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10 Best Movies Like Porridge

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

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#1
Where the Money Is

Where the Money Is

2000★ 5.9

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

Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned ...

#2
Intermission

Intermission

2003★ 6.2

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

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconcepti...

#3
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

2025★ 6.7

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

A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by n...

#4
Things Change

Things Change

1988★ 6.1

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

Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mi...

#5
Panic

Panic

2000★ 6.2

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

Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for hi...

#6
The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

1976★ 6.9

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

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all....

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