Movies like Beverly Hills Cop

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Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
 7.4
 200K
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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.
Style: buddy comedy, humorous, funny, exciting, witty, entertaining, cult classic, hilarious, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: police, car chase, fish out of water, buddy cop, buddy, reluctant partners, undercover, investigation, death of friend, law enforcement, damsel in distress, gunfight, cop, verbal byplay, culture clash, partners against crime, drug smuggling, police brutality, drug dealing, art, fight scenes, black hero, robbery, police investigation, vigilante ...
Time: year 1984, 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, detroit, beverly hills, usa, michigan, california
Keyword: buddy movie, reboot, gangsters, oldies, partners

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Most similar movies to Beverly Hills Cop

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, exciting and action comedy films with plots about police, shootout, chase, partner, violence, gangster and buddy mostly in Action, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like Beverly Hills Cop: Showtime (2002), Bad Boys II (2003), Another 48 Hrs. (1990), Rush Hour 2 (2001), Cop Out (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 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%
 6.6
 266K
Bad Boys II (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: funny, entertaining, stylized, exciting, action comedy ...
Audience: manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: buddy cop, police, drug lord, car chase, gunfight, chase, partner, gangster, law enforcement, friendship between men, foul language, buddy ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: miami, florida, iran, usa, puerto rico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
75%
Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: black comedy, detective, neo noir, action comedy, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: buddy cop, prison, buddy, motorcycle, biker, bar fight, revenge, investigation, corrupt cop, ex convict, drug lord, police ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 237K
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, exciting, action comedy, funny ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: martial arts, buddy, kung fu, buddy cop, kick-butt women, police investigation, partner, culture clash, chase, odd couple, gang, good versus evil ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, las vegas, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 90K
Cop Out (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, buddy comedy, funny, entertaining, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: police, law enforcement, buddy, police investigation, buddy cop, gangster, chase, justice, money laundering, police officer, robbery, rescue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 88K
Blue Streak (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: funny, exciting, detective, humorous, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, african american, law enforcement, farce, police station, police officer, safecracker, impersonating a police officer, police, chase, bank robbery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, latin america, usa, mexico
⇓ 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%
Movie in collections
 7.6
 275K
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspense, exciting, humorous, entertaining, action packed ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police, gunfight, reluctant partners, chase, buddy, car chase, female nudity, police investigation, police partner, police officer, cop, partners against crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, vietnam, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.3
 188K
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: entertaining, action packed, suspense, action comedy, saga ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: buddy cop, buddies, buddy, police, chase, car chase, revenge, gunfight, cop, partner, home invasion, vigilante ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, south africa, africa, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.9
 85K
48 Hrs. (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Style: exciting, detective, funny, neo noir, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, teens, adult
Plot: prison, buddy cop, reluctant partners, cop, tough cop, violence, revenge, buddy, police investigation, law enforcement, tough guy, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 2K
Hollow Point (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 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.
Style: exciting, humorous, entertaining, light, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, espionage, reluctant partners, hitman, fbi, undercover, rivalry, danger, race against time, law enforcement, special agent, buddy cop ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 292K
Rush Hour (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, funny, buddy comedy, exciting, action comedy ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police, kung fu, reluctant partners, fight scenes, buddy cop, two man army, buddy, chase, african american, triad, fbi ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1997
Place: los angeles, china, california, hong kong, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.4
 369K
The Nice Guys (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Style: neo noir, entertaining, buddy comedy, detective, suspense ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, corruption, conspiracy, father daughter relationship, private investigator, bare breasts, buddy cop, buddy, single father, murder, justice ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 70s, 90s, year 1977 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.8
 284K
Bad Boys (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: buddy comedy, humorous, exciting, funny, action comedy ...
Audience: manly, girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot: two man army, drug lord, buddy, buddy cop, partners against crime, law enforcement, police, police corruption, police investigation, murder, african american, murder investigation ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: miami, florida, usa, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: action comedy, detective, suspense, funny, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: police, amusement park, revenge, secret service, gunfight, investigation, cop, black, vengeance, vigilante, die hard, car chase ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: beverly hills, los angeles, california, usa, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.5
 94K
Midnight Run (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An accountant embezzles $15 million of mob money, jumps bail and is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia.
Style: road movie, funny, talky, humorous, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: road trip, on the road, buddy, organized crime, hitman, gangster, chase, bounty hunter, train, car chase, race against time, police surveillance ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, new york, arizona, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: reluctant partners, chase, partners against crime, hollywood, murder, buddy, hip hop, man dressed as a woman, police investigation, police, gunfight, buddy cop ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.8
 533K
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 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. ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, dark comedy, hilarious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: murder, police, partner, conspiracy, chase, buddy, buddy cop, cop, small town, secret society, gunfight, investigation ...
Time: year 2007, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.7
 178K
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: entertaining, suspense, action packed, action comedy, saga ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: buddy cop, police, buddy, vigilante, reluctant partners, gangster, gunfight, cop, car chase, explosions, partner, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.3
 51K
The 51st State (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, chemist, organized crime, gangster, drug lord, culture clash, drug, golf, drug dealing, car chase, gang war, partner ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 70s
Place: england, los angeles, liverpool, northern england, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 14K
Dark Angel (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: detective, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, drug lord, heroin, police investigation, buddy cop, evil alien, investigation, good versus evil, humanoid alien, tough cop, space and aliens, alien ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: houston texas, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 43K
Money Train (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares; his foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.
Style: melancholic, suspense, intense, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, train robbery, subway, buddy cop, perfect crime, new year's eve, arson, bank robbery, happy ending, robbery, caper, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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.
Style: dark comedy, entertaining, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gunfight, assassin, suburbs, hitman, secretary, high school reunion, small town, radio dj, psychiatrist, therapy, sniper, killer ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 80s, 90s
Place: michigan, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 122K
Ride Along (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: buddy comedy, funny, humorous, action comedy, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: two man army, police, law enforcement, escapades, gunfight, buddy cop, car chase, gangster, partner, black, kidnapping, disorder ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 31K
Money Talks (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 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.
Style: humorous, light, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, murder, journalism, frame up, media, mexican standoff, partner, protagonist as suspect, chases and races, buddies, law enforcement, buddy ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 14K
Bitch Slap (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three bad girls (a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker) arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort and steal $200 Million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin.
Style: sexy, grindhouse, stylized, bloody, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: lesbian, femme fatale, anti heroine, female martial artist, anti hero, female protagonist, gratuitous violence, crime gone awry, adaptation, brutality, culture clash, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, action comedy, funny, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: stripper, buddy, american football, football, reluctant partners, private detective, murder, corruption, buddy cop, strip club, conspiracy, ex law enforcer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
100%
 6.5
 15K
Running Scared (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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.
Style: action comedy, talky, witty, humorous, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: buddy, buddy cop, police, car chase, cop, chase, police investigation, violence, police officer, partner, undercover, lawyer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago, florida, key west florida, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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