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Movies that feel likeMurder Mystery (2019)

On a long-awaited trip to Europe, a New York City cop and his hairdresser wife scramble to solve a baffling murder aboard a billionaire's yacht.

If you loved Murder Mystery, the closest films we have are Zero Effect (1998), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994). All three share Murder Mystery'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).

🍅 43% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kyle Newacheckwittyplayfultwistygritty
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Paramount Plus Premium

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Zero Effect
1998 · dir. Jake Kasdan
🍅 66%★ 6.9mystery · crime · comedy

One thread runs through both: whodunit

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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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Hail, Caesar!
2016 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 86%★ 6.3comedy · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: whodunit

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 48%★ 6.9comedy · crime · mystery

Both land wit and play at once

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!

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

Twisty where it counts, gritty underneath

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Murder Mystery 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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Andhadhun
2018 · dir. Sriram Raghavan
🍅 100%★ 8.2crime · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Witty comedy in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Murder Mystery does

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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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022 · dir. Rian Johnson
🍅 91%★ 7.1comedy · crime · mysteryNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: murder

World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.

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Inheritance
2024 · dir. Sylwester Jakimow
★ 5.1comedy · mysteryNetflix

Common ground: inheritance

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Murder Mystery does

When their rich uncle passes, his mansion of intricate puzzles becomes the backdrop for his estranged family's quest to secure a portion of his wealth.

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Identity Thief
2013 · dir. Seth Gordon
🍅 20%★ 5.7comedy · crimeStarz

Both keep coming back to the same thing: money

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

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The Hustle
2019 · dir. Chris Addison
🍅 13%★ 5.5comedy · crimeParamount+

Crime built on play, twice over

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

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Get Hard
2015 · dir. Etan Cohen
🍅 28%★ 6comedy · crimeParamount+

Both lean on grit more than on mystery

When millionaire hedge fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell-- a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket -- for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.

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Seven Psychopaths
2012 · dir. Martin McDonagh
🍅 82%★ 7.1comedy · crime

Both are built on the same subject: murder

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

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Happy New Year
2014 · dir. Farah Khan
🍅 40%★ 5.1crime · comedyNetflix

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Six would-be thieves enter a prestigious dance competition as a cover for their larger goal of pulling off a major heist.

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