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10 Best Movies Like Close But No Cigar

If you loved Close But No Cigar, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Easy Money

Easy Money

1983★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close But No Cigar for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him....

#2
Bottle Rocket

Bottle Rocket

1996★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close But No Cigar for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatche...

#3
Analyze That

Analyze That

2002★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close But No Cigar for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel ne...

#4
Mr. Bones

Mr. Bones

2001★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close But No Cigar for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament....

#5
The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers

1955★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close But No Cigar for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians....

#6
Joe's Apartment

Joe's Apartment

1996★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Close But No Cigar for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches....

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