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Movies that feel likeThe Thin Man (1934)

Former detective Nick Charles has retired from police work, preferring a life of cocktails, parties, and relaxation with his wealthy wife, Nora. Their holiday is interrupted when the daughter of Nick’s former client asks for help finding her missing father, eccentric inventor Clyde Wynant. When Wynant’s body is discovered, Nick is drawn back into the investigation, with Nora eagerly joining him. As the couple questions Wynant’s family, friends, and business associates, a tangled web of greed, deception, and murder begins to unravel.

If you loved The Thin Man, the closest films we have are Zero Effect (1998), Trouble in Paradise (1932) and His Girl Friday (1940). All three share The Thin Man's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Estômago: A Gastronomic Story (2008).

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. W.S. Van Dykewittyplayfultwistygrittyromantic
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Zero Effect
1998 · dir. Jake Kasdan
🍅 66%★ 6.9mystery · crime · comedy

Common ground: detective

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what to do with himself when he's not working; he has no social skills, writes bad music and drives Steve crazy.

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Trouble in Paradise
1932 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 90%★ 7.9comedy · crime · romance

One thread runs through both: black and white

The difference: Easier on the twists than The Thin Man

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

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His Girl Friday
1940 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 99%★ 7.8comedy · romance · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: screwball comedy

The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Thin Man does

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

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Estômago: A Gastronomic Story
2008 · dir. Marcos Jorge
★ 7.8drama · comedy · mystery

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Thin Man does

In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.

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Charade
1963 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 95%★ 7.8comedy · mystery · romancePrime Video

The same mix in both: twists, then romance

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.

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The Awful Truth
1937 · dir. Leo McCarey
🍅 94%★ 7.6comedy · romance

The same preoccupation in both: dog

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

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In for a Murder
2021 · dir. Piotr Mularuk
★ 5.5crime · comedy · mysteryNetflix

Gritty comedy in both cases

A stay-at-home mom and avid reader of crime stories discovers the deepest secrets of a small town's residents while investigating a woman's murder.

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My Man Godfrey
1936 · dir. Gregory La Cava
🍅 97%★ 7.9comedyPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

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And Then There Were None
1945 · dir. René Clair
🍅 100%★ 7.3crime · drama · mysteryPrime Video

One thread runs through both: dinner

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

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Andhadhun
2018 · dir. Sriram Raghavan
🍅 100%★ 8.2crime · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Mystery built on wit, twice over

A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.

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The Trouble with Harry
1955 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 88%★ 7comedy · mystery

Playful crime, and it commits to that

In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.

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What's Up, Doc?
1972 · dir. Peter Bogdanovich
🍅 88%★ 7.6comedy · crime · romance

Both are built on the same subject: screwball comedy

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

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