davidh's - Top 10 - Buddy Cop Films List

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The heat is on in this fast paced action-comedy starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street smart Detroit cop tracing down his best friend's killer in Beverly Hills.

Axel quickly learns that his wild style doesn't fit in with the Beverly Hills Police Department, which assigns two officers (Judge Reinhold and John Ashton) to make sure things don't get out of hand. Dragging the stuffy detectives along for the ride, Axel smashes through a huge culture clash in his hilarious, high-speed pursuit of justice.

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Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) is a tough ex-cop turned bounty hunter. Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas (Charles Grodin) is a sensitive accountant who embezzled $15 million from the Mob, gave it to charity, and then jumped bail. Jack's in for a cool $100,000 if he can deliver the Duke from New York to L.A.

on time. And alive. Sounds like just another Midnight Run (a piece of cake in bounty hunter slang), but it turns into a cross-country chase. The FBI is after the Duke to testify - the Mob is after him for revenge - and Walsh is after him to just shut up. If someone else doesn't do the job, the two unlikely partners may end up killing each other in this hilarious, action-filled blockbuster from producer-director Martin Brest.

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Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy), who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery.

This unlikely partnership trades laughs as often as punches as both pursue their separate goals: Cates wants the villains; Hammond wants his money and some much-needed female companionship.

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Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) is no ordinary cop. He's a Mad Max gone maniacal, a man whose killing expertise and suicidal recklessness make him a Lethal Weapon to anyone he works against. Or with.

Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is an easygoing homicide detective with a loving family, a big house and a pension he doesn't want to lose. Imagine Murtaugh's shock when he learns his partner is a guy with nothing left to lose: wild-eyed, burnt-out Martin Riggs.' Lethal Weapon' is the thrill-packed story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one other thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But partnership becomes the key to survival when a routine murder investigation leads to all-out, take-no-prisoners, martial-arts-and-machine-guns war with an international heroin ring.

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Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a Russian cop sent to Chicago to extradite a Russian drug-dealer named Viktor Rostavili (Ed O'Ross), wanted for murder back in the USSR.

When Danko and his prisoner are ambushed by Viktor's gangland friends the Russian escapes, and a veteran police officer is killed. His partner Ridzik (James Belushi), who like Danko now has a personal vendetta against Rostavili, joins forces with the Soviet cop to hunt down the escapee and his gunmen.

Two cops, from very different worlds, must learn to trust each other before they can win a high-stakes battle against a ruthless enemy who threatens to demolish the fragile peace between their countries.

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Ray and Danny (Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal) are the wild men of the Windy City's police force.

The pair's unorthodox methods get results in a tough town - until they come up against Julio Gonzales (Jimmy Smits), a smooth-talking drug dealer who is bucking to become Chicago's first Spanish Godfather. Trying to nail Gonzales, they blow a delicate undercover operation and are sent on a forced vacation to Key West - where they discover the good life of warm weather and warmer women. The new locale makes them decide to retire...but not before putting Gonzales behind bars first!

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When $100 million of seized heroin is stolen from the Miami Police lockup, Detectives Lowrey (Will Smith) and Burnett (Martin Lawrence), Miami's most mismatched cops, are called upon to solve the case before the FBI close their department.

Julie (Tea Leoni) is their only lead to the case, but will only speak to Lowrey. As he is not around when she calls, Burnett impersonates his cool, slick partner. A hilarious role reversal begins in order to retain her trust. From then on, it's a race against time as the trio dodge the mob, and retain their charade while putting pressure on every low-life in Miami's underworld to track down their man.

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Ray Tango (Sylvester Stallone) and Gabe Cash (Kurt Russell) are rival LA. policemen with one thing in common: each thinks he is the best. Team them and they're like oil and water. But frame them for a crime and they're like a match and kerosene.

Stallone and Russell deliver sweaty excitement, sex appeal and outrageous laughs in this action-comedy from the director of Runaway Train. The two stage a prison breakout that's a breathless rush of weapons and wisecracks — then roar after the shadowy crimelord (Jack Palance) who set them up. Tango & Cash are out to clear their names. Join them and feel the rush.

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Convinced that a vicious escaped convict (Aidan Quinn) is determined to see his ex-girlfriend (Madeleine Stowe), a pair of tough undercover cops (Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez) stake out her apartment.

When one of the detectives is drawn into a high-risk romance with the woman under surveillance, the routine assignment heats up, jeopardizing not only the partners' careers...but also their lives.