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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
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...

#2
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....

#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
Paris by Night

Paris by Night

2012★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete the Tender for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that t...

#5
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...

#6
Incorrigible

Incorrigible

1975★ 6.2

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

Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of utte...

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