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

1. The Equalizer 3 (2023)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea, David Denman

Votes: 114,552

2. Reptile (2023)

R | 134 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Tom Nichols is a hardened New England detective, unflinching in his pursuit of a case where nothing is as it seems and it begins to dismantle the illusions in his own life.

Director: Grant Singer | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Justin Timberlake, Eric Bogosian, Alicia Silverstone

Votes: 87,580

3. The Untouchables (1987)

R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith

Votes: 330,787 | Gross: $76.27M

4. A Day to Die (2022)

R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Connor Connolly has one day to pay reparations to Tyrone Pettis. He is forced to ask his old military ops crew, led by Brice Mason, to come together to get him two million dollars before he loses everyone he loves in the process.

Director: Wes Miller | Stars: Kevin Dillon, Bruce Willis, Frank Grillo, Gianni Capaldi

Votes: 5,037

5. Betrayed (2020)

126 min | Drama, History, War

The Braude family's experiences when Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany and Jews were arrested and deported.

Director: Eirik Svensson | Stars: Jakob Oftebro, Pia Halvorsen, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Carl Martin Eggesbø

Votes: 2,413

6. First Kill (2017)

R | 97 min | Action, Thriller

A Wall Street broker is forced to evade a police chief investigating a bank robbery as he attempts to recover the stolen money in exchange for his son's life.

Director: Steven C. Miller | Stars: Bruce Willis, Hayden Christensen, Ty Shelton, Megan Leonard

Votes: 12,440

7. Vehicle 19 (2013)

R | 85 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

In Johannesburg, an American parole breaker unknowingly picks up a rental car that will tie him to a web of corrupt local police.

Director: Mukunda Michael Dewil | Stars: Paul Walker, Naima McLean, Gys de Villiers, Leyla Haidarian

Votes: 15,970

8. Wild Thing (1987)

PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.

Director: Max Reid | Stars: Robert Knepper, Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Davi, Maury Chaykin

Votes: 722

9. To thavma tis thalassas ton Sargasson (2019)

Not Rated | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In a small eel-farming town in the west of Greece, two women live solitary lives while dreaming of getting away. Elisabeth is a once-ambitious policewoman forced to relocate from Athens ten... See full summary »

Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas | Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Youla Boudali, Christos Passalis, Argyris Xafis

Votes: 868

10. Trade of Innocents (2012)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A couple grieving the loss of their own daughter set out to rescue young girls sold into the sex slave trade.

Director: Christopher M. Bessette | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Mira Sorvino, John Billingsley, Trieu Tran

Votes: 1,027 | Gross: $0.02M

11. White Boy (2017)

TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary, Crime

In 1980's Detroit, 17 year-old Richard Wershe, Jr. allegedly ran a sophisticated inner-city drug dealing operation. Now, journalists, police, federal agents and hit men are speaking for the first time about the legend of "White Boy Rick."

Director: Shawn Rech | Stars: Richard Wershe Jr., Scott M. Burnstein, Dana Hathaway, Joe Swickard

Votes: 2,259

12. Going Bananas (1987)

PG | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy

While on vacation in a fictitious African country, the young son of a US senator, his guardian and their guide must stop the corrupt local police chief and the shady owner of a local circus from capturing their new friend - a talking ape.

Director: Boaz Davidson | Stars: Dom DeLuise, Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, David Mendenhall, Deep Roy

Votes: 513

13. Pablo Escobar: Countdown to Death (2017 TV Movie)

68 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Through rare interviews, images and wiretap audio, this documentary reconstructs the last nine years of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's life.

Director: Santiago Diaz Oso | Stars: María Isabel Santos, Sebastian Marroquín, Alba Marina Escobar, Germán Castro Caycedo

Votes: 264

14. Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty (2021)

60 min | Documentary, Crime, History

At the dawn of the 1970s, a secret network of bent coppers operated throughout London.

Stars: Martin Short, Paul Lashmar, John O'Connor, Jackie Malton

Votes: 63

15. Geron Olivar (1994)

Action

Geron Olivar is a story of a good and dedicated policeman who, in his devotion to duty, gets himself at odds with an established crime syndicate. Geron's crusade becomes a battle between good and evil.

Director: Lito Lapid | Stars: Lito Lapid, Kris Aquino, Edu Manzano, Zoren Legaspi

Votes: 7

16. No Blood, No Surrender (1986)

123 min | Action, Comedy

After the war, Sgt Samson is to deliver a letter to the wife of a friend who died in the war. Shortly after he arrives in Santo Sepulco he is beaten and thrown out of town. From now on, he ... See full summary »

Director: Rudy Dominguez | Stars: Palito, Panchito, Max Alvarado, Michelle Aquino

Votes: 64

17. Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode: Bad Boy Blues (1996)

TV-14 | 62 min | Drama

Two boyhood friends end up on different sides of the law. How will each react when they meet up for the first time since school?

Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: Clive Owen, Maynard Eziashi, Christopher Fulford, Eve Bland

Votes: 33

18. Mannix (1967–1975)
Episode: A Way to Dusty Death (1973)

TV-PG | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Joe is trying to find a missing teenage boy who was acquitted of murder on a technicality. The boy's small town is convinced he did it and Chief Harry Decken is not helpful.

Director: Sutton Roley | Stars: Mike Connors, Gail Fisher, Howard Duff, Janis Paige

Votes: 104

19. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Calderone's Return: Part 2 - Calderone's Demise (1984)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While on the trail of Calderone in Bimini, Tubbs falls in love with a woman who forces him to consider his loyalties.

Director: Paul Michael Glaser | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 876

20. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: The Afternoon Plane (1987)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tubbs wins a free vacation and he brings his girlfriend with him. But when he arrives, he discovers a man he arrested. He eventually learns that he's been set up by Calderone, who is ... See full summary »

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 401

21. Joe 90 (1968–1969)
Episode: Big Fish (1968)

TV-PG | 25 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A U85 two-man atomic submarine is grounded inside Porto Guavan territorial waters and its discovery by Juan Chaves' military dictatorship could jeopardise free elections in the police state.

Director: Leo Eaton | Stars: Keith Alexander, Sylvia Anderson, Rupert Davies, Gary Files

Votes: 29

22. Network First (1994– )
Episode: The War Against the Mafia Part 3: The King of Little Italy (1994)

Documentary

The programme looks at the rise and fall of gangster, John Gotti, who took charge after arranging the murder of Paul Castellano. Bribing his way to freedom, justice finally caught up with him and he is now doing a life sentence.

Stars: Jack Klaff, John Gotti, Bruce Cutler, Bruce Mouw

23. Detective De Luca (2008)
Episode: Via delle Oche (2008)

99 min | Drama, War

The time frame moves to 1948. The war is over and Italy is preparing for its first elections since Mussolini. De Luca is assigned the lowly task of policing the notorious red light district... See full summary »

Director: Antonio Frazzi | Stars: Alessandro Preziosi, Raffaella Rea, Corrado Fortuna, Carlo Cartier

Votes: 33

24. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: The Blinding of Isaac Woodard (2021)

TV-14 | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard: How a horrific incident of racial violence became a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way ... See full summary »

Director: Jamila Ephron | Stars: Eliza Briggs, Nathaniel Briggs, Mary James Cottrell, Joseph A. DeLaine Jr.

Votes: 106

25. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: The Moonshine War (2011)

TV-MA | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Raylan tangles with a ruthless Harlan County crime family while hunting for a fugitive sex offender.

Director: Adam Arkin | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,907

26. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: Debts and Accounts (2011)

TV-MA | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama

As Winona begins divorce proceedings, Raylan begins to contemplate his future as a marshal. Meanwhile, Dicky Bennett takes exception to his family's new business arrangement with Boyd Crowder.

Director: John David Coles | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,551

27. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: Full Commitment (2011)

TV-MA | 37 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Raylan tries to find out who tried to kill him, but the investigation leads to an unlikely source. Meanwhile, Dicky retaliates after Boyd stakes his claim on the Bennett clan's marijuana business.

Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,582

28. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: Bloody Harlan (2011)

TV-MA | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The bad blood between the Bennetts and the Crowders reaches its boiling point and results in bloodshed, and Loretta returns from Lexington to avenge her father's death.

Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 2,111

29. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: The I of the Storm (2011)

TV-MA | 40 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dewey Crowe returns and tries to score on a drug shipment, but the bus carrying the drugs is hijacked, and he tries to impersonate Raylan Givens to get it back. Meanwhile Boyd gets a proposition from some fellow coal miners.

Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,702

30. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: For Blood or Money (2011)

TV-MA | 39 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Raylan helps Rachel find her brother in law, who has left a halfway house without permission to see his son on his birthday. He also begins investigating the oxy bus shooting and makes contact with the Dixie Mafia.

Director: John Dahl | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,663

31. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: The Spoil (2011)

TV-MA | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Raylan is assigned to protect a local coal mine executive as she tries to buy up land for the company but faces opposition from the Bennett clan.

Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,634

32. The Paradise (2020– )
Episode: Luottamus horjuu (2022)

55 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Chief Coréa's connections start to rouse suspicions. What business could he have with the murdered man and the Finnish real estate agent? Luisa starts a private investigation behind the scenes. What she discovers causes plenty of concern.

Director: Marja Pyykkö | Stars: Riitta Havukainen, Fran Perea, María Romero, Alina Tomnikov

Votes: 22

33. Rogue (2013–2017)
Episode: Killing Grace (2013)

TV-MA | 56 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The truth behind Sam's death is revealed. Grace escapes from the hospital and, unable to get hold of Mitch, Grace turns to Wilson for help. Wilson explains that Max's arrest was staged and that Max grew up with another detective in OPD.

Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Thandiwe Newton, Marton Csokas, Joshua Sasse, Jarod Joseph

Votes: 101

34. Reacher (2022– )
Episode: New York's Finest (2024)

16+ | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama

As the mystery continues to unfold, Reacher and his team set a trap to even the score.

Director: Carol Banker | Stars: Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Serinda Swan, Shaun Sipos

Votes: 3,853