Movies Like The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

If you liked The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973), a comedy movie directed by Gérard Oury, 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
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting…
2
PlayTime (1967)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy
Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an…
3
The Great Dictator (1940)
★ 8.3/10Also comedy
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
4
Coexist (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy
An opportunistic music producer brings together a rabbi, a priest, and an imam to preach about peaceful coexistence through song. But he's in for a surprise when he realizes the religious leaders are far from saints.
5
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)
★ 7.1/10Also 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.
6
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
7
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also 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…
8
Je ne suis pas un héros (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Louis is a super nice guy. But in his lawyer's office, this is not a compliment. When his doctor wrongly diagnoses a serious disease, his colleagues behaviour changes : they care about him, they ask him questions and…
9
Little Nicholas (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to…
10
The Women on the 6th Floor (2011)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The…
11
White Chicks (2004)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car…
12
Murder Mystery 2 (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
After starting their own detective agency, Nick and Audrey Spitz land a career-making case when their billionaire pal is kidnapped from his wedding.
13
Hold-up (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
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…
14
Me, Myself and Mum (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the…
15
Playing with Fire (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
A crew of rugged firefighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids.
16
The Tuche Family (2011)
★ 6/10Also comedy
Everyone in the village of Bouzolles knows the Tuche family, who live by the philosophy "Man is not made to work." Despite their lack of money, they strive to be happy... that is, until their hand-to-mouth existence is…
17
Lost in Paris (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.
18
The Nannies (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
Angèle, a thirty-something from Ivory Coast, always cope thanks to the gift of gab and audacity. To escape from a bunch of dangerous criminals, she becomes a nanny in the uptown Paris, hired by Hélène, the single mom…
19
Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the…
20
RRRrrrr!!! (2004)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy…