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51. Murphy's Law (1986)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Framed for his ex-wife's murder by a parolee he once put behind bars, Los Angeles cop Jack Murphy escapes from custody to capture the killer, but he is now handcuffed to a foul-mouthed thief he had only just arrested.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Carrie Snodgress, Robert F. Lyons
Votes: 6,489 | Gross: $9.95M
52. Edison (2005)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Upon discovering a den of corrupt policemen, a fresh-faced journalist makes shaky allies in a jaded reporter and investigator for a powerful district attorney.
Director: David J. Burke | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Justin Timberlake, LL Cool J
Votes: 16,282
53. The Sweeney (2012)
R | 112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A hardened detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan police. Based on the '70s UK TV show.
Director: Nick Love | Stars: Ray Winstone, Plan B, Hayley Atwell, Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 20,438 | Gross: $0.03M
54. Rogue City (2020)
TV-MA | 116 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Caught in the cross hairs of police corruption and Marseille's warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.
Director: Olivier Marchal | Stars: Lannick Gautry, Stanislas Merhar, Kaaris, David Belle
Votes: 9,996
55. The Protector (1985)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two New York City cops, Billy Wong and Danny Garoni, head to Hong Kong after the daughter of a rich businessman is kidnapped by the drug lord, Mr. Ko.
Director: James Glickenhaus | Stars: Jackie Chan, Danny Aiello, Sandy Alexander, Victor Arnold
Votes: 5,295 | Gross: $0.98M
56. The Mod Squad (1999)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Three problem teens sent to jail are offered a deal to work with an undercover cop, uncover an intricate drug ring and are caught in a deadly set-up. With cops on their trail, they have little time to solve the case and clear their names.
Director: Scott Silver | Stars: Claire Danes, Omar Epps, Giovanni Ribisi, Dennis Farina
Votes: 9,524 | Gross: $13.26M
57. Batman: Year One (2011 Video)
PG-13 | 64 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A wealthy playboy and a Chicago cop both return to Gotham City where their lives will intersect in unexpected ways.
Directors: Sam Liu, Lauren Montgomery | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Ben McKenzie, Eliza Dushku, Jon Polito
Votes: 38,167
58. RoboCop: Prime Directives (2001)
R | 375 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Thirteen years after the first Robocop, Delta City, once considered the safest place on Earth, has become a futuristic city owned and operated by OCP, and RoboCop is starting to feel his age.
Stars: Page Fletcher, Maurice Dean Wint, Maria del Mar, Anthony Lemke
Votes: 2,838
59. Flash Point (2007)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A hot-headed inspector takes on a small but powerful Vietnamese-Chinese gang, after a series of crimes and murder attempts committed and putting an undercover cop and his girlfriend in great danger.
Director: Wilson Yip | Stars: Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Ray Lui, Collin Chou
Votes: 13,833 | Gross: $0.00M
60. The Horde (2009)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Horror
An end of the world battle between gangsters, cops and zombies.
Directors: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher | Stars: Claude Perron, Jean-Pierre Martins, Eriq Ebouaney, Aurélien Recoing
Votes: 16,421
61. McQ (1974)
PG | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Seattle cop is caught up in a corrupt police force that he is trying to make right. McQ is a cop with a mission.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst
Votes: 5,952 | Gross: $0.24M
62. Skin Trade (2014)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests, NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the syndicates human trafficking network.
Director: Ekachai Uekrongtham | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Ron Perlman, Michael Jai White
Votes: 8,589 | Gross: $0.00M
63. Kill Switch (2008 Video)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial killers.
Director: Jeff King | Stars: Steven Seagal, Isaac Hayes, Holly Elissa, Michael Filipowich
Votes: 4,868
64. A.C.A.B. - All Cops Are Bastards (2012)
112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.
Director: Stefano Sollima | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Filippo Nigro, Marco Giallini, Andrea Sartoretti
Votes: 8,171
65. Countdown (II) (2016)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
When a madman kidnaps a young boy and rigs him with explosives, Ray defies his captain and takes matter into his own hands. Now he must beat the clock and save the innocent child.
Director: John Stockwell | Stars: Nic Nemeth, Glenn Jacobs, Katharine Isabelle, Josh Blacker
Votes: 1,984
66. Renegades (1989)
R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An undercover cop forms an alliance with a Native American to help him hunt down the criminals who stole an ancient Lakota tribal lance.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jami Gertz, Robert Knepper
Votes: 3,963 | Gross: $7.00M
67. Skins (2002)
R | 84 min | Crime, Drama
An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux brothers living on the Pine Ridge reservation.
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Eric Schweig, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, Noah Watts
Votes: 1,560 | Gross: $0.24M
68. Kaakha Kaakha (2003)
Not Rated | 153 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After a police team kills his brother, a drug-dealing gangster vows to kill the entire team and their respective families.
Director: Gautham Vasudev Menon | Stars: Suriya, Jyotika, 'University' Jeevan, Daniel Balaji
Votes: 6,883
69. Part 2: Walking Tall (1975)
PG | 109 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Sheriff Buford Pusser continues his one-man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late-1960s Tennessee.
Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Bo Svenson, Luke Askew, Bruce Glover, Robert DoQui
Votes: 1,520
70. Pistol Whipped (2008 Video)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A tough ex-policeman (S.Seagal) with a gambling and alcohol problem gets offered a job as assassin of bad men. It'll rid him of all gambling debt as well as get him money and a chance of cleaning up his act and be with his daughter.
Director: Roel Reiné | Stars: Steven Seagal, Paul Calderon, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lance Henriksen
Votes: 5,421
71. Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977)
R | 112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Buford Pusser's last days as Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee in 1970 and his subsequent death in 1974.
Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Bo Svenson, Lurene Tuttle, Forrest Tucker, Leif Garrett
Votes: 1,147
72. The Big Racket (1976)
Not Rated | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Fabio Testi, Vincent Gardenia, Renzo Palmer, Orso Maria Guerrini
Votes: 1,603
73. Direct Action (2004)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Frank Gannon, a veteran cop, is being hunted by his fellow police officers after they learned he has betrayed the brotherhood and exposed to the feds wide scale corruption of the LAPD. He has one day left to prove his case and survive.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Polly Shannon, Donald Burda, Rothaford Gray
Votes: 1,771
74. Get Christie Love! (1974 TV Movie)
74 min | Action, Crime
A beautiful policewoman goes undercover to break up a drug ring.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Teresa Graves, Harry Guardino, Louise Sorel, Paul Stevens
Votes: 373
75. Stranglehold (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Thriller
A third-person video game set in Hong Kong and Chicago where a tough cop battles the mob.
Directors: Brian Eddy, John Woo, Martin Stoltz | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Rio Ahn, Henry Milton Chu, Jeremy Dunn
Votes: 2,026
76. Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy, who are licenced-to-kill, undercover cops who thrive on living dangerously.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Marc Porel, Ray Lovelock, Adolfo Celi, Franco Citti
Votes: 1,654
77. Hollywood Cop (1987)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A detective tries to get back a child who has been kidnapped by gangsters.
Director: Amir Shervan | Stars: James Mitchum, Cameron Mitchell, David Goss, Zuhair Haddad
Votes: 638
78. Renegade Force (1998)
R | 89 min | Action, Thriller
An F.B.I. Agent (Michael Rooker) and a female cop (Diane DiLascio) join forces to stop renegade cops who are killing the bad guys. Robert Patrick is the leader of the renegades, and Louis ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Kunert | Stars: Michael Rooker, Robert Patrick, Diane DiLascio, Louis Mandylor
Votes: 822
79. Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Amidst a Chinese and Japanese mafia war, a lawyer for the Chinese mob finds a rift forming between him and his corrupt police office brother.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kippei Shîna, Tomorô Taguchi, Takeshi Caesar, Ren Ôsugi
Votes: 2,468
80. Deadly Target (1994)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A dangerous drug lord; a renegade cop; the ultimate showdown.
Director: Charla Driver | Stars: Gary Daniels, Ken McLeod, Byron Mann, Susan Byun
Votes: 351
81. Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007 Video)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In Dallas, when the two prime witnesses against the drug-lord Octavio Perez are murdered by his gangsters in a safe-house, the testimony of the FBI agent Kate Jensen and three other agents ... See full summary »
Director: Tripp Reed | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Yvette Nipar, Haley Ramm, Elizabeth Barondes
Votes: 1,683
82. Out for Blood (1992)
R | 90 min | Action
An attorney is forced to fight back after his family is brutally murdered by vicious drug dealers, leading to an astounding martial arts showdown.
Director: Richard W. Munchkin | Stars: Don Wilson, Shari Shattuck, Michael DeLano, Ron Steelman
Votes: 488
83. Law and Disorder (1974)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In the crime-ridden '70s New York City, two cops have had enough. They, along with few other disgruntled people decide to take the things into their own hands only to realize too late that they're in over their heads.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Wedgeworth, Anita Dangler
Votes: 331 | Gross: $1.60M
84. Call of Juarez: The Cartel (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
An undercover team has been put together in order to investigate a bombing of an LAPD office.
Stars: Lombardo Boyar, Kim Compeau, Jesse Corti, John Cygan
Votes: 344
85. Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort (1988)
97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their ... See full summary »
Director: José Pinheiro | Stars: Alain Delon, Michel Serrault, Xavier Deluc, Patrick Catalifo
Votes: 886
86. Pablo Escobar: Countdown to Death (2017 TV Movie)
68 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Through rare interviews, images and wiretap audio, this documentary reconstructs the last nine years of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's life.
Director: Santiago Diaz Oso | Stars: María Isabel Santos, Sebastian Marroquín, Alba Marina Escobar, Germán Castro Caycedo
Votes: 265
87. Irresistible Force (1993 TV Movie)
80 min | Action
A disgruntled retiring cop and his new butt kicking female partner must take on a well-armed terrorist group that holds up a supermarket.
Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Stacy Keach, Cynthia Rothrock, Christopher Neame, Kathleen Garrett
Votes: 302
88. Deadly Addiction (1989)
R | 98 min | Action
John Turner is a renegade cop who purposely defies his superiors by trying to expose a drug ring that takes him from L.A. to Mexico and back. Along the way, he develops romance and becomes a father figure to a young streetwise orphan.
Director: Jack Vacek | Stars: Jack Vacek, Trice Schubert, Joseph Jennings, Juan Carlos Muñoz
Votes: 70
89. One Man Force (1989)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In this action packed film, an L. A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner.
Director: Dale Trevillion | Stars: John Matuszak, Ronny Cox, Charles Napier, Sharon Farrell
Votes: 256
90. Die Hard: Vendetta (2002 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
Die Hard: Vendetta puts you in the role of John McCalne and takes you on another exciting, wise-cracking chase for criminals.
Stars: Michael Blanchard, Jesse Donahue, Reginald VelJohnson, Joe Finetti
Votes: 121
91. Dandam Dashagunam (2011)
143 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The conscientious policeman ACP Surya is a powerful and efficient officer who works for law and order and protects people. One day when he is chasing criminals, he meets Maya and falls in ... See full summary »
Director: K. Madesh | Stars: Chiranjeevi Sarja, Ramya, P. Ravi Shankar, Thilak Shekar
Votes: 15
92. Dirty Harry (1990 Video Game)
Not Rated | Action, Crime, Thriller
In this side-scrolling 2D action adventure platformer for NES based on the Dirty Harry movie franchise, Harry must navigate the gang-infested San Francisco streets, sewers and the Alcatraz to take down the crime lord named Anaconda.
Votes: 45
93.
The Defenders (1961–1965)
Episode:
The Attack
(1961)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama
The Prestons defend a policeman who killed the teenage boy that attacked his five-year-old daughter. The officer stubbornly insists he had a right to do it and most of his neighbors agree with him.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Richard Kiley, Barbara Barrie
Votes: 30
94.
Hunter (1984–1991)
Episode:
Rape and Revenge: Part 2
(1985)
TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Hunter takes matters into his own hands after his superiors refuse to fight the diplomat's claim of immunity.
Directors: Richard A. Colla, Gary Winter | Stars: Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer, Richard Yniguez, Dan Ponce
Votes: 110
95.
Hunter (1984–1991)
Episode:
Silver Bullet
(1988)
TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When Hunter & McCall investigate a series of murders committed with police-issued bullets, the main suspect is closer than they think.
Director: Michael Preece | Stars: Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer, Charles Hallahan, Leslie Bevis
Votes: 81
96.
Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode:
Due Process of Law
(1968)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After Mark's girlfriend is found dead he becomes obsessed with finding the responsible person, even if it means ignoring the law.
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Raymond Burr, Dwayne Hickman, David Carradine, Don Galloway
Votes: 77
97.
Kojak (1973–1978)
Episode:
I Was Happy Where I Was
(1977)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Frustrated by the inability of the police to stop protection rackets that are harassing his community, a Puerto Rican undercover cop decides to join with some of the local street groups ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Sgarro | Stars: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas
Votes: 108
98.
Starsky and Hutch (1975–1979)
Episode:
Strange Justice
(1978)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A veteran cop's daughter is raped and the cop shoots the suspect - Starsky and Hutch try to keep the cop out of trouble and also put the rapist in jail.
Director: Reza Badiyi | Stars: Paul Michael Glaser, David Soul, Antonio Fargas, Bernie Hamilton
Votes: 218
99.
T.J. Hooker (1982–1986)
Episode:
Blue Murder
(1983)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When several criminals are being gunned down, everyone wonders who is doing it. And when Hooker was with one of them before he was taken out, even he wonders. He gets a line on a possible ... See full summary »
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear, James Darren
Votes: 62
100.
T.J. Hooker (1982–1986)
Episode:
Vengeance Is Mine
(1983)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The daughter of a cop who's an old friend of Hooker's is raped by someone she knows. The guy is apprehended but manages to find a way to get released. Hooker sets out to try and get enough ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Bondelli | Stars: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear, Richard Herd
Votes: 125