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10 Best Movies Like 40 Pounds of Trouble

If you loved 40 Pounds of Trouble, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Big Brown Eyes

Big Brown Eyes

1936★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 Pounds of Trouble for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby...

#2
Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones

1949★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 Pounds of Trouble for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his fre...

#3
As

As

2023★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 Pounds of Trouble for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Three years after the death of her beloved child, Elouise, Mara still feels her presence when she sits on the butterfly bedding in front of the jar with her ashes in it. Mara arran...

#4
No End

No End

1985★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 Pounds of Trouble for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time o...

#5
Jim's Story

Jim's Story

2024★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 Pounds of Trouble for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. T...

#6
The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet

1977★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 40 Pounds of Trouble for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to be a belligerent prostitute w...