Movies like The Pilgrim (1923)
The best movies like The Pilgrim (1923) are Seven Chances (1925), Why Worry? (1923) and Grandma's Boy (1922). If The Pilgrim hooked you with its comedy and western, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedOne Week (1920)7.9/10 from 348 votes
- NewestScooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017)Released 2017
Seven Chances (1925)
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrandma's Boy (1922)
A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Freshman (1925)
An unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNever Weaken (1921)
A young man schemes to drum up business for his girlfriend's employer but after seeing her being intimate with another man, he attempts to commit suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAunt Sallie's Wonderful Bustle (1901)
A sudden gust of wind sweeps Auntie's bonnet from her head, and she, in attempting to regain it, becomes overbalanced and falls over the stone-wall, landing on her bustle. (Edison film catalog)
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Battling Butler (1926)
A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Monster (1925)
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Sheik (1921)
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisTartuffe (1926)
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Farmer's Wife (1928)
Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Best Girl (1927)
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Happiness (1935)
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Body and Soul (1925)
A convict escapes to a Southern town and passes himself off as a reverend, giving him the perfect cover to swindle the townspeople and corrupt an innocent young woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Way Down East (1920)
A naïve country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Avenging Conscience (1914)
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Increasingly convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Caught in a Cabaret (1914)
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Frozen North (1922)
A mix of guns and mistaken identity leads to chaos in this satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic westerns, finding Buster in the frozen north - "the last stop on the subway".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpeedy (1928)
A hapless young man living in New York City rallies to save his girlfriend's grandfather's horse-drawn trolley, the last in the city, from being put out of business by a railroad company.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGirl Shy (1924)
Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSteamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOne Week (1920)
Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies 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: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Paleface (1922)
A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons are trying to force them from their land.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChampagne (1928)
A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Cat and the Canary (1927)
A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisScooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017)
When the Scooby gang visits a dude ranch, they discover that it and the nearby town have been haunted by a ghostly cowboy, Dapper Jack, who fires real fire from his fire irons. The mystery only deepens when it’s discovered that the ghost is also the long lost relative of Shaggy Rogers!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRango (2011)
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & western
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Pilgrim?
The closest matches to The Pilgrim are Seven Chances (1925), Why Worry? (1923) and Grandma's Boy (1922). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Pilgrim?
People who watched The Pilgrim most often go on to Seven Chances (1925), Why Worry? (1923) and Grandma's Boy (1922).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Pilgrim?
One Week (1920), rated 7.9/10 by 348 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Pilgrim?
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Pilgrim?
Yes: Seven Chances (1925), Why Worry? (1923) and Grandma's Boy (1922).
How are movies similar to The Pilgrim chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Pilgrim, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.