Movies Like Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)

Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a 2009 action, adventure, comedy, family film from Steve Carr with a MovieMagicScore of 5.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 and Bangville Police.

Action Adventure Comedy Family

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

2015

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.

5.2

MagicScore

Bangville Police

1913

A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.

5.0

MagicScore

Observe and Report

2009

Mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective is recruited to close the case.

5.4

MagicScore

Friday After Next

2002

Craig and his cousin Day Day have finally moved out of their parents' houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they set out to track down the culprit.

6.3

MagicScore

Dawn of the Dead

2004

A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

7.1

MagicScore

White House Down

2013

Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.

6.5

MagicScore

Christmas Twister

2012

During the holiday season, Ethan, a meteorologist, and his wife Addison, a TV news reporter, must put aside their differences and band together to help save others and rescue their missing children from a massive F6 twister that has unexpectedly descended upon their small Texas town.

5.0

MagicScore

Die Hard

1988

High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.

7.8

MagicScore

A Thursday

2022

When a kindergarten teacher takes her 16 students hostage and makes a set of demands, it not only rattles the Mumbai police and the city but also sends shockwaves through the country and its leaders as the motive behind the hostage situation is unearthed.

6.5

MagicScore

#10

Reno 911!: It's a Wonderful Heist

2022

It’s Holiday Season in Reno, and Lieutenant Dangle wishes he’d never been born. With the help of a roller skating “Angel,” he learns how much better the lives of the other deputies would be if he never existed. Will he decide to live on anyway? There’s still Christmas criminals to catch!

5.5

MagicScore

#11

Paranoid Park

2007

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

6.5

MagicScore

#12

Dawn of the Dead

1978

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

7.5

MagicScore

#13

Chopping Mall

1986

High-tech robots equipped with state-of-the-art security devices have been recruited as the new mechanical "night watchmen" for the Park Plaza Mall. When a jolting bolt of lightning short-circuits the main computer control, the robots turn into "killbots" on the loose after unsuspecting shoppers!

5.8

MagicScore

#14

Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity

2001

Richie and Eddie escapes from the island and try to get to the bar to have a drink, only to find themselves trapped in a underground chamber and Richie thinks they've been abducted by aliens.

7.4

MagicScore

#15

The Rounders

1914

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.

6.1

MagicScore

#16

War

2019

Khalid, entrusted with the task of eliminating former soldier turned rogue Kabir, engages in an epic battle with his mentor who taught him everything.

6.8

MagicScore

#17

Security

2017

An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has fled the hijacking of a Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a witness in a trial. Hot on her heels is the psychopathic hijacker and his team of henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate the witness.

6.3

MagicScore

#18

Walking Tall

2004

A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

6.3

MagicScore

#19

Dick Tracy

1990

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

6.1

MagicScore

#20

On Deadly Ground

1994

Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making money for him.

5.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop?

The top films similar to Paul Blart: Mall Cop by MovieMagicScore are Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (5.2), Bangville Police (5.0), Observe and Report (5.4). Each shares action/adventure/comedy/family themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Paul Blart: Mall Cop worth watching?

Paul Blart: Mall Cop holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.4/10 from 2,621 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Paul Blart: Mall Cop?

Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) is a action, adventure, comedy, family film directed by Steve Carr, starring Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, Jayma Mays.

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This ranked list pairs Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009), a action and adventure and comedy and family film from Steve Carr, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Kevin James take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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