Buddy Cop Movies
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* 16 Blocks (depressed angry cop, and optimistic criminal)
* 48 Hrs. (1982) and Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
* Alien Nation (human teamed with extraterrestrial)
* Bad Boys and Bad Boys II (playboy teamed with family man)
* Banlieue 13
* Beverly Hills Cop and its sequels (an unorthodox, street-smart cop teams with by-the-book cops)
* Black Rain (American cop teamed with Japanese)
* Blue Streak
* Bon Cop, Bad Cop (French Canadian and English Canadian cops)
* Brooklyn's Finest
* Bulletproof
* Chaos
* Colors
* Collision Course
* Cop and a Half
* Cop Out
* The Corruptor
* Cradle 2 the Grave
* Dead Heat
* Die Hard with a Vengeance (cop paired with electrician)
* Live Free or Die Hard (tough cop paired with computer hacker)
* Dragnet (the 1987 film starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks)
* Fair Game
* Freebie and the Bean (1974)
* The Hidden (an alien cop teamed up with a human cop)
* The Hard Way (an actor teamed with a cop)
* Hawaii Vice (genre parodying series of pornographic films)
* Hollywood Homicide
* Hot Fuzz (genre parody and buddy cop movie by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Strict lawman teamed with silly and over-eager partner.)
* I Spy
* The Glimmer Man
* K9 (human cop and police dog)
* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (small-time crook paired with gay detective)
* Last Action Hero (fictional cop paired with real world boy)
* The Last Boy Scout (not cops, but contains parallel elements of the 'buddy cop' genre- hardened ex-Secret Service agent 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)
* Men in Black (veteran agent must train a young rookie)
* Mercenary (Mercenary paired with a wealthy tycoon)
* Metro
* Midnight Run (bounty hunter teamed with well educated accountant)
* Miami Vice (2006 film based on the television series)
* Mississippi Burning
* Money Train
* National Security
* The Other Guys
* Point Break (young undercover FBI agent paired with seasoned FBI agent)
* Red Heat (Russian cop teamed with American)
* Renegades
* Righteous Kill
* Rising Sun
* The Rookie
* 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
* Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, and Rush Hour 3 (Chinese cop teamed with African-American cop)
* Se7en
* Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights
* Shakedown (1988)
* Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)
* Sherlock Holmes (2009)
* Showtime
* Stakeout
* Starsky & Hutch (streetwise intuitive cop teamed with reserved, intellectual cop)
* Tango & Cash (smooth cop teamed with scruffy cop)
* Taxi
* Theodore Rex (human teamed with dinosaur)
* Training Day (dedicated narcotics cop paired with rookie)
* Turner & Hooch (cop paired with crime dog)
* Wild Wild West (US Army Soldier teamed with US Marshal)
* White Chicks