Movies like The Would-Be Detectives (1913)
The best movies like The Would-Be Detectives (1913) are Sextuplets (2019), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) and Me Time (2022). If The Would-Be Detectives hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The Would-Be Detectives
Quick picks
- Highest ratedStewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)6.9/10 from 449 votes
- NewestDriver's Ed (2026)Released 2026
Sextuplets (2019)
Father-to-be Alan is shocked to learn that he was born a sextuplet. With his newfound brother Russell riding shotgun, the duo sets out on a hilarious journey to reunite with their remaining long-lost siblings.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHorrible Bosses 2 (2014)
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMe Time (2022)
With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThunderstruck (2012)
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBabes (2024)
After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow High (2001)
Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams with flying colors and end up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJim Jefferies: Freedumb (2016)
Returning for a second Netflix comedy special, Jim Jefferies unleashes his famously ferocious black humor to a packed house in Nashville, Tennessee.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDriver's Ed (2026)
A group of teens hit the road in a stolen driver's ed car, racing against time to help a lovesick high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMuch Ado About Nothing (2013)
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Love My Dad (2022)
A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisJackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Best Man Holiday (2013)
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)
The maniacal baby of the Griffin family, Stewie, meets his future self. In doing this he discovers that his future image is not what he has anticipated because of a near death experience.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeriously Single (2020)
While her free-living bestie urges her to embrace singlehood, a commitment-craving social media expert can't stop following the life of a former love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFun with Dick and Jane (1977)
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPsych 3: This Is Gus (2021)
In preparation for a shotgun wedding before the birth of Baby Guster, Shawn and Gus go rogue in an attempt to track down Selene’s estranged husband, as Lassiter grapples with the future of his career.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Bones (2001)
A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Air Up There (1994)
Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfter the Ball (2015)
After the Ball, a retail fairy tale set in the world of fashion. Kate's dream is to design for couturier houses. Although she is a bright new talent, Kate can't get a job. No one trusts the daughter of Lee Kassell, a retail guru who markets clothes "inspired" by the very designers Kate wants to work for. Who wants a spy among the sequins and stilettos? Reluctantly, Kate joins the family business where she must navigate around her duplicitous stepmother and two wicked stepsisters. But with the help of a prince of a guy in the shoe department her godmother's vintage clothes and a shocking switch of identities, Kate exposes the evil trio, saves her father's company -- and proves that everyone can wear a fabulous dress.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Replacements (2000)
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSexton Pimple (1915)
A detective takes over a train to save the King of Cork from spies.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
I Will (1919)
A fop wins a socialist's daughter by earning his living as a farm-hand.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
The Echo Murders (1945)
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Thornton Jewel Mystery (1915)
A girl frames a drunkard for a gem theft. The detective is saved from the crook's launch by a boy's 60-foot dive.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Stolen Heirlooms (1915)
A detective is drugged with flowers and tied to a sawmill while saving an ex-gambler from a jewel theft charge.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Blake the Lawbreaker (1928)
A private detective and his young assistant solve crimes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Sexton Blake, Gambler (1928)
Third release in the 'Sexton Blake' series of short crime dramas.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Jewel Thieves Run to Earth by Sexton Blake (1910)
A detective saves a clerk from a gang who tie him to a clock-operated gun.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Mystery of the Diamond Belt (1914)
A crook poses as a Lord to rob a merchant and holds a detective captive in his cellar.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Britain's Secret Treaty (1914)
A Count catches a detective posing as a foreign war minister and hangs him over Beach Head with a fuse.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Would-Be Detectives?
The closest matches to The Would-Be Detectives are Sextuplets (2019), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) and Me Time (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Would-Be Detectives?
Start with Sextuplets (2019), the closest match to The Would-Be Detectives.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Would-Be Detectives?
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005), rated 6.9/10 by 449 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Would-Be Detectives?
Driver's Ed (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Would-Be Detectives?
Yes: Sextuplets (2019), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) and Me Time (2022).
How are movies similar to The Would-Be Detectives chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Would-Be Detectives, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.