Movies like K-9: P.I.

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K-9: P.I. (2002)
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K-9: P.I. (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dooley and his K-9 partner Jerry Lee are ready to retire from the police force. But before he can retire with his pension he must work as a P.I. to find a set of high tech computer chips.
Style: humorous, realistic, exciting, tense, feel good, light, touching, suspense, suspenseful, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dog, german shepherd, investigation, police dog, reluctant partners, private detective, buddy cop, owner dog relationship, partner, police investigation, police detective, odd couple, partners against crime, police operation, destiny, master criminal, working undercover, law enforcement, dishonesty, surprise party, retirement, bad guy, best friend, buddy, canine ...
Time: contemporary
Place: usa
Keyword: partners

Most similar movies to K-9: P.I.

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, action comedy and semi serious films with plots about partner, law enforcement, police, buddy cop, police investigation, police detective and partners against crime mostly in Crime, Comedy and Action genres. Some movies like K-9: P.I.: K-9 (1989), K-911 (1999), A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994), Showtime (2002), Turner & Hooch (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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K-9 (1989)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, action comedy, realistic ...
Audience: manly, kids, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: dog, police dog, buddy cop, german shepherd, justice, friends, police operation, partner, law enforcement, owner dog relationship, canine, animal ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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K-911 (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dooley and his dog Jerry Lee still are active as a police team with the LAPD. However, years starting and counting Captain Roger Byers thinks they urgently need to do something with their condition. He even forces them to work with a second team: ...
Style: action comedy, semi serious, humorous, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: german shepherd, police dog, dog, reluctant partners, buddy cop, canine, pets, police officer, car chase, best friend, funny cop, guy ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, talky, realistic, suspenseful, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: private detective, police investigation, reluctant partners, black, justice, fbi, undercover, investigation, partner, disorder, injustice, who done it ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 65K
Showtime (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 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.
Style: humorous, melancholic, funny, light, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: chase, reluctant partners, police dog, buddy cop, buddy, justice, law enforcement, police, partners against crime, gangster, fish out of water, mentor ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.2
 76K
Turner & Hooch (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some "real" cases, not just misdemeanors. Then Amos Reed is murdered, and Scott Turner sets himself on the case. The closest thing to a ...
Style: light, humorous, touching, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, preschool
Plot: dog, pets, chase, buddy cop, justice, murder, buddy, partner, animal actor, kids and family, police investigation, police ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 3K
Feds (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course, in which they learn to deal with guns and to recognise crimes. They also get a physical training. It appears that Ellie is a real ...
Style: intense, melancholic, semi serious, humorous, action comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: fbi, law enforcement, odd couple, police detective, partners against crime, friendship, partner, women, police investigation, strong female character, female protagonist, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.2
 4K
Top Dog (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: With his cop companion shot and killed by terrorists, Reno The Dog pairs up with tough cop Jake in thwarting the criminal organization.
Style: action comedy, fast, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police dog, buddy cop, dog, racism, buddy, guy, bad guy, canine, bike, aryan brotherhood, police detective, anti hero ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Inspector Rex (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Kommissar Rex is a police procedural drama originally made in Austria and aired from 1994 to 2004. In 2008 the series was revived under Austrian-Italian production, and has since 2009 been made fully in Italy, with occasional episodes set in ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: dog, german shepherd, police, police dog, human animal relationship, murder investigation, chases and races, workplace, investigation, partner, murder, police investigation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: austria, europe, vienna, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Loose Cannons (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, action comedy, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: buddy cop, murder, police investigation, law enforcement, farce, disorder, odd couple, gang, friendship, investigation, partner, buddy ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, germany, washington d.c., europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 11K
City Heat (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but ...
Style: stylized, humorous, cult classic, detective, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: buddy, private detective, buddy cop, gangster, chase, betrayal, organized crime, gunfight, mobster, photographer, brothel, slut ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
National Security (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two mismatched security guards are thrown together to bust a smuggling operation.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, buddy comedy, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: buddy cop, buddy, police, chase, reluctant partners, stereotypes, partner, brutality, redemption, heroes, black, danger ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 5K
Burglar (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As she's ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, chase, bookstore, thief, female protagonist, amateur detective, bisexual man, framed for murder, disguise, motorcycle, investigation, african american protagonist ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.0
 5K
Show Dogs (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Max, a macho, solitary Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover as a primped show dog in a prestigious Dog Show, along with his human partner, to avert a disaster from happening.
Style: funny, humorous, exciting, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: dog, police dog, buddy cop, rottweiler, police, talking animal, partner, top secret, spy, conspiracy, smuggling, puppy love ...
Place: usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: 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.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: buddy cop, police detective, buddy, partner, police, rivalry, law enforcement, justice, cliche, culture clash, investigation, partners against crime ...
Time: 2010s
Place: canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
My New Partner II (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more ...
Style: action comedy, exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, buddy cop, bad guy, guy, prostitute, planting evidence, cop, false accusation, bank, trap, partner, misfit partners ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, normandy, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The Charismatic black nationalist leader Rev Deke O'Malley is trying to sell the people of Harlem a dream. Invest $100 in his company and live in Africa. But cops Gravedigger and Coffin know all about Deke and his fraudulent schemes that take ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, police investigation, odd couple, investigation, buddies, tough law enforcer, partners against crime, dishonesty, master criminal, law enforcement, partner, racial slur ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, cult classic, entertaining, suspense, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: police, buddy cop, gunfight, police investigation, investigation, arms smuggling, heist, car chase, cop, partners against crime, friends, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.6
 924
Payoff (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two very different cops are forced to work together...
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, action comedy, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: buddy cop, buddies, chase, murder, police investigation, partners against crime, law enforcement, danger, reluctant partners, police corruption, gangster, misfit partners ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Movie in collections
 5.9
 11K
Kuffs (1992)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's brother Brad is killed and George inherits Brad's "patrol special" privatized police district and ...
Style: humorous, intense, melancholic, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, murder, parents and children, family life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, breaking the fourth wall, hitman, revenge, police, buddy cop, teenager, canine ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: brazil, latin america, turkey, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.8
 40K
Bulletproof (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: funny, entertaining, semi serious, humorous, buddy comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, buddy, drug lord, betrayal, buddy cop, justice, police, unlikely friendships, adaptation, criminal heroes, working undercover, hidden identity ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Bending The Rules (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Detective Nick Blades is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney Theo Gold is the man in charge of putting him behind bars. When these two unlikely partners from opposite sides of the law stumble onto a criminal plot, ...
Style: humorous, exciting, captivating, tense, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, police corruption, partner, law enforcement, unlikely partners, dishonesty, wrestler, attempted murder, danger, wrestling, buddy cop, villainess ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 76K
Red Heat (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Style: detective, exciting, humorous, black comedy, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: cold war, buddy cop, culture clash, drug dealer, police brutality, buddy, police, gunfight, brutality, manhunt, russian abroad, drug lord ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: chicago, moscow russia, soviet union, ussr, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: LA's finest have crossed the line between Cop and Criminal...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, undercover, gang, fighting crime, heist, dishonesty, master criminal, tough law enforcer, police investigation, partners against crime, law enforcement, working undercover ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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My New Partner III (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Voilà dix ans que les chemins de René et de François se sont séparés. De l'époque glorieuse où, flics, ils écumaient le quartier Montmartre, il ne leur reste qu'une poignée de souvenirs, l'argent de leurs ripouseries ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot: mistaken identity, police corruption, police detective, partner, disorder, buddies, law enforcement, odd couple, dishonesty, misfit partners, chinese mafia, guy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Armed and Dangerous (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dooley, a cop wrongly sacked for corruption, teams up with a useless defence lawyer in their new careers... as security guards. When the two are made fall guys for a robbery at a location they are guarding, the pair begin to investigate corruption ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, not serious, exciting, parody ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: corruption, heist, gunfight, friendship, justice, on the run, nothing goes right, partners against crime, witnessing a crime, guard dog, female bodybuilder, private detective ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.9
 63K
Ride Along 2 (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 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.
Style: buddy comedy, funny, humorous, action comedy, hilarious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: buddy, undercover cop, partners against crime, law enforcement, corruption, police investigation, chase, wedding, drug, buddy cop, partner, escapades ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, miami, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.6
 2K
Rent-a-Cop (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When call-girl Della gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber that busted in on the drug agents and the drug dealers. She gets rescued by vice cop Church who is accused of ...
Style: suspenseful, intense, serious, neo noir, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, brutality, murder, twists and turns, fighting crime, witnessing a crime, cons and scams, police officer, prostitute, police investigation, cop, christmas ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Another Stakeout (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, buddy cop, odd couple, partner, cop, disorder, fall in love, gangster, buddies, law enforcement, witnessing a crime, goofy hero ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, seattle, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.5
 27K
The Man (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vanns way
Style: funny, intense, action comedy, parody, absurd ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: mistaken identity, buddy, dumb, buddy cop, twists and turns, chases and races, car chase, fight scenes, goofy hero, runaway, stereotypes, foul language ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, absurd, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, buddies, buddy, police, law enforcement, cocaine, buddy cop, mad scientist, satire, police investigation, gunfight, chase ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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