If You Liked Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Watch These Next
Finished Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, most of them are comedy, mystery, crime.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Cheap Detective(1978)
6.4ComedyCrimeMysteryAlso comedy and crime
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
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2.The Big Fix(1978)
5.9ComedyThrillerMysteryAlso comedy and mystery
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
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3.The Late Show(1977)
6.3MysteryCrimeComedyAlso mystery and crime
An over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who was involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped pussycat.
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4.Shadow of a Doubt(1943)
7.5ThrillerMysteryCrimeAlso mystery and crime
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
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5.Who's Harry Crumb?(1989)
6.0ComedyCrimeMysteryAlso comedy and crime
Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
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6.The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother(1975)
6.0ComedyCrimeMysteryAlso comedy and crime
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
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7.Knives Out(2019)
7.8ComedyCrimeMysteryAlso comedy and crime
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies…
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8.The Thursday Murder Club(2025)
6.6ComedyMysteryCrimeAlso comedy and mystery
A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic crime caper.
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9.Zero Effect(1998)
6.3MysteryCrimeComedyAlso mystery and crime
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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10.National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1(1993)
6.1ComedyCrimeActionAlso comedy and crime
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the 'Wilderness Girls' cookie drive.
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12.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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13.Murder by Death(1976)
7.1ComedyCrimeMysteryAlso comedy and crime
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
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14.The Mirror Crack'd(1980)
6.1MysteryCrimeThrillerAlso mystery and crime
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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15.Somewhere in the Night(1946)
6.7MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso mystery and crime
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
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16.Who Framed Roger Rabbit(1988)
7.5FantasyAnimationComedyAlso comedy and crime
Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
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17.Woman on the Run(1950)
6.8ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett,…
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18.A Shot in the Dark(1964)
7.2ComedyMysteryCrimeAlso comedy and mystery
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
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19.Weekend at Bernie's(1989)
6.4ComedyCrimeAlso comedy and crime
Two young insurance corporation employees try to pretend that their murdered employer is alive by puppeteering his dead body, leading a hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
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