Movies Like The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

If you liked The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside (1976), a crime and comedy movie directed by Patrice Leconte, 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
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and comedy
Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international…
2
Desperate Living (1977)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crime
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
3
Keep an Eye Out (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when…
4
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and crime
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
5
Hold-up (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a…
6
Mystery Team (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crime
A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.
7
Umbrella Coup (1980)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and crime
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman…
8
Murder by Death (1976)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and crime
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and…
9
Buffet Froid (1979)
★ 7/10Also comedy and crime
Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the…
10
Wrong Cops (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and comedy
A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.
11
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and crime
Two 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.
12
Cop or Hood (1979)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crime
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti,"…
13
The Cheap Detective (1978)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and crime
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
14
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and crime
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows…
15
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.
16
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and comedy
In 1967, OSS 117 is sent to Brazil in order to retrieve a microfilm list of French Nazi sympathizers, only to once again unknowingly set foot into a bigger international intrigue.
17
The Takedown (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Ousmane Diakité and François Monge are two cops with very different styles, backgrounds and careers. The unlikely pair are reunited once again for a new investigation that takes them across France. What seemed to be a…
18
Cloportes (1965)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crime
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join…
19
The Pink Panther (1963)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and crime
The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and…
20
RED 2 (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crime
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.