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10 Best Movies Like The Jerk

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

#1
Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven

1981★ 6.0

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

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher....

#2
The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders

The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders

1979★ 6.8

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

Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he obtains the majority of the stocks i...

#3
Giants and Toys

Giants and Toys

1958★ 6.9

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

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies....

#4
It's Not Me, It's Him

It's Not Me, It's Him

1980★ 5.2

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

Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to wor...

#5
Men in Black

Men in Black

1934★ 7.2

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

The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse, a mental patient, and a comb...

#6
Out the Gate

Out the Gate

2011★ 4.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Jerk for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After a turn of unfortunate events in Jamaica, Everton leaves his home to make it big in the music business in America. Everything is not a bed of roses in Hollywood, but with stru...