Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Big Trouble

If you loved Big Trouble, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Hostile Takeover

Hostile Takeover

2025★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Trouble for fans of Action & Comedy & Thriller. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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 meeting...

#2
How to Rob a Bank

How to Rob a Bank

2007★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Trouble for fans of Action & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation....

#3
Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage

1997★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Trouble for fans of Action & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen....

#4
Family Plot

Family Plot

1976★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Trouble for fans of Comedy & Thriller & Mystery & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California....

#5
Shadow of the Thin Man

Shadow of the Thin Man

1941★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Trouble for fans of Comedy & Mystery & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder....

#6
Gotcha!

Gotcha!

1985★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Trouble for fans of Action & Comedy & Thriller. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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

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