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Movies like Le meilleur des pères (2025)

The best movies like Le meilleur des pères (2025) are Gotcha! (1985), Hostile Takeover (2025) and LaRoy, Texas (2024). If Le meilleur des pères hooked you with its comedy and thriller, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Gotcha! (1985)

    A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & thriller

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  2. Hostile Takeover (2025)

    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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & thriller

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  3. LaRoy, Texas (2024)

    Broke 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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & thriller

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  4. Cop or Hood (1979)

    When 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," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & thriller

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  5. Hard to Die (1990)

    While 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 of killings six months previously, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real horror that they face in the end.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & thriller

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  6. The Last Deadly Mission (2008)

    A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

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  7. Mea Culpa (2014)

    Franck and Simon are both good cops. They work as partners. But their lives take a tailspin when Simon, driving drunk, causes a tragic car wreck. A few years later, out of the police, he is forced to take matters into his own hands when his family is in danger.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

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  8. Karma (2026)

    In a village in northern Spain, Jeanne tries to rebuild her life with Daniel, who knows nothing about her troubled past. One day, Jeanne's six-year-old godson mysteriously disappears and Jeanne becomes the main suspect.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

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  9. Witness in the City (1959)

    Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

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  10. The Takedown (2022)

    Ousmane Diakité and François Monge are two cops with very different styles, backgrounds and careers. The unlikely pair are reunited once again for a new investigation that takes them across France. What seemed to be a simple drug deal turns out to be a much bigger criminal case wrapped in danger and unexpected comedy.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  11. Breaking Point (2024)

    Mathieu owes everything to his friend Vincent : his house, his job, and even his life, ten years ago. With their wives, they are an inseparable quartet, and live the easy life on the French Riviera. But Mathieu discovers Vincent is cheating on his wife.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

  12. Very Happy Alexander (1968)

    Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  13. Ricky Gervais: Mortality (2025)

    Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  14. Alibi.com (2017)

    Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin, and Medhi his new employee, they devise unstoppable stratagems and stagings to cover their clients. But meeting Flo, a pretty blonde who hates men who lie, will complicate Greg's life, which begins by hiding the true nature of his activity. During the presentation to parents, Greg understands that Gérard, the father of Flo, is also one of their clients.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  15. Paris Follies (2014)

    Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from home has thrown Brigitte’s world into flux, as she finds herself locked into routine. She keeps hoping for something else, something more. A party held by students on the adjoining property accelerates this latent crisis and Brigitte impulsively sets off for Paris under the guise of a doctor’s appointment. The city immediately invigorates her, and when she meets a charming Danish gentleman, she impulsively allows herself to be flattered by his attentions…

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

  16. Zion (2025)

    In Guadeloupe, Chris divides his time between deals, one-night stands and motorcycle rodeos. Spotted by Odell, the boss of the neighboring neighborhood, Chris is entrusted with a risky delivery. Despite his best friend’s warning, he accepts the mission. But on the day of delivery, he discovers that a baby has been left at his door. Then begins for him, a hellish race which will lead him to a crucial choice…

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

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  17. The Corrupted (2019)

    Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam, an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen, who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

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  18. Bad Sister (2015)

    As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a fatal attraction to Zoe's brother.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

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  19. Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones (2019)

    Dave Chappelle takes on gun culture, the opioid crisis and the tidal wave of celebrity scandals in this defiant stand-up special.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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  20. Louis C.K.: Hilarious (2010)

    In this unique and dynamic live concert experience, Louis C.K.'s exploration of life after 40 destroys politically correct images of modern life with thoughts we have all had...but would rarely admit to.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Le meilleur des pères?

The closest matches to Le meilleur des pères are Gotcha! (1985), Hostile Takeover (2025) and LaRoy, Texas (2024). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Le meilleur des pères?

Start with Gotcha! (1985), the closest match to Le meilleur des pères.

What is the highest-rated movie like Le meilleur des pères?

Louis C.K.: Hilarious (2010), rated 7.8/10 by 321 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Le meilleur des pères?

Karma (2026) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there French movies like Le meilleur des pères?

Yes: Cop or Hood (1979), The Last Deadly Mission (2008) and Mea Culpa (2014).

How are movies similar to Le meilleur des pères chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Le meilleur des pères, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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