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Movies that feel likeBad Boys (1995)

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey 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.

If you loved Bad Boys, the closest films we have are Ambulance (2022), 22 Jump Street (2014) and Beverly Hills Cop (1984). All three share Bad Boys' kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is I Went Down (1997).

🍅 46% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Baykinetictensegrittywittyplayfulwarm
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Bad Boys II (2003) · Bad Boys for Life (2020) · Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)

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Ambulance
2022 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 68%★ 6.1action · crime · dramaNetflix

Bay's chaos-cam pushed to its limit in one sprinting LA pursuit

The difference: No comic-relief duo — desperation, not swagger, drives it

Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million.

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22 Jump Street
2014 · dir. Phil Lord
🍅 84%★ 7crime · comedy · actionNetflixParamount+

Partner chemistry so strong the movie jokes about being a bromance

The difference: A self-aware spoof — it mocks the formula Bad Boys plays straight

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.

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Beverly Hills Cop
1984 · dir. Martin Brest
🍅 83%★ 7.4comedy · crime · action

Foot chases, strip clubs and gunfights strung on pure star charisma

The difference: Scrappier 80s scale — one-liners do the work of explosions

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.

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997 · dir. Thomas Jahn
★ 7.8comedy · crime · action

An outlaw two-hander where the friendship outweighs the crime spree

The difference: A German road movie about dying — melancholy under the mayhem

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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The Hitman's Bodyguard
2017 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 44%★ 6.9action · comedy · crimeRent or buy

The same mix in both: momentum, then tension

The difference: Easier on the warmth than Bad Boys

The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.

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Yes, Madam!
1985 · dir. Corey Yuen
🍅 100%★ 6.7action · comedy · crimePrime Video

Gritty where it counts, witty underneath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidden microfilm, wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.

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Pain & Gain
2013 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 49%★ 6.4comedy · crime · actionParamount+Starz

Bay's Miami again — neon sleaze, muscle and criminal overconfidence

The difference: True-crime cringe comedy — the leads are the idiots, not the heroes

Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.

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6 Underground
2019 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 36%★ 6.1action · comedy · thrillerNetflix

Maximum Bayhem — shootouts and wreckage past any point of reason

The difference: All spectacle, no partnership worth caring about

After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.

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Rush Hour 2
2001 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 50%★ 6.7action · comedy · crimeParamount+

A cocky-cop double act whose vacation keeps turning into a case

The difference: Family-friendly punch-ups — none of Bay's mean streak

It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. The boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella.

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Dead Presidents
1995 · dir. Albert Hughes
🍅 47%★ 6.9crime · drama · actionStarz

Both keep coming back to the same thing: male friendship

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Bad Boys does

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

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Pusher 3
2005 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 93%★ 7.3action · thriller · crime

Warm action, and it commits to that

Milo is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday, and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10,000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan.

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I Went Down
1997 · dir. Paddy Breathnach
🍅 84%★ 6.7action · comedy · crimePrime Video

Crime with a pulse of play, in both cases

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?

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