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1. Mad Max (1979)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley
Votes: 224,153 | Gross: $8.75M
2. Basic Instinct (1992)
R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Votes: 219,744 | Gross: $117.73M
3. Blue Velvet (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Votes: 216,247 | Gross: $8.55M
4. Mississippi Burning (1988)
R | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif
Votes: 111,476 | Gross: $34.60M
5. Strange Days (1995)
R | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore
Votes: 78,566 | Gross: $7.92M
6. Forbrydelsen (2007–2012)
TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Police detective Sarah Lund investigates difficult cases with personal and political consequences.
Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Suurballe, Lars Mikkelsen, Bjarne Henriksen
Votes: 30,265
7. The Dead Zone (1983)
R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom
Votes: 77,535 | Gross: $20.77M
8. Summer of 84 (2018)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.
Directors: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell | Stars: Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery, Cory Gruter-Andrew
Votes: 46,121 | Gross: $0.09M
9. The Killer Inside Me (2010)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A West Texas Deputy Sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty
Votes: 35,768 | Gross: $0.21M
10. Bancroft (2017–2020)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A dark thriller surrounding Elizabeth Bancroft, a senior detective with explosive secrets.
Stars: Sarah Parish, Ryan McKen, Adam Long, Lee Boardman
Votes: 4,082
11. Acts of Vengeance (2017)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.
Director: Isaac Florentine | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Karl Urban, Paz Vega, Clint Dyer
Votes: 13,657
12. Hard Rain (1998)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The partner and nephew of an armored-truck driver tries to prevent three million dollars from being taken by a gang during a catastrophic flooding caused by a severe storm.
Director: Mikael Salomon | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver
Votes: 37,359 | Gross: $19.82M
13. Let Us Prey (2014)
Not Rated | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
Held in a remote police station, a mysterious stranger takes over the minds and souls of everyone inside.
Director: Brian O'Malley | Stars: Liam Cunningham, Pollyanna McIntosh, Bryan Larkin, Hanna Stanbridge
Votes: 10,768
14. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando
Votes: 13,398 | Gross: $0.27M
15. The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM (2022)
TV-MA | 79 min | Documentary
On the 2-year anniversary of George Floyd's death, Candace revisits Minneapolis and the violent, racially-divided aftermath that fueled BLM's global rise--and filled its coffers.
Director: Candace Owens | Stars: Candace Owens, Bob Kroll, Liz Collin, Alvin Manago
Votes: 4,533
16. Q&A (1990)
R | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Dirty cop, Mike Brennan thinks he got away with murder. But during a routine Q&A, the righteous assistant DA finds a clue that sets them both on a collision course.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante, Patrick O'Neal
Votes: 7,023 | Gross: $11.21M
17. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
R | 78 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In an alternative Victorian Age Gotham City, Batman begins his war on crime while he investigates a new series of murders by Jack the Ripper.
Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Carpenter, Chris Cox, John DiMaggio
Votes: 19,033
18. Natty Knocks (2023)
TV-MA | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A small-town babysitter and the kids she is looking after struggle to survive a serial killer on Halloween Eve.
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Charlotte Fountain-Jardim, Thomas Robie, Noen Perez, Bill Moseley
Votes: 1,023
19. True Crime (1995 Video)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mary, a precocious high school senior, longs to be a cop. When a classmate dies and the case remains unsolved, Mary becomes obsessed and gets involved in the investigation.
Director: Pat Verducci | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Dillon, Bill Nunn, Michael Bowen
Votes: 3,080
20. The Magnus Archives (2016 Podcast Series)
Drama, Horror, Mystery
The Magnus Archives is a weekly horror fiction anthology examining the mysteries within the archives of London based The Magnus Institute, an organization dedicated to documenting and ... See full summary »
Stars: Jonathan Sims, Alexander J. Newall, Frank Voss, Lydia Nicholas
Votes: 458
21. Briarpatch (2019–2020)
TV-MA | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A senator's aide unravels a complex web of lies, crimes and conspiracies when she returns to her corrupt hometown -- San Bonifacio, Texas, near the Mexican border--to investigate the death of her sister, a local cop killed by a car bomb.
Stars: Rosario Dawson, Jay R. Ferguson, Edi Gathegi, Brian Geraghty
Votes: 2,695
22. Streets (1990)
R | 85 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The story of runaways living in Venice, California, under the threat of a psychotic cop who is a serial killer of prostitutes.
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Christina Applegate, David Mendenhall, Eb Lottimer, Jane Chung
Votes: 880 | Gross: $1.51M
23. The Prowler (1951)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
After Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren
Votes: 4,113
24. Mean Dreams (2016)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
Follows Casey and Jonas, two teenagers desperate to escape their broken and abusive homes and examines the desperation of life on the run and the beauty of first love.
Director: Nathan Morlando | Stars: Josh Wiggins, Sophie Nélisse, Joe Cobden, Bill Paxton
Votes: 4,868
25. The Fall of Minneapolis (2023)
102 min | Documentary, Crime
A multi-part documentary featuring: body worn camera video of George Floyd's arrest; interviews with officers who served during the riots; key evidence from the autopsy and Derek Chauvin's trial; and the aftermath that followed.
Director: JC Chaix | Stars: Derek Chauvin, Scott Creighton, Tom Haney, Tim Hanks
Votes: 973
26. Psycho Cop Returns (1993)
R | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Psychopath cop decides to kill everyone who he thinks has broken the law.
Director: Adam Rifkin | Stars: Robert R. Shafer, Barbara Niven, Rod Sweitzer, Miles Dougal
Votes: 2,820
27. Aakrosh (2010)
Not Rated | 146 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The Central Bureau of Investigation deputes two officers to investigate the disappearance of three medical students, which they believe to be an incident of 'honour killing' in a small, closed community.
Director: Priyadarshan | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Paresh Rawal
Votes: 4,099
28. Dance with Death (1992)
R | 90 min | Thriller
A beautiful society reporter goes undercover as a stripper to investigate a murderer stalking the girls at the strip club.
Director: Charles Philip Moore | Stars: Maxwell Caulfield, Barbara Alyn Woods, Martin Mull, Catya Sassoon
Votes: 421
29. Murderland (2009)
Not Rated | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A thriller that tells a traumatic murder story through the eyes of three central characters: Carrie the daughter of the murdered woman, Douglas Hain the detective in charge of the investigation, and Sally the murder victim.
Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Amanda Hale, Bel Powley, Sharon Small
Votes: 687
30. Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)
Not Rated | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
One early morning deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Mireille Darc
Votes: 2,571
31. Tower Block (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Thriller
Several months after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be alive into a battle for survival.
Directors: David Beton, James Nunn | Stars: Sheridan Smith, Jamie Thomas King, Jack O'Connell, Ralph Brown
Votes: 5,765
32. Eyewitness (2014)
59 min | Crime, Drama
Two 15 year old boys secretly meet up in the forest, only to witness a blood bath. They are seen, but escape trying to keep this as a secret, both in fear of the perpetrator and that their secret is revealed.
Stars: Axel Bøyum, Anneke von der Lippe, Odin Waage, Per Kjerstad
Votes: 1,774
33. Frankenstein (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
When a detective begins investigating a series of horrific murders, she is lead to a mad doctor who has sustained his creature and himself for over 200 years through genetic experimentation.
Director: Marcus Nispel | Stars: Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Thomas Kretschmann, Adam Goldberg
Votes: 2,033
34. Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart (2014)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
For several months in 1978 and 1979, inhabitants of Oise live in fright and terror as a serial killer disturbs the peace and quiet.
Director: Cédric Anger | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Ana Girardot, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Patrick Azam
Votes: 3,166 | Gross: $0.00M
35. The Third Generation (1979)
111 min | Crime, Drama
A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Margit Carstensen
Votes: 2,820
36. Johnny Skidmarks (1998)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Johnny "Skidmark" Scardino is a free-lance crime-scene photographer and part-time blackmailer. When his associates begin to turn up murdered, he has a very short time to discover the killer before it is his turn.
Director: John Raffo | Stars: Peter Gallagher, Frances McDormand, John Lithgow, John Kapelos
Votes: 1,061
37. Lost Souls (1998 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
As a family moves into their new country home, strange events occur, making them believe that their autistic daughter is communicating with the spirits of two murdered children.
Director: Jeff Woolnough | Stars: John Savage, Barbara Sukowa, Richard Lintern, Laura Harling
Votes: 300
38. Sioux City (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller. Because of his upbringing, Jesse ... See full summary »
Director: Lou Diamond Phillips | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Melinda Dillon, Lise Cutter
Votes: 520
39. 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
40. La polizia ha le mani legate (1975)
97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In a crowded hotel in downtown Milan a bomb has been planted. The timer on its detonator has only minutes to run. A young cop discovers it by accident and is drawn into a terrifying nightmare of intrigue, brutality and ruthless killing.
Director: Luciano Ercoli | Stars: Claudio Cassinelli, Arthur Kennedy, Franco Fabrizi, Sara Sperati
Votes: 476
41. Dog Watch (1997 Video)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A tough San Francisco cop is suspected of killing his partner. When he begins to look for the actual killer, he discovers he didn't know his partner as well as he thought, as evidence of the dead man's dirty dealings begins to mount.
Director: John Langley | Stars: Sam Elliott, Esai Morales, Paul Sorvino, Dan Lauria
Votes: 424
42. Low Winter Sun (2006 TV Movie)
150 min | Crime, Drama
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.
Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Mark Strong, Brian McCardie, Robert Willox, Burt Kwouk
Votes: 684
43. Driven Underground (2015 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Single mother Sarah Palmer hides her family in Oregon when her daughter Christy becomes a key witness in a murder against the mob.
Director: George Erschbamer | Stars: Kristy Swanson, Emily Tennant, Lochlyn Munro, Rick Ravanello
Votes: 271
44. The Cop (1970)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
While investigating a drug case, an inspector is shot dead by a gangster. His colleague, Inspector Favenin, is assigned to solve this crime. He is ready to do anything to save his colleague's honor, even if it means going beyond the law.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Françoise Fabian, Gianni Garko, Michel Constantin
Votes: 705
45. Killer Constable (1980)
Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Drama
Righteous constable Leng Tian-Ying has a fearsome reputation of killing criminals without remorse. But after being assigned to track a gang that robbed the imperial treasury, he comes to find that his reputation is being used against him.
Director: Chih-Hung Kuei | Stars: Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku, Jason Piao Pai, Tsui-Ling Yu
Votes: 515
46. Dying to Remember (1993 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 87 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman goes to a psychiatrist because she is plagued by recurring nightmares. The psychiatrist tells her that she was involved in a murder in San Francisco in a past life, and the ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Scott Plank, Christopher Stone, Jay Robinson
Votes: 180
47. The Haunting of Lisa (1996 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A young girl experiences disturbing visions of a tragedy that took place 30 years earlier, that may be connected to a recent unsolved murder.
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Cheryl Ladd, Duncan Regehr, Aemilia Robinson, Don Allison
Votes: 316
48. Secretos en el Jardín (2013–2014)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A series of crimes occur in Viña del Mar during the 80s. The detective Ramiro Opazo and the journalist Javier Montes will investigate those responsible for the murders and robberies.
Stars: Francisco Pérez-Bannen, Mario Horton, Cristián Campos, Daniela Ramírez
Votes: 82
49. Satan Returns (1996)
95 min | Action, Horror
Female police psychologist is targeted by a supernatural devil-worshiping serial killer who wants to prove to her that she's the Antichrist. A tough cop, his inept womanizing comic relief partner and a reverend try to stop him.
Director: Wai-Lun Lam | Stars: Chingmy Yau, Francis Ng, Donnie Yen, Dayo Wong
Votes: 296
50. This Is the Police II (2018 Video Game)
M | Crime, Drama
Grim adventure/strategy game about Jack Boyd, a disgraced ex police chief who teams up with the new idealistic female sheriff of a small snowy town where he's hiding to fix everything - only to end up on an even darker path than before.
Director: Ilya Yanovich | Stars: Jon St. John, Sarah Hamilton, Michele Benzin, Peter Palmisano
Votes: 52