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Movies that feel like Taxi 2 (2000)

If you loved Taxi 2, the closest films we have are OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006), Fantomas (1964) and Police Story 4: First Strike (1996). All three share Taxi 2's 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 Amazon Prime Video, OVID and AMC+ and others, checked against today's data.

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gérard Krawczykkineticwittyplayfulepicgritty

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Taxi (1998) · Taxi 3 (2003)

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

Both land momentum and wit at once

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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Fantomas
1964 · dir. André Hunebelle
6.9comedy · crime · adventure

Both keep coming back to the same thing: police operation

The difference: None of the momentum Taxi 2 is built on

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

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

The same mix in both: play, then scale

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Taxi 2 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 built on grit, twice over

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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RED 2
2013 · dir. Dean Parisot
🍅 44%6.6action · adventure · comedy

Both rooted in Paris

Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

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

Kinetic comedy in both cases

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, and it commits to that

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

Adventure with a pulse of play, in both cases

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

Both lean on grit more than on action

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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Adrift in Tokyo
2007 · dir. Satoshi Miki
7.2comedy

The same preoccupation in both: yakuza

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

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6.8action · comedy · crime

Comedy built on momentum, twice over

Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995 · dir. Steve Oedekerk
🍅 23%6.4crime · comedy · adventure

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

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