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10 Best Movies Like Magic Carpet Ride

If you loved Magic Carpet Ride, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Held Up

Held Up

1999★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic Carpet Ride for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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...

#2
Jim Jefferies: Freedumb

Jim Jefferies: Freedumb

2016★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic Carpet Ride for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Returning for a second Netflix comedy special, Jim Jefferies unleashes his famously ferocious black humor to a packed house in Nashville, Tennessee....

#3
Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger

Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger

2008★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic Carpet Ride for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An HBO special edited from three performances from Chris Rock's 2008 comedy tour: London (dark suit, dark shirt), Johannesburg (black suit, white shirt) and New York (shiny jacket)...

#4
Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics

Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics

2004★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic Carpet Ride for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A year after Animals, Ricky Gervais comes back with his second stand up comedy tour: Politics....

#5
American Dreamer

American Dreamer

2022★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic Carpet Ride for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy...

#6
Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business

1990★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic Carpet Ride for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An 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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