Movies like Big Night! (2021)

Emergency (2022)

Ready for a night of legendary partying, three college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unexpected situation.

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

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

180 (2026)

When an unexpected road rage incident puts his son in critical condition, an enraged father spirals down a dark path of emotional turmoil and vengeance.

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

Stretch (2014)

A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.

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

Black Site (2022)

A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences.

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

Inside Man (2023)

Based on true events. A disgraced police detective seeking redemption goes undercover to expose a violent crime syndicate. But as he sinks deeper into the mob, the price for absolution may be higher than he can afford.

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

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

Suburbicon (2017)

In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.

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

The Good Neighbor (2022)

A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.

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

The Dream Team (1989)

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 the job.

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

Blood Ties (2013)

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

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

Above the Rim (1994)

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

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

The Public Eye (1992)

A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.

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

Ca$h (2010)

A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence – all in the name of money.

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

One Night in Bangkok (2020)

A hit man named Kai flies into Bangkok, gets a gun, and orders a cab. He offers a professional female driver big money to be his all-night driver. But when she realizes Kai is committing brutal murders at each stop, it's too late to walk away. Meanwhile, an offbeat police detective races to decode the string of slayings before more blood is spilled.

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

Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)

In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the agents are executed. However, Kate is only wounded, and her boyfriend Nick believes there is a traitor in the agency and takes her to his ranch to protect her life.

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

Run (1991)

When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.

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

Rogue Agent (2022)

Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.

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

Breathless (2012)

Lorna is a strong-willed Texas woman who’s had enough of her untrustworthy husband Dale’s criminal acts and lack of husbandry. Fed up, she enlists the help of her old friend, Tiny, to help her figure out what to do with Dale after his latest double-cross involving the theft of $100,000 from a bank.

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

Hunting Season (2025)

When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.

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

Brother (2000)

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & thriller

City Hall (1996)

The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & thriller

Fresh (1994)

Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & thriller

Tango & Cash (1989)

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income they have caused him, plots an elaborate revenge against them.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & thriller

Traffic (2000)

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & drama

Patricia (2024)

Trauma reporter Patricia Evangelista had a front-row view of the harshness and cruelty brought upon the lives of those who became victims of the Drug War under Duterte's administration. Witnessing the aftermath of violent killings, she struggles with the emotional toll of reporting on the victims and their families. Now, Patricia has no other choice but to persist and struggle amidst the grappling difficulties of fighting her internal battles and fighting the battles of those people whose stories she carries in every article and paper she writes.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & thriller

Silenced Nights (2026)

Set in the narrow alleys of urban Manila during the height of a brutal drug war, Andoy, a transient laborer, witnesses the execution of Kerwin, a teenage student implicated in a police operation. Unseen, Andoy withdraws into silence, returning to his routines as the memory of the event lingers beneath his daily life.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & thriller

Predator 2 (1990)

A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller

Júba Wajií­n. Resistencia en la montaña de Guerrero (2018)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Bill Hicks: Bill Loses it in Chicago (1989)

One of Hicks's most famous quotes was delivered during a gig in Chicago - known s the "Infamous Bill Looses it in Chicago" show - in 1989 (later released as the bootleg I'm Sorry, Folks). After a heckler repeatedly shouted "Free Bird", Hicks screamed that "Hitler had the right idea, he was just an underachiever!" Hicks followed this remark with a misanthropic tirade calling for unbiased genocide against the whole of humanity.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy