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The Shawshank Redemption(1994)

R
| 2h 22min | Drama, Crime
4.4/5 (with 12,480 votes)

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Directed by Frank Darabont - With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, James Whitmore, Clancy Brown, ...
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Léon: The Professional(1994)

R
| 1h 51min | Crime, Drama, Action
4.2/5 (with 6,908 votes)

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

Directed by Luc Besson - With Natalie Portman, Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello, Michael Badalucco, Ellen Greene, ...
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Den of Thieves(2018)

R
| 2h 20min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.4/5 (with 1,240 votes)

A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

Directed by Christian Gudegast - With Gerard Butler, 50 Cent, Pablo Schreiber, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Evan Jones, Dawn Olivieri, ...
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Training Day(2001)

R
| 2h 2min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 2,620 votes)

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua - With Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin, Cliff Curtis, ...
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Elite Squad(2007)

R
| 1h 55min | Drama, Action, Crime
4.0/5 (with 977 votes)

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

Directed by José Padilha - With Wagner Moura, Fernanda Machado, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri(2017)

R
| 1h 55min | Crime, Drama
4.0/5 (with 4,593 votes)

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

Directed by Martin McDonagh - With Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Abbie Cornish, ...
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Fruitvale Station(2013)

R
| 1h 22min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 561 votes)

Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.

Directed by Ryan Coogler - With Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melonie Diaz, Ahna O'Reilly, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, ...
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La Haine(1995)

NR
| 1h 38min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1,833 votes)

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz - With Vincent Cassel, Saïd Taghmaoui, Mathieu Kassovitz, Benoît Magimel, Vincent Lindon, Karin Viard, ...
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Detroit(2017)

R
| 2h 23min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, History
3.7/5 (with 737 votes)

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow - With John Boyega, Will Poulter, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Hannah Murray, Kaitlyn Dever, ...
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Red Heat(1988)

R
| 1h 44min | Action, Crime
3.1/5 (with 619 votes)

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.

Directed by Walter Hill - With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross, Laurence Fishburne, Gina Gershon, ...
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Malcolm X(1992)

PG-13
| 3h 22min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 698 votes)

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

Directed by Spike Lee - With Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee, ...
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Do the Right Thing(1989)

R
| 2h | Drama
3.9/5 (with 732 votes)

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

Directed by Spike Lee - With Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, ...
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Convoy(1978)

PG
| 1h 50min | Action, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 144 votes)

Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.

Directed by Sam Peckinpah - With Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Seymour Cassel, Madge Sinclair, ...

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans(2009)

R
| 2h 2min | Drama, Crime
3.1/5 (with 478 votes)

Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Jennifer Coolidge, Val Kilmer, Brad Dourif, Xzibit, ...

Witness(1985)

R
| 1h 53min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 677 votes)

A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.

Directed by Peter Weir - With Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Alexander Godunov, Danny Glover, ...
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Colors(1988)

R
| 2h | Action, Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 184 votes)

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.

Directed by Dennis Hopper - With Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, María Conchita Alonso, Trinidad Silva, Don Cheadle, Damon Wayans, ...
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Strange Days(1995)

R
| 2h 25min | Crime, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 554 votes)

In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue. Can the pair live to see the new millennium?

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow - With Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Vincent D'Onofrio, Michael Wincott, ...

The French Connection(1971)

R
| 1h 44min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 783 votes)

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

Directed by William Friedkin - With Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frédéric de Pasquale, ...
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Copycat(1995)

R
| 2h 4min | Thriller, Crime
3.2/5 (with 411 votes)

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Directed by Jon Amiel - With Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, Harry Connick Jr., William McNamara, J. E. Freeman, ...
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Edison(2005)

R
| 1h 39min | Drama, Action, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 134 votes)

In the troubled city of Edison, a young journalist, his jaded editor, and an honest investigator from the district attorney's office join forces to gather evidence against corrupt members of an elite police unit.

Directed by David J. Burke - With Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake, Kevin Spacey, Dylan McDermott, Cary Elwes, ...

Dog Eat Dog(2016)

R
| 1h 33min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 148 votes)

Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life.

Directed by Paul Schrader - With Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Cage, Christopher Matthew Cook, Omar Dorsey, Paul Schrader, Louisa Krause, ...
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Hunger(2008)

1h 36min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 494 votes)

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

Directed by Steve McQueen - With Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Liam McMahon, Stuart Graham, Karen Hassan, Ciaran Flynn, ...
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Brooklyn's Finest(2010)

2h 13min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 397 votes)

Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua - With Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Will Patton, Vincent D'Onofrio, ...
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion(1970)

1h 51min | Drama, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 325 votes)

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

Directed by Elio Petri - With Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Salvo Randone, Orazio Orlando, Arturo Dominici, ...
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Narc(2002)

R
| 1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 217 votes)

When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman, an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.

Directed by Joe Carnahan - With Jason Patric, Ray Liotta, Chi McBride, Busta Rhymes, John Ortiz, Alan van Sprang, ...
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Les Misérables(2019)

1h 43min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 636 votes)

Inspired by the 2005 riots in Paris, Stéphane, a recent transplant to the impoverished suburb of Montfermeil, joins the local anti-crime squad. Working alongside his unscrupulous colleagues Chris and Gwada, Stéphane struggles to maintain order amidst the mounting tensions between local gangs. When an arrest turns unexpectedly violent, the three officers must reckon with the aftermath and keep the neighborhood from spiraling out of control.

Directed by Ladj Ly - With Damien Bonnard, Jeanne Balibar, Issa Perica

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974(2009)

1h 42min | Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 111 votes)

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.

Directed by Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker - With Andrew Garfield
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Violent Cop(1989)

1h 43min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 152 votes)

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

Directed by Takeshi Kitano - With Takeshi Kitano, Shirō Sano, Hakuryuu, Maiko Kawakami, Sei Hiraizumi, Ittoku Kishibe, ...
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Two Distant Strangers(2020)

R
| 32min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 163 votes)

A man trying to get home to his dog gets stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive a deadly run-in with a cop.

Directed by Martin Desmond Roe, Travon Free
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Zabriskie Point(1970)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 171 votes)

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - With Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, G. D. Spradlin, Rod Taylor, Paul Fix, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, ...
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