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Movies that feel like The Producers (1968)

If you loved The Producers, the closest films we have are Blazing Saddles (1974), The Ruling Class (1972) and I'm All Right Jack (1959). All three share The Producers' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Paramount Plus Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mel Brookswittyplayfuldarkly funny

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Blazing Saddles
1974 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 89%7.7western · comedy

Mel Brooks directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into western than The Producers does

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.

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

Common ground in both: dark comedy and satire

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Producers does

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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I'm All Right Jack
1959 · dir. John Boulting
🍅 83%7.1comedy

One thread runs through both: satire

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

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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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
6.7comedy · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

The difference: 47 years apart, and the 2010s show

Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

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

Darkly funny comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Look Who's Back
2015 · dir. David Wnendt
7comedy

Both are built on the same subject: adolf hitler

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon.

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Withnail & I
1987 · dir. Bruce Robinson
🍅 84%7.5comedy · drama

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

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Spaceballs
1987 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 53%7.1comedy · science fiction

Both are Mel Brooks's work, and they rhyme

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?

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Election
1999 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 92%7.2comedy · drama

Playful comedy in both cases

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

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

Both run darkly funny where it counts

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

The shared currency is wit

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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