Movies Like The Great Director

If you liked The Great Director, a comedy movie directed by Chris Waitt, 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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   How High (2001)

   ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

   Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams with flying colors and end up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until…

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   Driver's Ed (2026)

   ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

   A group of teens hit the road in a stolen driver's ed car, racing against time to help a lovesick high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.

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   Duplex (2003)

   ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

   When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

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   Beau Hunks (1931)

   ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

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

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   Thunderstruck (2012)

   ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

   After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.

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   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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   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.

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   Jim Jefferies: Freedumb (2016)

   ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

   Returning for a second Netflix comedy special, Jim Jefferies unleashes his famously ferocious black humor to a packed house in Nashville, Tennessee.

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   Much Ado About Nothing (2013)

   ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

   A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

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    Babes (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.

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    American Dreamer (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.

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    Ali G, Innit (1999)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Ali G travels throughout Britain, interviewing unsuspecting leaders and politicians.

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    Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years (2025)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy

    In what might be his most personal and introspective hour yet, Bill offers hilarious takes on everything from male sadness to dating advice.

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    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.

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    I Love My Dad (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.

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    Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    In a rowdy stand-up set, Shane Gillis riffs on his girlfriend's Navy SEAL ex, touring George Washington's house and being bullied by an Australian Goth.

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    Ricky Gervais: Mortality (2025)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.

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    Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.

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    The F**k-It List (2020)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    After a prank blows up a studious high school senior's life, he shares a list of certain things he wishes he'd done differently — and maybe still can.

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    Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    Angela Arden is a washed up, has-been singing star who is trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. In an attempt to escape her marriage so that she can be with a hunky layabout, she poisons her…