20 best movies like The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974)

List of the best movies like The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974): The Wild Boys, Johnny English Strikes Again, The Losers, RRRrrrr!!!, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The King's Man, Avane Srimannarayana, Wrecked, Spy Time, Spy School.

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
CountryFrance
Duration01:33

In the beginning of the 20th century, five children on the island of La Réunion commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, comedy, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, China
Duration02:35

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 minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker. For this mission to succeed, he’ll need all of his skills - what few he has - as the man with yesterday’s analogue methods faces off against tomorrow’s digital technology.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:37

A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they're joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, crime, detective
CountryFrance
Duration01:38

37 000 years ago, two neighboring tribes lived in peace ... not fully in peace. While the tribe clean hair flowed peaceful days by keeping to herself the secret formula shampoo, Tribe Hair Sales lamented. Its leader decided to send a spy to steal the recipe ...

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada
Duration02:03

A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

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.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, western, detective
CountryIndia

In the pursuit of solving an ancient mystery of Amaravati, Narayana, a corrupt cop must battle the dangerous clan of dacoits and it's fierce leader.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:52

Single-camera comedy centering on a diverse group of survivors adjusting to being stranded on an uninhabited island, a dangerous new world where they must face many threats – mostly brought on by themselves. No longer plugged into the rest of the world, the group struggles to navigate their makeshift society while also learning to live without such modern comforts as indoor plumbing, Wi-Fi, social media and Chipotle.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountrySpain
Duration01:56

Adolfo, a thirty something security guard, is going through a bad patch. Not only his lifetime girlfriend has just to finished with him to be a guy with no ambition but, moreover, he becomes the target of a series of thugs led by Vázquez, a dangerous criminal who has just escaped from jail. Also he discovers that his father has a double identity. He is not a farmer engaged in the production of cold meat – as Adolfo has believed all his life, but Anacleto, a secret agent who is a bit down and the man who locked Vázquez up in jail thirty years ago. Adolfo will have to leave his comfort zone and work with his father, the person that Adolfo get on worse with in the world to survive the revenge of Vazquez and while, between shootouts and chases, trying to get his girlfriend back.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family, detective
CountryUSA

Spy School is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:40

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
CountryNetherlands
Duration01:43

One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out-of-work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no-one will go unpunished for this.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantasy, comedy, detective
CountryHungary

Vampires are among us! But no need to worry: the Hungarian Secret Police are after them, and beyond the usual spy gadgets, they even use garlic to repel the beasts.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:50

The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the eve of World War I.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
CountryUSA

An 11-year old boy believes that he is the best detective in town and runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,200 pound polar bear.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
CountryUSA, Australia, Canada
Duration01:33

When Mystery, Inc. are guests of honor at the grand opening of the Coolsville Museum of Criminology, a masked villain shows up and creates havoc before stealing the costumes of the gang's most notorious villains...Could it be that their nemesis, mad scientist Jonathan Jacobo has returned and is trying to recreate their deadliest foes?

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: 3.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, detective, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

A group of researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a platoon of masked soldiers and dragged into a hidden continent in the center of the Earth. There, they discover that surviving Nazi soldiers are plotting an invasion of Earth to revive the Third Reich.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrethriller, adventure, detective
CountryRussia
Duration01:39

Spring 1941. Center of Moscow. Duel of the two intelligence services turns more and more tense.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

    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 the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, musical, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs include the Small Faces' "I've Got Mine," "It's Too Late," "Come On Children" and "Don't Stop What You're Doing" and The Chantelles' "I Think of You" and "Please Don't Kiss Me."

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, comedy, musical, adventure, detective
    CountryIndia

    A gifted teenage detective searches for his missing father with his ladylove assistant.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA, Hungary
    Duration01:37

    When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott, is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly Robinson, on a dangerous top secret espionage mission. Their assignment: using equal parts skill and humor, catch Arnold Gundars, one of the world's most successful arms dealers.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada

    Michael Corben, along with the rest of his high-school French class, sets out for a trip to France when he is mistaken for an agent of the same name. He is beseiged by both the good guys and the bad guys. British Intelligence outfits him with a series of James-Bond-like gizmos, and Steranko sends more would-be assassins after him. Can Michael stop the evil Steranko's plans for European domination?

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, western, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.

    Markimdb: 4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure, detective
    CountryCanada

    James Murphey is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, had a fatal encounter with the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father, and left James with deep facial scar. Twenty years later, James is hunting for Nessie, when his search leads him to the sleepy town of Pike Island, Ashburn, on Lake Superior. Hiring Josh Riley as his guide, James and Josh bond over their mutual scientific interests and deceased fathers, while James tries to convince Josh's mother, Sheriff Karen Riley, that the 60-foot plesiosaur is killing and breeding.




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