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Movies that feel likeKick-Ass (2010)

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.

If you loved Kick-Ass, the closest films we have are Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020), Headhunters (2011) and Lethal Weapon 3 (1992). All three share Kick-Ass' kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is In China They Eat Dogs (1999).

🍅 78% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Matthew Vaughnkineticgrittydarkly funny
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) poster
🍅 79%★ 6.1action · crimeMax

Comic-book violence with a gleeful, anarchic mean streak

The difference: DC gloss and girl-gang chaos — deconstruction is not on its mind

Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.

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Headhunters
2011 · dir. Morten Tyldum
🍅 93%★ 7.5thriller · crime · actionPrime Video

An ordinary schmuck's scheme spiraling into gruesome farce

The difference: A Norwegian thriller engine — suspense first, jokes second

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

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Lethal Weapon 3
1992 · dir. Richard Donner
🍅 63%★ 6.7action · thriller · crime

Quips and gunfire in a well-oiled buddy-action machine

The difference: Safe studio formula — the edges Kick-Ass sharpens are sanded off here

Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.

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Cold Pursuit
2019 · dir. Hans Petter Moland
🍅 68%★ 6.2crime · action · dramaRent or buy

Revenge escalation treated as deadpan black comedy

The difference: Slow, wintry and dry — the mayhem arrives at a glacial pace

The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.

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El Infierno
2010 · dir. Luis Estrada
★ 7.7action · crime · westernRent or buy

Bloody crime played for laughs that keep curdling into horror

The difference: Mexican narco satire — political rage, no capes anywhere

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

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Cop Car
2015 · dir. Jon Watts
🍅 82%★ 6.3crime · thrillerPrime Video

Common ground: murder

The difference: Easier on the momentum than Kick-Ass

Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.

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Suicide Squad
2016 · dir. David Ayer
🍅 26%★ 5.9action · adventure · fantasyMax

Both are built on the same subject: superhero

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.

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The Gentlemen
2020 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 75%★ 7.8action · comedy · crimeNetflix

Stylish criminal mayhem narrated with a permanent smirk

The difference: Talk-heavy Ritchie plotting — violence as punctuation, not spectacle

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

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In China They Eat Dogs
1999 · dir. Lasse Spang Olsen
★ 7.3action · comedy · crime

Criminal amateurs in over their heads, escalating pitch-black

The difference: A scrappy Danish cult item — cheap, nasty and proudly rough

Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works.

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Uncut Gems
2019 · dir. Josh Safdie
🍅 91%★ 7.4drama · thriller · crimeRent or buy

A reckless self-invented hustle barreling toward disaster

The difference: Pure sweating anxiety — the comedy is buried in dread

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

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Fargo
1996 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 95%★ 8.1crime · drama · thrillerHulu

Violence and idiocy tangled together until laughing feels wrong

The difference: Coen restraint and quiet — no action scenes, just consequences

Jerry Lundegaard is a small-town Minnesota car salesman deeply in debt and willing to do almost anything to get out. Police chief Marge Gunderson discovers a string of violent crimes as Jerry's schemes spiral out of control.

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Chocolate
2008 · dir. Prachya Pinkaew
🍅 71%★ 6.9action · crime

Both land momentum and grit at once

The difference: Trades the dark humor of Kick-Ass for an angle of its own

Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.

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