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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 Pusher 3 (2005). 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 Flickering Lights (2000).

🍅 46% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Baykinetictensegrittywittyplayfulwarm
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Paramount Plus Premium · Starz

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

Both land momentum and tension at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: male friendship

The difference: Easier on the tension than Bad Boys

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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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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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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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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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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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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Flickering Lights
2000 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
🍅 70%★ 7.5action · comedy · crime

Common ground: male friendship

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

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

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The Yards
2000 · dir. James Gray
🍅 64%★ 6.4crime · drama · thrillerParamount+

The same mix in both: grit, then warmth

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Bad Boys does

In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.

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The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · dir. Lau Kar-leung
🍅 85%★ 7.5action · comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-hung is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-hung must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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