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Movies that feel like Cocaine Bear (2023)

If you loved Cocaine Bear, the closest films we have are Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021), The Hustle (2019) and One Battle After Another (2025). All three share Cocaine Bear's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Elizabeth Bankstensewittyplayfulgritty
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Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 25%6.1action · comedy · crime

Tense and witty in the same breath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce and hitman Darius Kincaid – are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid. As Bryce is driven over the edge by his two most dangerous protectees, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman.

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The Hustle
2019 · dir. Chris Addison
🍅 13%5.5comedy · crime

The same preoccupation in both: satirical

The difference: Missing the tension of Cocaine Bear

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

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One Battle After Another
2025 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 94%7.7thriller · crime · comedy

Both land play and grit at once

Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.

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Bad Genius
2017 · dir. Nattawut Poonpiriya
🍅 100%7.6drama · crime · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Cocaine Bear does

Lynn, a brilliant student, after helping her friends to get the grades they need, develops the idea of starting a much bigger exam-cheating business.

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Happy New Year
2014 · dir. Farah Khan
🍅 48%5crime · comedy

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

Six would-be thieves enter a prestigious dance competition as a cover for their larger goal of pulling off a major heist.

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Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
2013 · dir. Julia Rezende
5.8comedy

Crime with a pulse of play, in both cases

The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.

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Going in Style
2017 · dir. Zach Braff
🍅 82%6.6crime · comedy

Comedy built on grit, twice over

Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.

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Charlie's Angels
2019 · dir. Elizabeth Banks
🍅 52%5action · adventure · comedy

Elizabeth Banks working the same nerve twice

The difference: Leans harder into action than Cocaine Bear does

Elena Houghlin is a scientist, engineer and inventor of Calisto -- a sustainable energy source that will revolutionize the way people use power. It will be ready as soon as she works out the last issue, if not it could be turned into a dangerous weapon. But when the cutting edge technology is pushed to an investor before she can do that, Elena turns to the Townsend Agency for help. Now, it's up to the Angels -- Jane, Sabina, and the newly recruited Elena -- to retrieve Calisto before it can be transformed into a weapon of mass destruction.

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Hustlers
2019 · dir. Lorene Scafaria
🍅 88%6.3drama · comedy · crime

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

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Identity Thief
2013 · dir. Seth Gordon
🍅 20%5.7comedy · crime

Witty crime in both cases

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

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A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014 · dir. Seth MacFarlane
🍅 33%6.1comedy · western

Both lean on play more than on thriller

As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.

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The Golden Glove
2019 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 54%6.7crime · thriller · horror

One thread runs through both: a true story

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

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