Movies like Lethal Weapon 2
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Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
180K
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 Murtaugh's toilet, the action explodes!
Style:
buddy movie, entertaining, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, sentimental, funny, sincere, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
buddy cop, police, buddies, revenge, car chase, gunfight, chase, buddy, suspense, home invasion, police officer, law enforcement, lone hero, maverick cop, gangsters, secret service, love affair, dog, fight, violence, female nudity, kidnapping, death, torture, betrayal ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, south africa, africa, california, usa
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Most similar movies to Lethal Weapon 2
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, entertaining, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about police, revenge, chase, shot in the chest, violence, gangsters and murder mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Lethal Weapon 2: Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Bad Boys for Life (2020), Bad Boys (1995), Red Heat (1988), The Nice Guys (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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264K
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:
buddy movie, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
police, chase, gunfight, reluctant partners, police officer, suspense, car chase, female nudity, police investigation, buddy, partners against crime, verbal byplay ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
Style:
buddy comedy, humorous, funny, exciting, witty ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
police, car chase, investigation, undercover, fish out of water, buddy cop, maverick cop, gunfight, murder, damsel in distress, law enforcement, verbal byplay ...
Time:
year 1984, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, beverly hills, michigan, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
buddy movie, entertaining, exciting, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
buddy cop, police, buddies, suspense, gangsters, gunfight, buddy, car chase, vigilante, police investigation, law enforcement, foul language ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Marcus Burnett is now a police inspector and Mike Lowery is in a midlife crisis. They unite again when an Albanian mercenary, whose brother they killed, promises them an important bonus.
Style:
buddy comedy, humorous, entertaining, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
police, police detective, tough guy, buddy cop, police partner, chase, police officer, race against time, investigation, friendship between men, undercover cop, nightclub ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
florida, usa, north america, mexico city, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In the combustible action franchise's final installment, maverick detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh square off against Asian mobster Wah Sing Ku, who's up to his neck in slave trading and counterfeit currency. With help from ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, humorous, buddy movie, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
police, buddy cop, car chase, buddies, gangsters, fight, buddy, fight scenes, police investigation, foul language, secret service, police officer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, hong kong, usa, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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272K
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:
humorous, buddy comedy, entertaining, exciting, funny ...
Audience:
girls' night, manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
two man army, drug lord, partners against crime, buddies, buddy cop, black cop, law enforcement, police, police investigation, police corruption, murder, undercover ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
miami, florida, usa, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
73K
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:
humorous, exciting, suspenseful, rough, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
culture clash, cold war, buddy cop, drug dealer, police brutality, police officer, police, gunfight, brutality, manhunt, showdown, russian abroad ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, moscow russia, los angeles, california, ussr ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
337K
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, buddy comedy, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
investigation, conspiracy, private detective, corruption, private investigator, murder, father daughter relationship, party, teenage girl, suspense, single father, female nudity ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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108K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught ...
Style:
intense, buddy movie, realistic, rough, semi serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
prison, police detective, reluctant partners, buddies, police, law enforcement, buddy cop, prisoner, prison escape, organized crime, escape, buddy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
256K
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, humorous, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
buddy cop, gunfight, police, drug lord, car chase, chase, gangsters, buddies, fight, partners, law enforcement, foul language ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
miami, florida, cuba, usa, north america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, ...
Style:
entertaining, suspenseful, intense, buddy movie, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, police officer, heist, terrorism, police, bomb, twists and turns, lone hero, race against time, car chase, revenge, suspense ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, california, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
funny, humorous, epic, light, buddy movie ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
police, buddy cop, revenge, undercover, investigation, gunfight, suspense, amusement park, vengeance, violence, car chase, death ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
beverly hills, los angeles, california, usa, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
188K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send ...
Style:
exciting, intense, surprise ending, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
manly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, extreme sport, special agents, gang, surfer, extreme sports, surfing, gangsters, undercover, robbery, fbi, suspense ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, hawaii, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, entertaining, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
hacker, gunfight, terrorism, police officer, tough cop, geek, lone hero, technology, hacking, computer hacker, car chase, fbi ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, maryland, los angeles, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
276K
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, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, police, reluctant partners, fight scenes, kung fu, two man army, buddy cop, chase, fbi, culture clash, african american, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place:
los angeles, california, hong kong, china, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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81K
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:
humorous, exciting, buddy movie, funny, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, teens, adult
Plot:
prison, buddy cop, tough cop, revenge, villain, violence, police investigation, law enforcement, tough guy, police officer killed, fight, murder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
Style:
buddy movie, suspenseful, perverse, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, police, murder, female nudity, buddy cop, investigation, serial killer, kidnapping, violence, police officer, police investigation, terrorism ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son ...
Style:
intense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
martial arts, hospital, revenge, suspense, murder, corruption, chase, corrupt official, coma, fight, intrigue, against the odds ...
Time:
80s, year 1990, year 1983, 90s
Place:
los angeles, chicago illinois, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives ...
Style:
stylized, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, police, police corruption, aikido, betrayal, kidnapping, police investigation, martial arts, gangsters, secret service, justice, suspense ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
Style:
serious, sexy, exciting, tense, ridiculous ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
martial arts, chase, revenge, vigilantism, police, suspense, gangsters, fighting crime, drug dealing, rivalry, partners, working undercover ...
Time:
80s
Place:
san francisco, hong kong, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Rush Hour related movies
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it ...
Style:
exciting, rough, tense, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, mob boss, organized crime, police detective, partners against crime, law enforcement, corruption, revenge, police brutality, power struggle, partners ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1949, 50s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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:
buddy movie, talky, humorous, witty, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
buddy cop, police, police officer, buddies, car chase, buddy, fight, chase, gunfight, police investigation, violence, undercover ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, florida, new jersey, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
141K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style:
neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
vengeance, organized crime, revenge, betrayal, gangsters, money, mafia, heist, greed, robbery, prostitute, suspense ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
75K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.
Style:
slasher, intense, melancholic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
gang, serial killer, murder, car chase, car, hostage, police investigation, violence, suspense, tough cop, rivalry, chase ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
114K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
betrayal, conspiracy, rogue agent, gunfight, suspense, treason, witness protection program, corporate crime, witness, police investigation, deception, justice ...
Time:
20th century, future, 90s, 80s, year 1996
Place:
new york, maryland, usa, san francisco, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seagal is Nico Toscani, an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist, and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice: expert and thorough bone-crushing.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, conspiracy, aikido, corruption, police officer, suspense, brutality, vengeance, undercover, drug dealing, cia, police ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago illinois, vietnam, usa, california, japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a ...
Style:
buddy movie, intense, entertaining, semi serious, neo noir ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
hostage, chase, police investigation, violence, rescue, car chase, pitbull, brutality, suspense, car, buddy cop, kidnapping ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
131K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
suspense, kidnapping, hostage, child abduction, gangsters, ransom, reward, child in peril, police corruption, revenge, twists and turns, rescue ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style:
exciting, intense, melancholic, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, police officer, fight, mafia, police, revenge, gangsters, chase, hitman, police investigation, justice, car chase ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago illinois, texas, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
Style:
exciting, intense, brutal, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, corruption, hitman, mercenary, dark hero, organized crime, tough law enforcer, conspiracy, betrayal, murder, death, police corruption ...
Time:
80s, future, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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