Movies like The Nice Guys draw from a long history of detective fiction, including both novels and films. The director and co-writer of The Nice Guys, Shane Black, even wrote some of those films, so searching for similar movies opens up a treasure trove of hard-boiled mystery stories. Luckily, many of the best movies, like The Nice Guys, are available to stream on some of the biggest services like Netflix.
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Whether searching for comedic murder mysteries or buddy cop action, fans of The Nice Guys won’t be left wanting for thrills when checking out the most similar films. The best movies like The Nice Guys aren’t just worth seeking out for their similarities to Black and Anthony Bagarozzi’s screenplay but because many of them are certified cinematic classics that have helped to shape Hollywood history.
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Russell Crowe As A Tough Cop In Los Angeles
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L.A. Confidential
R
Crime
Mystery
Thriller
9/10
Release Date
September 19, 1997
Runtime
138 Minutes
Director
Curtis Hanson
Writers
Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson
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Russell Crowe
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Guy Pearce
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Based on the beloved James Elroy novel, L.A. Confidential tells the story of the LAPD in the 1950s when corruption within the department had been running rampant for years. Directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Brian Helgeland, Russell Crowe plays a similar character here as he does in The Nice Guys. In The Nice Guys, he is a violent enforcer who will dish out damage to anyone who gets in his way. In L.A. Confidential, he is the cop who prefers to beat up criminals before he arrests them.
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L.A. Confidential is mostly about bringing down the bad cops, and in this case, it goes to the top. While Ryan Gosling’s Holland March is a much better human being than Guy Pearce’s “good cop” from L.A. Confidential, they both play the same sort of foil to Crowe’s bruiser who thinks with his fists and in both movies, end up realizing it takes more than muscles and might to save the day.
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Hot Fuzz (2007)
A Big City Cop Is Assigned To A Small Village
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Hot Fuzz
R
Action
Comedy
Mystery
Thriller
10/10
9.3/10
Release Date
February 14, 2007
Runtime
121 minutes
Director
Edgar Wright
Writers
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
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Simon Pegg
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Martin Freeman
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In The Nice Guys, an experienced enforcer has to team up with a more laid-back private investigator to take down a major criminal conspiracy. While Hot Fuzz deals with two police officers, they are also very much mismatched and find themselves bringing down an organization that has been secretly killing people for years.
Edgar Wright followed up his breakout movie Shaun of the Dead with a love letter to buddy cop movies with Hot Fuzz. Nicholas Angel is a super-cop who transferred from London to a small village because he made everyone else look bad. When he arrives, he ends up partnering with Danny Butterman, the wide-eyed and impressionistic son of the police inspector.
Soon, Angel realizes something is not right in this quaint village when people keep dying in mysterious “accidents,” and he soon realizes he can’t stop the murderers on his own. The film has become a massive cult favorite and Hot Fuzz might be one of the most quotable movies of the century so far.
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The Other Guys (2010)
Two Misfit Cops Set Out To Bring Down A Criminal Organization
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The Other Guys
PG-13
Comedy
Action
6/10
9/10
Release Date
August 5, 2010
Runtime
107 Minutes
Director
Adam McKay
Writers
Adam McKay, Will Ferrell
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Will Ferrell
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Mark Wahlberg
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While The Nice Guys has two mismatched men team up to bring down a criminal organization, The Other Guys has two misfit cops trying to do the same thing but without any help from the rest of the police force. The entire movie starts out with one of the most ridiculous sequences in action comedy history as two super-cops (Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson) stop criminals while causing major property damage, but are hailed as heroes – until they die when they leap off a building while chasing bad guys.
Both movies have great one-liners and sight gags, and while The Other Guys is a little more slapstick-based, they share a similar backbone and structure.
This leads to the two misfits (one a mild-mannered detective who likes desk work and the second a hothead suspended for accidentally shooting Derek Jeter). They soon learn about a major heist about to go down, but when no one believes them, they set out to stop it on their own with hilarious results. Both movies have great one-liners and sight gags, and while The Other Guys is a little more slapstick-based, they share a similar backbone and structure.
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
A Writer Seeks Out Criminals To Help Break His Writer’s Block
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Seven Psychopaths
R
Crime
Comedy
Drama
7/10
6.3/10
Release Date
October 12, 2012
Runtime
110 Minutes
Director
Martin McDonagh
Writers
Martin McDonagh
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Colin Farrell
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Sam Rockwell
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In The Nice Guys, a private investigator ends up forced to team with a violent enforcer who is more than happy to kill anyone who gets in his way. While this makes the partnership dangerous and frustrating for the PI, it bears a similarity to the Martin McDonagh movie Seven Psychopaths. In this movie, Colin Farrell plays a screenwriter in Los Angeles who has writer’s block and is seeking inspiration for the “psychopaths” he wants to write into his new movie script.
To achieve this, he puts an ad in the paper for any “psychopath” to contact him so he can interview them and use their experience to write his new script. However, when mobsters, hitmen, and serial killers respond, Marty realizes he might have just put his life in danger, all while his roommate ends up with a hit put out on him by a psychopath of his own. The film was a cult hit, while also picking up nominations at the BAFTA and Independent Spirit Awards.
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Midnight Run (1988)
A Bounty Hunter Brings In A Former Mob Accountant
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Midnight Run
R
Action
Comedy
Crime
Release Date
July 20, 1988
Runtime
126 Minutes
Director
Martin Brest
Writers
George Gallo
Cast
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Robert De Niro
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Charles Grodin
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Yaphet Kotto
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John Ashton
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There have been countless buddy cop movies over the years, but one of the best of the genre came in 1988 with Midnight Run. It is important to note that neither man here is a cop, though, which helps it line up more with the side genre that includes movies like The Nice Guys. In Midnight Run, Robert De Niro is Jack Walsh, a bounty hunter hired to bring in former mafia accountant Jonathan “The Duke” Mardukas (Charles Grodin).
While both the FBI and the mafia are warning Jack against bringing Mardukas back to the bail bondsman in Los Angeles, he ignores them and captures the man anyway. However, they end up with the mafia and the FBI on their tale and end up on a road trip movie with danger in every city they enter. This was one of De Niro’s first attempts at comedy, and it was a smash hit. It has a 95% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while it has become a beloved cult hit over three decades later.
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The Long Goodbye (1973)
Elliott Gould Plays Philip Marlowe
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The Long Goodbye
R
Drama
Comedy
Crime
Release Date
March 8, 1973
Runtime
112 Minutes
Director
Robert Altman
Writers
Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler
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Elliott Gould
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Nina van Pallandt
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Sterling Hayden
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Mark Rydell
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Robert Altman’s classic neo-noir film is a hugely influential detective story that should be considered essential viewing for any fan of The Nice Guys. Elliott Gould’s performance as the iconic private eye Philip Marlowe changed the movie-going public’s expectations for hard-boiled detectives, and shades of him can be seen in many of Shane Black’s characters.
While the story about Marlowe’s investigation of the deaths of several people, including one of his old friends, retains many of the grittiest elements from Raymond Chandler’s original novel, it’s also injected with its own dark sense of humor. Like The Nice Guys, it has a very distinct mixture of toughness and vulnerability, thanks in large part to Gould’s performance.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
A Criminal Turned Actor Teams With A PI During A Case
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
R
Crime
Comedy
Mystery
8/10
Release Date
November 18, 2005
Runtime
103 minutes
Director
Shane Black
Writers
Brett Halliday, Shane Black
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Robert Downey Jr.
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Val Kilmer
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Shane Black’s name is well-known to action movie fans due to a number of his highly-popular screenplays being produced in the 80s and 90s as well as a successful directing career that he started in the 2000s with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Like The Nice Guys, the movie is a neo-noir detective comedy that leans most heavily into the comedic part of the equation, but not without adhering faithfully to the tenets of hard-boiled detective fiction as well.
The murder mystery at the center of the story is compelling and Black makes sure to include some of the shootouts that made his earlier screenplays so popular. However, the chemistry between Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer in the lead roles is more than enough reason for fans of The Nice Guys to seek it out.
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
A Former Cop Clashes With A Football Star During A Kidnapping
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The Last Boy Scout
R
Action
Thriller
Release Date
December 13, 1991
Runtime
105 minutes
Director
Tony Scott
Writers
Shane Black
Producers
Barry Josephson, Joel Silver, Michael Levy
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Bruce Willis
Joe Hallenbeck
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Damon Wayans
James Alexander ‘Jimmy’ Dix
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Chelsea Field
Sarah Hallenbeck
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Noble Willingham
Sheldon Marcone
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Shane Black’s first two screenplay credits were in 1987 for writing the action blockbuster Lethal Weapon and for co-writing the horror-comedy The Monster Squad. While the latter failed to find an audience in theaters, the former’s success defined Black as a name in Hollywood action movies, and his second action screenplay helped him hone his distinct style.
The Last Boy Scout furthered Black’s characterization of the weary detective and his more grounded partner, with Bruce Willis’ former Secret Service agent turned sleazy PI acting as a bridge between Elliott Gould’s Marlowe and Ryan Gosling’s Holland March. The story, about a far-reaching conspiracy revolving around professional footballers, also drops the audience into a side of LA’s entertainment industry not usually seen in movies, like The Nice Guys does with pornography.
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Lethal Weapon (1987)
Shane Black’s Breakout Screenplay
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Lethal Weapon
R
Crime
Action
Thriller
8.6/10
Release Date
March 6, 1987
Runtime
109 minutes
Director
Richard Donner
Writers
Shane Black
Sequel(s)
Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 4, Lethal Weapon 5
Cast
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Tom Atkins
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Mitchell Ryan
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The original Lethal Weapon solidified a great many action movie tropes that are now commonplace in Hollywood screenwriting. It also showed many of Shane Black’s most beloved quirks as a screenwriter, not least of which is his choice to set his stories on or around Christmas, which is a tradition that has endured in his career through Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, and even the ending of The Nice Guys.
The murderous conspiracy plot in Lethal Weapon has a slightly harder edge than the one in The Nice Guys as the two LAPD officers at the center of the mystery–the iconic Riggs and Murtaugh–are a bit more serious than Holland March and Jackson Healy. This isn’t to say that the film isn’t funny as a result though, as Mel Gibson and Danny Glover have superb chemistry and light up each and every scene that they’re in.
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The Guard (2011)
A Bad Cop Teams Up With An FBI Agent Searching For Drug Smugglers
Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson are the oddly paired cops in this dark crime comedy from writer and director John Michael McDonagh. Cheadle plays an FBI agent searching for drug smugglers on the west coast of Ireland, and Gleeson is a local police officer who’s far from a straight arrow but essential to understanding the landscape. Fans of The Nice Guys will appreciate the movie’s focus on witty back-and-forth dialogue as well as the story’s bullet-riddled finale.
The Guard has a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Guard may not have the glamour of 70s Hollywood going for it, but it uses the natural beauty of its location to create a unique personality for the film. For anyone who loves the “good cop/bad cop” dynamic of mismatched partners but wants to see it in a different setting (Ireland), this is a great film for fans of The Nice Guys to see a similar story with a new dynamic. Director John Michael McDonagh received a BAFTA nomination for his screenwriting on the film.
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Rush Hour (1998)
East Vs. West In A Clash Of Cultures
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Rush Hour
PG-13
Action
Adventure
Comedy
7/10
9/10
Release Date
September 18, 1998
Runtime
98 minutes
Director
Brett Ratner
Writers
Ross LaManna, Jim Kouf
Sequel(s)
Rush Hour 3
Cast
-
Ken Leung
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Chris Tucker
Franchise(s)
Rush Hour
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Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Guy Ritchie Brings Sherlock Holmes To The Big Screen
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Sherlock Holmes
PG-13
Adventure
Mystery
Action
9/10
13
7.8/10
Release Date
December 25, 2009
Runtime
128 minutes
Director
Guy Ritchie
Writers
Anthony Peckham, Simon Kinberg, Michael Robert Johnson
Sequel(s)
Sherlock Holmes 3, Sherlock Holmes 2
Cast
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Mark Strong
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Eddie Marsan
Franchise(s)
Sherlock Holmes
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Fans of both the banter and the chaotic fight scenes in The Nice Guys will find a lot to love in this action-adventure blockbuster, as Holmes and Watson take on a murderous mastermind who appears to have supernatural abilities. The film was a huge success and spawned a sequel, but so far the series has stopped at two movies in the franchise. However, it shares much in common with The Nice Guys, especially when it comes to the uneasy partnership between very different men.
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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Shane Black Turns Geena Davis Into An Action Hero
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
R
Crime
Action
Mystery
Thriller
10/10
Release Date
October 11, 1996
Runtime
121 Minutes
Director
Renny Harlin
Writers
Shane Black
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Geena Davis
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Samuel L. Jackson
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Shane Black wrote and produced this action thriller about a woman with amnesia who, with the help of a private eye, discovers that she is in fact a highly-trained killer who’s connected to a deadly government conspiracy. Fans of The Nice Guys will be satisfied with the movie if they’re watching it for Shane Black’s style of comedy, as Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson fill the story with charm and humor in the lead roles.
But they’ll want to stay for the action too, as Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2 director Renny Harlin is more than a match for the smorgasbord of wintry action scenes in the movie. This film remains one of Geena Davis’s most iconic roles, as she and Samuel L. Jackson remain a perfect pairing, delivering Shane Black’s great dialogue and taking part in some incredible action scenes that remain impressive but never overshadow the story at hand.
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Brick (2005)
A Noir Mystery Set Inside A Modern-Day High School
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Brick
R
Drama
Mystery
Crime
Release Date
April 14, 2006
Runtime
110 minutes
Director
Rian Johnson
Writers
Rian Johnson
Cast
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Lukas Haas
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Emilie de Ravin
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Meagan Good
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Though Brick is one of the darker movies like The Nice Guys, it still exudes the sense of humor that Johnson would later put into his Knives Out films, both through the dialogue and a little physical comedy. One thing that really helps this movie stand out is the dialogue, as it takes place in a modern-day high school, but everyone talks like they came straight out of a classic detective novel with Sam Spade in the lead. The dangerous criminal underworld in the school atmosphere remains iconic.
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Coen Brothers Slacker Noir Classic
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The Big Lebowski
R
Comedy
Crime
Sport
8/10
9/10
Release Date
March 6, 1998
Runtime
117 Minutes
Director
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writers
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast
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Julianne Moore
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Jeff Bridges
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The Big Lebowski. The laid-back bowling enthusiast makes for one of the most entertaining amateur detectives in movie history, stumbling through a kidnapping case with the endearing lack of grace that makes Holland March such a lovable character in The Nice Guys.
The Big Lebowski is a hugely creative take on the structure and clichés of film noir, and it has its own comically surreal dream sequence too, but it’s mostly one of the best movies like The Nice Guys due to its love for Los Angeles. The way that it frames and utilizes the idiosyncrasies of the world-famous city gives every scene of the film an inimitable charisma.
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The Nice Guys
R
Mystery
Thriller
Crime
7/10
9/10
Release Date
May 20, 2016
Runtime
116minutes
Director
Shane Black
Writers
Anthony Bagarozzi, Shane Black
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Ryan Gosling
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Ty Simpkins
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