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10 Best Movies Like The First, the Last

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

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#1
Things Change

Things Change

1988★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First, the Last 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...

#2
Thick as Thieves

Thick as Thieves

1999★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First, the Last 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...

#3
Defendor

Defendor

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First, the Last 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'...

#4
The Trouble with You

The Trouble with You

2018★ 6.0

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

Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Cros...

#5
The Crime of Monsieur Lange

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

1936★ 7.1

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

Mild-mannered novelist of Western fiction, Amédée Lange, and his colleagues take over a publishing house after their exploitative boss disappears, only for the superior to return a...

#6
Intermission

Intermission

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First, the Last 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...

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