Movies Like Fatty and the Heiress
If you liked Fatty and the Heiress (1914), a comedy movie directed by Roscoe Arbuckle, 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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Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyWhen an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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Beau Hunks (1931)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyStan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
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Hard Luck (1921)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyA down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his…
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Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyOut of jail and broke, Julian concocts an outrageously greasy scheme to get rich and, to make it even greasier, he will have to deliver his product to his arch-enemy, Cyrus, who’s waiting in Montreal to close the dirty…
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A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyA gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
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The Fixer Uppers (1935)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyStan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.
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Taking Care of Business (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyAn 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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Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyA 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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Jim Jefferies: Freedumb (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyReturning 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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Perfect Day (1929)
★ 7/10Also comedyTwo families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and…
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Mike's New Car (2002)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyMike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't…
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Shanghaied (1915)
★ 6/10Also comedyA shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The…
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Our Wife (1931)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyOliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to…
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How High 2 (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyWhen two jobless friends discover a hidden weed bible and the ultimate bud, they think that they’ve got it made…with 'seed' money to start a new snack delivery app. But, when nearly all of their stash and weed bible…
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The Ladies Man (1961)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyAfter his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with…
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyCharles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
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Take the Money and Run (1969)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyVirgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
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The Air Up There (1994)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyJimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home…
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Dough and Dynamite (1914)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyPierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
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The Girl Most Likely To... (1973)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyAn ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.