Movies Like The Working Man
If you liked The Working Man (1933), a comedy and drama movie directed by John G. Adolfi, 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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Oscar (1991)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyAngelo "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…
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Blank Check (1994)
★ 6/10Also comedyBullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston Waters is fed up with his family — especially their frugality. But he gets his chance to teach them a lesson when a money-laundering criminal…
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Where the Heart Is (1990)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaA wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
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Dog Gone (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyA courageous boy battles a gang of bumbling thieves to rescue a dog carrying a fortune in stolen diamonds.
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The Joneses (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaA seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
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Little Big League (1994)
★ 6/10Also comedyWhen the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organization that struggles to take…
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Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyFive hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
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The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
★ 6/10Also comedyA 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…
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The Disaster Artist (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and dramaAn aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
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The Instigators (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyRory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up with an unusual accomplice — Rory's therapist — to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a vengeful crime boss.
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Somewhere in Queens (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaLeo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it…
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Johnny Dangerously (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyAn honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaOn an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian…
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Old Dads (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyA cranky middle-aged dad and his two best friends find themselves out of step in a changing world of millennial CEOs and powerful preschool principals.
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaRecently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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People Like Us (2012)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAfter flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never…
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Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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Thunderstruck (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyAfter 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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How to Make a Killing (2026)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyDisowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.
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Family Plot (1976)
★ 6.8/10Also comedySpiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.