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Movies that feel likeThe Accidental Spy (2001)

A fun-filled story about an ordinary guy about to kick into an action-packed adventure. Jackie Chan plays a bored and unsuccessful salesman who never thought his life would amount to anything. All that changes one day when he becomes an instant hero by foiling an attempted bank robbery.

If you loved The Accidental Spy, the closest films we have are Yes, Madam! (1985), Kung Fu Jungle (2014) and Project A - Part II (1987). All three share The Accidental Spy's kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Prodigal Son (1981).

🍅 25% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Teddy Chankineticwittyplayfultense
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Yes, Madam!
1985 · dir. Corey Yuen
🍅 100%★ 6.6action · comedy · crimePrime Video

The same city underneath both: Hong Kong

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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Kung Fu Jungle
2014 · dir. Teddy Chan
🍅 74%★ 6.4action · thriller · crimePrime Video

Teddy Chan directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Easier on the wit than The Accidental Spy

A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.

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

Kinetic where it counts, witty underneath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Accidental Spy does

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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Who Am I?
1998 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 70%★ 6.8adventure · action · comedy

Playful and tense in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than The Accidental Spy does

A group of covert CIA operatives trailing a potential new energy source are double-crossed by corrupt agent Morgan, who causes a helicopter crash in remote South Africa. The sole survivor, suffering severe amnesia, is nursed to recovery by a kindly native tribe who call him "Whoami" after the question he keeps asking. With the help of a mysterious reporter Christine, Whoami pieces together his past and tracks the turncoat agent and his criminal cohorts.

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

Common ground: martial arts

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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Machete
2010 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 70%★ 6.6action · comedy · thriller

Kinetic action in both cases

After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.

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Get Smart
2008 · dir. Peter Segal
🍅 51%★ 6.5action · comedy · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: spy

When members of the nefarious crime syndicate KAOS attack the U.S. spy agency Control and the identities of secret agents are compromised, the Chief has to promote hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart to field agent. He is partnered with veteran and capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the evil world-domination plans of KAOS and its crafty operative?

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

The same preoccupation in both: martial arts

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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Thunderbolt
1995 · dir. Gordon Chan
★ 6.3action · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

In order to release his kidnapped sister, sports car mechanic, Chan Foh To, has to defeat a super-criminal street racer.

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Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
1978 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
🍅 80%★ 7.3action · comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the snake fist fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with the master of the eagle's claw style, who has vowed to destroy the snake fist clan.

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Spenser Confidential
2020 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 35%★ 6.2comedy · action · thrillerNetflix

Both lean on play more than on action

Spenser, a former Boston patrolman who just got out from prison, teams up with Hawk, an aspiring fighter, to unravel the truth behind the death of two police officers.

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Guns Akimbo
2020 · dir. Jason Lei Howden
🍅 53%★ 6.3action · comedy · thrillerRent or buy

Comedy built on momentum, twice over

An ordinary guy suddenly finds himself forced to fight a gladiator-like battle for a dark website that streams the violence for viewers. In order to survive and rescue his kidnapped ex-girlfriend, he must battle Nix, a heavily armed and much more experienced fighter.

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