Every action comedy movie streaming on Stan in Australia right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Stan’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Stan AU
Directed by Steven Spielberg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSwashbuckling adventure disguised as archaeology lecture—Spielberg's genius is making intellectual pursuit thrillingly physical.
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTarantino's trunk shots and anime homages elevate sword-fighting revenge into stylistic poetry without sacrificing brutal comedic timing.
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
Directed by George Miller
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTwo-hour vehicular ballet across desert wastes proves action doesn't need jokes—kinetic absurdity becomes comedy through sheer visual audacity.
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
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 Tony Scott
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDenzel's deadpan tenderness with a child amid Mexico City carnage creates unexpected emotional comedy through contrast, not quips.
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Directed by Mark Osborne
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBumbling protagonist's physical comedy contrasts hilariously with wire-work kung fu, making the underdog's triumph both hilarious and earned.
Chosen by prophecy but doubted by all, Po is an unlikely Dragon Warrior—a clumsy panda thrust into the world of kung fu as a deadly enemy threatens the Valley of Peace. Under reluctant guidance by Master Shifu and the Furious Five, Po must embrace who he is to unlock the power that no scroll can teach.
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVerhoeven's satirical corporate newsbreaks and ED-209's malfunctioning rampage weaponize sci-fi satire against ultraviolence itself.
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
Directed by David Zucker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDrebin's deadpan obliviousness creates absurdist humor—he solves crimes by accident while the world collapses around his spectacular incompetence.
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Directed by Shane Black
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGosling and Crowe's bickering chemistry transmutes brutal violence into laugh-out-loud buddy-cop gold.
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
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 Justin Lin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeElevates heist-action comedy by treating elaborate robbery sequences with playful irreverence rather than breathless intensity.
Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.
Directed by David Leitch
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEscalating assassin collisions aboard a bullet train create slapstick chaos where incompetence meets professional violence perfectly.
Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world's fastest train.
Directed by Phil Lord
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSelf-aware meta-humor about sequels elevates juvenile high school antics into satirical action comedy.
When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. But, as time goes on, Schmidt and Jenko discover that high school is nothing like it was just a few years earlier -- and, what's more, they must again confront the teenage terror and anxiety they thought they had left behind.
Directed by Guy Ritchie
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStylish 60s spy gadgetry and Cavill's deadpan charm balance globe-trotting espionage with genuine laughs.
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
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 James Wan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTransforms revenge thriller into action-comedy through self-aware absurdity: a car literally flies between skyscrapers.
Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.
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 Pete Travis
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHigh-concept heist mechanics played deadpan during a NASCAR race transforms genre expectations into comedic architecture.
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.
Directed by Phil Lord
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAudacious formula deconstruction—the film interrogates its own absurdity while delivering legitimate college-set action.
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Directed by Jay Roach
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMyers' groovy incompetence against genuine danger creates comedy from the spy-film archetype eating itself alive.
As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.
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 Brian Taylor
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReal-time urgency of a poisoned hit man transforms frantic action into sustained slapstick—comedy as pure kinetic desperation.
Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.
Directed by Kevin Reynolds
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEarly '90s action film accidentally funny through unironic earnestness; romance derails action momentum rather than complementing it.
Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England. But upon arrival he discovers his dead father in the ruins of his family estate, killed by the vicious sheriff of Nottingham, Robin and Azeem join forces with outlaws Little John and Will Scarlett to save the kingdom from the sheriff's villainy.
Directed by David Zucker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDrebin bumbles energy-industry conspiracy with escalating absurdist logic—each incompetent action accidentally unravels elaborate villainous plots.
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
Directed by Michael Bay
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWill Smith and Martin Lawrence's crackling chemistry ignites Miami mayhem; their banter escalates alongside explosions, proving personality outweighs plot.
Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
Directed by Paul Feig
✦ MovieMuse AI takeParanormal weaponry (proton packs, traps) becomes comedy prop and action tool, collapsing the distinction between supernatural humor and combat.
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
Directed by David Leitch
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStunt-work-as-spectacle premise lets practical effects become meta-commentary on action movie construction itself.
Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
Directed by Dev Patel
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGorilla-masked underground fighter's Wick-meets-Nolan aesthetic generates absurdist tension through sheer tonal commitment and visual excess.
Kid is an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
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.
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