Movies like Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958) (2025)
The best movies like Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958) (2025) are Scooby Doo and The Zombies (2011), Cops (1922) and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966). If Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958) hooked you with its animation and comedy, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCops (1922)7.2/10 from 242 votes
- NewestLove Slave (2014)Released 2014
Scooby Doo and The Zombies (2011)
A DVD compilation of 3 zombie-themed episodes from What's New, Scooby-Doo?. Smile and say "ciao"! The phantom-busters travel to Italy in Pompeii and Circumstance. With a colossal mystery to solve, will our friends be ghoulish gladiator goners, or will their love for Italian art and Scooby Snax save them? Then it's off to the City by the Bay for the Grind Games in The San Franpsycho, where a seaweed-sprouting ghoul from Alcatraz prison cares competing skateboarders to the core. If they don't find the creep behind the Legend of the Creepy Keeper, it'll be lights out in Fright House of a Lighthouse. Who's scared of zombies? Not Scooby-Doo!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCops (1922)
Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along the way!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Prize Fighter (1979)
"Bags" the boxer (Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some money making fights. But when Bags and Shake discover that the bouts have been rigged, they end up with their backs to the wall and must fight back -- literally.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & family
Good Night, Nurse! (1918)
Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the surgery. Roscoe, wanting out, eventually disguises himself as a nurse to effect his escape.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLa Fille du Régiment - Metropolitan Opera (2008)
Madcap physical comedy and impeccable coloratura come together for Natalie Dessay’s indelible portrayal of the feisty tomboy raised by a regiment of French soldiers. Juan Diego Flórez is the young Swiss villager who conquers her heart—and a slew of high Cs. Also featuring uproarious performances by Felicity Palmer and Alessandro Corbelli, as well as a cameo by Tony Award winner Marian Seldes, this laugh-out-loud production was a runaway hit that left audiences exhilarated.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff (1985)
Gonzo hosts this collection of some of the weirdest moments from The Muppet Show at his trailer home, assisted by Camilia and visited by Kermit The Frog.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
2 Alone in Paris (2008)
A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSo You Think You're a Nervous Wreck (1946)
Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Awesome Lotus (1983)
The government calls one of its top agents out of retirement to battle an evil organization that is trying to put the silk industry out of business by using silkworms.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Courtship of Miles Sandwich (1923)
The story of the first Thanksgiving is re-imagined as a father tells it to his son.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Soft Pedal (1926)
An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
The Flirts (1919)
Two guys flirt with women at a hotel.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
The Very Best of Peter Sellers (1990)
A definitive collection of his very best work: The Very Best of Peter Sellers.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Rolling Stone (1919)
A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Love Slave (2014)
An intense love story filled with laughter and action begins after a classy urban girl woke up on a ship and found out that she was kidnapped and taken to some island.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Mixed Nuts (1994)
The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Tall Guy (1989)
An American actor in England tries to find love and work.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisKing of the Zombies (1941)
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958)?
The closest matches to Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958) are Scooby Doo and The Zombies (2011), Cops (1922) and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958)?
Start with Scooby Doo and The Zombies (2011), the closest match to Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958).
What is the highest-rated movie like Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958)?
Cops (1922), rated 7.2/10 by 242 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958)?
Love Slave (2014) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958)?
Yes: Scooby Doo and The Zombies (2011), Cops (1922) and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966).
How are movies similar to Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958) chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940–1958), then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.