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Movies Like Purple Gas

If you liked Purple Gas (2003), a action and comedy movie directed by William Minsky, 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. 1Hostile 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.

  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. 3The 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.

  4. 4Hooper

    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…

  5. 5The Big Brawl

    The Big Brawl (1980)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and comedy

    A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

  6. 6Airborne

    Airborne (1993)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and comedy

    Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to…

  7. 7Gotcha!

    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.

  8. 8How 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.

  9. 9Oscar 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…

  10. 10Batman and Harley Quinn

    Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and action

    Batman and Nightwing are forced to team with the Joker's sometimes-girlfriend Harley Quinn to stop a global threat brought about by Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man.

  11. 11The 355

    The 355 (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also action

    A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.

  12. 12No Name on the Bullet

    No Name on the Bullet (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

  13. 13Real Men

    Real Men (1987)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and action

    A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.

  14. 14My Spy

    My Spy (2020)

    ★ 6.9/10Also action and comedy

    A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.

  15. 15Overdrive

    Overdrive (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action

    Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.

  16. 16The Dream Team

    The Dream Team (1989)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Four 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…

  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. 18Gladiator Underground

    Gladiator Underground (2025)

    ★ 7.7/10Also action

    Two brothers compete in the world's deadliest underground fighting tournament, where they must decide whether to play by the rules or to cast their honor aside and team up to bring down the dark syndicate running the…

  19. 19Gabriel 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)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy

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

  20. 20Killer Bean Forever

    Killer Bean Forever (2008)

    ★ 7.2/10Also action and comedy

    When things go bad in Beantown, top assassin Killer Bean is called to clean-up the mess. Detective Cromwell finds himself in the middle between Killer Bean and mob boss Cappuccino.

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