Buddy Cop Movies, a list by Riz

7.8

/535151/

79

/16591/

75

/7225/

4.1

/575369/

91

/205/

Audience

89

/566545/

81

/37/

age 17+

Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.

79

7.6

/276294/

78

/9110/

72

/4294/

3.7

/122312/

80

/55/

Audience

86

/344994/

68

/23/

4.0

age 16+

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.

79

7.6

/184824/

76

/6346/

72

/3449/

3.8

/148512/

86

/58/

Audience

84

/177172/

76

/13/

3.5

age 13+

When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

78

7.3

/95595/

74

/2455/

69

/1132/

3.7

/39578/

94

/139/

Audience

81

/26137/

78

/29/

3.5

age 16+

When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang.

76

7.4

/373128/

73

/21857/

71

/7601/

3.8

/729490/

91

/325/

Audience

79

/57519/

70

/51/

3.0

age 17+

A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.

75

7.4

/203027/

76

/7420/

72

/3761/

3.6

/117832/

83

/52/

Audience

82

/378025/

66

/11/

age 16+

Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.

75

7.3

/188749/

75

/6544/

70

/3212/

3.6

/67270/

82

/44/

Audience

77

/251145/

70

/21/

3.5

age 16+

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!

74

7.2

/598308/

73

/19761/

68

/9957/

3.6

/621082/

85

/229/

Audience

83

/258397/

69

/41/

3.0

age 16+

When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go under cover as high-school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. But, as time goes on, Schmidt and Jenko discover that high school is nothing like it was just a few years earlier -- and, what's more, they must again confront the teenage terror and anxiety they thought they had left behind.

74

6.9

/85235/

71

/2369/

66

/1378/

3.4

/40246/

92

/51/

Audience

69

/75273/

71

/8/

3.5

age 16+

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

73

6.9

/16590/

71

/272/

66

/201/

3.4

/4586/

88

/34/

Audience

79

/9849/

3.0

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.

75

73

7.0

/7754/

74

/348/

69

/186/

3.5

/7066/

90

/10/

Audience

79

/617/

When an old collaborator gets severely injured, a veteran policeman tries to figure out the way to bring to justice the ultimately suspected aggressor, a spoiled young executive, heir to a mega corporation, who believes he is above the law.

71

6.8

/17127/

69

/282/

62

/247/

3.3

/5308/

89

/19/

Audience

75

/12180/

58

/22/

3.5

An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage.

71

70

6.7

/13159/

71

/427/

64

/194/

3.1

/4622/

80

/10/

Audience

82

/20418/

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.

69

7.0

/294555/

73

/10055/

70

/4576/

3.5

/237289/

62

/77/

Audience

78

/902870/

61

/23/

3.0

age 14+

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.

69

6.7

/28515/

69

/497/

64

/371/

3.2

/8082/

89

/27/

Audience

56

/19180/

69

/14/

3.0

Two cops are given the 'dirty' job of staking out the home of an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend. Chris and the beautiful girlfriend accidentally meet and fall in love. Just as Chris confesses, the convict appears, but will she betray him ?

69

6.5

/175118/

70

/13691/

71

/7766/

2.9

/115159/

76

/267/

Audience

96

/7825/

59

/46/

2.5

age 16+

Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

66

6.6

/288270/

68

/8351/

63

/3970/

3.2

/225085/

79

/211/

Audience

60

/161132/

64

/35/

age 14+

Unlike their heroic counterparts on the force, desk-bound NYPD detectives Gamble and Hoitz garner no headlines as they work day to day. When a seemingly minor case turns out to be a big deal, the two cops get the opportunity to finally prove to their comrades that they have the right stuff.

69

66

6.6

/4415/

74

/377/

62

/107/

3.2

/1727/

75

/8/

Audience

73

/301/

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.

66

6.6

/181251/

70

/8587/

66

/3791/

3.0

/100946/

66

/183/

Audience

71

/167123/

60

/37/

3.0

age 17+

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.

66

6.3

/22284/

67

/526/

61

/387/

3.1

/7563/

75

/24/

Audience

53

/11261/

3.5

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.

63

6.7

/178463/

72

/5566/

67

/2750/

3.2

/50179/

58

/48/

Audience

61

/239050/

40

/26/

3.0

age 16+

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.

63

6.5

/14989/

70

/352/

60

/183/

3.2

/8179/

63

/24/

Audience

58

/8408/

49

/14/

3.0

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.

62

6.8

/286260/

73

/11522/

67

/5922/

3.2

/149516/

43

/67/

Audience

78

/661219/

41

/24/

age 16+

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowry is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they 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.

61

6.1

/76014/

65

/1936/

62

/1375/

3.0

/22215/

69

/26/

Audience

37

/37152/

61

/13/

3.0

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.

60

6.7

/13816/

71

/420/

69

/304/

3.4

/4481/

43

/21/

Audience

67

/6180/

38

/7/

Detective Sergeant Ma Jun, known for dispensing his own brand of justice during arrests, teams up with an undercover cop, Wilson, to try and bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before mainland China's takeover of Hong Kong. Jun pursues the gang tirelessly, sometimes ignoring police protocols. A showdown is inevitable!

59

6.1

/154509/

62

/2975/

58

/2198/

2.8

/65975/

63

/194/

Audience

49

/383937/

55

/40/

3.0

age 14+

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.

58

6.0

/37438/

66

/852/

59

/449/

2.9

/13757/

50

/36/

Audience

41

/35232/

62

/17/

3.0

age 15+

LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.

58

6.2

/51382/

69

/4879/

66

/1223/

2.7

/41272/

42

/231/

Audience

79

/1110/

42

/37/

2.0

age 16+

After crashing his car, a cop who's recovering from eye surgery recruits an Uber driver to help him catch a heroin dealer. The mismatched pair soon find themselves in for a wild day of stakeouts and shootouts as they encounter the city's seedy side.

58

6.6

/172199/

71

/5079/

65

/2495/

3.1

/44907/

52

/67/

Audience

64

/254837/

39

/21/

2.0

age 16+

Officers Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh of the Los Angeles Police Department must stop a dangerous crime lord from China from getting his brother out of jail.

55

6.2

/76323/

67

/2046/

63

/1223/

3.0

/35312/

50

/28/

Audience

51

/190096/

36

/17/

age 11+

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. When Amos Reed is murdered, Scott sets himself on the case, but the closest thing to a witness to the murder is Reed's dog, Hooch, which Scott has to take care of—to avoid Hooch being 'put to sleep'.

55

6.3

/16661/

67

/510/

60

/278/

3.1

/5627/

53

/32/

Audience

44

/15937/

45

/10/

2.0

A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine.

55

6.5

/130330/

71

/4661/

64

/2232/

3.2

/49377/

46

/39/

Audience

57

/276399/

48

/11/

1.0

age 16+

Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.

55

6.1

/20705/

65

/524/

63

/441/

3.1

/9209/

33

/9/

Audience

51

/10278/

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.

55

54

6.1

/13826/

66

/408/

59

/271/

3.1

/7727/

38

/29/

Audience

46

/4656/

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...

54

6.4

/113515/

68

/2724/

64

/1804/

3.1

/35619/

31

/49/

Audience

52

/60210/

41

/15/

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 with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.

53

6.1

/19139/

66

/321/

60

/256/

2.9

/3626/

48

/48/

Audience

43

/9714/

56

/23/

1.5

Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.

53

6.6

/267092/

71

/9579/

66

/5088/

3.1

/112154/

23

/185/

Audience

78

/502302/

38

/34/

1.0

age 18+

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.

51

6.3

/50916/

69

/4845/

63

/1306/

2.7

/20151/

48

/83/

Audience

42

/193/

48

/16/

1.0

age 17+

Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.

51

6.0

/35607/

65

/1129/

61

/914/

2.8

/10011/

30

/10/

Audience

44

/53169/

44

/11/

2.0

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...

50

6.2

/97606/

67

/5418/

65

/2195/

2.5

/56799/

36

/87/

Audience

51

/383/

49

/20/