Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "police-search"

1. Room (I) (2015)

R | 118 min | Drama, Thriller

A little boy is held captive in a room with his mother since his birth, so he has never known the world outside.

Director: Lenny Abrahamson | Stars: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Wendy Crewson

Votes: 451,470 | Gross: $14.68M

2. End of Watch (2012)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Shot documentary-style, this film follows the daily grind of two young police officers in LA who are partners and friends and what happens when they meet criminal forces greater than themselves.

Director: David Ayer | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera

Votes: 269,756 | Gross: $41.00M

3. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane, Sharon Acker

Votes: 11,273

4. American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020)

TV-MA | 83 min | Documentary, Crime

In 2018, 34-year-old Shanann Watts and her two young daughters disappear in Colorado. With the heartbreaking details emerging, the family's story made headlines around the world.

Director: Jenny Popplewell | Stars: Nickole Atkinson, Jim Benemann, Luke Epple, Mark Jamieson

Votes: 32,914

5. Red Joan (2018)

R | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.

Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes

Votes: 14,462 | Gross: $1.58M

6. Borgo (2023)

118 min | Crime, Drama

Melissa, 32, a prison guard, moves to Corsica with her family. She joins the staff of a prison that's not quite like any other. She befriends Saveriu, a young influential inmate. Once released, he gets back in touch with her for a favor.

Director: Stéphane Demoustier | Stars: Hafsia Herzi, Moussa Mansaly, Louis Memmi, Michel Fau

Votes: 241

7. Barbara (I) (2012)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke

Votes: 16,024

8. The Life Ahead (2020)

PG-13 | 94 min | Drama

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

Director: Edoardo Ponti | Stars: Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye, Renato Carpentieri, Iosif Diego Pirvu

Votes: 15,579

9. He Walked by Night (1948)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell

Votes: 6,733

10. The Kettering Incident (2016)

TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Doctor Anna Macy finds herself inexplicably linked to the disappearance of two girls, fifteen years apart.

Stars: Elizabeth Debicki, Matthew Le Nevez, Henry Nixon, Anthony Phelan

Votes: 3,892

11. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Baron Frankenstein, with the aid of a young doctor and his fiancée, kidnaps the mentally sick Dr. Brandt in order to perform the first brain transplant operation.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward

Votes: 5,299 | Gross: $0.10M

12. Dead Ringer (1963)

Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.

Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey

Votes: 6,458

13. Promise at Dawn (2017)

131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A man recounts his life, from his childhood through his experiences in World War II, and the story of his self-sacrificing mother, who raised him alone.

Director: Eric Barbier | Stars: Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Votes: 3,863

14. The Way Home (II) (2010)

PG | 89 min | Drama, Family

An inspirational true story about how a rural community rallied around a distraught family to search for their missing two year-old boy and through doing so changed the lives of many of those involved.

Director: Lance W. Dreesen | Stars: Dean Cain, Pierce Gagnon, Matt Lintz, Sonny Shroyer

Votes: 853

15. Night Watch (1973)

PG | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Elizabeth Taylor plays a woman who is a witness to murder...but whose?

Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw, Robert Lang

Votes: 2,174 | Gross: $1.26M

16. 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

17. Three on a Match (1932)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William

Votes: 4,406

18. War of the Colossal Beast (1958)

Approved | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colosasal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.

Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Duncan 'Dean' Parkin, Russ Bender

Votes: 2,621

19. Family of Cops (1995 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A police detective's oversexed daughter is charged with murder when someone kills the wealthy married man she slept with.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Charles Bronson, Angela Featherstone, Sebastian Spence, Kate Trotter

Votes: 1,122

20. Welcome (I) (2009)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

Bilal sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe and wants to get to England to see his love who lives there.

Director: Philippe Lioret | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Derya Ayverdi

Votes: 7,629 | Gross: $0.01M

21. 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: 1,602

22. The Ice House (1997)

TV-MA | 172 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Phoebe lives with her friends Diana and Anne at their country mansion, but they are the target of vicious village gossip. When their gardener discovers a body in the disused ice house, a 10-year-old murder investigation is reopened.

Stars: Frances Barber, Kitty Aldridge, Corin Redgrave, Penny Downie

Votes: 957

23. Le nécrophile (2004)

38 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

M. Montaldo lives a quiet and simple life. He feeds on eating cockroaches and when he gets time over he pulls home the corpses that satisfy his sexual affection. But his life has just ... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Barassat | Stars: Freddy Bournane, Ilona Szabo, Mohammed Aamoun, Jenny Bel'Air

Votes: 179

24. Death Occurred Last Night (1970)

TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.

Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Raf Vallone, Frank Wolff, Gabriele Tinti, Gillian Bray

Votes: 732

25. Police (1985)

113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A moody, jaded police detective, while investigating a drug ring, falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme.

Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina, Pascale Rocard

Votes: 3,013

26. Ajami (2009)

Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama

Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.

Directors: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Stars: Fouad Habash, Nisrin Siksik, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani

Votes: 6,538 | Gross: $0.62M

27. Eden Is West (2009)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

Desperate to escape the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a smuggler ship to France. This is the beginning of his odyssey across Western Europe to Paris, where miraculous promises, new friends, and dangers await him at every turn.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Léa Wiazemsky, Tess Spentzos

Votes: 2,704

28. Personal Affair (1953)

Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In a 1950s British village, a teenager, who is in love with her Latin language teacher, disappears, prompting the police to investigate the teacher, amidst public rumors of rape and murder.

Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: Gene Tierney, Leo Genn, Pamela Brown, Walter Fitzgerald

Votes: 619

29. Kiss & Tell (2018)

88 min | Comedy, Drama

Julien feels like a hostile presence behind him constantly. Alex, his son learns that Eva, a 17-year-old high school girl, forgot to let him know that he was going to be a father.

Director: Michel Blanc | Stars: Karin Viard, Carole Bouquet, Charlotte Rampling, Jean-Paul Rouve

Votes: 566

30. Maigret voit rouge (1963)

87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Division Commissioner Jules Maigret and his team hunt a ring of American racketeers sent to Paris to silence an embarrassing witness

Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Françoise Fabian, Roland Armontel, Paul Frankeur

Votes: 696

31. Villa Caprice (2020)

103 min | Drama

Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.

Director: Bernard Stora | Stars: Niels Arestrup, Patrick Bruel, Irène Jacob, Paul Hamy

Votes: 361

32. Underworld Informers (1963)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Johnnoe is investigating a string of bank robberies but the robbers are determined to compromise Johnnoe and the investigation.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Margaret Whiting, Katherine Woodville, Colin Blakely

Votes: 448

33. L.627 (1992)

R | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Relentless struggle of the Parisian police against the drug trade.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Didier Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady, Jean-Roger Milo

Votes: 2,171

34. The Wings of the Kirin (2011)

129 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A man is stabbed to death in Tokyo's Nihonbashi area. The victim staggers with the knife still in the wound for eight minutes before collapsing under the winged statues of two Kirin on the ... See full summary »

Director: Nobuhiro Doi | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Aragaki, Junpei Mizobata, Tôri Matsuzaka

Votes: 887

35. La Menace (1977)

117 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The main character is unhappily married and has an affair. When his wife finds out, she lures his girlfriend to a cliff and throws herself of it, making the girlfriend look as her killer. ... See full summary »

Director: Alain Corneau | Stars: Yves Montand, Carole Laure, Marie Dubois, Jean-François Balmer

Votes: 897

36. JFK: The Final Evidence (2023)

Documentary, Action, Crime

In this two-part series, explore the mystery behind the assassination of President John F Kennedy with Dr David J Hall.

Stars: Emma Long, David J. Hall, Chris Moran

Votes: 26

37. Midnight Runner (2018)

92 min | Crime, Drama

One of the best runners in Switzerland tries to overcome the loss of his brother by robbing innocent women at night. Based on a true story.

Director: Hannes Baumgartner | Stars: Max Hubacher, Annina Euling, Sylvia Rohrer, Christophe Sermet

Votes: 295

38. The Lady and the Tramp (1968)

109 min | Drama, Romance

To flee from an arranged marriage, a free-spirited Corfiot disguises herself as a gawky lad and abandons a life of riches to seek freedom. An honest fellow traveller becomes her guardian angel; however, will he ever find out her secret?

Director: Dinos Dimopoulos | Stars: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Dimitris Papamichael, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Floretta Zana

Votes: 1,290

39. Number, Please? (1920)

Passed | 25 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

While at an amusement park, two men try to win the heart of a young lady. They compete with each other while attempting to find her runaway dog, and they race to ask her mother's permission to take her up in a hot air balloon.

Directors: Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Sammy Brooks

Votes: 1,248

40. Diagnosis: Murder (1974)

PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Anonymous notes accuse a psychiatrist of having murdered his wife. A bedraggled policeman attempts to uncover the truth behind her disappearance.

Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Jon Finch, Judy Geeson, Christopher Lee, Tony Beckley

Votes: 287

41. The Last Express (1997 Video Game)

T | Crime, Drama, Mystery

1914: Innocent fugitive Robert Cath boards the Orient Express three days before the outbreak of WW1 and must stay alive until "the end of the line".

Director: Jordan Mechner | Stars: David Svensson, Dunya Djordjevic, Karl-Heinz Teuber, Mujahid Abdul-Rashid

Votes: 265

42. The Last Ones (2020)

117 min | Drama

A struggling mine owner supplies his workers with drugs so they'll forget a tough existence. Nearby a small community of reindeer breeders also struggles.This critique of capitalism unfolds against a Western like Lapland landscape.

Director: Veiko Õunpuu | Stars: Pääru Oja, Laura Birn, Tommi Korpela, Elmer Bäck

Votes: 558

43. Westler (1985)

94 min | Drama

Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening.... See full summary »

Director: Wieland Speck | Stars: Sigurd Rachman, Rainer Strecker, Andy Lucas, Frank Rediess

Votes: 433

44. The Last Chance Detectives: Escape from Fire Lake (1996 TV Movie)

55 min | Adventure, Mystery

The Last Chance Detectives search for a missing friend. The trail finally leads them to the wilderness of Fire Lake.

Director: Stephen Stiles | Stars: Anthony De Longis, J. Marvin Campbell, Ryan Calhoun, David Netter

Votes: 93

45. Barnen på Luna (2000)

29 min | Family

After losing their parents in a plane crash, four children explore the Stockholm archipelago by boat one summer, while the police search for them.

Stars: Totte Steneby, Tove Edfeldt, Anders Österholm, Kim Jansson

Votes: 151

46. Breaking Loose: Summer City II (1988)

R | 87 min | Action

A disillusioned and directionless Australian teen who finds his life spiraling more quickly than he can handle makes an impulsive escape to the Australian coast to stay with a friend of his... See full summary »

Director: Rod Hay | Stars: Peter Phelps, Vince Martin, Abigail, David Ngoombujarra

Votes: 57

47. I nyfi toskase (1962)

79 min | Comedy, Romance

In her delicate bridal gown and bent on finding her beloved, a determined would-be wife flees from a dreadful marriage of convenience and enlists the help of a kind wandering salesman. Can anyone stand in the way of a woman in love?

Director: Alekos Sakellarios | Stars: Jenny Karezi, Thanasis Vengos, Nikos Rizos, Koulis Stoligas

Votes: 243

48. Hao qing gai tian (1997)

101 min | Action

During an operation with a master criminal, an undercover cop fails his mission because he was shot by an uniform officer. His superior suspects he has become a bad seed and refuses to ... See full summary »

Director: Chuen-Yee Cha | Stars: Julian Cheung, Michael Wong, Gigi Lai, Edmond So

Votes: 73

49. Built for Endurance (1993)

7 min | Short, Drama

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Director: Todd Verow | Stars: Frankie Payne, Jennifer M. Gentile, Todd Verow, Edward Jekot

50. Busted: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters (2004 Video)

45 min | Documentary

A film illustrating the American civil rights pertaining to police encounters with various dramatized scenarios illustrating how they can be exercised.

Director: Roger Sorkin | Stars: Grace Ahmed, John Driscoll, Ricardo Kingsbury, Frank Lama

Votes: 38