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10 Best Movies Like Rene the Cane

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

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#1
Small Apartments

Small Apartments

2012★ 5.8

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

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved br...

#2
Thick as Thieves

Thick as Thieves

1999★ 5.9

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

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jaz...

#3
Breaking News in Yuba County

Breaking News in Yuba County

2021★ 5.9

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

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the...

#4
Umbrella Coup

Umbrella Coup

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rene the Cane 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
Pasha

Pasha

1968★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rene the Cane for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigat...

#6
Things Change

Things Change

1988★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rene the Cane for fans of Crime & Drama & Comedy. 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...

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