Best Action Comedy
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1.
Hot Shots! Part Deux
(1993)
"Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams. (86 mins.)
Director: Jim Abrahams
2.
Tango & Cash
(1989)
Two cops are framed and must clear their names. (104 mins.)
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
3.
Bird on a Wire
(1990)
An old flame discovers her ex-boyfriend from the past is a relocated FBI informant out to stop the bad guys. (110 mins.)
Director: John Badham
4.
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
(1992)
A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him and begins to meddle in his life and career. (87 mins.)
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
5.
Demolition Man
(1993)
A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society. (115 mins.)
Director: Marco Brambilla
6.
Loaded Weapon 1
(1993)
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal... (84 mins.)
Director: Gene Quintano
7.
Last Action Hero
(1993)
With the help of a magic ticket, a young film fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action film character. (130 mins.)
Director: John McTiernan
8.
True Lies
(1994)
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman. (141 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
9.
Men in Black
(1997)
A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extra terrestrial interactions on planet earth. (98 mins.)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
10.
The Fifth Element
(1997)
In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay. (126 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
11.
Wasabi
(2001)
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss... (94 mins.)
Director: Gérard Krawczyk
12.
Men in Black II
(2002)
Agent J needs help so he is sent to find Agent K and restore his memory. (88 mins.)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
13.
The Rundown
(2003)
A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster's son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure. (104 mins.)
Director: Peter Berg
14.
After the Sunset
(2004)
The story of what happens after a master thief achieves his last big score, when the FBI agent who promised he'd capture him is about to do just that. (97 mins.)
Director: Brett Ratner
15.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
(2005)
A murder mystery brings together a private eye, a struggling actress, and a thief masquerading as an actor. (103 mins.)
Director: Shane Black
16.
Lucky Number Slevin
(2006)
A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him. (110 mins.)
Director: Paul McGuigan
17.
Date Night
(2010)
In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous. (88 mins.)
Director: Shawn Levy
18.
Hot Fuzz
(2007)
Exceptional London cop Nicholas Angel is involuntarily transferred to a quaint English village and paired with a witless new partner. While on the beat, Nicholas suspects a sinister conspiracy is afoot with the residents. (121 mins.)
Director: Edgar Wright
19.
Get Smart
(2008)
A highly intellectual but socially awkward spy is tasked with preventing a terrorist attack from a Russian spy agency. (110 mins.)
Director: Peter Segal
20.
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
(2008)
An Israeli Special Forces Soldier fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist. (113 mins.)
Director: Dennis Dugan
21.
Hancock
(2008)
Hancock is a superhero whose ill considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when one person he saves helps him improve his public image. (92 mins.)
Director: Peter Berg
22.
Inglourious Basterds
(2009)
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same. (153 mins.)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
23.
Zombieland
(2009)
A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. (88 mins.)
Director: Ruben Fleischer
24.
The Other Guys
(2010)
Two mismatched New York City detectives seize an opportunity to step up like the city's top cops whom they idolize -- only things don't quite go as planned. (107 mins.)
Director: Adam McKay
25.
RED
(2010)
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants. (111 mins.)
Director: Robert Schwentke
26.
Kick-Ass
(2010)
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so. (117 mins.)
Director: Matthew Vaughn
27.
Knight and Day
(2010)
A young woman gets mixed up with a disgraced spy who is trying to clear his name. (109 mins.)
Director: James Mangold
28.
Men in Black 3
(2012)
Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history. (106 mins.)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
29.
21 Jump Street
(2012)
A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring. (109 mins.)
Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
30.
Thursday
(1998)
The movie opens in a Los Angeles convenience store one late Monday night, where a smalltime drug dealer... (87 mins.)
Director: Skip Woods
31.
Rush Hour
(1998)
Two cops team up to get back a kidnapped daughter. (98 mins.)
Director: Brett Ratner
32.
Showtime
(2002)
A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show. (95 mins.)
Director: Tom Dey
33.
Hollywood Homicide
(2003)
Two LAPD detectives who moonlight in other fields investigate the murder of an up-and-coming rap group. (116 mins.)
Director: Ron Shelton
34.
The Bounty Hunter
(2010)
A bounty hunter learns that his next target is his ex-wife, a reporter working on a murder cover-up. Soon after their reunion, the always-at-odds duo find themselves on a run-for-their-lives adventure. (110 mins.)
Director: Andy Tennant
35.
Bad Boys
(1995)
Two hip detectives protect a murder witness while investigating a case of stolen heroin. (119 mins.)
Director: Michael Bay
36.
Bulletproof Monk
(2003)
Based on the very underground comic book, a Tibetan monk becomes a mentor to a young street kid whom he can teach to protect a scroll. (104 mins.)
Director: Paul Hunter
37.
Red Heat
(1988)
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country. (104 mins.)
Director: Walter Hill
38.
Bad Boys II
(2003)
Two loose-cannon narcotics cops investigate the flow of Ecstasy into Florida. (147 mins.)
Director: Michael Bay
39.
The Man
(2005)
Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vanns way. (83 mins.)
Director: Les Mayfield
40.
Charlie's Angels
(2000)
Three women, detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal. (98 mins.)
Director: McG
41.
Tropic Thunder
(2008)
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. (107 mins.)
Director: Ben Stiller
42.
Shoot 'Em Up
(2007)
A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen. (86 mins.)
Director: Michael Davis
43.
Pineapple Express
(2008)
A process server and his marijuana dealer wind up on the run from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after he witness his dealer's boss murder a competitor while trying to serve papers on him. (111 mins.)
Director: David Gordon Green
44.
Machete
(2010)
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss. (105 mins.)
Director: Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez
45.
Bad Company
(2002)
When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother. (116 mins.)
Director: Joel Schumacher
46.
War, Inc.
(2008)
A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President... (107 mins.)
Director: Joshua Seftel
47.
The In-Laws
(2003)
Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers. (98 mins.)
Director: Andrew Fleming
48.
The Interview
(2014)
Dave Skylark and producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight." When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission. (112 mins.)
Director: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen