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Movies that feel likeBlazing Saddles (1974)

Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.

If you loved Blazing Saddles, the closest films we have are The Producers (1968), The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Raising Arizona (1987). All three share Blazing Saddles' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is I'm All Right Jack (1959).

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mel Brooksgrittywittyplayfuldarkly funny
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The Producers
1968 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 92%★ 7.5comedy

Mel Brooks directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Trades the grit of Blazing Saddles for an angle of its own

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.

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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
1991 · dir. David Zucker
🍅 77%★ 6.9comedy · crimeParamount+

Both are working the same pair: satire, parody

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Blazing Saddles does

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

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Raising Arizona
1987 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 91%★ 7.3comedy · crime

The same preoccupation in both: satire

When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

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The Ladykillers
1955 · dir. Alexander Mackendrick
🍅 100%★ 7.6comedy · crime

Gritty where it counts, witty underneath

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.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · dir. Robert Hamer
🍅 100%★ 8comedy · crime

The same mix in both: play, then dark humor

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

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Lost in America
1985 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 95%★ 7comedy

Witty comedy in both cases

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

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Life of Brian
1979 · dir. Terry Jones
🍅 96%★ 8comedyPrime VideoPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: parody

Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.

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I'm All Right Jack
1959 · dir. John Boulting
🍅 85%★ 7.1comedy

Western built on play, twice over

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

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The Ruling Class
1972 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 83%★ 7.2comedy · dramaMax

Comedy with a pulse of dark humor, in both cases

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

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Trading Places
1983 · dir. John Landis
🍅 87%★ 7.5comedy

Witty western, and it commits to that

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

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Adam's Apples
2005 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%★ 7.7drama · comedy · crime

Both lean on grit more than on comedy

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · dir. Michael Patrick Jann
🍅 47%★ 6.7comedy

Common ground: gun

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

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