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10 Best Movies Like Desperate Moves

If you loved Desperate Moves, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Moves for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life fem...

#2
Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

2013★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Moves for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words....

#3
Eddie Murphy Raw

Eddie Murphy Raw

1987★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Moves for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on '80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom's hamburgers and much more....

#4
Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business

1990★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Moves for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him....

#5
Why Worry?

Why Worry?

1923★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Moves for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead....

#6
Impractical Jokers: The Movie

Impractical Jokers: The Movie

2020★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Moves for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The story of a humiliating high school mishap from 1992 that sends the Impractical Jokers on the road competing in hidden-camera challenges for the chance to turn back the clock an...

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