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10 Best Movies Like Pete the Tender

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

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#1
Guardian Angels

Guardian Angels

1995★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete the Tender for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob....

#2
There Once Was a Cop

There Once Was a Cop

1972★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete the Tender for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother...

#3
Wrong Cops

Wrong Cops

2013★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete the Tender for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot....

#4
Umbrella Coup

Umbrella Coup

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete the Tender for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a produc...

#5
Let's Not Get Angry

Let's Not Get Angry

1966★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete the Tender for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repa...

#6
Johnny Dangerously

Johnny Dangerously

1984★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete the Tender for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills....

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