Movies Like The Unsewing Machine
If you liked The Unsewing Machine (1986), a comedy and thriller movie directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky, 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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The Dream Team (1989)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and thrillerFour mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish…
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Hostile Takeover (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and thrillerFollows 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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Hard to Die (1990)
★ 6/10Also comedy and thrillerWhile 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…
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Off the Grid (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerAfter a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their…
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The Killer's Game (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and thrillerWhen top hitman Joe Flood is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands – by taking a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend, he must…
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Hold-up (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyDressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a…
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Cop or Hood (1979)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and thrillerWhen the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti,"…
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Bad Apples (2026)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and thrillerA struggling primary school teacher is forced to take drastic action because of a foul-mouthed, violent student, and uncovers how her community will turn a blind eye to the most outrageous events to preserve harmony…
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Diabolically Yours (1967)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerA wealthy amnesiac begins to suspect that his devoted wife is not really his wife and that he is not the man people keep telling him he is.
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Awake (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also thrillerWhile undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make…
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Shade (2003)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerTiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game…
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Gotcha! (1985)
★ 6/10Also comedy and thrillerA student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.
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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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Umbrella Coup (1980)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyGrégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman…
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The Wrong Guy (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and thrillerNelson Hibbert expects to become the new president of Nagel Industries, but Mr. Nagel gives the promotion to another employee. When Nelson barges into Nagel's office to confront him, he finds Nagel's been murdered…
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Cloportes (1965)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyThree little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join…
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyCharles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
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Breathless (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and thrillerLorna is a strong-willed Texas woman who’s had enough of her untrustworthy husband Dale’s criminal acts and lack of husbandry. Fed up, she enlists the help of her old friend, Tiny, to help her figure out what to do…
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One Night at McCool's (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyOn an ordinary night, in an ordinary part of town, a beautiful young woman walks into a bar. Her name is Jewel, and before long she is chatting to bartender Randy. The pair leave together, but he ends up getting into a…
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Trap House (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also 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…