Every action comedy movie streaming on Max in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Max’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Max US
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHarold Lloyd's clock-tower hang defies safety logic; pure physical comedy built on genuine vertigo and silent-era ingenuity.
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Directed by Kenji Misumi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBalletic violence meets absurdist humor as a assassin navigates impossible odds while pushing a baby cart—tonal whiplash perfected.
Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
Directed by Paul King
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMarmalade sandwich heists and slapstick burglary sequences prove gentle British charm can generate action-comedy momentum without cynicism.
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
✦ MovieMuse AI takeA pig-piloting ace faces sky pirates in art-deco dogfights; Miyazaki weaponizes style and wistfulness against violence itself.
In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.
Directed by Kenji Misumi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMedieval Japan's grittiest revenge saga weaponizes absurdist baby-cart mechanics; exploitation meets philosophical contradiction.
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
Directed by Chris Renaud
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAdopting orphans to steal the moon—Gru's escalating supervillain schemes generate genuine laughs through scale and paternal contradictions.
Gru is a supervillain determined to prove he’s the greatest by stealing the Moon. To pull off his plan, he adopts three orphaned girls—Margo, Edith, and Agnes—intending to use them as part of his scheme. However, as Gru bonds with the girls, his cold, villainous exterior begins to melt.
Directed by Chad Stahelski
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWick's balletic precision annihilates rooms of armed men with balletic overkill; stylized violence as comedic punctuation.
With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Directed by Wong Kar-Wai
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWong Kar-wai's neon-soaked assassins stumble through betrayal and desire; style overwhelms plot in seductive, violent languor.
An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
Directed by Jackie Chan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJackie Chan's furniture-smashing rampage through shopping malls treats destruction as comedic choreography—stunts as punchlines.
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court.
Directed by Buichi Saitō
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTattooed female assassins meet wandering executioner; graphic swordplay collides with genre pastiche and moral ambiguity.
Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.
Directed by Michael Bay
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCage and Connery's deadpan espionage clashes in Alcatraz; explosions serve witty banter, not narrative.
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTwo broke swordsmen stumble through clan warfare; Kill!'s tonal uncertainty—funny then brutal—defines its genre innovation.
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
Directed by Tsui Hark
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWong Fei-Hung's wire-assisted martial arts defies gravity while confronting colonialist forces; spectacle meets political substance.
Wong Fei-Hung faces the White Lotus Society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat Sen from the military.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChaplin's doughboy pranks German soldiers mid-war; slapstick absurdism subverts combat itself through silent-era audacity.
An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.
Directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVendetta reaches apocalyptic scope as an entire clan descends on one man; graphically brutal and bizarrely operatic.
With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the Yagyu clan.
Directed by James Gunn
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJames Gunn's indie sensibility explodes through superhero mayhem; idiot villains generate pathos and cartoonish destruction equally.
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.
Directed by Tsui Hark
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJet Li's anti-colonialist hero executes acrobatic wire-work against foreign invaders; nationalist fervor meets stunt spectacle.
In late 19th-century Canton, legendary hero Wong Fei-Hung battles foreign forces' (English, French and American) plundering of China. When Aunt Yee returns from America totally westernised, Wong assumes the role of protector. This proves difficult when his martial arts school and local militia become involved in fierce battles with foreign and local governments. As violence escalates, even Aunt Yee has to question her new western ideals, but is it possible to fight guns with Kung Fu?
Directed by David F. Sandberg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeA teenager discovering adult superpowers treats catastrophe like playground antics; adolescent levity in apocalyptic situations.
A boy is given the ability to become an adult superhero in times of need with a single magic word.
Directed by Jackie Chan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChan's gravity-defying rooftop escapes and explosive setpieces collide with comedic timing—stunts as structural comedy.
The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.
Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCGI flames and mutant fire-warriors clash in vivid anime excess; apocalyptic spectacle embraces bright, absurdist bombast.
Galo and the Burning Rescue Fire Department face off against BURNISH, a group of mutants who are able to control and wield flames, and the fire disaster they have unleashed on Earth.
Directed by Patrick Hughes
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFeuding bodyguard and hitman generate friction-comedy through forced partnership; banter outlasts plot.
The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.
Directed by Len Wiseman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBallerina's balletic assassination sequences and Ruska Roma lore extend Wick's violent elegance into spinoff intrigue.
Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.
Directed by Jeff Mednikow
✦ MovieMuse AI takeModern Titans mock their earnest 2003 selves while fighting jointly; meta-comedy weaponizes franchise nostalgia.
The comedic modern-day quintet takes on their 2003 counterparts when villains from each of their worlds join forces to pit the two Titan teams against each other. They'll need to set aside their differences and work together to combat Trigon, Hexagon, Santa Claus (that's right, Santa!) and time itself in order to save the multiverse.
Directed by Peter Browngardt
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLooney Tunes chaos—pie fights and cartoon physics—confronts alien invasion; anarchic slapstick defies modern CGI logic.
Porky and Daffy, the classic animated odd couple, turn into unlikely heroes when their antics at the local bubble gum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot. Against all odds, the two are determined to save their town (and the world!)...that is if they don't drive each other crazy in the process.
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
✦ MovieMuse AI takeKingsman's hyper-stylized violence wraps itself in debauched spy-parody; campy operatics masquerading as action thriller.
When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world.
Directed by Bong Joon Ho
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMickey Barnes dies repeatedly for comedic paycheck comedy; existential absurdism meets sci-fi gig economy dystopia.
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
Directed by F. Gary Gray
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFast & Furious' family-first sentimentality crashes against betrayal; emotional sincerity sabotages pure spectacle.
When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.
Directed by Ridley Scott
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRidley Scott's medieval action-opera suffocates under tortured self-seriousness; unintentional camp drowns intended gravitas.
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
Directed by Jackie Chan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLucky roses fuel Cantonese gang kingpin ascension; absurdist superstition replaces coherent plotting in chaotic charm.
A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.
Directed by Luc Besson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMafia witness protection in provincial France generates violent sitcom friction; cultural displacement as comedic conflict.
After ratting out his Mafia cohorts, Giovanni Manzoni and his family enter the Witness Protection Program and relocate to a sleepy town in France. Despite the best efforts of their handler to keep them in line, Giovanni (now called Fred Blake), his wife and children can't help but resort to doing things the "family" way. However, their dependence on such old habits places everyone in danger from vengeful mobsters.
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