Movies Like Swimming with Sharks

If you liked Swimming with Sharks (1994), a crime and comedy movie directed by George Huang, 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
Nine to Five (1980)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.
2
Ruthless People (1986)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the…
3
Office Space (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money…
4
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and crime
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
5
Horrible Bosses (2011)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and crime
For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and…
6
Serial Mom (1994)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and crime
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
7
Freaky Tales (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and comedy
In 1987 Oakland, a mysterious force guides The Town's underdogs in four interconnected tales: teen punks defend their turf against Nazi skinheads, a rap duo battles for hip-hop immortality, a weary henchman gets a shot…
8
Pulp Fiction (1994)
★ 8.5/10Also crime and comedy
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip…
9
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and crime
Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative…
10
Foxy Brown (1974)
★ 6.3/10Also crime
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
11
Girl in the Basement (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also crime
Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.
12
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and crime
After their late former Captain is framed, Lowrey and Burnett try to clear his name, only to end up on the run themselves.
13
The Killer (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also crime
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
14
Trapped (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also crime
Held hostage in different cities after their daughter is kidnapped by a master extortionist, a desperate couple must find a way to outsmart a seemingly foolproof plot.
15
Eenie Meanie (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also 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.
16
Jolt (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also crime
A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.
17
Raising Arizona (1987)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and crime
When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.
18
Smokin' Aces (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crime
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
19
Pain & Gain (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and crime
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices…
20
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts…