10 Best Movies Like The Fall Guy

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• The Fall Guy has sparked interest in action, comedy, & romance genres, leaving audiences eager for sequels or similar projects.
• Director David Leitch’s background as a stuntperson shines through in the film, delivering top-notch stunts & action-comedy fusion.
• Movies like Get Smart, The Nice Guys, & Atomic Blonde share themes with The Fall Guy, offering a mix of charm, action, & adventure.

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As one of the best action films of the year, The Fall Guy has piqued audience interest in terms of the best movies like it in the action, comedy, and romance genres. Starring Ryan Gosling as Colt, the stuntperson, and Emily Blunt as Jody, the movie director, the film follows their romance as well as the unbelievable adventure they have to embark on to save the film they’re working on. Audiences have high hopes that there will be a sequel to the hit film, but until then, projects with similar themes, actors, and tones will have to suffice.

In the time since Leitch started using his talents to write and direct movies, he’s helmed some of the most popular and successful projects in the action genre.

In terms of its direction, The Fall Guy shares a quality that every David Leitch movie has. It features some of the best stunts in the industry thanks to Leitch’s roots as a stuntperson himself. His background in this part of filmmaking makes him uniquely qualified to take on movies like The Fall Guy and combine the action and comedy genres. In the time since Leitch started using his talents to write and direct movies, he’s helmed some of the most popular and successful projects in the action genre.

10 Get Smart (2008)

Directed by Peter Segal

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When Carell’s character, Max, is suddenly taken out of his office role and promoted to a position in the field at his espionage agency, he can’t believe it and makes plenty of blunders along the way.

Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway make a charming if slightly unbelievably couple in Get Smart, the satirical take on the spy genre based on the hit TV show. When Carell’s character, Max, is suddenly taken out of his office role and promoted to a position in the field at his espionage agency, he can’t believe it and makes plenty of blunders along the way. He’s paired with Agent 99 (Hathaway), a seasoned agent constantly frustrated with Max getting in her way. The role reversal of the woman being the more competent spy rather than the man is a refreshing change.

In some ways, The Fall Guy challenges these gender norms, as Colt and Jody have an equal relationship that shifts their power dynamic from scene to scene. Get Smart is more purely associated with the comedy genre, but it has some emotional moments the same way The Fall Guy does. While Blunt and Gosling make more sense as a couple than Carell and Hathaway, it’s easy to see why Agent 99 is charmed by Max by the end of the movie.

Get Smart
PG-13
Comedy
Action
Adventure

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Director Peter Segal Release Date June 20, 2008 Cast Steve Carell , Anne Hathaway , Alan Arkin , Dwayne Johnson , Terence Stamp , Terry Crews , David Koechner , James Caan Runtime 110 Minutes

9 The Nice Guys (2016)

Directed by Shane Black

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Gosling is at his best in The Nice Guys alongside Russell Crowe, who’s surprisingly hilarious and an amazing foil to Gosling. It’s a period piece that takes place in 1977 Los Angeles, so The Nice Guys has roots in classic buddy comedies and crime thrillers of old Hollywood. Crowe and Gosling play a man hired for his muscle and a PI who work together on a case that leads them into Hollywood’s dark side. Like The Fall Guy, the movie industry plays a key role in The Nice Guys, but Gosling and Crowe are two outsiders looking in.

Viewers are hotly anticipating The Nice Guys 2, but nothing’s been confirmed yet. However, the success of Gosling’s recent movies like The Fall Guy and Barbie might spell good news for a potential sequel in the future. The film takes its characters and the viewers on an Odyssey across Los Angeles and the film industry in a similar vein as The Nice Guys. Additionally, for audiences who can’t get enough of Gosling’s comedic chops, it’s an ideal chaser for The Fall Guy.

The Nice Guys
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Mystery
Thriller
Crime

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Directed by Shane Black and starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, The Nice Guys tells the story of a private investigator and a hired enforcer who team up to investigate the disappearance of a young woman. Set in 1970s Los Angeles, the 2016 comedy thriller puts a modern spin on the noir genre.

Director Shane Black Release Date May 20, 2016 Cast Ryan Gosling , Ty Simpkins , Rachele Brooke Smith , Russell Crowe , Yaya DaCosta , Margaret Qualley , Kim Basinger , Keith David , Matt Bomer , Yvonne Zima Runtime 116minutes

8 Drive (2011)

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

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Though the stakes are much higher in Drive, the Driver still shows that same kind of dedication to the woman he loves.

Gosling also plays a stuntperson in Drive, a movie with many similarities to The Fall Guy but with a darker, grittier tone. Gosling and Letich likely drew upon Gosling’s stoic performance as the Driver in Drive to influence how Colt behaved in The Fall Guy. However, one major difference is that Colt is a good deal more hesitant to engage in dangerous situations outside the safety of a film set. Though stuntpeople frequently put their lives at risk, today’s Hollywood standards are markedly safer for the performers, and The Fall Guy plays off the juxtaposition very well.

In Drive, the Driver is a risk taker and uses his career as a stuntperson to further his interest in cars and passion for driving. However, like in The Fall Guy, his romance with a young woman is what ultimately puts him in danger and gives his life meaning again. Colt goes out of his way in The Fall Guy to ensure that Jody’s movie is the best it can be. Though the stakes are much higher in Drive, the Driver still shows that same kind of dedication to the woman he loves.

Drive
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Drama
Crime

Starring Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver (identified only as “the Driver”) who moonlights as a criminal getaway driver, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive follows the enigmatic Driver as he finds himself hunted by a gang of violent criminals. After becoming close with his neighbors, the Driver offers to help Standard (Oscar Isaac), who was recently released from prison, settle a debt with a robbery. But the job is far more complicated than it seems, and the Driver is forced to use everything at his disposal to survive. 

Director Nicolas Winding Refn Release Date September 16, 2011 Cast Ryan Gosling , Albert Brooks , Bryan Cranston , Carey Mulligan , Oscar Isaac , Ron Perlman , Christina Hendricks Runtime 100 minutes

7 Bullet Train (2022)

Directed by David Leitch

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Also directed by Leitch, Bullet Train was an interesting experiment for the director, as it interwoven many competing storylines and required carefully planned action sequences to make every aspect of the plot fit together. Overall, Bullet Train achieves this goal and should be praised for its fight choreography and editing, as they’re a large part of what drives the stakes and tension of the story. Like all of Leitch’s projects, the movie revolves around a character with a dangerous profession. In this case, it’s a group of assassins all stuck on a train together.

Its contained setting provided ample opportunity for Letich to use the environment to its full potential, something he does well in The Fall Guy. Thanks to Letich’s intimate knowledge of stunts and stunt performance, his fight sequences have a realism and immediacy that less-seasoned directors often lack. Like The Fall Guy, which revolves around the movie-making business, Bullet Train is a love letter to many genres of cinema. The film draws on influences from martial arts movies, espionage thrillers, and even manga.

Bullet Train
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Thriller
Action

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Packing a stellar cast with the likes of Brad Pitt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, and Zazie Beetz, David Leitch’s Bullet Train tells the story of an assassin for hire who bumps into multiple dangerous criminals aboard a high-speed Shinkansen trip from Tokyo to Kyoto. The 2022 action comedy is an adaptation of Kōtarō Isaka’s novel “Maria Beetle”.

Director David Leitch Release Date July 29, 2022 Cast logan lerman , Karen Fukuhara , Hiroyuki Sanada , Joey King , Brian Tyree Henry , Andrew Koji , Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Masi Oka , Brad Pitt , Zazie Beetz , Michael Shannon , Sandra Bullock Runtime 126 minutes

6 Atomic Blonde (2017)

Directed by David Leitch

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The movie is fun and exciting from start to finish, with incredibly choreographed fight sequences that demonstrate how being a stuntperson made Leitch well-equipped to take on high-profile projects.

Atomic Blonde was one of Leitch’s first outings as a solo director, and the incredible action film deserves much more recognition than it gets. Action movies that center on female protagonists are few and far between. However, Charlize Theron embodies her character, Lorraine Broughton, an MI6 agent, with ease. The movie is fun and exciting from start to finish, with incredibly choreographed fight sequences that demonstrate how being a stuntperson made Leitch well-equipped to take on high-profile projects.

While there are comedic moments in Atomic Blonde, it’s much more serious than some of Leitch’s other work that has come to define his career. If he returns for a sequel for the movie, it would be interesting to see how his comedy-action films have influenced his style and if that carries through to the Atomic Blonde universe. Though more similar to Letich’s work on the John Wick franchise than The Fall Guy, Letich’s characteristic way of directing action comes through in both projects.

Atomic Blonde
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Thriller
Action
Adventure
Mystery

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Based on a graphic novel, Atomic Blonde stars Charlize Theron as Lorraine Broughton, an MI6 agent who is attempting to locate a sensitive list of double agent spies before it is smuggled from East to West Germany, just before the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Theron is joined by a cast that includes James McAvoy, Sofia Boutella, and John Goodman. 

Director David Leitch Release Date July 26, 2017 Cast Charlize Theron , Eddie Marsan , John Goodman , James Faulkner , Toby Jones , James McAvoy , Daniel Bernhardt , Sofia Boutella Runtime 115 minutes

5 Edge Of Tomorrow (2014)

Directed by Doug Liman

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Though Edge of Tomorrow has almost no romance, it’s one of the best time loop movies of all time and a great followup to The Fall Guy for fans of Blunt. She takes on a role with much heavier dramatic weight in Edge of Tomorrow as Rita, a foil for Tom Cruises’ character, William, who’s stuck in a deadly time loop while trying to save the world. With each successive loop, William must convince Rita that he’s living in a circular reality and tell her what he’s learned about the aliens they’re fighting so they can go into battle prepared.

Seeing Cruise and Blunt in a movie that requires so much in both the physical and emotional realms of their performance is an impressive sight to behold. Seamlessly blending sci-fi and action, Edge of Tomorrow has a strong central conflict and doesn’t let the audience get lost in the complexities of the fictional world’s science. Though sci-fi is in no part of The Fall Guy, it still encourages the audience to suspend their disbelief similarly, as the events that unfold are improbable, if not as unimaginable as an alien invasion.

Edge of Tomorrow
PG-13
Sci-Fi
Action
Thriller
Adventure

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Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel All You Need is Kill, Edge of Tomorrow follows Major William Cage (Tom Cruise), who finds himself drafted into humanity’s ongoing war against a seemingly unstoppable race of hostile aliens called Mimics. Cage is killed in combat, but wakes in a time loop, reliving the same battle day after day. Gradually, he realizes that if he teams up with the decorated war hero Sergeant Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), he can exploit the time loop to defeat the Mimic army and save the human race. 

Director Doug Liman Release Date June 6, 2014 Cast Emily Blunt , Tom Cruise Runtime 1h 53m

4 Knight And Day (2010)

Directed by James Mangold

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Diaz is well-known within the rom-com genre, and though Cruise has transitioned more fully to action franchises, he has clear roots in romance.

Cruise is at his most irreverent in Knight and Day, a movie he co-stars with an equally offbeat Cameron Diaz. Diaz is well-known within the rom-com genre, and though Cruise has transitioned more fully to action franchises, he has clear roots in romance. His character, Roy, is similar to the type of roles he plays in the Mission: Impossible movies, as he’s a capable and notorious spy. However, this character in Jerry Maguire is also influential, as Roy quickly captures the heart of June (Diaz) when she’s accidentally embroiled in one of his daring missions.

Though June is initially reluctant to admit her feelings for Roy and commit to helping him on his mission, like Jody in The Fall Guy, she soon realizes it’s not just Roy that she cares about. June comes into her own while on these action-packed adventures and discovers that she wants a life of adrenaline-pumping fun and doesn’t want to be ordinary. It’s clear that June in Knight and Day influenced much of Jody’s characterization in The Fall Guy, but Colt is written to be a more likable character than Roy.

Knight and Day
pg-13
Action
Comedy

Written by Patrick O’Neill and directed by James Mangold, Knight and Day is an Action and Comedy that satirizes secret agent-style films. The premise follows Tom Cruise as an agent on the run from the CIA who ends up protecting a woman who is mistaken for his associate.

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Director James Mangold Release Date June 23, 2010 Cast Cameron Diaz , Tom Cruise , Paul Dano , Peter Sarsgaard , Viola Davis Runtime 109 Minutes

3 Hit Man (2024)

Directed by Richard Linklater

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Glenn Powell gets to be equal parts funny and suave while performing incredible stunts in Hit Man. The movie has him wearing many hats and playing many different characters, as a psychology professor, Gary, who performs stings for the local police force. While embodying one of his most charming personas for a sting, he falls in love with a mark, Madison (Adria Arjona), and they embark on a Bonnie and Clyde-esque adventure. Though their exploits are more violent and illegal than Colt and Jody’s, their partnership takes on a similar tone.

The director, Richard Linklater, has worked across many genres throughout his career, and his handle on the delicate balance of humor and action shines in Hit Man. His style isn’t exactly congruent with Leitch’s, but Hit Man has tonal similarities to The Fall Guy outside of the central relationship. There’s a criminal conspiracy at the heart of both plots, and the style of humor is self-referential in an unobtrusive way. Additionally, Powell’s career is following a similar trajectory to that of Gosling in terms of projects and fame.

Hit Man
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From director Richard Linklater comes Hit Man, a 2023 action comedy film based on a Texas Monthly article of the same name. Undercover and trying to catch a group of criminals, a Houston police officer poses as a hitman until he falls for a woman on assignment. Finding himself diving deeper into the world of crime, the Houston officer finds it increasingly difficult to escape his new undercover persona.

Director Richard Linklater Release Date September 5, 2023 Cast Glen Powell , Adria Arjona , Austin Amelio , Retta , Molly Bernard Runtime 113 Minutes

2 Game Night (2018)

Directed by John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein

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Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams are hilariously incompetent in Game Night, a movie about the dangers of an innocent game night gone wrong.

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams are hilariously incompetent in Game Night, a movie about the dangers of an innocent game night gone wrong. The married couple, Max (Bateman) and Annie (McAdams) are drawn together over their mutual competitive spirit. However, Max’s plan to show his older brother how well he’s doing soon goes awry, as his brother is secretly a spy. Enemy agents kidnap him and hijack his game night, which Max and Annie don’t realize until they’re put in increasingly real and dangerous situations.

The romantic tension and will-they-won’t-they dynamic of movies like The Fall Guy is foregone in Game Night, as Max and Annie’s romance and connection are cemented from the very beginning. Game Night doesn’t question whether or not they’ll end up together or if they’re a good match; the audience knows they are. However, the action sequences are imbued with the same humor and tongue-in-cheek sensibilities. Additionally, the way Colt is thrown into real stunt situations while being a stuntperson mirrors Max and Annie’s pretend spy game becoming real.

Game Night
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Comedy
Action

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Written by Mark Perez and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Starring Jason Bateman, Billy Magnussen, Rachel McAdams, and Sharon Horgan, the 2018 Comedy sees a routine game night turn into a mystery when one of the regular members is kidnapped.

Director Jonathan Goldstein , John Francis Daley , Billy Magnussen Release Date February 23, 2018 Cast Sharon Horgan , Rachel McAdams , Danny Huston , Kyle Chandler , Chelsea Pereti , Jason Bateman , Lamorne Morris , Jesse Plemons , Kylie Bunbury , Michael C. Hall Runtime 93minutes

1 Romancing The Stone (1984)

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

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The iconic and underrated ’80s rom-com Romancing The Stone walked so many other action-romance films of its ilk could run. In the film, Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas play unlikely companions turned lovers in this timely satirical take on adventure movies of the period.Romancing The Stone came out around the time that movies like the Indiana Jones franchise were at peak popularity, and so there were plenty of tropes and story techniques that audiences were familiar with that the narrative could play off of.

It follows the same format as The Fall Guy, in that a less-than-adventurous woman is put into dangerous situations accompanied by a man who’s her foil in every way. Like many other movies of its time, Romancing The Stone has its issues, but its overall goal is to poke fun at the rom-com pitfalls it employs within the plot. Though Joan (Turner) and Jack (Douglas) begin with a more intensely combative relationship than Jody and Colt, the couples still end up in love and on the same page.

Romancing the Stone
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Comedy
Action
Romance
Adventure

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Director Robert Zemeckis Release Date March 30, 1984 Cast Kathleen Turner , Alfonso Arau , Zack Norman , Michael Douglas , Danny DeVito Runtime 106 minutes

The Fall Guy
PG-13
Action
Drama
Thriller

The Fall Guy is an action thriller from Bullet Train and Deadpool 2 director David Leitch. Ryan Gosling stars as a stuntman who is forced to find a missing movie star, investigate a conspiracy, and repair his relationship with the love of his life. The film was written by Drew Pearce and inspired by the 1980s TV series of the same name.

Director David Leitch Release Date May 3, 2024 Cast Ryan Gosling , Emily Blunt , Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Stephanie Hsu , Winston Duke , Hannah Waddingham , Teresa Palmer

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