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117 films tagged police, showing 50
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2025 · Thriller
In May 2020, the sheriff of a small New Mexico town refuses the mayor's mask mandate and decides to run against him. It is a long film about a town arguing with itself, online and in the street.
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2025 · Thriller
A US marshal charters a small plane to fly a mob accountant out of the Alaskan wilderness to testify. Almost all of it happens in the cockpit of that plane, with three people in it.
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2025 · Crime
A bent detective is sent to find the son of a mayoral candidate, who has stolen a shipment of cocaine and now has the Triads and half the force hunting him. Long, brutal fights, mostly at night.
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2025 · Crime
In Indianapolis in 1977, a man wires a shotgun to a mortgage broker's son's neck, walks him home at gunpoint and calls a radio station to explain why. Taken from a real standoff, and mostly one apartment with the police outside.
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2025 · Crime
A Los Angeles sheriff follows the thief who got away from him to Europe, and talks his way into the crew planning a diamond vault job in Nice. Long and loose, as much hanging around with the crew as it is the heist.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Crime
An unexploded bomb turns up on a London building site, and while the army clears the streets to defuse it, a crew uses the empty cordon to drill into a bank. Two jobs running on the same clock.
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2025 · Comedy
An improv teacher and two of her students are recruited by a London detective to play parts in small undercover stings, and turn out to be good enough to be sent further in. Broad comedy, and the tension is whether one of them breaks character.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Horror
A police officer transferred to Kashmir takes the case of a boy who vanished during a magic show, and moves his family into an old villa where things are not right. A ghost story and a police case at once.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
A violent Mumbai police officer works out who killed a fellow officer, then loses his memory in a crash before he can say the name. He is put back on the case and has to build it again, learning what he used to be like as he goes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2008 · Action
Batman, a new district attorney and a straight-arrow cop try to break organised crime in Gotham, and a criminal with no name and no plan starts pulling the city apart. Much of it is about what each of them will agree to do.
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2025 · Thriller
A bomb on a Tokyo-bound bullet train will go off if the train drops below 100 km/h, and the crew have to keep it moving while the government refuses the ransom. It plays out on the train and in the control room.
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2025 · Crime
A man is found stabbed to death in a Valencia car park, and the detective on the case keeps coming back to his young widow. Based on a real Spanish case, and told as a police investigation.
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2025 · Mystery
A lawyer takes on the case of her friend's husband, an unarmed Black man shot dead, and works it with her boyfriend, who is a detective. It plays as a mystery, with the two of them turning over what everyone involved is hiding.
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2025 · Thriller
A former French special-forces operator, out of a job since an accident, has his pregnant wife taken and is pulled into a conspiracy while looking for her. A Netflix action thriller that keeps moving.
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2025 · Comedy
Four hapless Jakarta police officers, one bungled raid away from losing their jobs, go undercover in a nursing home to find out who killed the mayor's son. An Indonesian comedy with a big cast of residents.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Horror
Bodies start turning up in the canals of Amsterdam, killed by someone who works underwater, and the detective who handled the same kind of case decades ago is called back in. A slasher with boat chases.
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2025 · Thriller
A Hong Kong private detective working in Malaysia takes three jobs at once, all of them men who want to know who their partner is really seeing, while a cop works a murder nearby. Two threads running side by side.
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2025 · Crime
Someone is badly hurt by a police projectile during the yellow vest protests, and an internal affairs investigator is put on the case. Most of the film is the investigation itself.
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2025 · Action
A U.S. Marshal arrests a wanted outlaw at her farmhouse and leans on the local sheriff, still shaken by a hostage standoff six months back, for men to help hold her. Most of it is the waiting, and what she does to the deputies while they wait.
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2025 · Science fiction
Paris in 2045 has been split into zones by class and the police take their orders from an artificial intelligence. When the man who built the system is murdered, two investigators are put on the case together.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Crime
Adamo runs a legitimate business now and still moves cocaine through the port of Antwerp, which puts him between his old boss and the rival trying to take her trade. Loud and fast, and played partly for comedy.
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2025 · Crime
In the years after the fall of Saigon, men hijack Vietnamese passenger planes to get out of the country, and the air marshals aboard are the only ones trained to stop them. Based on real hijackings.
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2025 · Comedy
The son of Frank Drebin is now the liability at Police Squad, and a software engineer's death puts him onto a tech billionaire with a device he should not have. Jokes stacked three to a scene.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary built almost entirely from police bodycam footage of the neighbourhood disputes that ended when a Florida woman shot the mother next door. It runs in order, with almost no narration.
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2025 · Fantasy
A woman arrives in Bangalore from Sweden, works night shifts and keeps to herself, until she steps in to stop a man from a local organ trafficking ring and the neighbours start wondering what she is. It is the first part of a superhero series.
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2025 · Action
A crew led by a long-hidden fugitive empties a bank vault and then a Macau tower without leaving a trace, so the police pull a retired surveillance expert back in to find them. Heist first, chase after.
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2015 · Crime
A Boston gangster becomes an FBI informant and uses the arrangement to take over the city, while the agent who signed him up keeps covering for him. Cold and talky, with long scenes of men at tables.
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2025 · Crime
A new interim sheriff in a quiet, well-off Minnesota town is stuck on nuisance calls until a botched bank robbery drags him into something the whole town is in on. Dry, sudden and very violent.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Action
A young constable with a violent childhood behind him is sent undercover onto a fortified island off Sri Lanka to trace a shipment of arms and gold, and finds the brother he lost as a child living there. It is long, loud and covers a lot of ground.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
The teenage children of El Paso drug agents start robbing cartel stash houses with their parents' intel and night vision goggles, to help the family of an agent who was killed. It moves fast, and the people chasing them are their own fathers.
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2018 · Drama
The first Black officer on the Colorado Springs force answers a Klan recruitment ad by phone and sends a white colleague to the meetings in his place. Funny for long stretches, then it stops being funny.
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2025 · Thriller
A former stuntman drives a taxi in a Kerala hill town and dotes on his old Ambassador car, until two policemen commandeer him for a job he cannot refuse. It runs long, and it turns hard.
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2025 · Thriller
In 1990s upstate New York, a young plainclothes officer works a sting entrapping gay men in shopping malls, and starts a secret affair with one of the men he was sent to arrest. Tense and close, with most of the pressure inside him.
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2025 · Comedy
A retired encounter cop is pulled back in when his old girlfriend, now a police officer, needs help freeing a kidnapped businessman, and his suspicious wife insists the whole family comes along. A loud comedy with a rescue attached.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
A veteran just out of prison goes home to a small Ohio town run by a racist sheriff, where Black men have a way of disappearing. It starts slow and turns violent.
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2025 · Crime
A drug informant and the ambitious prosecutor he feeds cases to have built their careers on each other, until a bust involving a presidential candidate's son puts them on opposite sides. Fast, and full of people turning on each other.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Science fiction
In a Los Angeles where an artificial intelligence tries violent crimes, a detective is strapped into a chair and given ninety minutes to argue it out of executing him for his wife's murder. Mostly one room and a clock.
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2026 · Thriller
A Miami narcotics team searching a house for hidden cash finds twenty million dollars in the attic, and their lieutenant tells each of them a different number. Most of it is the team in that house, working out who to trust.
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2026 · Crime
A careful Los Angeles jewel thief plans his robberies to avoid violence, and a detective who thinks one man is behind them all cannot get anyone to listen. It cuts between the two of them.
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2026 · Thriller
A former American army officer living in Europe kills the criminals he believes the courts let go, most of them migrants, while the police try to work out who he is. Blunt and violent throughout.
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2026 · Crime
Five years on, Georgekutty has turned his own past into a hit film, and two journalists start digging into what actually happened. Meanwhile someone is wrecking every marriage proposal for his daughter.
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2026 · Thriller
Bombay, 1995: a hitman who kills with a barber's razor wants out and gone to Fiji, and a widow wants him to kill the four men who ruined her husband. Close to three hours of gangsters, police and payback.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Horror
A Kansas highway patrol officer sees her husband murdered by the serial killer the papers call the Satanic Slasher, and follows his trail across the Midwest. The chase is straightforward and the killings are not spared.
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2026 · Crime
A widowed crime writer's eight-year-old son is taken, and he turns to his estranged father, a retired detective, for help. The case starts to line up with one from decades ago, a convicted serial killer called the Whisper Man.
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2026 · Comedy
The troopers gather for Farva's wedding to Thorny's sister, and Thorny spends the week trying to convince his family that the groom is a menace. Bachelor party jokes, with a new drug on their patch on the side.
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2026 · Action
In 2016 two Mexican police officers stop a car on a night patrol in Los Mochis and find El Chapo inside. It is built around that night and the manhunt behind it, and it is based on what actually happened.
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2026 · Thriller
A background check on a Hong Kong police chief in 2017 opens the file on an operation that went wrong in 1994, when the city's old money, the triads and the British were all pulling at each other. Two timelines and a lot of names.
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2026 · Action
An outlaw who deals out the justice the courts will not falls for a bar singer, and when the police kill her he goes after them with a woman they brutalised. It is violent from early on.
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2026 · Crime
A drug squad detective exposes colleagues tampering with evidence and joins the unit that investigates the police themselves. Case by case, with an old death he blames himself for running underneath.
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2026 · Crime
A former ambassador who spent fifty years in an affair with a princess is found murdered, and the only evidence is the letters they wrote each other. Maigret has to work the case quietly.
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