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Movies that feel like Taxi (1998)

If you loved Taxi, the closest films we have are Date Night (2010), OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) and 2 Guns (2013). All three share Taxi's kinetic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and OVID and others, checked against today's data.

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gérard Pirèskineticwittyplayfulgrittyepic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Taxi 2 (2000) · Taxi 3 (2003)

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Date Night
2010 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 67%6.3comedy · action · adventure

Both are working the same pair: taxi, taxi driver

The difference: Missing the grit of Taxi

Phil and Claire Foster fear that their mild-mannered relationship may be falling into a stale rut. During their weekly date night, their dinner reservation leads to their being mistaken for a couple of thieves—and now a number of unsavoury characters want Phil and Claire killed.

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 · dir. Michel Hazanavicius
🍅 76%7crime · action · adventure

Kinetic where it counts, witty underneath

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

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2 Guns
2013 · dir. Baltasar Kormákur
🍅 64%6.7action · comedy · crime

Both are built on the same subject: bank robbery

A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.

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Police Story 4: First Strike
1996 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 52%6.6action · adventure · comedy

Both land play and grit at once

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Taxi does

Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organization posing as Russian intelligence.

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 81%7.2action · adventure · comedy

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

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Extreme Job
2019 · dir. Lee Byeong-heon
🍅 83%7.1action · comedy · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: police officer

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 2010s show

A drug squad attempts to take down a criminal organization and they must go undercover to do so, so they begin working at a chicken restaurant, that becomes famous for its delicious chicken. Due to the unexpected popularity, the detectives find themselves in a situation they never expected.

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I Went Down
1997 · dir. Paddy Breathnach
🍅 84%6.7action · comedy · crime

Comedy built on momentum, twice over

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?

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Mr. Nice Guy
1997 · dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
🍅 45%6.2crime · action · comedy

Witty crime in both cases

A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.

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Twin Dragons
1992 · dir. Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
🍅 43%6.4action · comedy · crime

Both lean on play more than on adventure

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

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Manitou's Shoe
2001 · dir. Michael Herbig
6.7western · comedy · adventure

Gritty comedy, and it commits to that

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

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Rush Hour
1998 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 62%7action · comedy · crime

Kinetic action in both cases

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.

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Beverly Hills Cop II
1987 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 48%6.6action · comedy · crime

Both lean on wit more than on crime

Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.

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