For fans of Blake Edwards: what to watch, read & play next

Clouseau's illegitimate son inherits the badge and the incompetence to crack a royal kidnapping.

A hapless inspector investigates a coach's murder and a stolen diamond — policing gone spectacularly wrong.

Clouseau joins an international squad to recover the Pink Panther Diamond, predictably causing chaos.

A widow in Paris finds her murdered husband's associates in hot pursuit — romantic mystery with real wit.

A quiet introvert falls for London's top thief-for-hire, blending romance with criminal intrigue.

Two elegant thieves pose as honest employees to rob their charming, wealthy employer in this witty caper.

A happily married man becomes obsessed with a beautiful stranger — comic misadventure in a French romantic comedy.

A clown disguise, a flawless Manhattan bank robbery, and a very difficult escape route out of the city.

An undercover cop hunts an elusive cat burglar, blending slapstick policing with crime-comedy charm.

Two showbiz friends find their careers diverge sharply as one becomes a star and the other does not.

A Navy officer commands a pink submarine crewed by rescued Army nurses — absurdist WWII comic chaos.

Three friends in 1970s LA chase get-rich-quick schemes that reliably land them in trouble.

Two idealistic cops watch months of careful detective work swallowed by a system that resists accountability.

A small-town police force of lovable incompetents stumbles through a drug case with predictably messy results.

A TV-news assistant navigates office politics and finds herself in over her head in this brisk workplace comedy.

A bedridden mystery writer's fevered imagination blurs detective fiction with hallucination and memory.

A hapless Lothario's relentless, ill-fated pursuit of romance plays as pure broad comedy of failed charm.

A rookie cop uncovers homicide beneath a routine crash — procedural crime with comic-adventure underpinnings.

A retired Eliot Ness is dragged back into a corrupt city's underworld — noir atmosphere, reluctant hero.

Join an elite agency protecting Earth from alien threats in this action-adventure straight from the film.

Absurdist clay-fighter chaos where Bad Mr. Frosty and friends brawl in head-to-head fighting action.

A pixel-art private investigator navigates a dangerous city, interrogating witnesses in a cinematic noir adventure.

A cabdriver reluctantly joins the mob and finds the rewards too big to walk away from — crime and moral compromise.

A British military agent pursues Dr. Goldfire to a distant planet in this action-shooter manhunt.

Two hemopaths use illusion to con Boston's elite from a gangster's nightclub — 1919 Jazz Age crime caper.

A psychological study of feminine desire, the competing priorities of love, and what women truly want.

Stranded and cash-desperate in wartime, a woman strikes a deal with a mysterious card master — intrigue and romance.

A powerful philanthropist's orphaned nephew becomes a pawn in a family fortune scheme — crime fiction.

A contract killer's acquittal gives a surgeon an unsettlingly attentive new admirer — crime meets dark comedy.

A big-city doctor stranded in small-town America finds culture-clash hilarity — the basis for *Doc Hollywood*.

A wealthy widower's heirs scheme to block his remarriage — the conniving-relative comedy Perry Mason handles best.

A woman chases her missing brother through Miami, stumbling into car chases and sunken treasure — breezy caper.