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10 Best Movies Like The Big Bus

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

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#1
Hot Shots!

Hot Shots!

1991★ 6.6

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

The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing th...

#2
Tommy Boy

Tommy Boy

1995★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big Bus for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences....

#3
Nothing to Lose

Nothing to Lose

1997★ 6.6

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

Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when...

#4
The Silencers

The Silencers

1966★ 6.1

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

Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III....

#5
Airplane!

Airplane!

1980★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big Bus for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning....

#6
Airplane II: The Sequel

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big Bus for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all t...

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