Topic: Buddy Film

Direction Nic Pizzolatto · Cary Joji Fukunaga

Cast Matthew McConaughey · Woody Harrelson · Michelle Monaghan · Michael Potts

Synopsis TV Series (2014). 8 Episodes. Two detectives, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, lives become entangled during a 17-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana... True Detective is a new series on HBO that follows the lives of detectives on...

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Robert Redford · Paul Newman · Katharine Ross · Strother Martin

Synopsis Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) follows the adventures of two charismatic outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they lead the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang in the American Old West. Known for their charm and daring heists, the duo...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · James Caan · Charlene Holt

Synopsis In El Dorado (1966), a drunken sheriff and a skilled but wounded gunslinger team up to defend a rancher and his family from a ruthless land baron. Set in the Old West, the story follows their struggle to uphold justice...

Direction Peter Farrelly

Cast Viggo Mortensen · Mahershala Ali · Iqbal Theba · Linda Cardellini

Synopsis A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr....

Direction Luc Besson

Cast Jean Reno · Natalie Portman · Gary Oldman · Danny Aiello

Synopsis 12-year-old Mathilda's family are murdered in a drug deal gone awry. Orphaned by the massacre, Mathilda is forced to take shelter in the apartment of a neighbor, Leon, whom she knows only slightly. He's a loner and first generation immigrant,...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Keiko Awaji · Eiko Miyoshi

Synopsis Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until taken under the wing of an older and wiser detective,...

Direction Antoine Fuqua

Cast Denzel Washington · Ethan Hawke · Scott Glenn · Tom Berenger

Synopsis Training Day (2001) follows rookie cop Jake Hoyt as he spends his first day with seasoned detective Alonzo Harris, who is tasked with evaluating Jake for a spot on an elite narcotics unit. Over the course of a single day,...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Yul Brynner · Steve McQueen · Charles Bronson · Eli Wallach

Synopsis In The Magnificent Seven (1960), a small Mexican village is repeatedly terrorized by a group of bandits. Desperate for protection, the villagers hire seven skilled gunmen to defend them. Each of these men has their own reasons for taking on...

Direction Yoshiyuki Asai

Synopsis TV Series (2023). 13 Episodes. Two assassins (Totally opposite to each other, but who work together and share apartment) are requested to finish off the daughter of a human-trafficking mafia's kingping, but the deal is not as it seems...

Direction David Mackenzie

Cast Jeff Bridges · Chris Pine · Ben Foster · Gil Birmingham

Synopsis A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas. In a story where the Old West meets the New West, two brothers - Toby (Chris Pine), a...

Direction Damián Szifrón

Cast Diego Peretti · Luis Luque · Oscar Ferreiro · Gabriela Izcovich

Synopsis Tiempo de valientes (On Probation) (2005) follows a cynical psychiatrist, Mariano Silverstein, forced to treat a troubled police officer, Alfredo Díaz, after a violent outburst. As their sessions unfold, the two men—polar opposites in personality—clash but gradually form an uneasy...

Direction Alberto Rodríguez

Cast Raúl Arévalo · Javier Gutiérrez · Nerea Barros · Antonio de la Torre

Synopsis In Marshland (2014), two Madrid detectives are sent to a remote, marshy region of southern Spain in 1980 to investigate the disappearance of two teenage sisters. As they delve deeper into the case, they uncover a web of secrets, corruption,...

Direction Daniel J. Goor · Michael Schur · Michael McDonald · Dean Holland

Cast Andy Samberg · André Braugher · Stephanie Beatriz · Terry Crews

Synopsis TV Series (2013-Present Day). 7 Seasons. Set in the fictional 99th Precinct of the New York City Police Department in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Nine-Nine follows a team of detectives headed by the overly serious, newly appointed Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher)....

Direction Jerry Schatzberg

Cast Al Pacino · Gene Hackman · Dorothy Tristan · Ann Wedgeworth

Synopsis Max is an ex-con who's been saving money to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel is a sailor who's returning home to the midwest to see the child born while he was at sea. They form an unlikely pair...

Direction John McTiernan

Cast Bruce Willis · Samuel L. Jackson · Jeremy Irons · Graham Greene

Synopsis On the streets of New York, police officer John McClane has just about seen it all. He's got a nose for danger, a penchant for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and a talent for overcoming incredible...

Direction Liu Chia-Liang

Cast Chow Yun-Fat · Conan Lee · Nina Li Chi · Norman Chu

Synopsis A seasoned cop and his rookie partner are a pair of mismatched partners in this Hong Kong action-comedy in the style of 'Lethal Weapon'. The wacky twosome are up in arms as they try to solve the murder of a...

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Gary Cooper · Burt Lancaster · Denise Darcel · Sara Montiel

Synopsis During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Eric Portman · Sheila Sim · Dennis Price · John Sweet

Synopsis Three people arrive in a village in Southern England in the early years of World War II. Alison Smith is a London girl who is due to start working on a farm as a 'Land Girl'. Peter Gibbs is an...

Direction Edgar Wright

Cast Simon Pegg · Nick Frost · Timothy Dalton · Jim Broadbent

Synopsis Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on the...

Direction James W. Horne

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Sharon Lynn · James Finlayson

Synopsis Stan and Ollie are charged with delivering the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. However they reckon without the machinations of her evil guardian Mickey Finn who is determined to have the gold...