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Movies that feel likeThe Great Muppet Caper (1981)

Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and the rest of the Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.

If you loved The Great Muppet Caper, the closest films we have are Zero Effect (1998), The Thin Man (1934) and Estômago: A Gastronomic Story (2008). All three share The Great Muppet Caper'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 After Dark, My Sweet (1990).

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than The Great Muppet Caper does

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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The Thin Man
1934 · dir. W.S. Van Dyke
🍅 98%★ 7.9comedy · mystery · crime

Both land grit and twists at once

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

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.

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

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Great Muppet Caper 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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🍅 67%★ 7.2comedy · mystery

Playful mystery in both cases

A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974 · dir. Michael Cimino
🍅 89%★ 7comedy · crime

Both lean on warmth more than on crime

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

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

Romance built on romance, twice over

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

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

Family with a pulse of twists, in both cases

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

Both lean on grit more than on comedy

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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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
2013 · dir. Ayan Mukerji
🍅 69%★ 7.3romance · comedyNetflixPrime Video

Warm romance in both cases

On a trekking trip, an introverted Naina falls for a charming ex-classmate, whose thirst for adventure drives them apart. Years later, their paths cross again.

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Wheels on Meals
1984 · dir. Sammo Hung
★ 7romance · action · comedyPrime Video

Romantic crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to action than The Great Muppet Caper does

Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.

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After Dark, My Sweet
1990 · dir. James Foley
🍅 80%★ 6.5crime · drama · mysteryStarz

Mystery with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Three desperados try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

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

Witty family, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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