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1. Tokyo Vice (2022– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo takes on one of the city's most powerful crime bosses.

Stars: Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller, Shô Kasamatsu

Votes: 45,091

2. Miami Vice (1984–1989)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

-Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami, Florida.

Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown

Votes: 30,228

3. Touch of Evil (1958)

PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 109,835 | Gross: $2.24M

4. Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A betrayed intelligence officer enlists the aid of a prostitute to prove his innocence from a deadly conspiracy while returning a favor to her.

Director: Chris Nahon | Stars: Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tchéky Karyo, Ric Young

Votes: 66,628 | Gross: $36.85M

5. Maniac Cop (1988)

R | 85 min | Action, Crime, Horror

A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.

Director: William Lustig | Stars: Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree

Votes: 20,209 | Gross: $0.67M

6. Arabella: Black Angel (1989)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Arabella is a nymphomaniac. One day, her writer husband finds her with another man. She has a strange reaction: Arabella kills her lover.

Director: Stelvio Massi | Stars: Tinì Cansino, Valentina Visconti, Francesco Casale, Carlo Mucari

Votes: 782

7. The Allnighter (1987)

PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Romance

A Southern California coed parties with her roommates and flirts with a surfer next door.

Director: Tamar Simon Hoffs | Stars: Susanna Hoffs, Dedee Pfeiffer, Joan Cusack, John Terlesky

Votes: 1,485 | Gross: $2.70M

8. Prime Suspect 3 (1993)

104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police.

Stars: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Karen Tomlin, David Thewlis

Votes: 4,007

9. Vice Squad (1982)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A single mother prostitute, who goes by the name Princess, finds herself forced to work undercover for the police in order to apprehend a homicidal, misogynistic pimp named Ramrod, who will do anything not to get arrested.

Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: Season Hubley, Gary Swanson, Wings Hauser, Pepe Serna

Votes: 2,908 | Gross: $13.25M

10. The Vice (1999–2003)

TV-MA | 90 min | Crime, Drama

Veteran Detective Inspector Pat Chappel (Ken Stott) heads up the Metropolitan vice squad as he and his team investigate prostitution and pornography in the London sex trade.

Stars: Caroline Catz, David Harewood, Ken Stott, Rosie Marcel

Votes: 612

11. Wadjda (2012)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd

Votes: 21,481 | Gross: $1.35M

12. Stonewall (2015)

R | 129 min | Drama, History

A young man's political awakening and coming of age during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Jonny Beauchamp, Joey King, Caleb Landry Jones

Votes: 4,463 | Gross: $0.19M

13. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)

Unrated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.

Director: Matt Tyrnauer | Stars: Scotty Bowers, William Mann, David Kuhn, Stephen Fry

Votes: 1,804 | Gross: $0.46M

14. Dagmar's Hot Pants, Inc. (1971)

X | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

A prostitute disappoints her faithful clients when she announces her retirement in order to get married.

Director: Vernon P. Becker | Stars: Diana Kjær, Robert Strauss, Anne Grete Nissen, Ole Søltoft

Votes: 401 | Gross: $0.03M

15. Busting (1974)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Elliott Gould, Robert Blake, Allen Garfield, Antonio Fargas

Votes: 1,868 | Gross: $0.11M

16. Dark City (1950)

Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger

Votes: 2,701

17. Fatal Beauty (1987)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Rita is a tough narc cop with a wig for every occasion. Outside a drug heist scene with several bodies and a hardly cut fatal drug, Fatal Beauty, she finds a Kroll Construction van with a dead Kroll employee in it. Who is Kroll?

Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Rubén Blades, Harris Yulin

Votes: 4,036 | Gross: $12.05M

18. Impulse (1990)

R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Lottie is a vice cop in LA posing as a hooker and likes the action. She meets Stan, who's also single. He needs her for a major drug bust.

Director: Sondra Locke | Stars: Theresa Russell, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alan Rosenberg

Votes: 1,493 | Gross: $2.54M

19. Hollywood Vice Squad (1986)

R | 101 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A mother goes to Hollywood to find her runaway daughter. The Vice Squad discovers that a dangerous gangster has turned the girl into one of his junkie teen prostitutes. The Squad also investigates illegal betting and a BDSM pornographer.

Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Ronny Cox, Frank Gorshin, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Trish Van Devere

Votes: 657

20. Son of the Bride (2001)

R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama

A dissatisfied 40-year-old, separated and without time for his own daughter and girlfriend must rethink his life when his father decides to marry his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, by church.

Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Eduardo Blanco

Votes: 16,514 | Gross: $0.62M

21. Vice Girls (1997)

R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Three sexy cops will have to go undercover to catch a ruthless pornographer who is murdering young runaway girls.

Director: Richard Gabai | Stars: Lana Clarkson, Liat Goodson, Kimberley Roberts, Bart Muller

Votes: 308

22. My Man (1996)

Unrated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps ... See full summary »

Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez

Votes: 1,723

23. Susan Slept Here (1954)

Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis, Glenda Farrell

Votes: 2,168

24. Vice Academy 4 (1995)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Crime

"To Protect and Serve" takes on a whole new meaning when the Vice Academy girls are on the case. Candy and her new partner Samantha are back in an all new wild adventure! The wicked ... See full summary »

Director: Rick Sloane | Stars: Elizabeth Kaitan, Julia Parton, Jayne Hamil, John Henry Richardson

Votes: 241

25. Liverpool 1 (1998–1999)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama

Tensions run high in this gritty police drama set in the heart of Liverpool's underworld.

Stars: Mark Womack, Samantha Womack, Tom Georgeson, Katy Carmichael

Votes: 246

26. The Escort III (1999 Video)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Disillusioned elderly hardboiled cop investigates the murder of a business woman with connections to a firm that serves as a front for an escort service. When the main suspect is also killed, a blackmail conspiracy emerges.

Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Ross Hagen, Tim Abell, Tane McClure, Griffin Drew

Votes: 173

27. Disco Godfather (1979)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Rudy Ray Moore's fourth in a series of cult favorites finds him playing an ex-cop called back into action to stop an angel dust producer. The angel dust hallucinations alone are well worth the price of admission!

Director: J. Robert Wagoner | Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch, Jerry Jones

Votes: 1,789

28. Vice Raid (1959)

Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama

The bosses of the prostitution racket have one of their prostitutes go to New York City to entrap a police officer and get him thrown off the force. She does as she is told but then the gangsters make a mistake.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Mamie Van Doren, Richard Coogan, Brad Dexter, Barry Atwater

Votes: 431

29. Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In New York, a disco hostess is stalked by a sexual predator and she requests help from a vice squad detective who takes a personal interest in the case.

Director: Joseph Cates | Stars: Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Jan Murray, Elaine Stritch

Votes: 1,032

30. Vice Academy 5 (1996)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi

What starts as a dirty computer game, becomes a hilarious series of crimes, when the commissioner's son, Irwin, accidentally unleashes a Virtual Reality Hooker from his computer. Vice ... See full summary »

Director: Rick Sloane | Stars: Elizabeth Kaitan, Raelyn Saalman, Jayne Hamil, John Henry Richardson

Votes: 216

31. Amsterdam Vice

Crime

Detective Judd Cox has just been promoted to the toughest department within the capital cities' police force.

Stars: Waldemar Torenstra, Ruben van der Meer, Horace Cohen, Jelka van Houten

Votes: 437

32. Vice Academy Part 6 (1998)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Crime

Vice cops Candy and Traci accidentally meet the bikini robbers who are armed with assault weapons in a bank. The thieves escape. The commissioner and the instructor enlist Internal Affairs detective to solve the case.

Director: Rick Sloane | Stars: Elizabeth Kaitan, Raelyn Saalman, John Henry Richardson, Jayne Hamil

Votes: 229

33. The Hang Up (1969)

75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Two vice cops get entangled in a web of prostitution, blackmail and murder.

Director: John Hayes | Stars: Tony Vorno, Sharon Matt, Genene Cooper, Ted Roter

Votes: 151

34. Le Sex Shop (1972)

X | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

The owner of a book shop in Paris suffers a personal crisis. In order to solve it he decides to convert his library into a sex shop, but the only effect is that he turns himself into a sexual obsessive.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Juliet Berto, Claude Berri, Francesca Romana Coluzzi

Votes: 362 | Gross: $0.31M

35. As I Open My Eyes (2015)

Unrated | 102 min | Drama, Music

A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.

Director: Leyla Bouzid | Stars: Baya Medhaffar, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari, Lassaad Jamoussi

Votes: 1,465 | Gross: $0.03M

36. La balance (1982)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Police compel a couple of criminals to become its informants.

Director: Bob Swaim | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet

Votes: 1,325

37. The Witnesses (2007)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance

Paris, 1984: A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Julie Depardieu

Votes: 2,843 | Gross: $0.08M

38. Madame Hollywood (2002 Video)

R | 85 min | Romance, Thriller

Beautiful young Daisy arrives in L.A. read to conquer the city, but soon is reduced to stripping to support herself after her scumbag boyfriend dumps her. She soon comes up with an idea of ... See full summary »

Director: Mirek Bohusz | Stars: Mia Zottoli, Shauna O'Brien, Brandy Miller, Daniel Busch

Votes: 91

39. Portrait of an Escort (1980 TV Movie)

Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

Jordan West is a divorcée who moonlights at a professional dating service to make ends meet. But her secret job causes gossip among her neighbors and trouble at the real estate office where... See full summary »

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Susan Anspach, Tony Bill, Cyd Charisse, Kevin McCarthy

Votes: 80

40. Last Known Address (1970)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Police inspector Léonetti, a tough, efficient policeman, has been sent to a second-rate police station after being reprimanded. There he is given a partner, young and beautiful Jeanne Dumas... See full summary »

Director: José Giovanni | Stars: Lino Ventura, Marlène Jobert, Michel Constantin, Paul Crauchet

Votes: 1,904

41. Zero Focus (1961)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Teiko's new husband disappears on a business trip. She discovers a pair of mysterious postcards hidden away in a book that may be clues to his fate.

Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Yoshiko Kuga, Hizuru Takachiho, Ineko Arima, Kôji Nanbara

Votes: 728

42. Slaves in Bondage (1937)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Berrywood Roadhouse is a den of iniquity outside of town. Crooks use a beauty shop to recruit floozies into vice. The crooks target Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon and is pursued by reporter wannabe Phillip as their next victim.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Lona Andre, Donald Reed, Wheeler Oakman, Florence Dudley

Votes: 242

43. Scarred (1983)

R | 85 min | Drama

A 16 year old girl turns to prostitution to support her baby and encounters a treacherous underworld of pimps, hookers and johns while doing her best to maintain her hopes and dignity.

Director: Rosemarie Turko | Stars: Jennifer Mayo, Jackie Berryman, David Dean, L. Rico Richardson

Votes: 111

44. King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors

Votes: 297

45. Disco 9000 (1977)

PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses because it ain't groovy enough.

Director: D'Urville Martin | Stars: John Poole, Jeannie Bell, Harold Nicholas, Nicholas Lewis

Votes: 123

46. Double Cross (1941)

Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When a cop is shot dead during a raid, and another is mistakenly shot for killing him, his fellow officer friend goes undercover on his own to bust up the criminal's operation.

Director: Albert H. Kelley | Stars: Kane Richmond, Pauline Moore, Wynne Gibson, John Miljan

Votes: 204

47. Allotment Wives (1945)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers' pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael

Votes: 570

48. Big Town Scandal (1948)

Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama

Steve Wilson, crusading editor of the Big Town's Illustrated Press, with the aid of police-beat reporter Lorelei Kilbourne battles against the core of the city's vice - its young ... See full summary »

Director: William C. Thomas | Stars: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Stanley Clements, Darryl Hickman

Votes: 96

49. The Mad Librarian and Other Tales (2002 Video)

90 min | Adventure

Four story lines in this bondage anthology: In the first a library patron can't pay her fines, a zealous librarian takes her out of circulation. In the second, rivalry between slaves leads ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Woods | Stars: Dorothy Laine, Kelsie Chambers, Shannan Leigh, Goldie Blair

50. When Steptoe Met Son (2002 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

Looks at the difficult off screen relation of actors Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell who grew to hate one another during their years on screen. It charts their rise to fame with "... See full summary »

Director: David Barrie | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Matthew Gravelle, Ray Galton

Votes: 21