Every action comedy movie streaming on MGM+ in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against MGM+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MGM+ US
Directed by Clyde Bruckman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSilent-era physical comedy meets locomotive-scale destruction; Keaton's deadpan precision orchestrates chaos with balletic economy.
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Directed by Jerry Zucker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRelentless rapid-fire absurdist gags layered over genuine aviation stakes—deadpan delivery mastering comedy's perfect timing.
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
Directed by Stanley Kramer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEnsemble chaos mechanics perfected: seven plotlines collide in slapstick crescendo, each character's incompetence fueling escalating mayhem.
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Directed by John Woo
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWoo's signature balletic gunplay meets identity-swap comedy: action choreography becomes the joke's punchline.
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Directed by Trey Parker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMarionette absurdism weaponizes crude puppet physics for elaborate set-pieces that satirize action movie excess with unhinged puppet violence.
When North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il orchestrates a global terrorist plot, it's up to the heavily armed, highly specialized Team America unit to stop his dastardly scheme. The group, which has recruited troubled Broadway actor Gary Johnston, not only has to face off against Jong-il, but they must also contend with the Film Actors Guild, a cadre of Hollywood liberals at odds with Team America's 'policing the world' tactics.
Directed by Ben Stiller
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMethod actors genuinely trapped in warfare create perfect collision of ego-driven farce and gunfire spectacle.
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
Directed by Albert Parker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSilent-era stunt work as comedy: Fairbanks' acrobatic sword fights double as physical humor, proving action and laughs share identical DNA.
A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a beautiful young woman of royal blood aboard.
Directed by Jeff Fowler
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSonic's video-game logic applied to action sequences; time-warp mechanics justify absurdist set pieces with cartoon physics.
Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.
Directed by Ivan Reitman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMurray's deadpan deflation of military authority transforms boot camp into absurdist comedy—action through anarchic refusal to take anything seriously.
Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, enlists in the U.S. Army with his close pal, Russell Ziskey. After his barely satisfactory performance in basic training, the irreverent Winger emerges as the figurehead for a ragtag band of misfits. However, his hijinks threaten to cause an international scandal when he inadvertently commandeers a military assault vehicle behind enemy lines.
Directed by Richard Fleischer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBronson as reluctant hero: melon-farming mundanity interrupted by precise violence creates deadpan contrast that defines the action-comedy sweet spot.
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBlaxploitation tropes weaponized for satire: over-the-top villains and heroics puncture genre conventions while delivering genuine action spectacle.
Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the 70s.
Directed by Dan Berk
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDisabled-protagonist premise subverts invincible-hero action tropes with clever physical-comedy payoffs.
When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.
Directed by Stuart Baird
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCruise's earnest action hero credibility shattered by Duchovny's panicked academic—genre expectations inverted through casting against type.
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.
Directed by John Sturges
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLarge-scale Western chaos ballet: multiple factions converge in collision choreography where comedic timing equals action precision.
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.
Directed by George Armitage
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBaldwin's sociopath charm versus Nolte's befuddlement: mismatched buddy dynamic generates laughs through violent criminal incompetence.
After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds Susie, a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective. Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.
Directed by Adam McKay
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSatirical food-science spectacle balances environmental catastrophe with romantic subplot comedy beats.
With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.
Directed by Akiva Schaffer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDeadpan lawman incompetence generates action sequences simultaneously ridiculous and mechanically efficient.
Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world: Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. Following in his father's footsteps, he must solve a murder case to prevent Police Squad from closure.
Directed by Richard Lester
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCold War satire weaponized through slapstick diplomacy: geopolitical stakes undercut by Grand Fenwick's cartoonish incompetence.
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
Directed by Edward Zwick
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReacher's literal interpretation of figurative speech generates both fight choreography and deadpan humor from genre-savvy absurdity.
Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is framed for espionage. Reacher will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and to expose the real perpetrators behind the killings of his former soldiers.
Directed by Breck Eisner
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCronenberg-esque body horror hijinks meet globe-trotting adventure; Steve Buscemi's deadpan riffing elevates every implausible set piece.
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.
Directed by Craig R. Baxley
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJean-Claude Van Damme's sculptural violence meets wisecracks: muscles and one-liners synthesize effortlessly.
Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner is killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...
Directed by Douglas Hickox
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJohn Wayne as fish-out-of-water cop: cowboy authority collides with London bureaucracy, generating action through cultural clash.
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.
Directed by Michael Ritchie
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMurphy's wisecracks armor mystical action sequences; comedy shields audience from fantasy's pretension while delivering martial spectacle.
After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death. When Nang sees social worker Chandler Jarrell on television discussing his ability to find missing children, she solicits his expertise, despite his skepticism over being "chosen."
Directed by Sam Firstenberg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSho Kosugi's expressionless face during ninja mayhem: silent deadpan anchors kinetic violence with unintentional comedic gravitas.
A peaceful ex-ninja's life shatters when his son's kidnapping forces him back into violence amid an American-Japanese criminal drug war.
Directed by Larry Cohen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAmbulance as predatory absurdity: mundane vehicular paranoia escalates into legitimate action-thriller stakes through sustained comedic premise.
When the woman of his dreams is snatched by a strange ambulance, a young man risks it all to find her and tracks down a trafficking ring.
Directed by Jonathan Wacks
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEstevez brothers' chemistry: competence gap between cocky elder and anxious younger generates pratfalls amid genuine peril.
Tom McHugh quickly learns that his perfect big brother Craig isn't all he's cracked up to be while on a night on the town with the girl next door, during which Tom is harassed by unpleasant strangers, threatened by mobsters, pursued by police, attacked by an irate florist, accused of murder, and has his date kidnapped—all because everyone thinks he's Craig...and the classic 1959 DeSoto Firesweep he borrowed off his brother has two dead bodies in the trunk.
Directed by Mel Damski
✦ MovieMuse AI takePirate movie as ensemble absurdist farce: historical action tropes dismantled through anarchic British comedy sensibilities.
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
Directed by Dennis Feldman
✦ MovieMuse AI takePremise physics: CIA operative + insurance adjuster = complementary incompetence generating action through ideological clash.
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
Directed by Harley Cokeliss
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLone-wolf assassin retirement comedy: noir tradecraft applied to small-town militia paranoia, violence through bureaucratic escalation.
Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution.
Directed by Menahem Golan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTerrorist hijacking played straight while Delta Force delivers commando spectacle: action-thriller scaffolding wrapped in 80s action-hero comedy.
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
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