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Movies Like The Good Thief

If you liked The Good Thief (1980), a comedy movie directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile, 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. 1The Geisha Boy

    The Geisha Boy (1958)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.

  2. 2Too Much

    Too Much (1986)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.

  3. 3Gabriel 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.

  4. 4Dog Gone

    Dog Gone (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    A courageous boy battles a gang of bumbling thieves to rescue a dog carrying a fortune in stolen diamonds.

  5. 5He's Worse than Me

    He's Worse than Me (1985)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    Two reckless friends Leonardo (Adriano Celentano) and Luciano (Renato Potstsetto) are just doing whatever they want and getting into endless alterations. When one of them decides to marry, their friendship is in a…

  6. 6Ignorance Is Bliss

    Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead…

  7. 7Family Plot

    Family Plot (1976)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

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

  8. 8Thunderstruck

    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.

  9. 9Oscar

    Oscar (1991)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    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…

  10. 10My Best Enemy

    My Best Enemy (2006)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    When a neurotic hotel manager fires a maid for allegedly stealing a laptop, her son swears revenge and begins to expose his deepest secrets — only to regret it after falling for his daughter.

  11. 11The Monster

    The Monster (1994)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

    A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is…

  12. 12Fantozzi

    Fantozzi (1975)

    ★ 7.8/10Also comedy

    A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly finding himself in difficult situations, but never losing his mood.

  13. 13Don't Stop Me Now

    Don't Stop Me Now (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    Paola, a modern woman used to the hardships of modern life, takes her chance to make things right for herself.

  14. 14Godspell

    Godspell (1973)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    In modern-day New York City, John the Baptist calls out to a group of young men and women to learn from the teachings of Jesus. Through song and dance, they relive Christ's crucifixion.

  15. 15Held Up

    Held Up (1999)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    What should have been a romantic getaway turns into one hilarious debacle after another when Michael's woman dumps him in the desert where he gets carjacked by a teenager and he is taken hostage in a stickup at the…

  16. 16Rowan Atkinson Live

    Rowan Atkinson Live (1992)

    ★ 8.2/10Also comedy

    Rowan Atkinson and Angus Deayton in Boston doing a live performance of the same styles of humor we've seen in Mr. Bean and Blackadder. Included are lessons on Shakespearean acting, a school headmaster meeting with the…

  17. 17Ma che bella sorpresa

    Ma che bella sorpresa (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    High school professor Guido is a hopeless romantic whose life falls apart after his girlfriend leaves him. Paolo, a former student of his, helps him in getting out of his depression for a better chance to become a PE…

  18. 18Support Your Local Gunfighter

    Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

  19. 19The New Monsters

    The New Monsters (1977)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    A collection of dark-humoured vignettes, including tales of a cardinal with a liberal congregation, a motorist and a hitchhiker, mentally challenged tramps, parents contemplating their daughter's participation in a…

  20. 20Gabriel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy

    Gabriel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy (2007)

    ★ 7.6/10Also comedy

    Gabriel Iglesias is one of the fastest-rising comics today! With his unique brand of humor, lovable stage presence and wide range of voices and impressions, it's no wonder that he already has a huge fan following. Now…

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