    Mad Money (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crime

    Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.

  9. 9Analyze This

    Analyze This (1999)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crime

    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,"…

  10. 10The Distinguished Gentleman

    The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows…

  11. 11Blue Streak

    Blue Streak (1999)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crime

    Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of…

  12. 12High Heels and Low Lifes

    High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and comedy

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

  13. 13The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers (1955)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy and crime

    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.

  14. 14How to Rob a Bank

    How to Rob a Bank (2007)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and crime

    Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.

  15. 15Hostile Takeover

    Hostile Takeover (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

    Follows Pete, a professional hitman, as he faces a group of assassins after the boss of a crime syndicate suspects disloyalty due to his attendance at Workaholics Anonymous meetings.

  16. 16Greedy

    Greedy (1994)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!

  17. 17Welcome to Collinwood

    Welcome to Collinwood (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crime

    Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.

  18. 18Swindle

    Swindle (2014)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and crime

    A boy named Griffin finds a valuable multi-million dollar baseball card. After accidentally selling the card for a million dollar loss, he enlists the help of his best friend Ben and his colleagues to regain the…

  19. 19Tough Guys

    Tough Guys (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and crime

    Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new…

  20. 20Nothing to Lose

    Nothing to Lose (1997)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and crime

    Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary…

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