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10 Best Movies Like 48 Hrs.

If you loved 48 Hrs., we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Tango & Cash

Tango & Cash

1989★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 48 Hrs. for fans of Crime & Action & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income they have caused him, plots an ...

#2
Shot Caller

Shot Caller

2017★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 48 Hrs. for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California....

#3
Another 48 Hrs.

Another 48 Hrs.

1990★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 48 Hrs. for fans of Crime & Action & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man h...

#4
Copshop

Copshop

2021★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 48 Hrs. for fans of Crime & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man turns up at the precinct, an unsuspe...

#5
Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon

1987★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 48 Hrs. for fans of Crime & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces....

#6
Guns Up

Guns Up

2025★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 48 Hrs. for fans of Crime & Action & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When a job goes horribly wrong, an ex-cop and family man who moonlights as a mob henchman has one night to get his family out of the city....

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