If You Liked The Comeback Trail, Watch These Next
Finished The Comeback Trail (2020) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Comeback Trail, most of them are comedy, crime.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Johnny Dangerously(1984)
6.3ComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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2.Fletch(1985)
6.8ComedyCrimeMysteryAlso comedy and crime
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a knack for disguises, Fletch sets out to uncover Stanwyk's story.
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3.Family Plot(1976)
6.8ComedyCrimeThrillerAlso comedy and crime
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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5.Bandits(2001)
6.3ComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country…
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6.Analyze This(1999)
6.5ComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into…
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7.The Distinguished Gentleman(1992)
6.0ComedyAlso comedy
A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.
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8.High Heels and Low Lifes(2001)
6.1ActionCrimeComedyAlso crime and comedy
Two friends are drawn into a seedy underworld of extortion and violence when they try to blackmail a gang of bank robbers.
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9.The Ladykillers(1955)
7.3ComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
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10.How to Rob a Bank(2007)
5.8ActionComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.
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11.Blue Streak(1999)
6.5ActionComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an LAPD detective.
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12.Tough Guys(1986)
6.0ComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks…
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13.Zero Effect(1998)
6.3MysteryCrimeComedyAlso crime and comedy
Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what to do with himself when he's not working; he has no social skills, writes bad music and drives Steve crazy.
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14.Shadow of the Thin Man(1941)
7.0ComedyCrimeMysteryAlso comedy and crime
While attending a major horse race with their young son, Nick Jr., Nick and Nora Charles witnesse a shocking murder from the crowded grandstand. What first appears to be an isolated killing soon leads to a maze of corruption, blackmail, gambling scandals, and criminal intrigue. As Nick investigates, he encounters…
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15.Stark Raving Mad(2002)
6.1ComedyCrimeActionAlso comedy and crime
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
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16.Thick as Thieves(2009)
6.0ActionThrillerCrimeAlso crime
A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.
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17.Welcome to Collinwood(2002)
6.1ComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
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18.Nothing to Lose(1997)
6.6ComedyCrimeActionAlso comedy and crime
Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a…
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20.American Dreamer(2022)
5.9ComedyAlso comedy
In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.
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