Movies like On the Other Side of the Tracks (2012)
The best movies like On the Other Side of the Tracks (2012) are Protect and Serve (2010), Nice Girls (2024) and Belleville Cop (2018). If On the Other Side of the Tracks hooked you with its comedy and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTwo Is a Family (2016)7.7/10 from 3,087 votes
- NewestNice Girls (2024)Released 2024
- In FrenchProtect and Serve (2010)Also in French
Protect and Serve (2010)
A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisNice Girls (2024)
A maverick cop and a meticulous detective join forces with a charming ex-hacker to solve an officer's disappearance and save Nice from disaster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisBelleville Cop (2018)
When a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local officer to bring down the criminals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Mercenary (2021)
A legendary secret service agent comes out of hiding and returns to France to help the son he's never met get out of trouble.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDiamond 13 (2009)
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisOdd Job (2016)
An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSentinelle (2023)
François Sentinelle has two lives. By day, he is the most famous cop of Réunion Island, known for his tough methods and flowery shirts, pursuing criminals in his famous yellow defender. But the rest of the time, Sentinelle is also a charming singer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe World Is Yours (2018)
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisR.A.I.D. Special Unit (2017)
The story of a woman who dreams to join an intervention group in the police department called RAID. Unfortunately, she is rather clumsy and both her family (and soon to be family-in-law) and a veteran of the RAID do not approve. However, Johanna is determined to prove them wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt Boy (2013)
38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he holds the key to her promotion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Stronghold (2021)
Tired of the small-time grind, three Marseille cops get a chance to bust a major drug network. But lines blur when a key informant makes a big ask.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTwo Is a Family (2016)
A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDepression and Friends (2012)
When Frank is diagnosed with depression, his friends try to cheer him up -- and it quickly becomes clear that they're just as down and out as he is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLittle Tickles (2018)
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Perfect Plan (2012)
Successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the altar with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Misadventures of Hedi and Cokeman (2021)
In Paris, two dysfunctional dealers use family ties to try to boost their small drug business in this crass comedy based on the webseries.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGold Brick (2023)
Determined to even the scales and profit from his thankless job, a factory worker schemes to traffic luxury perfumes from under his employer's nose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFive (2016)
A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBon Cop Bad Cop (2006)
When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of the crime is shared between the two police forces and detectives David Bouchard from Montreal and Martin Ward from Toronto are assigned to work together. With totally different styles, attitudes and languages.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurn Out (2018)
Tony, a promising young motorcycle racer, is forced to do perilous drug runs to save the mother of his child from a dangerous mobster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCa$h (2008)
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisProblemos (2017)
When a pandemic strikes the world, Victor and his family get stuck within a hippie community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDivorce French Style (2016)
Two years have passed. After missing their separation, the Leroy seem perfectly successful in their divorce. But the appearance of two new lovers in the life of Vincent and Florence will set fire to the powders. The match between the former spouses resumes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Trouble with You (2018)
Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Crossing paths with Antoine, a victim of Santi, sets off a series of wild events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThrough the Fire (2018)
Franck is a firefighter in Paris. He saves people. He lives at the station with his wife, who is about to have twins. He’s happy. During a call out to a fire, he puts himself in danger, to save his men. He’s going to have to learn to live again and accept to be the one being saved, this time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFull Speed (2016)
A family together with their grandpa go on a vacation, when their new car won't stop and it nearly escapes crashing into a hundred cars.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Nest (2002)
Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with heading a wide-reaching prostitution network, this formidable criminal is due to stand trial before a European court. During the transfer, killers hired by Nexhep set up an ambush to free their boss but Laborie and her men manage to escape...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBulletproof 2 (2020)
Special Agent Jack Carter reluctantly assumes the identity of criminal Archie Moses to take down a powerful South African crime family. But when the real Moses is put in danger, he and Carter must work together to foil the scheme for good.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWho Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
With a hitman’s gun aimed at him, Finch tells the story of how he broke out of jail, fell in love, and took the identity of a man wanted by the Mafia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like On the Other Side of the Tracks?
The closest matches to On the Other Side of the Tracks are Protect and Serve (2010), Nice Girls (2024) and Belleville Cop (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after On the Other Side of the Tracks?
People who watched On the Other Side of the Tracks most often go on to Protect and Serve (2010), Nice Girls (2024) and Belleville Cop (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like On the Other Side of the Tracks?
Two Is a Family (2016), rated 7.7/10 by 3,087 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like On the Other Side of the Tracks?
Nice Girls (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like On the Other Side of the Tracks?
Yes: Protect and Serve (2010), Nice Girls (2024) and Belleville Cop (2018).
How are movies similar to On the Other Side of the Tracks chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside On the Other Side of the Tracks, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.