IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like 48 Hrs. (1982)
48 Hrs. runs on kinetic urgency, grainy 70s grit, and crowd-pleaser. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Another 48 Hrs.
1990
Freebie and the Bean
1974
Red Heat
1988
Stuber
2019
Dolemite
1975
Running Scared
1986
Stakeout
1987
Tiger on the Beat
1988
Federal Bank Heist
2011
Knockabout
1979
A Violent Prosecutor
2016
Lethal Weapon 3
1992
Let's Be Cops
2014
Bad Boys
1995
The Nice Guys
2016
Metro
1997
Badges of Fury
2013
Bang, Boom, Bang
1999
Bon Cop Bad Cop 2
2017
Lethal Weapon
1987
Almost Cops
2025
Starsky & Hutch
2004
The Enforcer
1976
Money Talks
1997