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10 Best Movies Like The Nitwits

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

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#1
The Big Store

The Big Store

1941★ 6.3

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

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager....

#2
Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade

1933★ 6.8

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

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences....

#3
A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born

1948★ 6.4

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

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Hon...

#4
Bo Burnham: What.

Bo Burnham: What.

2013★ 7.8

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

Left brain and right brain duke it out and then belt out a tune in comedian Bo Burnham's quick and clever one-man show. As intelligent as he is lanky, Burnham cynically pokes at po...

#5
Deathtrap

Deathtrap

1982★ 6.7

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

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script....

#6
Who Done It?

Who Done It?

1942★ 6.9

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

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed...

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