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10 Best Movies Like The Nitwits

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

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#1
The Big Store

The Big Store

1941★ 6.2

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

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager....

#2
Deathtrap

Deathtrap

1982★ 6.7

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

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script....

#3
A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born

1948★ 6.3

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

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Hon...

#4
Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade

1933★ 6.8

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

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences....

#5
A Day at the Races

A Day at the Races

1937★ 7.1

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

Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a finicky horse owned by Judy's boyfriend Gil. There are a few problems. Hackenbu...

#6
Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings

1957★ 6.8

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

After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission...

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