Movies Like Death Is a Problem for the Living
If you liked Death Is a Problem for the Living (2023), a comedy and drama movie directed by Teemu Nikki, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Small Apartments (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaWhen a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters…
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The Rookie (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also action and dramaVeteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help…
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Above the Rim (1994)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and thrillerStory of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
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Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaAn overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes…
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They Drive by Night (1940)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and thrillerJoe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success…
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Hostile Takeover (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also action and comedyFollows Pete, a professional hitman, as he faces a group of assassins after the boss of a crime syndicate suspects disloyalty due to his attendance at Workaholics Anonymous meetings.
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Hooking Up (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaBailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the…
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The Enforcer (2022)
★ 7/10Also action and dramaA noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to…
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Trap House (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also action and thrillerAn undercover DEA agent and his partner embark on a game of cat and mouse with an audacious, and surprising group of thieves – their own rebellious teenagers, who have begun robbing from a dangerous cartel, using their…
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2 Guns (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also action and comedyA DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing…
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Under Fire (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also action and comedyStory unfolds in the scorching heat of the Mexico border, where rival drug dealers Griff and Abbott arrive at a remote drop point for a routine drug deal. But when the exchange goes down, both reveal undercover badges…
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Two for the Money (2005)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaA former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.
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Accident Man (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thrillerMike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
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Redirected (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also action and comedyFour friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.
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Run (1991)
★ 6/10Also action and thrillerWhen a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.
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Thick as Thieves (1999)
★ 6/10Also drama and actionTwo master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing…
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13 (2010)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and thrillerA naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
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Stretch (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also action and comedyA 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.
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Ca$h (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and comedyA stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a…
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No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)
★ 6.9/10Also action and dramaTwo feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent who was brutally murdered by the mafia.