20 best movies like The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)

List of the best movies like The North Avenue Irregulars (1979): Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, The One and Only Ivan, Batman vs. Two-Face, Swindle, Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, Inspector Gadget 2, Dadnapped, See Spot Run, That Darn Cat, Catch That Kid.

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Markimdb: 4.4
Genreaction, comedy, family, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:04

Security guard Paul Blart is headed to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter Maya before she departs for college. While at the convention, he inadvertently discovers a heist - and it's up to Blart to apprehend the criminals.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, family
CountryUSA

Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Former Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Dent, one side of his face scarred by acid, goes on a crime spree based on the number '2'. All of his actions are decided by the flip of a defaced, two-headed silver dollar.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:32

Based on Gordon Korman's book 'Swindle,' this movie is about a boy named Griffin who finds a valuable multi-million dollar baseball card. After accidentally selling the card for a million dollar loss, he enlists the help of his best friend Ben and his colleagues to regain the baseball card.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family, crime
CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
Duration01:40

With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family, crime
CountryUSA, Australia

After capturing Claw, all the criminals have gone into hiding until, Claw escapes! Gadget thinks he will get the case, but everyone else has other planes. A new version of the Gadget project is unveiled in the form of G2. Strict orders are given for Gadget to stay away from G2 and every crime scene, but Gadget feels he is needed more than anyone.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family, crime
CountryUSA

Melissa has a bad case of sibling rivalry, only her competition is a fictional character in her father's best-selling novel about a teenage super spy. When her father is "dadnapped" by a group of overzealous fans, it's up to Melissa to help him by tapping her inner superhero.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, comedy, family, crime
CountryUSA, Australia, Canada
Duration01:34

A drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James in the care of her irresponsible, mailman, neighbor, Gordon, when the babysitter bails on her. Meanwhile, an assassin mob boss hires 2 goons to kill Agent 11. But when 11 escapes from the van when they tried to kill him, he hides in Gordon's Mailtruck that James is in too. And guess what they name him. Spot.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genreaction, comedy, family, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

While making his nightly rounds in the neighborhood, Patti's pet cat D.C. finds himself the carrier of a call for help from a kidnap victim. Patti enlists skeptical law enforcement help to find the victim before it's too late.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:31

Athletic 12-year-old Maddy (Kristen Stewart) shares an enthusiasm for mountain climbing with her father, Tom (Sam Robards). Unfortunately, Tom suffers a spinal injury while scaling Mount Everest, and his family is unable to afford the surgery that can save him. Maddy decides to get the money for her father's operation by robbing a high-security bank. She relies on her climbing skills and help from her geeky friends (Max Thieriot, Corbin Bleu) to pull it off successfully.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, family, crime, detective
CountryPeru

When it is the time to shape reality, the spy world calls The Pro Bono Spy Hunter.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUSA

The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
CountryChina, USA, India, Nepal, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Iceland
Duration01:19

Chinese archeology professor Jack teams up with beautiful Indian professor Ashmita and assistant Kyra to locate lost Magadha treasure. In a Tibetan ice cave, they find the remains of the royal army that had vanished together with the treasure, only to be ambushed by Randall, the descendent of a rebel army leader. When they free themselves, their next stop is Dubai where a diamond from the ice cave is to be auctioned. After a series of double-crosses and revelations about their past, Jack and his team travel to a mountain temple in India, using the diamond as a key to unlock the real treasure.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA, Bulgaria

A twelve-year-old girl is transported by a magical black stallion to the mystical world of Albion, where she discovers that she alone is the key to saving an entire race of people.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA, China, Canada
Duration02:02

In a world where human beings and puppets live together, when the members of the cast of a children's television show aired during the 1990s begin to get murdered one by one, puppet Phil Philips, a former LAPD detective who fell in disgrace and turned into a private eye, takes on the case at the request of his old boss in order to assist detective Edwards, who was his partner in the past.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrecomedy, adventure, family, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:32

Max, a macho, solitary Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover as a primped show dog in a prestigious Dog Show, along with his human partner, to avert a disaster from happening.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA

When alien invaders capture Earth's superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents - and the planet.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA

The third installment in the successful Bad Ass action-comedy franchise. Bad Asses on the Bayou reunites the dynamic duo, Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) and Bernie Pope (Danny Glover), as they travel to Louisiana to attend the wedding of their dear friend Carmen Gutierrez (Loni Love). What was pictured as a wedding weekend escape to the south turns violently ugly as madness and mayhem ensue, pressing our senior heroes to once again serve justice.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:36

Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA

Sam is a teenage royal rebel, second in line to the throne of the kingdom of Illyria. Just as her disinterest in the royal way of life is at an all-time high, she discovers she has super-human abilities and is invited to join a secret society of similar extraordinary second-born royals charged with keeping the world safe.

Markimdb: 5
Genreaction, comedy, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

An ex-con on the run from his criminal past, hides out from those he ratted on by chaperoning a field trip to New Orleans.

Markimdb: 3.1
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A struggling actress must play the role of a detective in order to save an adorable Maltese puppy from a murderous group of Goth Thugs, a Devilish Dominatrix, and a handsome, lying doctor.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:24

An uptight by-the-book cop must protect the widow of a drug boss from crooked cops and gunmen.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:57

A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.

Markimdb: 2.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

Giant albino spiders break free from the depths of Earth in New Orleans, making everyone’s worst nightmare a reality.

Markimdb: 5
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

A lonely cat living in a mall pet shop has a sour outlook on life until, in the midst of the holiday rush, she’s swept up into a robbery and a friendship with a human girl.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA

Black market gun deals, petty scams, convenience store stick-ups, and drug-fueled parties reveal glimpses into the lives of young misfits and low level criminals across New York City.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

The Bannen Way is a slick, sexy, action-packed show about Neal Bannen, a charming con-man with a police chief for a father, a mob boss for an uncle and a weakness for beautiful women, who wants to turn his life around and leave the criminal lifestyle forever.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

Lone-wolf detective Angie Tribeca and a squad of committed LAPD detectives investigate the most serious cases, from the murder of a ventriloquist to a rash of baker suicides.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:18

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.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA, Russia
Duration01:48

Ex-Federale agent Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

When a family visits Grandma's house on Christmas Eve, they leave their dog at home alone. And when burglars try to take the presents from under the tree, the dog must use every trick it knows to stop them.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

After crashing his car, a cop who's recovering from eye surgery recruits an Uber driver to help him catch a heroin dealer. The mismatched pair soon find themselves in for a wild day of stakeouts and shootouts as they encounter the city's seedy side.




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