50 Movies Like The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) You Need to Watch Next
Updated August 2026
View The Hitman's Bodyguard details →Patrick Hughes's 2017 action comedy pairs the world's top bodyguard with an unlikely new client: a hitman who must testify at the International Court of Justice. Forced to set aside their obvious differences, the two bicker their way across Europe, working together to reach the trial on time. It's a fast, mismatched-buddy caper that trades on banter, gunfights and the odd-couple chemistry between two men who can't stand each other. It suits viewers after breezy, R-rated action comedy with a high joke-to-explosion ratio and no pretense of realism. Those seeking a serious thriller or tight plotting may shrug, but anyone in the mood for loud, wisecracking fun will be entertained.
If you loved The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) by Patrick Hughes, 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 Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, RED 2, Shoot 'Em Up. 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 The Hitman's Bodyguard
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the movies that share the most with The Hitman's Bodyguard 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.
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 · Crime
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 · Crime
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 · Crime
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 · Crime
The Roundup: No Way Out
2023 · Lee Sang-yong
Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
RED
2010 · Robert Schwentke
After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe, crazy Marvin and wily Victoria to
In common: Action · Comedy
Rumble in the Bronx
1995 · Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, K
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
Point Break
1991 · Kathryn Bigelow
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could
In common: Action · Crime · 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
Bad Boys II
2003 · Michael Bay
Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Jo
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
Crank
2006 · Brian Taylor
Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unl
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Wanted
2008 · Timur Bekmambetov
Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Crank: High Voltage
2009 · Mark Neveldine
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Transporter Refueled
2015 · Camille Delamarre
The fast-paced action movie is again set in the criminal underworld in France, where Frank Martin is known as The Transporter, because he is the best driver and mercenary money can buy. In this instal
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
21 Jump Street
2012 · Phil Lord
When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set o
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
Wild Card
2015 · Simon West
When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Taken 2
2012 · Olivier Megaton
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
In common: Action · Crime · 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
The A-Team
2010 · Joe Carnahan
A man who loves when a plan comes together, Col. Hannibal Smith leads a close-knit team of elite operatives and Iraq War veterans. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, Smith and his men, Capt. H.M.
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
Cocaine Bear
2023 · Elizabeth Banks
Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting
In common: Comedy · Crime · Thriller
Blackhat
2015 · Michael Mann
Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stak
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Miss Congeniality
2000 · Donald Petrie
When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-n
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
22 Jump Street
2014 · Phil Lord
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on th
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
The Night Comes For Us
2018 · Timo Tjahjanto
After sparing a girl's life during a massacre, an elite Triad assassin is targeted by an onslaught of murderous gangsters.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Memory
2022 · Martin Campbell
Alex, an assassin-for-hire, finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skil
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Cobra
1986 · George P. Cosmatos
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Army of Thieves
2021 · Matthias Schweighöfer
A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
Ava
2020 · Tate Taylor
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
2022 · Tom Gormican
Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited b
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
Desperado
1995 · Robert Rodriguez
El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. Wit
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Johnny English Reborn
2011 · Oliver Parker
The most prominent heads of state in the world begin gathering for a conference that could have a major impact on global politics. When MI-7 receives word that the Chinese premier has become the targe
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
Caught Stealing
2025 · Darren Aronofsky
Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of late 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a t
In common: Comedy · Crime · Thriller
Hitman: Agent 47
2015 · Aleksander Bach
An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Deep Cover
2025 · Tom Kingsley
Kat is an improv comedy teacher beginning to question if she’s missed her shot at success. When an undercover cop offers her the role of a lifetime, she recruits two of her students to infiltrate Lond
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
2 Guns
2013 · Baltasar Kormákur
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they hav
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
S.W.A.T.
2003 · Clark Johnson
Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's f
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Hard Boiled
1992 · John Woo
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Run All Night
2015 · Jaume Collet-Serra
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been on
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Safe
2012 · Boaz Yakin
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York Ci
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Protégé
2021 · Martin Campbell
Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Blitz
2011 · Elliott Lester
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
The Last Stand
2013 · Kim Jee-woon
Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious drug baron, his gang, and a
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
Pineapple Express
2008 · David Gordon Green
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
2024 · Mark Molloy
Forty years after his unforgettable first case in Beverly Hills, Detroit cop Axel Foley returns to do what he does best: solve crimes and cause chaos.
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
Pain & Gain
2013 · Michael Bay
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adri
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
48 Hrs.
1982 · Walter Hill
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
In common: Action · Comedy · Crime
Jawbreaker
1999 · Darren Stein
When an exclusive clique of teenage socialites accidentally murder their best friend on the morning of her birthday, the three girls responsible conspire to hide the truth.
In common: Comedy · Crime · Thriller
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009 · Tony Scott
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermin
In common: Action · Crime · Thriller
One Battle After Another
2025 · Paul Thomas Anderson
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missi
In common: Comedy · Crime · Thriller
No Other Choice
2025 · Park Chan-wook
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.
In common: Comedy · Crime · Thriller
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