Movies like Double Trouble (1984)
The best movies like Double Trouble (1984) are Go for It (1983), They Called Him Bulldozer (1978) and The Knock Out Cop (1973). If Double Trouble hooked you with its action and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedWatch Out, We're Mad (1974)7.5/10 from 914 votes
- NewestJohnny English Strikes Again (2018)Released 2018
- In ItalianGo for It (1983)Also in Italian
Go for It (1983)
After Doug picks up hitchhiking Rosco with his truck, they are mistaken for two bank robbers by the traffic police. They manage to escape only to be confused for two secret agents while trying to take a flight at the airport.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThey Called Him Bulldozer (1978)
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Knock Out Cop (1973)
Inspector “Flatfoot” Rizzo investigates crime and corruption in Naples.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOdds and Evens (1978)
A bumbling government agent recruits a trucker whose gambling knowledge can help crack an illegal Florida operation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBomber (1982)
Bomber is an unemployed boat captain. One day he meets Jerry, a manager of boxers who are struck by the force of his fists. That is when they see the chance to win big money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll the Way Boys (1972)
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for much too little, and has thugs who keep the price down. Of course, Plata and Salud side with the miners
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrime Busters (1977)
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAce High (1968)
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWatch Out, We're Mad (1974)
After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlackie the Pirate (1971)
Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounters "Don" Pedro. He thinks of a plan to find this ship and its gold. His counter player is the vice roy of the Spanish kolony. When they visit one of the pirate settlements, they find three other pirate captains over there. One of them sells goods and prisoners from his latest capture. Don Pedro recognizes the wife of the vice roy, and Blackie buys her. However, one of the pirate captains, Skull, knows also who she is, and tries to make a deal. Blackie refuses, and Skull makes a deal with the other two pirate captains to plot against Blackie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisEven Angels Eat Beans (1973)
Two mismatched buddies are mistaken for mob enforcers in Depression-era America.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBanana Joe (1982)
Island farmer Banana Joe helps the local community by trading his bananas for goods. When gangsters arrive with plans to construct a banana processing plant, Joe kicks them out, but the mob boss discovers that Joe is operating without a license. After the mob tips off the authorities and Joe's boat is impounded, he ventures into a big city for the first time to seek help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI'm for the Hippopotamus (1979)
In 1950, in Africa. Tom organizes safaris for tourists, secretly equipping them with guns loaded with blanks. When Slim, Tom’s cousin—a sly slacker and staunch environmentalist—arrives, the two men come into conflict with Jack Ormond, a local animal trafficker. A doctor, a friend of the duo, denounces Mr. Ormond’s exploitation of animals in a newspaper, prompting Ormond to send his henchmen to destroy the clinic where the good doctor practices. But at the medical facility, Ormond’s henchmen find Tom and Slim waiting for them, and in the blink of an eye, the two cousins wipe out these thugs in a brawl. Ormond then tries to bribe the two cousins, and when that fails, has them imprisoned for a theft they never committed. After escaping from prison, the two men rush toward Ormond’s ship, beating the merchant’s men to a pulp...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Two Missionaries (1974)
Two missionaries come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLive Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)
Fred and Tony are members of an elite “special squad” of police in Rome who are undercover, licensed to kill, and love to live dangerously.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBuddy Goes West (1981)
Outlaw drifter Buddy is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Play with Tigers (1982)
A stories of three really unlucky characters are discovered during the trial.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSoldier of Fortune (1976)
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the winning one. This is at first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThieves and Robbers (1983)
A Lothario, in trouble for fooling around with a Senator's wife, becomes an unwitting witness to a mob murder. Police Lieutenant Parker tries to solve the case in enough time to take his long-suffering family on vacation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFantozzi Still Suffers (1983)
After a hard day at work and a condominium-board meeting, accountant Ugo Fantozzi goes on a trip with his family. Unfortunately, he will face a nasty surprise upon his return.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMiami Supercops (1985)
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to Miami, only to be found dead the next day. Now FBI agents Doug Bennet and Steve Forest have been called in to investigate the case while posing as Miami police officers. Somewhere in Miami the third robber is hiding with his $20 million, and he has a seven-year head start on the authorities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem (2017)
Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLa moglie in bianco... l'amante al pepe (1981)
In order to get his hands on his father's inheritance and pay all his debts, Don Peppino must see his son Gianluca married and produce an heir within a year. Problem is everybody suspects the boy of playing for the other team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMan of the East (1972)
By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers footpads all of them shall teach him otherwise. This doesn't work until Joe has to defend himself against gunman Morton who's jealous of Joe's love to rancher Ohlsen's beautiful daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAladdin (1986)
A teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisIl gatto mammone (1975)
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Flatfoot in Egypt (1980)
Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlatfoot in Africa (1978)
Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJohnny English Strikes Again (2018)
Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker. For this mission to succeed, he’ll need all of his skills - what few he has - as the man with yesterday’s analogue methods faces off against tomorrow’s digital technology.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHooper (1978)
Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop painkillers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Double Trouble?
The closest matches to Double Trouble are Go for It (1983), They Called Him Bulldozer (1978) and The Knock Out Cop (1973). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Double Trouble?
People who watched Double Trouble most often go on to Go for It (1983), They Called Him Bulldozer (1978) and The Knock Out Cop (1973).
What is the highest-rated movie like Double Trouble?
Watch Out, We're Mad (1974), rated 7.5/10 by 914 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Double Trouble?
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Double Trouble?
Yes: Go for It (1983), They Called Him Bulldozer (1978) and The Knock Out Cop (1973).
How are movies similar to Double Trouble chosen?
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