
50 Movies Like Cats & Dogs (2001) You Need to Watch Next
When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets the fragile balance of power between cats and dogs and touches off an epic battle for pet supremacy.
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If you loved Cats & Dogs (2001) by Lawrence Guterman, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Big Trouble in Little China, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Charlie's Angels. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Movies Similar to Cats & Dogs

Big Trouble in Little China
1986 · John Carpenter
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green ey
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
2003 · McG
The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal information of members of the Witness Protection Program. As informants are killed, the ladies target a r
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Charlie's Angels
2000 · McG
The captivating crime-fighting trio who are masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts are back! When a devious mastermind embroils them in a plot to destroy individual privacy, the Angels, aided
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Kung Fu Panda 4
2024 · Mike Mitchell
Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. As such, he will train a new kung fu practitioner for the spot and w
In common: Action · Adventure

The Lego Ninjago Movie
2017 · Charlie Bean
Six young ninjas are tasked with defending their island home of Ninjago. By night, they’re gifted warriors using their skill and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they’
In common: Action · Adventure

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
2023 · Guy Ritchie
Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens t
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Street Fighter
1994 · Steven E. de Souza
Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
In common: Action · Comedy · Fantasy

Mulan
2020 · Niki Caro
When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps i
In common: Action · Adventure · Fantasy

The Last Airbender
2010 · M. Night Shyamalan
A century has passed since the Fire Nation declared war on the other three nations of air, water, and earth in its attempt for global domination. Aang, the long-lost Avatar, is found by Water Tribe si
In common: Action · Adventure · Fantasy

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
2017 · Jake Kasdan
Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji in the bodies
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009 · Shawn Levy
Hapless museum night watchman Larry Daley must help his living, breathing exhibit friends out of a pickle now that they've been transferred to the archives at the Smithsonian Institution. Larry's (mis
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010 · Brad Peyton
The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for conquest.
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015 · Guy Ritchie
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agen
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Argylle
2024 · Matthew Vaughn
When the plots of reclusive author Elly Conway's fictional espionage novels begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past. Accom
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Johnny English
2003 · Peter Howitt
A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown up at his funeral. When a billionaire entrepreneu
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Johnny English Strikes Again
2018 · David Kerr
Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Casino Royale
1967 · Robert Parrish
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
2011 · Robert Rodriguez
Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. Retired spy Marissa is called back into action, and to bond wit
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Project A
1983 · Jackie Chan
In late 19th century Hong Kong, the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. Coast Guard officer Dragon Ma is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made a fool of.
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003 · Jan de Bont
Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb able to guide its holder to the mythical Pandora's Box
In common: Action · Adventure

Small Soldiers
1998 · Joe Dante
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Kung Fu Panda 3
2016 · Jennifer Yuh Nelson
While Po and his father are visiting a secret panda village, an evil spirit threatens all of China, forcing Po to form a ragtag army to fight back.
In common: Action · Adventure

The Brothers Grimm
2005 · Terry Gilliam
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
2002 · Steve Oedekerk
A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old togethe
In common: Action · Comedy

Shanghai Knights
2003 · David Dobkin
When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Mortal Kombat
1995 · Paul W. S. Anderson
For nine generations an evil sorcerer has been victorious in hand-to-hand battle against his mortal enemies. If he wins a tenth Mortal Kombat tournament, desolation and evil will reign over the multiv
In common: Action · Fantasy

Drunken Master
1978 · Yuen Woo-Ping
After getting into trouble, a mischievous young man is sent to train under a brutal, but slovenly old beggar, who teaches him the secret of the Drunken Fist.
In common: Action · Comedy

Highlander
1986 · Russell Mulcahy
He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.
In common: Action · Adventure · Fantasy

The Forbidden Kingdom
2008 · Rob Minkoff
An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, th
In common: Action · Adventure · Fantasy

The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · Lau Kar-Leung
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
In common: Action · Comedy

Shanghai Noon
2000 · Tom Dey
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlik
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021 · Destin Daniel Cretton
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
In common: Action · Adventure · Fantasy

Red One
2024 · Jake Kasdan
After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security must team up with the world's most infamous tracker in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.
In common: Action · Comedy · Fantasy

Kingsman: The Secret Service
2015 · Matthew Vaughn
The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tec
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Ghostbusters
2016 · Paul Feig
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly th
In common: Action · Comedy · Fantasy

Spies in Disguise
2019 · Nick Bruno
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is… not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts
In common: Action · Adventure

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002 · Robert Rodriguez
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a v
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy

Last Action Hero
1993 · John McTiernan
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is transported into the film and teams up with the co
In common: Action · Comedy · Fantasy

R.I.P.D.
2013 · Robert Schwentke
A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.
In common: Action · Comedy · Fantasy

Elektra
2005 · Rob Bowman
Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural as
In common: Action · Adventure · Fantasy

Central Intelligence
2016 · Rawson Marshall Thurber
Calvin Joyner, a mild-mannered accountant whose high school glory days are long behind him, reconnects with an awkward pal from high school through Facebook. After meeting up, Calvin’s mundane life ta
In common: Action · Comedy

Knight and Day
2010 · James Mangold
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across
In common: Action · Comedy

The Union
2024 · Julian Farino
A New Jersey construction worker goes from regular guy to aspiring spy when his long-lost high school sweetheart recruits him for an espionage mission.
In common: Action · Comedy

Enter the Dragon
1973 · Robert Clouse
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
In common: Action

Back in Action
2025 · Seth Gordon
Fifteen years after vanishing from the CIA to start a family, elite spies Matt and Emily jump back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown.
In common: Action · Comedy

Grimsby
2016 · Louis Leterrier
Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
In common: Action · Comedy

Keeping Up with the Joneses
2016 · Greg Mottola
An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors – especially when they discover that Mr. and Mrs. “Jones”
In common: Action · Comedy

The Spy Next Door
2010 · Brian Levant
Former CIA spy Bob Ho takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend's three kids, who haven't exactly warmed to their mom's beau. And when one of the youngsters accidentally d
In common: Action · Comedy · Family

Mortal Kombat
2021 · Simon McQuoid
Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth's greatest champions as he prepares to stand agai
In common: Action · Adventure · Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Peter Jackson
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowshi
In common: Action · Adventure · Fantasy