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Plot Summary:
Tough-talking Detroit cop Axel Foley heads to the rarified world of Beverly Hills in his beat-up Chevy Nova to investigate a friend's murder. But soon, he realizes he's stumbled onto something much more complicated. Bungling rookie detective Billy Rosewood joins the fish-out-of-water Axel and shows him the West Los Angeles ropes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 197000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, humorous, funny, exciting, action comedy, witty, entertaining, cult classic, detective, hilarious
Best tv shows and movies like Beverly Hills Cop (1984):
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Fatal Beauty (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics cop with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of 'Fatal Beauty' begin turning up next to too many dead bodies. Mike works for the original owner of the drugs and tries to tell himself that since he does not handle the drugs, he is 'clean'. Mike becomes Rita's constant companion.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: detective, crying, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, romantic, atmospheric, sexy
Similar in 83%
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
Plot Summary:
Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) and his new partner K. C. Calden (Josh Hartnett), are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan moonlights as a real estate broker, and Calden is an aspiring actor moonlighting as a yoga instructor. When the two are assigned a big case they must work out whether they want to solve the case or follow their hearts.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, funny, action comedy, exciting, harsh, detective, anamorphic
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Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation. When he plants a bomb under Murtaugh's toilet, the action explodes!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 186000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: entertaining, suspense, action packed, saga, action comedy, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, cult classic, action adventure
Similar in 77%
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Plot Summary:
Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, entertaining, humorous, funny, light, black comedy, offbeat, action comedy, exciting, semi serious
Similar in 90%
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Plot Summary:
Detroit cop, Axel Foley heads for the land of sunshine and palm trees to find out who shot police Captain Andrew Bogomil. Thanks to a couple of old friends, Axel's investigation uncovers a series of robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin – and the chase is on.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, cult classic, suspense, entertaining, action comedy, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious
Similar in 79%
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Plot Summary:
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. The boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 235000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, humorous, action comedy, funny, hilarious, action packed, intense, realistic, fast
Similar in 82%
Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
Plot Summary:
Back in sunny southern California and on the trail of two murderers, Axel Foley again teams up with LA cop Billy Rosewood. Soon, they discover that an amusement park is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring – and it's run by the same gang that shot Billy's boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: action comedy, funny, suspense, detective, black comedy, light, epic, cult classic, light hearted, clever
Similar in 80%
Money Talks (1997)
Plot Summary:
Money Talks is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Brett Ratner. Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, funny, clever, action packed, hilarious
Similar in 87%
Rush Hour (1998)
Plot Summary:
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, buddy comedy, exciting, action comedy, hilarious, detective, light, intense, action packed
Similar in 83%
Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)
Plot Summary:
An American with a Japanese upbringing, Chris Kenner is a police officer assigned to the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Kenner is partnered with Johnny Murata, a Japanese-American who isn't in touch with his roots. Despite their differences, both men excel at martial arts, and utilize their formidable skills when they go up against Yoshida, a vicious yakuza drug dealer with ties to Kenner's past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, grindhouse, cult classic, action comedy, crime drama, mind blowing, detective
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Ride Along (2014)
Plot Summary:
For the past two years, high-school security guard Ben has been trying to show decorated APD detective James that he's more than just a video-game junkie who's unworthy of James' sister, Angela. When Ben finally gets accepted into the academy, he thinks he's earned the seasoned policeman's respect and asks for his blessing to marry Angela. Knowing that a ride along will demonstrate if Ben has what it takes to take care of his sister, James invites him on a shift designed to scare the hell out of the trainee. But when the wild night leads them to the most notorious criminal in the city, James will find that his new partner's rapid-fire mouth is just as dangerous as the bullets speeding at it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, funny, humorous, hilarious, action comedy, exciting, black comedy, teen, detective, realistic
Similar in 79%
Midnight Run (1988)
Plot Summary:
An accountant embezzles $15 million of mob money, jumps bail and is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, humorous, witty, talky, clever, intense, cult classic, buddy comedy, exciting
Similar in 87%
Blue Streak (1999)
Plot Summary:
Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as a LAPD detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, detective, humorous, action comedy, entertaining, feel good, hilarious, parody, light
Similar in 75%
Bulletproof (1996)
Plot Summary:
An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is working undercover with the LAPD to bust Moses and Colton at a sting operation the LAPD has set up.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, semi serious, humorous, buddy comedy, action comedy, light, suspense, intense, perverse
Similar in 77%
Showtime (2002)
Plot Summary:
A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, melancholic, light, entertaining, exciting, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, action comedy
Similar in 84%
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Plot Summary:
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. To stop the rest of his team from looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford, paired with simple country cop, and everything seems quiet until two actors are found decapitated. It is addressed as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 528000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, absurd, dark comedy, hilarious, spoof, black comedy, action comedy, exciting
Similar in 87%
Dark Angel (1990)
Plot Summary:
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. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, christmas horror, tech noir, perverse, cult classic
Similar in 87%
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Plot Summary:
Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down a former Los Angeles police lieutenant turned black market weapons dealer. Lorna Cole joins as the beautiful yet hardnosed internal affairs sergeant who catches Riggs's eye.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 176000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, entertaining, action packed, saga, action comedy, neo noir, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, action adventure
Similar in 81%
Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
Plot Summary:
For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the "Ice Man". Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, black comedy, neo noir, action comedy, suspense, light, buddy comedy, exciting, rough, humorous
Similar in 78%
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Plot Summary:
When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl (ex-football player Jimmy Dix) attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going on between a crooked politician and the owner of a pro football team.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, action comedy, funny, intense, rough, serious, realistic, entertaining, buddy comedy
Similar in 76%
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Plot Summary:
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on their first homicide investigation as partners, involving a young woman known to Murtaugh with ties to a drug and prostitution ring.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 272000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, humorous, entertaining, action packed, tense, detective, action comedy, saga
Similar in 87%
48 Hrs. (1982)
Plot Summary:
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, detective, funny, neo noir, humorous, intense, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Similar in 76%
Bad Boys II (2003)
Plot Summary:
Out-of-control, trash-talking buddy cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force reunite, and bullets fly, cars crash and laughs explode as they pursue a whacked-out drug lord from the streets of Miami to the barrios of Cuba. But the real fireworks result when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sexy sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, stylized, exciting, action comedy, action packed, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, intense
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Hollow Point (1996)
Plot Summary:
Livingston is trying to merge the Russians, Chinese and Italian gangsters into one group with huge amounts of money and power. FBI agent Susan and DEA agent Max are trying to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, light, entertaining, suspense, crime drama, independent film, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Similar in 79%
Bad Boys (1995)
Plot Summary:
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both 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.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 281000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, entertaining, humorous, exciting, funny, action comedy, action packed, stylized, talky, suspense
Similar in 87%
Running Scared (1986)
Plot Summary:
Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: action comedy, humorous, witty, talky, detective, romantic comedy, cult classic, hilarious, exciting, realistic
Similar in 82%
The 51st State (2001)
Plot Summary:
Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort and his ex-girlfriend and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, funny, witty, stylized, action comedy, dark comedy, perverse
Similar in 77%
The Nice Guys (2016)
Plot Summary:
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 361000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: neo noir, entertaining, buddy comedy, detective, suspense, funny, period piece, action comedy, humorous, stylized
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Cop Out (2010)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Jimmy and Paul, despite nine years as partners, can still sometimes seem like polar opposites – especially when Paul's unpredictable antics get them suspended without pay. Already strapped for cash and trying to pay for his daughter's wedding, Jimmy decides to sell a rare baseball card that's worth tens of thousands. Unfortunately, when the collector's shop is robbed and the card vanishes with the crook, Paul and Jimmy end up going rogue, tracking down the card and the drug ring behind its theft, all on their own time, and without any backup – except for each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, buddy comedy, funny, entertaining, melancholic, absurd, detective, exciting, realistic, talky
Similar in 78%
Renegades (1989)
Plot Summary:
Buster McHenry (Sutherland) is as an undercover agent for the police. His mission involves him in a robbery. Buster gets shot but Hank Storm (Phillips), an Indian, helps Buster. Since Hank wants a spear in the possession of the criminals that Buster is after, they team up.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, intense, rough, serious, retro, cult classic, action thriller, neo noir, black comedy