Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "police-officer", "speakeasy"

1. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

R | 229 min | Crime, Drama

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams

Votes: 377,300 | Gross: $5.32M

2. Toy Story 4 (2019)

G | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When a new toy called "Forky" joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy.

Director: Josh Cooley | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale

Votes: 279,923 | Gross: $434.04M

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: 330,507 | Gross: $76.27M

4. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.

Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen

Votes: 260,405 | Gross: $8.82M

5. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

PG-13 | 132 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In 1926, magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York during his worldwide tour to research and rescue magical creatures as something mysterious leaves trails of destruction in the city, threatening to expose the wizarding world.

Director: David Yates | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler

Votes: 507,344 | Gross: $234.04M

6. Some Like It Hot (1959)

Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft

Votes: 283,274 | Gross: $25.00M

7. Live by Night (2016)

R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina

Votes: 59,794 | Gross: $10.38M

8. Jingle All the Way (1996)

PG | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.

Director: Brian Levant | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson

Votes: 116,088 | Gross: $60.57M

9. Baby Face (1933)

Approved | 71 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier

Votes: 8,151

10. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, History

Al Capone's Valentine's Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jean Hale

Votes: 4,762

11. Call Northside 777 (1948)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker

Votes: 10,225

12. Horse Feathers (1932)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Huxley University's new president, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against their rival, Darwin University.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers

Votes: 13,388

13. Harlow (I) (1965)

Approved | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A screen adaption of the blistering best-seller which examines the story of platinum blonde bombshell Jean Harlow (Carroll Baker) who rose to fame in the reckless Hollywood of the 1930s.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Raf Vallone, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 1,060

14. Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Musical

An aging heir-less millionaire wants to leave his fortune to the unsuspecting family of his first love but not before testing his prospective heirs by living with them under the guise of a poor boarder.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau

Votes: 1,811

15. Al Capone (1959)

Approved | 104 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A chronicle of the rise and fall of Chicago crime boss Al Capone during the Prohibition era.

Director: Richard Wilson | Stars: Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam, Fay Spain, James Gregory

Votes: 1,903

16. I Became a Criminal (1947)

Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman's murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, Rene Ray

Votes: 1,905

17. Dillinger (1945)

Passed | 70 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

John Dillinger begins his life of crime as a petty thief, meets his future gang in prison and eventually masterminds a series of daring robberies.

Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Eduardo Ciannelli

Votes: 2,139 | Gross: $4.00M

18. Party Girl (1930)

Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage.

Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jeanette Loff, Judith Barrie, Marie Prevost

Votes: 321

19. The Smart Set (1928)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

An American polo player, arrogant and full of himself, must vindicate his actions to win the heart of a girl, Polly, after getting himself booted off the U.S. polo team.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Haines, Jack Holt, Alice Day, Hobart Bosworth

Votes: 1,071

20. Playing Around (1930)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. She gets involved with the playboy and ... See full summary »

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Alice White, Chester Morris, William Bakewell, Richard Carlyle

Votes: 327

21. The Nuisance (1933)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Lee Tracy, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth

Votes: 335

22. The Squealer (1930)

67 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Davey Lee, Matt Moore

23. Chinatown Nights (1929)

Passed | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Society woman Joan Fry falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Wallace Beery, Florence Vidor, Warner Oland, Jack McHugh

Votes: 147

24. Safety in Numbers (1930)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A songwriter hires three chorus girls to show him the "underside" of big-city life.

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Kathryn Crawford, Josephine Dunn, Carole Lombard

Votes: 151

25. Framed (1930)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Woman swears revenge against an Inspector who was responsible for her father's death.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde, William Holden

Votes: 321

26. Is My Face Red? (1932)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his gal, Peggy who is a ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 238

27. Broadway (1942)

Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Music

George Raft, playing himself, recalls his days on Broadway, where he acquired a reputation as a great dancer--and also one as a brawler, a ladies man and an associate of some of the city's most notorious gangsters.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Janet Blair, Broderick Crawford

Votes: 132

28. Man Trouble (1930)

Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.

Director: Berthold Viertel | Stars: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Kenneth MacKenna, Sharon Lynn

Votes: 33

29. Half Marriage (1929)

Passed | 68 min | Drama, Romance

A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying ... See full summary »

Director: William J. Cowen | Stars: Olive Borden, Morgan Farley, Ken Murray, Ann Greenway

Votes: 173

30. Brothers (1930)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers who were separated in infancy. Bob is raised by a rich lawyer and has all the advantages, but is a drunk with no moral character.... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Bert Lytell, Dorothy Sebastian, William Morris, Richard Tucker

Votes: 16

31. Uptown New York (1932)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

Pat and Max are in love and share an intimate relationship. However, after Max receives his surgeon's diploma, his parents have arranged a marriage for him with a woman from a rich, good background.

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Jack Oakie, Shirley Grey, Leon Ames, George Cooper

Votes: 164

32. The Devil Is Driving (1932)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

There is a garage in downtown New York City on the ground floor of an eight-story building, with a winding ramp, that serves as a cache for stolen automobiles. The second floor is the ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Wynne Gibson, James Gleason, Lois Wilson

Votes: 178

33. The Party's Over (1934)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

Bruce Blakely, a meek, mild-mannered certified public accountant, finally gets fed up with his money-grubbing family sponging off of him, and decides to partake of a different side and slice of life. A blonde secretary helps guide him.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Ann Sothern, Arline Judge, Chick Chandler

Votes: 26

34. Mad Hour (1928)

Passed | 75 min | Drama

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Director: Joseph Boyle | Stars: Sally O'Neil, Alice White, Donald Reed, Larry Kent

35. The Big Fight (1930)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Lola Lane, Ralph Ince, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Stepin Fetchit

Votes: 33

36. The Arm of the Law (1932)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.

Director: Louis King | Stars: Rex Bell, Marceline Day, Lina Basquette, Dorothy Revier

Votes: 29

37. Kick In (1922)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Chick Hewes resolves to go straight when he is released from prison, but persecution by the police when he refuses to be a stool pigeon and the lack of concern with which Jerry Brandon ... See full summary »

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Betty Compson, Bert Lytell, May McAvoy, Gareth Hughes

38. Rose of the Bowery (1927)

Passed | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Some of the stories of the six-million citizens of New York City are depicted her, including: a Judge, sworn to protect society, has to send his own son to prison; a tenement girl is ... See full summary »

Director: Bertram Bracken | Stars: Edna Murphy, Johnnie Walker, Crauford Kent, Mildred Harris

Votes: 17

39. Sweet Daddies (1926)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Stage comedian Patrick O'Brien is fired from his job because of his drinking celebration of his son Jimmy, graduating from college. After the show he meets his son on a cabaret and there ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: George Sidney, Charles Murray, Vera Gordon, Jobyna Ralston

40. The Hawk's Nest (1928)

Passed | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Gangsters John Finchley and James Kent operate a speakeasy in New York called "The Hawk's Nest", and Dan Daugherty is the owner of a rival nightclub that also caters to Chinatwon tourists. ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Sôjin Kamiyama, Montagu Love

41. The Untouchables (1959–1963)
Episode: Little Egypt (1960)

52 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The department's newest agent is able to infiltrate the mob, using carrier pigeons to get information out. That is, until a woman gets him into trouble.

Director: John Peyser | Stars: Robert Stack, Susan Cummings, Anthony George, Fred Clark

Votes: 97

42. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020)
Episode: The New Deal (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Coulson and the agents are thrust backwards in time and stranded in 1931 New York City; with an all-new Zephyr set to time-jump at any moment, the team must hurry to find out exactly what happened.

Director: Kevin Tancharoen | Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge

Votes: 2,232