Movies Like Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018)

Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) is a 2018 action, comedy, drama film from Tom Edmunds with a MovieMagicScore of 6.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Happy End and Baby Assassins: Nice Days.

Action Comedy Drama

Happy End

2017

A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

6.2

MagicScore

Baby Assassins: Nice Days

2024

Teenage assassins Mahiro and Chisato visit the coastal city of Miyazaki for a contract and a vacation, but they unexpectedly cross paths with a legendary, bloodthirsty assassin looking to add to his kill count.

8.6

MagicScore

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

2005

A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other.

6.7

MagicScore

A Pain in the Ass

1973

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

7.1

MagicScore

Violet & Daisy

2011

Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.

6.0

MagicScore

Léon: The Professional

1994

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

8.3

MagicScore

The Hitman's Bodyguard

2017

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.

6.9

MagicScore

Kill Boksoon

2023

At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.

6.8

MagicScore

The Fable

2019

The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal life" in Osaka.

6.7

MagicScore

#10

Wild Target

2010

Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

Polar

2019

When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.

6.3

MagicScore

#12

The Violence Action

2022

Kei Kikuno attends a vocational school as a student. For her part-time job, she works as a contract killer. She is excellent at her job and never gets scared by anyone. One day, she receives the most challenging request.

6.2

MagicScore

#13

The Eiger Sanction

1975

A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.

6.1

MagicScore

#14

Hitman

2007

A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.

6.1

MagicScore

#15

Killers

2010

When an elite assassin marries a beautiful computer whiz after a whirlwind romance, he gives up the gun and settles down with his new bride. That is, until he learns that someone from his past has put a contract out on his life.

6.0

MagicScore

#16

The Gunman

2015

Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

5.8

MagicScore

#17

Buddy Buddy

1981

During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.

6.1

MagicScore

#18

The Man from Nowhere

2010

An ex-special agent is involved in a convoluted drug ring drama. He has to save a drug smuggler's innocent daughter from being the victim of her parents' fight.

7.7

MagicScore

#19

Fallen Angels

1995

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.

7.7

MagicScore

#20

The Day of the Jackal

1973

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

7.5

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)?

The top films similar to Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) by MovieMagicScore are Happy End (6.2), Baby Assassins: Nice Days (8.6), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (6.7). Each shares action/comedy/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) worth watching?

Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.3/10 from 356 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)?

Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018) is a action, comedy, drama film directed by Tom Edmunds, starring Aneurin Barnard, Tom Wilkinson, Freya Mavor.

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About movies like Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)

This ranked list pairs Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018), a action and comedy and drama film from Tom Edmunds, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Aneurin Barnard 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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