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Movies that feel like Kopps (2003)

If you loved Kopps, the closest films we have are Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997), Son of Rambow (2007) and The Legend of Drunken Master (1994). All three share Kopps' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Paramount Plus Premium, Criterion Channel and ARROW and others, checked against today's data.

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Josef Fareskineticwittyplayfulwarm

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997 · dir. Thomas Jahn
7.8comedy · crime · action

The same two preoccupations: friendship, and hostage situation

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Kopps does

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%7comedy

One thread runs through both: friendship

The difference: None of the momentum Kopps is built on

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · dir. Lau Kar-leung
🍅 85%7.5action · comedy

Kinetic where it counts, witty underneath

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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My Lucky Stars
1985 · dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
6.3action · comedy

Action built on play, twice over

Two Hong Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 94%7.5comedy · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: slapstick comedy

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Kopps does

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

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Project A - Part II
1987 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 73%7action · comedy

Kinetic comedy in both cases

Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt police superintendent.

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The Prodigal Son
1981 · dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
🍅 100%7.3action · comedy

Both lean on wit more than on action

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

A rich man's son believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher.

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Hooper
1978 · dir. Hal Needham
🍅 57%6.4action · comedy

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

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.

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Flickering Lights
2000 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%7.5action · comedy · crime

Action with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

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Jackass: Best and Last
2026 · dir. Jeff Tremaine
6.7action · comedy · documentary

Comedy built on momentum, twice over

The fifth and final installment to Jackass franchise where the crew go on one last insane crusade.

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With a Friend Like Harry...
2000 · dir. Dominik Moll
🍅 96%7.1drama · comedy · mystery

Both work the same warmth

While fixing up their summer cottage, Michel and his family run into a man who claims to have gone to high school with Michel.

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That's Life
1998 · dir. Massimo Venier
7comedy

The shared currency is wit

While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.

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