Movies like The Cocoanuts (1929)
The best movies like The Cocoanuts (1929) are Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931) and Rio Rita (1942). If The Cocoanuts hooked you with its comedy and music, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedModern Times (1936)8.3/10 from 4,262 votes
- NewestBuck Privates Come Home (1947)Released 1947
Animal Crackers (1930)
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMonkey Business (1931)
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRio Rita (1942)
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Duck Soup (1933)
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOne Hour with You (1932)
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHorse Feathers (1932)
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Devil's Brother (1933)
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMonte Carlo (1930)
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
A Night at the Opera (1935)
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHollywood Party (1934)
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Footlight Parade (1933)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRoman Scandals (1933)
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Way Out West (1937)
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisModern Times (1936)
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Golf Specialist (1930)
At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Kid (1921)
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisA Day at the Races (1937)
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. Hackenbush, who was recently put in charge of the sanitarium, isn't really a doctor, he's a veterinarian.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn Society (1944)
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
The Dentist (1932)
An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisStand Up and Cheer! (1934)
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Top Hat (1935)
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBuck Privates Come Home (1947)
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Broadway Melody (1929)
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Gold Rush (1925)
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDancing Lady (1933)
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBuck Privates (1941)
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisÀ Nous la Liberté (1931)
In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKing of Jazz (1930)
A large-scale revue musical built around Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, presenting a series of musical performances, sketches, and staged tableaux in early two-color Technicolor, emblematic of Hollywood’s early sound-era “all-star” musical productions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHellzapoppin' (1941)
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEmperor Jones (1933)
Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Cocoanuts?
The closest matches to The Cocoanuts are Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931) and Rio Rita (1942). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Cocoanuts?
People who watched The Cocoanuts most often go on to Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931) and Rio Rita (1942).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Cocoanuts?
Modern Times (1936), rated 8.3/10 by 4,262 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Cocoanuts?
Buck Privates Come Home (1947) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Cocoanuts?
Yes: Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931) and Rio Rita (1942).
How are movies similar to The Cocoanuts chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Cocoanuts, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.