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10 Best Movies Like There Once Was a Cop

If you loved There Once Was a Cop, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Umbrella Coup

Umbrella Coup

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There Once Was a Cop for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a produc...

#2
Guardian Angels

Guardian Angels

1995★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There Once Was a Cop for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob....

#3
Gangsters

Gangsters

2002★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There Once Was a Cop for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Franck Chaievski and Nina Delgado are two undercover detectives of a French special force trying to identify two corrupts members of the Paris Police Force. Franck is pretending to...

#4
Wrong Cops

Wrong Cops

2013★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There Once Was a Cop for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot....

#5
Johnny Dangerously

Johnny Dangerously

1984★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There Once Was a Cop for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills....

#6
The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There Once Was a Cop for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

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