Buddy Cop Film - Buddy Cop Films From US Cinema

Buddy Cop Films From US Cinema

• 16 Blocks (depressed angry cop, and optimistic criminal)
• 21 Jump Street (geeky cop and cool cop)
• 48 Hrs. (1982) and Another 48 Hrs. (1990) (sloppy cop with slick convict)
• Alien Nation (human teamed with extraterrestrial)
• Armed and Dangerous (Fired cop and inept lawyer become security guards)
• Bad Boys and Bad Boys II (playboy teamed with family man)
• Beverly Hills Cop and its sequels (an unorthodox, street-smart cop teams with by-the-book cops)
• Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (FBI agent teams with his stepson)
• Black Rain (American cop teamed with Japanese)
• Blue Streak (ex-con impersonating an officer and a newly appointed detective)
• Brooklyn's Finest
• Bulletproof (undercover cop teams with a carjacker he befriended)
• Chaos
• Colors (rookie L.A. cop paired with a veteran L.A. cop)
• Collision Course
• Common Law
• Cop and a Half (child witness teamed with veteran)
• Cop Out (veteran partners who are constantly annoyed by each other)
• The Corruptor (American rookie cop paired with a veteran Chinese cop)
• Cradle 2 the Grave (Taiwanese cop teams up with an African-American jewel thief)
• Dead Heat
• Die Hard series – not strictly in this genre, but includes three films with a similar concept:
  • Die Hard with a Vengeance (NYC cop John McClane paired with electrician)
  • Live Free or Die Hard (McClane paired with computer hacker)
  • A Good Day to Die Hard (McClane paired with cop son)
• Double Impact (not cops; twin brothers team up to find their parents' killers in Hong Kong)
• Double Team (not cops; counter-terrorism agent paired with an arms dealer)
• Downtown (a suburban patrolman teamed with a city cop)
• Dragnet (the 1987 film starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks)
• Fair Game
• Freebie and the Bean (1974)
• The Gauntlet (tough alcoholic cop paired with female convict)
• The Glimmer Man (L.A. police partners who use different methods)
• The Good Guys (outdated maverick & by-the-book rookie)
• Hickey & Boggs (alcoholic, maverck police partners hunting a kidnapper)
• The Hidden (an alien cop teamed up with a human cop)
• The Hard Way (an actor teamed with a cop)
• Hawaii Vice (series of pornographic films that parody the buddy-cop genre)
• Hellbound (Chicago police partners on a mission in Israel)
• Hard Boiled (a cop inspector teamed up with an undercover cop)
• Hollywood Homicide (aging veteran L.A. cop paired with younger cop who wants to be an actor)
• I Come in Peace (originally known as "Dark Angel", a maverick police detective is paired up with a "by the book" FBI agent on the trails of an alien drug dealer)
• I Spy (no cops; secret agent teams up with a championship boxer)
• Invictus (white and black bodyguards are paired to protect Nelson Mandela)
• K-9 (human cop and police dog)
• The Killer (1989) (a hitman pairs up with a policeman who tries to hunt him down)
• Kindergarten Cop Two L.A. detectives set a trap for a drug dealer who is stalking his ex-wife in a small town in Oregon.
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (small-time crook paired with gay detective)
• Knock Off (film) (tailor paired with CIA agents on a mission in Hong Kong)
• Last Action Hero (fictional cop paired with real world boy)
• The Last Boy Scout (hardened ex-Secret Service agent turned private detective teams up with disgraced American Football star)
• The Lethal Weapon series (by-the-book family man teamed with maverick)
• Life On Mars (Sam Tyler's 21st century policing methods conflict with the unprofessional methods of Gene Hunt)
• Loose Cannons
• The Man (2005 film)
• Marked for Death (ex-D.E.A. agent turned vigilante teamed with his old Army buddy)
• Maximum Risk (French cop paired with the girlfriend of his late twin brother)
• Men in Black (Tough guy senior agent of a top secret agency recruits young renegade urban cop)
• Mercenary (Mercenary paired with a wealthy tycoon)
• Metro (wacky police hostage negotiator paired with a tough S.W.A.T. team member)
• Midnight Run (bounty hunter teamed with well educated accountant)
• Miami Vice (2006 film based on the television series)
• Money Train (foster brothers/police partners paired with a Latino cop)
• National Security (disgraced former cop teamed up with wannabe who got him into trouble)
• The Other Guys (nerdy accountant-type cop teamed with aggressive, case breaking cop)
• Point Break (young undercover FBI agent paired with seasoned FBI agent)
• Red Heat (Russian cop teamed with American cop)
• Renegades (American cop paired with a Native American civilian)
• Replicant (film) (cop paired with the human clone of a killer he's obsessed with catching)
• Righteous Kill (vetern police partners pursuing a vigilante they busted years ago)
• Rising Sun
• The Rookie (stressed out, nervous rookie cop paired with seasoned Veteran cop)
• The Rundown (not cops, but a similar idea: a bounty hunter must team up with the target he was originally put in charge of finding)
• Running Scared (retiring cops find themselves having to make one final arrest)
• Rush Hour series (professional Chinese cop teamed with a loudmouth and obnoxious African-American cop)
  • Rush Hour
  • Rush Hour 2
  • Rush Hour 3
• Se7en (educated cop about to retire teamed up with young, eager cop)
• Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights (no cops; Chinese- American former palace guard teamed up with American outlaw)
• Shakedown (1988)
• Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) (strong, tough American cop paired with Euroasian cop)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009) (two intelligent detectives, one sensible, one slightly eccentric, teamed up)
• Shoot to Kill (1988) (black FBI agent teams up with white outdoorsman to catch a killer in the Washington wilderness)
• Showtime
• Stakeout
• Starsky & Hutch (streetwise intuitive cop teamed with reserved, intellectual cop)
• Stray Dog (stressed out rookie teamed with streetwise, seasoned cop)
• Tango & Cash (smooth cop teamed with scruffy cop)
• Taxi (2004) – Remake of the 1998 French film of the same title (see "Non-US films" below). Not strictly a buddy cop film, but a similar concept.
• Theodore Rex (human teamed with dinosaur)
• Top Dog (maverick human cop teamed with a smart German Shepherd)
• Training Day (corrupt narcotics cop paired with idealistic rookie)
• Turner & Hooch (cop paired with crime dog)
• Wild Wild West (US Army Soldier teamed with US Marshal)
• White Chicks (black FBI agents and brothers disguised as white women)