Movies like Fish (1916)
The best movies like Fish (1916) are My Wife's Relations (1922), Police (1916) and A Woman (1915). If Fish hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Kid (1921)8.1/10 from 2,484 votes
- NewestSurviving Sid (2008)Released 2008
My Wife's Relations (1922)
Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPolice (1916)
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Woman (1915)
Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Chaplin Revue (1959)
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDough and Dynamite (1914)
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShanghaied (1915)
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Finishing Touch (1928)
Stan and Ollie are hired to build a house in just one day. When they are done, a bird lands on the house and it collapses. Naturally, the owner wants his money back.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrom Soup to Nuts (1928)
Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMabel's Married Life (1914)
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Night in the Show (1915)
Two disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by Chaplin), attend a live vaudeville theater production. Their constant antics, seat-hopping, and physical altercations quickly overshadow the acts on stage and plunge the entire theater into absolutely hilarious chaos.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPerfect Day (1929)
Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHard Luck (1921)
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNickelodeon (1976)
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Fixer Uppers (1935)
Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe New Janitor (1914)
The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTowed in a Hole (1932)
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSolid Serenade (1946)
Tom ties up Spike and sneaks into the courtyard of the glamorous Toodles Galore with his bass, hoping to woo her with his song, much to the annoyance of a sleeping Jerry.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Jitney Elopement (1915)
Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisOur Wife (1931)
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOliver the Eighth (1934)
Barbershop owners Stan and Ollie answer an ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow looking for a husband. Ollie only mails in his response and is invited to the widow's mansion. Stan discovers his unmailed letter and insists on tagging along. At the mansion, the widow's creepy butler informs them that the woman is crazy. She was once jilted by an Oliver and now her hobby is marrying Olivers and then slitting their throats. Now the boys must figure out how to escape.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe 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: Similar story and style · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisGoing Ga-Ga (1929)
Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid out again. This film survives only in very fragmentary form.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Look Pleasant, Please (1918)
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Rigadin No Longer Loves Cinema (1916)
Rigadin and his rival use camera/projector systems to reach their objectives.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Glad Rags to Riches (1933)
A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Surviving Sid (2008)
Sid the Sloth takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that in typical Sid style, he is not a very good guide and the children he takes with him don't have a very good time.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Absent-Minded Waiter (1977)
Bernie Cates requests the services of the most absent-minded waiter he's ever seen, who pours water before setting the glasses, endlessly repeats questions, brings wrong orders, and ruins everything- but the bill.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Fish?
The closest matches to Fish are My Wife's Relations (1922), Police (1916) and A Woman (1915). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Fish?
Start with My Wife's Relations (1922), the closest match to Fish.
What is the highest-rated movie like Fish?
The Kid (1921), rated 8.1/10 by 2,484 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Fish?
Surviving Sid (2008) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Fish?
Yes: My Wife's Relations (1922), Police (1916) and A Woman (1915).
How are movies similar to Fish chosen?
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