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Movies that feel likeWheels on Meals (1984)

Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.

If you loved Wheels on Meals, the closest films we have are Dragons Forever (1988), The Prodigal Son (1981) and What's Up, Doc? (1972). All three share Wheels on Meals' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is I Went Down (1997).

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Dragons Forever
1988 · dir. Sammo Hung
🍅 67%★ 7.1action · comedy · romance

Sammo Hung working the same nerve twice

The difference: Trades the grit of Wheels on Meals for an angle of its own

A hot-shot lawyer is hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, he is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty friends Samo and Biao to help out at least until they discover the true purpose of the plant.

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The Prodigal Son
1981 · dir. Sammo Hung
🍅 100%★ 7.3action · comedy

Sammo Hung directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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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What's Up, Doc?
1972 · dir. Peter Bogdanovich
🍅 88%★ 7.6comedy · crime · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the chase

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

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Take the Money and Run
1969 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 91%★ 7.2comedy · crime

The same preoccupation in both: pickpocket

Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

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Police Story
1985 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 90%★ 7.5action · crime · comedyMax

The same two preoccupations: martial arts, and kung fu

Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court.

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I Went Down
1997 · dir. Paddy Breathnach
🍅 84%★ 6.7action · comedy · crimePrime Video

Kinetic and witty in the same breath

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
🍅 45%★ 6.3crime · action · comedy

One thread runs through both: martial arts

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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My Lucky Stars
1985 · dir. Sammo Hung
★ 6.3action · comedy

Both lean on play more than on action

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

Comedy built on grit, twice over

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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Yes, Madam!
1985 · dir. Corey Yuen
🍅 100%★ 6.6action · comedy · crimePrime Video

Kinetic crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Wheels on Meals does

Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidden microfilm, wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.

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City Hunter
1993 · dir. Wong Jing
🍅 50%★ 6.3action · adventure · comedyPrime Video

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Wheels on Meals does

A self-indulgent private investigator winds up on a cruise ship full of rich patrons, gorgeous women, murderous terrorists, and scarce food.

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Trouble in Paradise
1932 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 90%★ 7.9comedy · crime · romance

Romantic romance in both cases

The difference: 52 years apart, and the 1930s show

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

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