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1 The Wire (2002 TV series)

Baltimore drug scene, seen through the eyes of drug dealers, and law enforcement.

9.7/10 21,373
2 Dexter (2006 TV series)

A like-able Miami police forensics expert moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice.

9.2/10 661
3 Reservoir Dogs (1992)

After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.

8.4/10 191,872
4 The Wire (2002 TV series)
Episode: Time After Time
"   146
5 Day Break (2006 TV series)

Today Detective Brett Hopper will be accused of shooting state attorney Alberto Garza. He will offer his rock solid alibi. He will realize he's been framed. And he will run. Then he will wake up and start the day over again.

"   3,400
6 Law & Order (1990 TV series)

The show follows a crime, usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points. The first half of the show concentrates on the investigation of the crime by the police, the second half follows the prosecution of the crime in court.

8.2/10 4,539
7 In the Heat of the Night (1967)

An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.

8.1/10 20,916
8 A Touch of Frost (1992 TV series)
Episode: A Minority of One

While Frost is investigating a series of burglaries in a black area of Denton, one of his informants, a single mother, is murdered as Mullett worries about bad press.

"   41
9 Crash (2004)

Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters...

8.0/10 155,350
10 American Gangster (2007)

In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.

"   103,375
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11 Miami Vice (1984 TV series) 7.8/10 3,730
12 Boyz n the Hood (1991) "   27,943
13 NYPD Blue (1993 TV series) "   1,836
14 Serpico (1973) 7.7/10 22,769
15 Cold Case (2003 TV series) "   4,796
16 Lethal Weapon (1987) 7.6/10 50,253
17 In the Heat of the Night (1988 TV series) "   342
18 The Crow (1994) "   50,854
19 Training Day (2001) "   73,167
20 Cube (1997) 7.5/10 42,857
21 Dawn of the Dead (2004) 7.4/10 67,059
22 Beverly Hills Cop (1984) 7.3/10 41,484
23 Brooklyn South (1997 TV series) "   155
24 New York Undercover (1994 TV series) 7.2/10 415
25 The Negotiator (1998) "   43,185
26 A Time to Kill (1996) 7.1/10 35,797
27 The Fugitive (2000 TV series) "   212
28 The Mod Squad (1968 TV series) 7.0/10 236
29 The Sheriff (1971 TV movie) "   28
30 Magnum Force (1973) "   13,008
31 Starsky and Hutch (1975 TV series) "   938
32 Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) "   40,490
33 The Limey (1999) "   14,480
34 Street Kings (2008) "   35,898
35 Across 110th Street (1972) 6.9/10 1,185
36 King of New York (1990) "   9,276
37 Clockers (1995) "   7,692
38 Cop Land (1997) "   32,341
39 The District (2000 TV series) "   438
40 Little Murders (1971) 6.8/10 808
41 Fright Night (1985) "   10,532
42 Killer Instinct (2005 TV series) "   268
43 Deep Cover (1992) 6.7/10 3,424
44 Missing Persons (1993 TV series) "   12
45 The Mack (1973) 6.6/10 758
46 Bad Boys (1995) "   48,644
47 Shaft (1971) 6.5/10 6,225
48 Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) "   36,365
49 Summer of Sam (1999) "   17,474
50 Out of Time (2003) "   19,388
51 Separate Lies (2005) "   2,327
52 ...tick... tick... tick... (1970) 6.4/10 318
53 Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) "   523
54 Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) "   44,171
55 Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975) 6.3/10 223
56 The Laughing Policeman (1973) 6.2/10 758
57 An Innocent Man (1989) "   2,198
58 Bad Boys II (2003) "   51,892
59 How to Rob a Bank (2007) "   2,834
60 Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009 video) 6.1/10 4,033
61 The Organization (1971) 6.0/10 410
62 Shaft's Big Score! (1972) "   1,029
63 Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) "   27,327
64 Gang Related (1997) "   2,601
65 Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) "   67,160
66 Kojak (2005 TV series) "   149
67 They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970) 5.9/10 996
68 Detroit 9000 (1973) "   292
69 Badge of the Assassin (1985 TV movie) "   164
70 Ricochet (1991) "   5,945
71 In the Shadow of Evil (1995 TV movie) "   98
72 The Object of My Affection (1998) "   8,006
73 Shaft (2000) "   30,842
74 Deliver Us from Eva (2003) "   2,059
75 The Chamber (1996) 5.7/10 5,587
76 Five Desperate Hours (1997 TV movie) "   85
77 Dead Bang (1989) 5.6/10 1,248
78 Shaft (1973 TV series) 5.5/10 51
79 In Too Deep (1999) "   2,383
80 Dirty (2005) "   2,832
81 Light It Up (1999) 5.4/10 2,137
82 'Sheba, Baby' (1975) 5.3/10 283
83 Exit Wounds (2001) 5.2/10 13,527
84 Lady Cocoa (1975) 5.1/10 49
85 Gang in Blue (1996 TV movie) "   208
86 Crosscurrent (1971 TV movie) 5.0/10 24
87 Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) 4.9/10 19,345
88 Mercy Streets (2000) "   287
89 A Time to Die (1991) 4.7/10 99
90 Jawbreaker (1999) "   8,717
91 Never Cry Werewolf (2008 TV movie) "   610
92 Sacrifice (2000 TV movie) 4.5/10 459
93 Atomic Train (1999 TV movie) 4.4/10 1,260
94 Far Out Man (1990) 4.3/10 413
95 Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001 TV movie) 4.2/10 732
96 The Mod Squad (1999) 3.9/10 5,205
97 Making the Boom and the Bang in 'Bad Boys' (2000 video documentary short) 3.6/10 41
98 No Alibi (2000) 2.8/10 454
99 Take My Life (1942)
100 Lethal Weapon 5 (2012)

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