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Plot Summary:
Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New York City Police Capt. Brix, who by chance is one of his fans. Nick will be paired with detective Lt. John Moss and learn how to act like a real cop. But when Nick drives John crazy with questions and imitating him, he gets in the way of John's pursuit of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: detective, talky, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspense, action comedy, anamorphic
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Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)
Plot Summary:
When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of the crime is shared between the two police forces and detectives David Bouchard from Montreal and Martin Ward from Toronto are assigned to work together. With totally different styles, attitudes and languages.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: intense, exciting, semi serious, action comedy, realistic, suspenseful, parody, crying, humorous, funny
Similar in 77%
Freebie and the Bean (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: black comedy, action comedy, neo noir, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, buddy comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 90%
Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ward and Bouchard must face an important car theft ring that turns out to be a lot more than they bargained for: one where the stolen cars will serve as bombs in a well planned terrorist attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: witty, exciting, humorous, stylized, intense, semi serious, action comedy
Similar in 79%
Another Stakeout (1993)
Plot Summary:
Chris and Bill are called upon for their excellent surveillance record to stakeout a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading or already hiding. Unlike their earlier _Stakeout_, this time they are accompanied by Gina Garret from the DA's office and her pet rottweiler 'Archie'; their cover, husband and wife with son Bill.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, funny, light, melancholic, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, action comedy
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Loose Cannons (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mac, the two fisted savy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burn out, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is, Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning fast deductions. But, he keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, action comedy, light, entertaining, absurd, detective, realistic, semi serious, fast
Similar in 78%
Enid Is Sleeping (1990)
Plot Summary:
Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the authorities, including her police-officer husband Floyd. Then she decides to reveal Enid's demise, albeit rearranging the damning evidence to make the whole thing look like the accident it really was.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, surprise ending, twist ending
Similar in 79%
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Plot Summary:
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 159000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: light, funny, humorous, detective, sincere, surprise ending, crying, suspense, cute, hilarious
Similar in 81%
K-9 (1989)
Plot Summary:
The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, action comedy, realistic, detective, romantic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, entertaining
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Half Baked (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, hood, slapstick comedy, mysterious, black comedy, independent film
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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
Similar in 77%
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
Plot Summary:
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the "Wilderness Girls" cookie drive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, spoof, absurd, exciting, feel good, witty, funny, satirical, not serious
Similar in 77%
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 76%
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Plot Summary:
Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, entertaining, satirical, hilarious, not serious, exciting, realistic, action packed
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Men at Work (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two garbage men find the body of a city councilman in a trash can on their route. With help from a supervisor, the duo must solve the case and find the man's killer while hiding the body from the cops.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, intense, exciting, feel good, realistic, semi serious, light, buddy comedy, action comedy
Similar in 86%
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 79%
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 83%
Ride Along 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
As his wedding day approaches, Ben heads to Miami with his soon-to-be brother-in-law James to bring down a drug dealer who's supplying the dealers of Atlanta with product.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, funny, humorous, action comedy, hilarious, entertaining, not serious, exciting, light, feel good
Similar in 84%
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 78%
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 75%
A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
Plot Summary:
A black detective becomes embroiled in a web of danger while searching for a fortune in missing drug money. During the course of his investigation, he encounters various old connections, ultimately confronting the criminal responsible for Shame's expulsion from the force. He must also deal with two women, Angela, a beautiful old flame, and Peaches, his energetic but annoying sidekick.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, realistic, suspenseful, action comedy, suspense, retro, clever, black comedy, hood
Similar in 82%
The Glimmer Man (1996)
Plot Summary:
A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in the metro area, Cole is assigned to the case, along with tough-talking fellow cop Jim Campbell. Although the two men clash, they gradually become effective partners as they uncover a conspiracy linked to the killings, which also involves terrorism and organized crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, action comedy, detective, perverse
Similar in 81%
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 79%
21 Jump Street (2012)
Plot Summary:
In high school, Schmidt was a dork and Jenko was the popular jock. After graduation, both of them joined the police force and ended up as partners riding bicycles in the city park. Since they are young and look like high school students, they are assigned to an undercover unit to infiltrate a drug ring that is supplying high school students synthetic drugs.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 589000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, buddy comedy, humorous, not serious, entertaining, hilarious, witty, action comedy, sex comedy
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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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Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
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
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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 84%
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 80%
CHiPS (2017)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers as they make their rounds on the freeways of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, humorous, entertaining, intense, funny, action comedy, exciting, surprise ending, black comedy, freeze frame
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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
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The Heat (2013)
Plot Summary:
Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence--and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins, one of Boston P.D.'s "finest," is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut instinct and street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals. Neither has ever had a partner, or a friend for that matter. When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: Buddies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 179000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, humorous, action comedy, light, slapstick, hilarious, detective, captivating, black comedy, romantic