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Movies Like Cinema Obscura

If you liked Cinema Obscura (2004), a action and comedy movie directed by David Stanley, 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.

  1. 1Eenie Meanie

    Eenie Meanie (2025)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and comedy

    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.

  2. 2Trouble Man

    Trouble Man (2025)

    ★ 7/10Also action and comedy

    Jaxen, a former cop turned Atlanta PI, is hired to find missing R&B star Jahari. His investigation uncovers her disappearance is connected to a larger conspiracy, forcing him to question those around him and his own…

  3. 3How to Rob a Bank

    How to Rob a Bank (2007)

    ★ 5.8/10Also action and comedy

    Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.

  4. 4Hard to Die

    Hard to Die (1990)

    ★ 6/10Also action and comedy

    While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series…

  5. 5Stretch

    Stretch (2014)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and comedy

    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.

  6. 6Border Hunters

    Border Hunters (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action

    After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the…

  7. 7Hostile Takeover

    Hostile Takeover (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10Also action and comedy

    Follows 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.

  8. 8The Paper Tigers

    The Paper Tigers (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action and comedy

    Three middle aged men polish their martial arts skills to avenge their fallen master.

  9. 9Afterburn

    Afterburn (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and comedy

    Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of…

  10. 10Trap House

    Trap House (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    An 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…

  11. 11Ricky Gervais: Mortality

    Ricky Gervais: Mortality (2025)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.

  12. 12Accident Man

    Accident Man (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and comedy

    Mike 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.

  13. 13The System

    The System (2022)

    ★ 7.4/10Also action

    When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.

  14. 14Cotton Comes to Harlem

    Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and comedy

    Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger…

  15. 15Oscar Shaw

    Oscar Shaw (2026)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    After retiring from the police force, a relentless detective haunted by the tragic loss of his closest friend sets out on a perilous quest for vengeance, seeking redemption and fighting to restore justice to the…

  16. 16Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry

    Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry (2016)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    Hawaiian-shirt enthusiast Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias finds the laughs in racist gift baskets, Prius-driving cops and all-female taco trucks.

  17. 17Double Threat

    Double Threat (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and comedy

    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.

  18. 18Hooper

    Hooper (1978)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and comedy

    Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop painkillers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the…

  19. 19Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

  20. 20Gotcha!

    Gotcha! (1985)

    ★ 6/10Also action and comedy

    A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.

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