10 Best Buddy Cop Movies Of All Time

10. Hot Fuzz

Hot Fuzz has the best buddy cop duo around (helped by their actors also being tight buddies). Directed by Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz takes the overachieving Nicolas Angel - played by Simon Pegg - and forces him into the gentle and sedate country village of Sandford to be partnered up with lazy dimwit Frank Butterman - Nick Frost - who has an ironic love for buddy cop movies.

The second in the ‘Cornetto Trilogy’, Hot Fuzz is fanatically funny and more than a little silly. Instead of the usual buddy cop cliches - such as drug busts and teaching the new guy the ropes - everything is transformed to small-town mundane. Clicking a pen is as dramatic as racking a pistol, and stakeout pizza is swapped out for the inevitable Cornetto. Just remember though, this is all a film. British police are nowhere near as effective in real life.

Still, Hot Fuzz is one of the best buddy cop films through the strong buddy elements, but the less serious police work makes it more for comedy lovers than serious watchers.