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1. Goodfellas (1990)
R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Votes: 1,256,725 | Gross: $46.84M
2. Heat (1995)
R | 170 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight
Votes: 719,000 | Gross: $67.44M
3. Bad Boys (1995)
R | 119 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two hip detectives protect a witness to a murder while investigating a case of stolen heroin from the evidence storage room from their police precinct.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Lisa Boyle, Michael Taliferro
Votes: 286,221 | Gross: $65.81M
4. The Incredibles (2004)
PG | 115 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
While trying to lead a quiet suburban life, a family of undercover superheroes are forced into action to save the world.
Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee
Votes: 808,206 | Gross: $261.44M
5. Legend (I) (2015)
R | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s.
Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Paul Anderson
Votes: 202,325 | Gross: $1.87M
6. Game Night (I) (2018)
R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves entangled in a real-life mystery when the shady brother of one of them is seemingly kidnapped by dangerous gangsters.
Directors: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein | Stars: Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan
Votes: 255,576 | Gross: $69.18M
7. Kindergarten Cop (1990)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A tough cop must pose as a kindergarten teacher in order to locate a dangerous criminal's ex-wife, who may hold the key to putting him behind bars.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt
Votes: 162,555 | Gross: $91.46M
8. The Mule (2018)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A ninety-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Patrick L. Reyes, Cesar De León, Gustavo Muñoz
Votes: 152,439 | Gross: $103.80M
9. A History of Violence (2005)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt
Votes: 252,751 | Gross: $31.49M
10. Sister Act (1992)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Family, Music
When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn
Votes: 108,348 | Gross: $139.61M
11. Donnie Brasco (1997)
R | 127 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the Mafia life--at the expense of his regular one.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby
Votes: 332,089 | Gross: $41.91M
12. Blacklight (2022)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Travis Block is a government operative coming to terms with his shadowy past. When he discovers a plot targeting U.S. citizens, Block finds himself in the crosshairs of the FBI director he once helped protect.
Director: Mark Williams | Stars: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Taylor John Smith, Emmy Raver-Lampman
Votes: 24,402 | Gross: $9.59M
13. Bullitt (1968)
M/PG | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A nonconformist San Francisco cop is determined to find the underworld kingpin who killed the witness under his protection.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn, Don Gordon
Votes: 75,801 | Gross: $42.30M
14. Cobra (1986)
R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far-reaching plans.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson
Votes: 79,582 | Gross: $49.04M
15. The Client (1994)
PG-13 | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 73,633 | Gross: $92.12M
16. Hot Pursuit (2015)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An uptight and by-the-book cop (Reese Witherspoon) tries to protect the outgoing widow (Sofia Vergara) of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.
Director: Anne Fletcher | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, Matthew Del Negro, Michael Mosley
Votes: 54,162 | Gross: $34.51M
17. Fire with Fire (II) (2012)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A fireman takes an unexpected course of action when a man whom he's been ordered to testify against, after being held up at a local convenience store, threatens him.
Director: David Barrett | Stars: Josh Duhamel, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 27,589
18. The Interpreter (2005)
PG-13 | 128 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen
Votes: 110,910 | Gross: $72.71M
19. Murder by Contract (1958)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman.
Director: Irving Lerner | Stars: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi, Caprice Toriel
Votes: 4,356
20. 15 Minutes (2001)
R | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A homicide detective and a fire marshal must stop a pair of murderers who commit videotaped crimes to become media darlings.
Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks
Votes: 51,928 | Gross: $24.40M
21. Kiss of Death (1995)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: David Caruso, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Helen Hunt
Votes: 20,231 | Gross: $14.94M
22. Narrow Margin (1990)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney is sent to protect a woman who accidentally witnessed a Mafia murder.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James Sikking, J.T. Walsh
Votes: 10,362 | Gross: $10.87M
23. Prince of the City (1981)
R | 167 min | Crime, Drama
A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett
Votes: 9,518 | Gross: $8.12M
24. He Walked by Night (1948)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell
Votes: 6,698
25. See Spot Run (2001)
PG | 94 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A mailman takes care of a dog that, unbeknownst to him, is an FBI drug-sniffing superdog that has escaped from the witness protection program after becoming the target of an assassination.
Director: John Whitesell | Stars: David Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb, Joe Viterelli
Votes: 9,729 | Gross: $33.36M
26. True Believer (1989)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.
Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Yuji Okumoto
Votes: 5,428 | Gross: $8.74M
27. Eliminators (2016)
R | 94 min | Action, Thriller
Thomas, widower and ex federal agent, hides in London with his daughter. 3 men break in. Thomas kills them. His photo ends on TV. A US crime boss sends a killer to London.
Director: James Nunn | Stars: Scott Adkins, Stu Bennett, Daniel Caltagirone, James Cosmo
Votes: 4,855
28. The Narrow Margin (1952)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against potential assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Directors: Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert
Votes: 8,652
29. Rent-a-Cop (1987)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Detective Tony is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop when his drug sting operation comes to a tragic end by a masked killer. He joins forces with a prostitute, the only one able to identify the killer, to bring him to justice.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli, James Remar, Richard Masur
Votes: 2,038 | Gross: $0.30M
30. Cohen and Tate (1988)
R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When a little boy witnesses a mob hit, he is kidnapped by two professional assassins who are not what they seem.
Director: Eric Red | Stars: Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin, Harley Cross, Cooper Huckabee
Votes: 2,660
31. Lootere (1993)
Not Rated | 156 min | Action, Crime, Romance
A police officer is tasked with protecting a murder witness.
Director: Dharmesh Darshan | Stars: Sunny Deol, Juhi Chawla, Dinesh Anand, Pooja Bedi
Votes: 343
32. Jurm (1990)
Not Rated | 103 min | Action, Crime, Romance
Police Inspector Shekhar Varma lives in Khar, Bombay, along with his wife, Meena, and a school-going daughter. His office is notified that Editor Ritesh Nandy has received death threats as ... See full summary »
Director: Mahesh Bhatt | Stars: Vinod Khanna, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Sangeeta Bijlani, Shafi Inamdar
Votes: 172
33. Hit List (1989)
R | 87 min | Action, Thriller
A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Leo Rossi, Lance Henriksen, Charles Napier
Votes: 696
34. International Khiladi (1999)
Not Rated | 175 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crime boss is accused by a reporter of murdering her brother and raping her. He investigates the frame-up.
Director: Umesh Mehra | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Twinkle Khanna, Rajat Bedi, Vivek Shauq
Votes: 2,403
35. The Bodyguard from Beijing (1994)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese government, so a bodyguard from Beijing is ... See full summary »
Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Jet Li, Christy Chung, Kent Cheng, Collin Chou
Votes: 5,588
36. Palermo-Milan One Way (1995)
100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Turi Leofonte (Giannini) is a former mafioso who accepts to be a witness at a process involving very important people in the organization. For the Mafia, Leofonte is dangerous, that's why ... See full summary »
Director: Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Raoul Bova, Ricky Memphis, Francesco Benigno
Votes: 732
37. Cobra nero (1987)
R | 86 min | Action, Thriller
A lone cop struggles to protect a female photographer from a gang of psychopathic bikers.
Director: Stelvio Massi | Stars: Fred Williamson, Eva Grimaldi, Bruno Bilotta, Maurice Poli
Votes: 674
38. Pratibandh (1990)
159 min | Action, Drama
Born in an orphanage, brought up by his strict and unrelenting school-master, Satyendra Sharma, young Siddhanth has not been shown any love or kindness in his entire life. Now he is grown ... See full summary »
Director: Ravi Raja Pinisetty | Stars: Chiranjeevi, Juhi Chawla, Rami Reddy, Harish Patel
Votes: 174
39. Quick (1993)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime
Quick is an assassin with a corrupt cop boyfriend. She's hired to bring a mob accountant back to the mob after he's taken $3,000,000 and turned himself in to LAPD as witness. It doesn't go as planned.
Director: Rick King | Stars: Teri Polo, Martin Donovan, Jeff Fahey, Robert Davi
Votes: 474
40. Crooked (2006)
R | 93 min | Action
Two police detectives must protect a beautiful call girl from mob hitmen and a crooked cop.
Director: Art Camacho | Stars: Don Wilson, Olivier Gruner, Gary Busey, Fred Williamson
Votes: 494
41. Somebody's Daughter (1992 TV Movie)
92 min | Crime, Drama
A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Nicollette Sheridan, Nick Mancuso, Boyd Kestner, Michael Cavanaugh
Votes: 83
42. 24 Hours in London (2000)
R | 90 min | Crime, Thriller
A London based criminal sets out to eliminate his rivals and any witnesses that get in the way.
Director: Alexander Finbow | Stars: Gary Olsen, Tony London, David Sonnenthal, Sara Stockbridge
Votes: 661
43. The Assault (1998)
PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Thriller
A female cop assigned to protect a dead drug dealer's girlfriend from mob assassins takes her to a home for battered wives. When revenge is the only option, the emotionally scarred women are forced to fight back.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Stacie Randall, Matt McCoy, Melissa Brasselle, Sandahl Bergman
Votes: 214
44. An Eyewitness Account (1997)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When Milanese salesman Piero witnesses the mob killing of a prominent magistrate, he testifies in court. The government puts him into the witness protection program, but the traumatic ... See full summary »
Director: Pasquale Pozzessere | Stars: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Claudio Amendola, Arnaldo Ninchi, Margherita Buy
Votes: 144
45.
The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
Episode:
Witness
(1991)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
As Rose moves on with her life, Miles' sudden return complicates matters with her new boyfriend.
Director: Zane Buzby | Stars: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty
Votes: 375
46.
Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode:
Deathwatch
(1968)
Not Rated | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An assistant district attorney is killed when he finds a ''box man'' i.e. safecracker rifling through the attorney's office on a Sunday. The assistant DA was preparing to prosecute ... See full summary »
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Zulu, Kam Fong
Votes: 200
47.
Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021– )
Episode:
Forget It, Jake; It's Chinatown
(2021)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As Wheatley goes to court to face the litany of charges against him, Richie makes moves to save himself and his family name. Morales and Washburn keep close tabs on their star witness. Bell... See full summary »
Director: Fred Berner | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Danielle Moné Truitt, Tamara Taylor, Ainsley Seiger
Votes: 429
48.
Blue Bloods (2010–2024)
Episode:
Working Girls
(2012)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Erin's witness in the murder trial of a violent mobster is killed before giving testimony. Due to a leak, the next witness is threatened, but protected by Danny and Jack. Erin is offered the Deputy Mayor's position, but she declines.
Director: James Whitmore Jr. | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou
Votes: 437
49.
Line of Duty (2012–2021)
Episode:
The Ambush
(2014)
TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police convoy escorting a civilian under a witness protection scheme is attacked, the witness hospitalized and all the police officers killed, except Inspector Lindsay Denton, who ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Michael Nardone, David Maybrick, Antonio Magro, Keeley Hawes
Votes: 1,530
50.
Blue Bloods (2010–2024)
Episode:
Power Players
(2015)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A mob informant returns to the city to testify in a case for Erin, and Danny and Baez are tasked with protecting him. Elsewhere, Frank and Mayor Poole get into heated negotiations regarding benefits for police officers.
Director: David Barrett | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou
Votes: 466