
Movies that feel like The Navigator (1924)
If you loved The Navigator, the closest films we have are Seven Chances (1925), One Week (1920) and Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928). All three share The Navigator's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.
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If The Navigator hit the spot, these will too

The same hand behind both of them: Buster Keaton
The difference: None of the momentum The Navigator is built on

Both are Buster Keaton's work, and they rhyme

Common ground in both: black and white and silent film

Both are built on the same subject: slapstick comedy
The difference: Sits closer to mystery than The Navigator does

One thread runs through both: black and white
The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Navigator does

The same preoccupation in both: silent film

Witty and playful in the same breath

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Romance with a pulse of play, in both cases

Both lean on romance more than on action
The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

Both land momentum and scale at once
The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly
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