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The Miser

Movies Like The Miser (1980)

The Miser is a 1980 comedy film from Jean Girault with a MovieMagicScore of 6.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Lady Eve and The Catered Affair.

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The Lady Eve

1941

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

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The Catered Affair

1956

An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

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Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

1952

When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.

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Greedy

1994

Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!

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Shooting Fish

1997

Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.

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After the Wedding

2006

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

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Greed

1924

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

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Payback

1999

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

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The Party 2

1982

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.

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Father Frost

1965

A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.

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Hyenas

1992

A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.

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Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women

2005

A woman, attended by two midwives, is giving birth in a small village in India. When the child's cry rings, the father bangs on a steel plate to attract the attention of all the villagers, ...

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Penny Pincher!

2016

François Gautier is stingy! Saving puts the joy, it causes pay sweats. His life is set for the sole purpose of never spend anything. A life that will switch in one day: he falls in love and discovers he has a daughter he did not know existed. Forced to lie in order to hide his terrible default, this will be the beginning for François problems. Because lie can sometimes be expensive. Very expensive…

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The Ghost of Yotsuya

1959

This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend which tells of a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.

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On Golden Pond

1981

For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.

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The King and I

1956

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

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Nicholas Nickleby

2002

Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.

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Eureka

1983

After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoholic wife, a headstrong daughter, and Miami mobsters who want to build a casino.

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Birds of Passage

2018

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

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Scoop

2006

An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Miser?

The top films similar to The Miser by MovieMagicScore are The Lady Eve (7.2), The Catered Affair (7.1), Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (6.7). Each shares comedy themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Miser worth watching?

The Miser holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.3/10 from 448 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Miser?

The Miser (1980) is a comedy film directed by Jean Girault, starring Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Claude Gensac.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Miser?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more comedy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Miser

This ranked list pairs The Miser (1980), a comedy film from Jean Girault, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Louis de Funès take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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