Movies Like Man in the Trunk

If you liked Man in the Trunk (1973), a comedy and adventure movie directed by Georges Lautner, 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
Gotcha! (1985)
★ 6/10Also comedy
A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.
2
Ace of Aces (1982)
★ 7.1/10Also adventure and comedy
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young…
3
The Pilgrim's Progress (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also adventure
An epic journey, faithfully adapted to modern-day. Christian faces distractions, challenges, and perils at every turn of the way. But ends victorious, with helpful guides, as he stays on the narrow path to the distant…
4
Hostile Takeover (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also 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.
5
The 355 (2022)
★ 6/10Also adventure
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.
6
La Chèvre (1981)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and adventure
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
7
L'Opération Corned Beef (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
8
Shorts (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and adventure
A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
9
Superwho? (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
A struggling actor seems doomed to live life as a loser. When he finally snatches a lead role as a superhero named “Badman,” he feels like everything is possible, but fate strikes again.
10
Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and comedy
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
Airborne (1993)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure 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…
12
Taxi 2 (2000)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and adventure
A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.
13
Matchbox the Movie (2026)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and adventure
When a group of former childhood friends reconnect, their reunion takes a wild turn as they stumble upon a dangerous international plot—and must save the world.
14
Kali: Avenging Angel (2024)
★ 7/10Also adventure
Lisa, aka Kali, has nothing left to lose when she finds out her husband has been executed in Rio to cover up a corruption scandal. A former Special Forces recruit, she heads to Brazil with fists, blood and explosives…
15
The Adam Project (2022)
★ 7/10Also adventure and comedy
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
16
My Spy (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also 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.
17
Le Guignolo (1980)
★ 6/10Also comedy
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane…
18
Double Threat (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure 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.
19
Knight and Day (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with…
20
Suicide Squad (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted…