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10 Best Movies Like The Dunning Man

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

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#1
Thick as Thieves

Thick as Thieves

1999★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dunning Man for fans of Drama & Comedy & Crime. 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...

#2
Small Apartments

Small Apartments

2012★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dunning Man for fans of Drama & Comedy & Crime. 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...

#3
Things Change

Things Change

1988★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dunning Man for fans of Drama & 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...

#4
Defendor

Defendor

2009★ 6.4

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

A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn'...

#5
Intermission

Intermission

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dunning Man for fans of Drama & 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...

#6
Where the Money Is

Where the Money Is

2000★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dunning Man for fans of Drama & 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 ...

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