Movies like The Crazy Jungle (1952)
The best movies like The Crazy Jungle (1952) are Up to His Ears (1965), Money Money Money (1972) and Greed in the Sun (1964). If The Crazy Jungle hooked you with its comedy and adventure, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The Crazy Jungle
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLa Chèvre (1981)7.1/10 from 754 votes
- NewestBalls Up (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchUp to His Ears (1965)Also in French
Up to His Ears (1965)
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMoney Money Money (1972)
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGreed in the Sun (1964)
A truck driver ventures into the Moroccan desert to retrieve a stolen truck, facing danger, bad luck, and uneasy alliances. Chaos builds to a climactic showdown.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHalf a Chance (1998)
Alice Tomaso gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo and Julien, one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one belonging to the Russian mafia, and arrives at her destination with a gang of thugs out looking for her and the car.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBalls Up (2026)
Two marketing executives go "balls out" and pitch a bold full‑coverage condom sponsorship with the World Cup. After their drunken celebration in Brazil sparks a global scandal, they must outrun furious fans, criminals, and power-hungry officials to salvage their careers and make it home alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisLa Chèvre (1981)
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDouble Threat (2022)
With ruthless mobsters on her tail, a young woman with a split personality becomes entangled with a man on a pilgrimage across the country to scatter his brother's ashes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAce of Aces (1982)
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe African (1983)
Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted conservationist who left her three years ago to live in the jungle. Can you imagine his enthusiasm when she arrives at the conclusion that the ideal place to build this holiday resort is his kitchen garden?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDora and the Search for Sol Dorado (2025)
Dora, Diego, and their new friends trek through the perilous dangers of the Amazonian jungle in search of the ancient and powerful treasure of Sol Dorado to keep it out of enemy hands.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Silencers (1966)
Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGo West: A Lucky Luke Adventure (2007)
The Daltons have escaped to New York, where their accumulated loot is hidden in the carts of Monsieur Pierre's group of honest, naive European immigrants, who naively bought land in California from Crook, who inserted a clause they must claim it within 80 days. Joe emotionally blackmails Luke to guide them there, hoping to escape on the way. The usual route must shortened from 6 to 2 months, so no danger can be avoided. Given Lucky's reputation, Crook decides to shadow them to add sabotage, just to be sure- or is it?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCarjackers (2025)
By day, they're invisible—valets, hostesses, and bartenders at a luxury hotel. By night, they're the Carjackers, a crew of skilled drivers who track and rob wealthy clients on the road. As they plan their ultimate heist, the hotel director hires a ruthless hitman, to stop them at all costs. With danger closing in, can Nora, Zoe, Steve, and Prestance pull off their biggest score yet?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEenie Meanie (2025)
A former teenage getaway driver gets dragged back into her unsavory past when a former employer offers her a chance to save the life of her chronically unreliable ex-boyfriend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Takedown (2022)
Ousmane Diakité and François Monge are two cops with very different styles, backgrounds and careers. The unlikely pair are reunited once again for a new investigation that takes them across France. What seemed to be a simple drug deal turns out to be a much bigger criminal case wrapped in danger and unexpected comedy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWho Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
With a hitman’s gun aimed at him, Finch tells the story of how he broke out of jail, fell in love, and took the identity of a man wanted by the Mafia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisStretch (2014)
A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Gentleman from Epsom (1962)
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKali: Avenging Angel (2024)
Lisa, aka Kali, has nothing left to lose when she finds out her husband has been executed in Rio to cover up a corruption scandal. A former Special Forces recruit, she heads to Brazil with fists, blood and explosives, to find out the truth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWould I Lie to You? (1997)
Jobless loner Eddie Vuibert gets a lucky break when a rich Jewish entrepreneur mistakes him for a Jew and gives him a sweet job in the Parisian fashion district.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Crazy Jungle?
The closest matches to The Crazy Jungle are Up to His Ears (1965), Money Money Money (1972) and Greed in the Sun (1964). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Crazy Jungle?
Start with Up to His Ears (1965), the closest match to The Crazy Jungle.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Crazy Jungle?
La Chèvre (1981), rated 7.1/10 by 754 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Crazy Jungle?
Balls Up (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Crazy Jungle?
Yes: Up to His Ears (1965), Money Money Money (1972) and Greed in the Sun (1964).
How are movies similar to The Crazy Jungle chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Crazy Jungle, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.