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Movies that feel likeHot Fuzz (2007)

Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.

If you loved Hot Fuzz, the closest films we have are Starsky & Hutch (2004), The Nice Guys (2016) and The Negotiator (1998). All three share Hot Fuzz's gritty and paranoid feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Save the Green Planet! (2003).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Edgar Wrightgrittykineticwittyplayfulparanoid
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Starsky & Hutch
2004 · dir. Todd Phillips
🍅 63%★ 6.1comedy · crime

Buddy-cop cliches lovingly sent up by two committed idiots

The difference: Spoofs the surface only — no real plot underneath

Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.

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The Nice Guys
2016 · dir. Shane Black
🍅 91%★ 7.4comedy · crime · action

A mismatched duo bumbling into a conspiracy that's bigger than them

The difference: Sleazier 70s LA noir — the laughs come with real melancholy

A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.

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The Negotiator
1998 · dir. F. Gary Gray
★ 7.3action · crime · drama

A framed cop against a conspiracy inside his own force

The difference: Played dead straight — a tense thriller with no jokes

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.

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Now You See Me
2013 · dir. Louis Leterrier
🍅 51%★ 7.2thriller · crimePrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: conspiracy

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

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Save the Green Planet!
2003 · dir. Jang Joon-hwan
🍅 89%★ 7.1comedy · science fiction · crime

Gritty where it counts, witty underneath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Hot Fuzz does

A young man believes that his country's leaders are actually toxic reptilian aliens sent down to launch a takeover of his beloved Earth. So he decides to abduct them and force the truth out on camera in his basement that doubles as a film studio and torture chamber.

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The Heat
2013 · dir. Paul Feig
🍅 66%★ 6.6action · comedy · crime

An uptight overachiever partnered with a foul-mouthed wrecking ball

The difference: Improv-driven riffing, loose where Wright is precise

Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence--and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins, one of Boston P.D.'s "finest," is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut instinct and street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals. Neither has ever had a partner, or a friend for that matter. When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies.

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Miss Congeniality
2000 · dir. Donald Petrie
🍅 42%★ 6.4comedy · crime · actionMaxStarz

A by-the-book agent hilariously wrong for the assignment

The difference: Formula fish-out-of-water — none of Wright's whip-cut craft

When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only female agent at the office, she's chosen to go undercover as the contestant from New Jersey.

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The Legend of Zorro
2005 · dir. Martin Campbell
🍅 27%★ 6action · adventure · western

A reluctant hero dragged back to foil a grand conspiracy

The difference: Family-friendly matinee sincerity, zero satire

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.

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Gone Baby Gone
2007 · dir. Ben Affleck
🍅 94%★ 7.6crime · drama · mysteryParamount+

A tidy community hiding rot that runs to the very top

The difference: Genuinely bleak — the moral weight lands without a laugh

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.

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Baby Driver
2017 · dir. Edgar Wright
🍅 92%★ 7.5action · crimeParamount+

Wright again, cutting action sequences with musical precision

The difference: Sincere crime romance — the parody engine is off

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

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The Dictator
2012 · dir. Larry Charles
🍅 56%★ 6.5comedyParamount+

Common ground: parody

The difference: Trades the grit of Hot Fuzz for an angle of its own

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

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The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008 · dir. Uli Edel
🍅 85%★ 7.3action · crime · dramaPrime Video

Kinetic and paranoid in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the wit than Hot Fuzz

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.

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