Movies like The King of the Kitchen (1918)
The best movies like The King of the Kitchen (1918) are My Wife's Relations (1922), The Chaplin Revue (1959) and High and Dizzy (1920). If The King of the Kitchen hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The King of the Kitchen
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Trip to the Moon (1902)7.9/10 from 2,108 votes
- NewestThe Chaplin Revue (1959)Released 1959
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 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 thisHigh and Dizzy (1920)
A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
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 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 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 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 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 thisWhy Worry? (1923)
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBig Business (1929)
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Battle of the Century (1927)
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
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 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 thisA Day's Pleasure (1919)
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBack Stage (1919)
Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisThe Blacksmith (1922)
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.
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 thisLiberty (1929)
While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Good Turn (1931)
Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord tell her he's going to throw her out because she can't pay her mortgage. They don't realize that the old lady is really rehearsing for a play. Stan and Ollie decide to help the old lady by selling their car. During the auction a drunk puts a wallet in Stan's pocket. Ollie accuses Stan of robbing the old lady, but when the truth is revealed Stan takes revenge on Ollie.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKing of the Cannibal Islands (1908)
Believed to be the first film to feature cannibals.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Just Another Blonde (1926)
Jimmy O'Connor and Scotty are a couple of New York City gamblers and sharpies who decide to go straight and, since they are such good friends, split 50-50 "even steven" on anything they get or do. Jimmy, a confirmed bachelor, doesn't care for women but Scotty falls in love with Diana O'Sullivan, a Coney Island girl. They decide that Jimmy needs a girlfriend and they opt for Jeannie Cavanaugh. But, following their 50-50 pact, Jimmy, although he has fallen in love with Jeannie, praises Scotty to her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Evening Clothes (1927)
Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D'Artois retaliates by moving to the city and learning the proper social graces. His new life style proves to be too expensive for him, and at the end he is left with nothing but one suit of evening clothes and his now contrite wife.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Too Many Kisses (1925)
Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in Spain to find samples of a rare mineral. When the son gets to Spain, he promptly falls for a beautiful señorita, and runs afoul of the local police chief.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisNearly Married (1917)
Silent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Two Old Tars (1913)
Two old tars, retired from service, live alone in a cottage by the sea. They sail along on an even keel, until a buxom and comely widow projects herself on the scene when one old tar breaks one of their unwritten laws and falls in love with her. The other old fellow objects strenuously.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
An Engagement of Convenience (1914)
A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Live Your Life Smiling (1921)
Sitcom for 1920s cinemas about the Winter family.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
The Magic Glass (1914)
A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The King of the Kitchen?
The closest matches to The King of the Kitchen are My Wife's Relations (1922), The Chaplin Revue (1959) and High and Dizzy (1920). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The King of the Kitchen?
Start with My Wife's Relations (1922), the closest match to The King of the Kitchen.
What is the highest-rated movie like The King of the Kitchen?
A Trip to the Moon (1902), rated 7.9/10 by 2,108 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The King of the Kitchen?
The Chaplin Revue (1959) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The King of the Kitchen?
Yes: My Wife's Relations (1922), The Chaplin Revue (1959) and High and Dizzy (1920).
How are movies similar to The King of the Kitchen chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The King of the Kitchen, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.