50 Movies Like Get Smart (2008) You Need to Watch Next
Updated August 2026
View Get Smart details →Peter Segal's 2008 action-comedy sends the crime syndicate KAOS on the attack against the U.S. spy agency Control, blowing the covers of its field agents. Forced to improvise, the Chief promotes the eager but bumbling analyst Maxwell Smart to field work, pairing him with the capable Agent 99, whose cover still holds, to foil KAOS's world-domination scheme. It's a broad, gadget-happy spy spoof balancing pratfalls with genuine action beats. This suits viewers who want a light, escapist comedy that gently ribs the espionage genre without demanding much. If you're after an undemanding, good-natured romp with a mismatched duo and cartoonish villains, Get Smart delivers familiar, breezy fun.
If you loved Get Smart (2008) by Peter Segal, 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 Hidden Strike, Heads of State, 6 Underground. 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.
The Best Movies Similar to Get Smart
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the movies that share the most with Get Smart in terms of theme, narrative tone, and cinematic style. Every recommendation goes beyond genre — we evaluate the type of conflict, pacing, dramatic context, and the experience they create for viewers.
Hidden Strike
2023 · Scott Waugh
Two elite soldiers must escort civilians through a gauntlet of gunfire and explosions.
In common: Action · Comedy · Thriller
Heads of State
2025 · Ilya Naishuller
The UK Prime Minister and US President have a public rivalry that risks their countries' alliance. But when they become targets of a powerful enemy, they're forced to rely on each other as they go on
In common: Action · Comedy · Thriller
6 Underground
2019 · Michael Bay
After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.
In common: Action · Comedy · Thriller
The Killer's Game
2024 · J.J. Perry
When top hitman Joe Flood is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands – by taking a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-gir
In common: Action · Comedy · Thriller
Nobody 2
2025 · Timo Tjahjanto
Former assassin Hutch Mansell takes his family on a nostalgic vacation to a small-town theme park, only to be pulled back into violence when they clash with a corrupt operator, a crooked sheriff, and
In common: Action · Comedy · Thriller
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
Diamonds Are Forever
1971 · Guy Hamilton
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his arch
In common: Action · Thriller
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
True Lies
1994 · James Cameron
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nucle
In common: Action · Thriller
The Bourne Legacy
2012 · Tony Gilroy
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
In common: Action · Thriller
Atomic Blonde
2017 · David Leitch
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
In common: Action · Thriller
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
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 · Comedy
Vanguard
2020 · Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.
In common: Action · Comedy
The Tuxedo
2002 · Kevin Donovan
Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin : Never touch Devlin's prized tuxedo. But when Devlin is temporarily put out
In common: Action · Comedy
The Rundown
2003 · Peter Berg
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious
In common: Action · Comedy
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005 · Doug Liman
A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other.
In common: Action · Comedy
Who Am I?
1998 · Jackie Chan
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 s
In common: Action · Comedy
Killers
2010 · Robert Luketic
When an elite assassin marries a beautiful computer whiz after a whirlwind romance, he gives up the gun and settles down with his new bride. That is, until he learns that someone from his past has put
In common: Action · Comedy
Shoot 'Em Up
2007 · Michael Davis
A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
In common: Action · Comedy
Taxi
2004 · Tim Story
A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
In common: Action · Comedy
Die Hart
2023 · Eric Appel
Kevin Hart - playing a version of himself - is on a death-defying quest to become an action star. And with a little help from John Travolta, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Josh Hartnett - he just might pull i
In common: Action · Comedy · Thriller
Violent Night
2022 · Tommy Wirkola
When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and
In common: Action · Comedy
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021 · Patrick Hughes
The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce and hitman Darius Kincaid – are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action
In common: Action · Comedy
RED 2
2013 · Dean Parisot
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.
In common: Action · Comedy
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · Roger Spottiswoode
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his
In common: Action · Thriller
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
In common: Action · Comedy
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 · Comedy
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977 · Lewis Gilbert
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappeari
In common: Action · Thriller
Never Say Never Again
1983 · Irvin Kershner
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's gi
In common: Action · Thriller
Body of Lies
2008 · Ridley Scott
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An
In common: Action · Thriller
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 · Comedy
The Living Daylights
1987 · John Glen
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between
In common: Action · Thriller
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 · Comedy
Novocaine
2025 · Dan Berk
When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.
In common: Action · Comedy · Thriller
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
In common: Action · Comedy
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 · Comedy
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 · Christopher McQuarrie
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious gho
In common: Action · Thriller
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023 · Christopher McQuarrie
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the f
In common: Action · Thriller
Mission: Impossible
1996 · Brian De Palma
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the pr
In common: Action · Thriller
Casino Royale
2006 · Martin Campbell
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terro
In common: Action · Thriller
No Time to Die
2021 · Cary Joji Fukunaga
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnap
In common: Action · Thriller
Skyfall
2012 · Sam Mendes
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the
In common: Action · Thriller
Spectre
2015 · Sam Mendes
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to r
In common: Action · Thriller
The King's Man
2021 · Matthew Vaughn
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
In common: Action · Thriller
Mission: Impossible III
2006 · J.J. Abrams
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, w
In common: Action · Thriller
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2008 · Michelle MacLaren
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
2023 · Kazutaka Yamanaka
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