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Bad Boys for Life(2020)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 4min | Thriller, Action, Crime
3.6/5 (with 3,806 votes)

Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

American Gangster(2007)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 37min | Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 2,423 votes)

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.

Lethal Weapon(1987)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 50min | Adventure, Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 1,987 votes)

Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on their first homicide investigation as partners, involving a young woman known to Murtaugh with ties to a drug and prostitution ring.

Blitz(2011)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 37min | Crime, Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 716 votes)

A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.

The Invisible Man(2020)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 4min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror
3.6/5 (with 2,675 votes)

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

Lethal Weapon 2(1989)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 54min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 1,491 votes)

In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation. When he plants a bomb under Murtaugh's toilet, the action explodes!

Miami Vice(2006)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 12min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 809 votes)

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.

Red Heat(1988)

FSK: 18+ years
| 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.

Dick Tracy(1990)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
3.1/5 (with 407 votes)

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Stakeout(1987)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 56min | Action, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 164 votes)

Two cops are given the 'dirty' job of staking out the home of an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend. Chris and the beautiful girlfriend accidentally meet and fall in love. Just as Chris confesses, the convict appears, but will she betray him ?

Trancers(1984)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 17min | Science Fiction, Crime
3.0/5 (with 76 votes)

Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.

Out of Time(2003)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 529 votes)

Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

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Bullet Head(2017)

1h 33min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 231 votes)

A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.

Bride of Re-Animator(1990)

3.3/5 (with 203 votes)

Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life – starting with the heart of his young protégé Dan's dearly deceased, Meg Halsey. Surely nothing could go wrong?

Fair Game(1995)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 31min | Action
2.5/5 (with 132 votes)

Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.

Turner & Hooch(1989)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 40min | Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 553 votes)

Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some 'real' cases—not just misdemeanors. When Amos Reed is murdered, Scott sets himself on the case, but the closest thing to a witness to the murder is Reed's dog, Hooch, which Scott has to take care of—to avoid Hooch being 'put to sleep'.

13(2010)

1h 31min | Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 342 votes)

A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

C.H.U.D.(1984)

2.9/5 (with 118 votes)

A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.

Killer Joe(2011)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 42min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
3.3/5 (with 615 votes)

A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.

Brooklyn's Finest(2010)

FSK: 16+ years
| 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.

Tightrope(1984)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 55min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime
3.0/5 (with 143 votes)

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

Split Second(1992)

3.0/5 (with 124 votes)

In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.

No Good Deed(2002)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 37min | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 73 votes)

While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.

The Factory(2012)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 48min | Crime, Thriller, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 124 votes)

An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.

The Thin Man(1934)

1h 31min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 186 votes)

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Sleepless(2001)

3.1/5 (with 98 votes)

An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.

15 Minutes(2001)

FSK: 18+ years
| 2h | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 306 votes)

When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story.".

Fear City(1984)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 37min | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 31 votes)

Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.

Shadow of a Doubt(1943)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 48min | Thriller, Crime
3.8/5 (with 467 votes)

Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie Oakley, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, Charlotte’s admiration turns into suspicion.

The Sentinel(1977)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 32min | Horror, Drama, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 78 votes)

A New York City model with a troubled past relocates to an apartment in a brownstone building where the only other tenant is a withdrawn blind priest. After experiencing strange occurrences, she begins to realize her building houses a sinister evil.

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