Movies Like The Private Eyes
If you liked The Private Eyes (1976), a comedy and thriller movie directed by Michael Hui Koon-man, 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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Curry & Pepper (1990)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyTwo best friends and cop partners become the subject of a beautiful news reporter's documentary. The two soon find themselves competing for screen time as well as the love of the reporter while after a murderous arms…
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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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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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The Legend II (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyThe hero Fong Sai Yuk becomes involved in the secret brotherhood "The Red Flower", who are trying to overthrow the Manchurian emperor and re-establishing the Ming dynasty. The social upheaval is combined with Sai Yuk's…
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Enter the Fat Dragon (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyAfter being dumped by his fiancé, heartbroken Hong Kong police officer Fallon Zhu gains 200+ pounds. His superiors demote him to the job of escorting convicts to Japan. When a convict in his custody mysteriously dies…
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Overdrive (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerMaster car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.
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Look Out, Officer! (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyAfter police officer Piao is murdered, his soul cannot be at rest for his murder has been written off as a suicide. Therefore the heavens send him back to Earth as a spirit to find his 'savior' who will help him clear…
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LaRoy, Texas (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and thrillerBroke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.
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The Seven-Ups (1973)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerA tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.
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Thunderstruck (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyAfter NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
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Full Alert (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also thrillerA police inspector becomes obsessed with apprehending a criminal planning a major heist at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in the weeks leading up to Hong Kong's return to China.
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Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyBatman 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.
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The Magnificent Scoundrels (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyValentino is a mediocre con artist who crosses paths with Kwan, a fellow con artist. Together, they impersonate various people and create numerous schemes to make money. Meanwhile, gangsters are making a scheme of…
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My Spy (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyA hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
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The Willoughbys (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyWhen the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
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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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Dick Tracy (1990)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyThe comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
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Rob N Roll (2024)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyA fierce robber has plotted a major heist. But unfortunately, his plan was unintentionally foiled by two dispirited middle-aged best friends, and the stolen cash disappears.
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Fight Back to School 2 (1992)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyStar Chow, an officer in the elite police unit, resigns when he is made a scapegoat for a botched investigation. He goes undercover at a school to complete the case and realizes a bumbling detective is also undercover…
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Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyA rebellious teenage princess discovers she has superhuman abilities and joins a secret society of extraordinary second-born royals tasked with protecting the world.