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

1. Dazed and Confused (1993)

R | 103 min | Comedy

The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Rory Cochrane

Votes: 199,351 | Gross: $7.99M

2. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke

Votes: 880,994 | Gross: $6.21M

3. Baywatch (2017)

R | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit, as they uncover a criminal plot that threatens the future of the bay.

Director: Seth Gordon | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario, Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Votes: 202,074 | Gross: $58.06M

4. Red Sparrow (2018)

R | 140 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.

Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling

Votes: 201,478 | Gross: $46.87M

5. Carrie (1976)

R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta

Votes: 206,578 | Gross: $33.80M

6. Batman Returns (1992)

PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy

While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the Catwoman with her own vendetta.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken

Votes: 327,354 | Gross: $162.83M

7. Starsky & Hutch (2004)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Crime

Two streetwise cops bust criminals in their red and white Ford Gran Torino, with the help of a police snitch called "Huggy Bear".

Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn

Votes: 154,503 | Gross: $88.24M

8. 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: 330,691 | Gross: $76.27M

9. Fracture (2007)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After shooting his wife, Ted confesses his crime and asks the court to move his case to trial. He represents himself against Willy, a successful lawyer. But there's more to the case than meets the eye.

Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike

Votes: 218,837 | Gross: $39.02M

10. Super Troopers (2001)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime.

Director: Jay Chandrasekhar | Stars: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, André Vippolis, Joey Kern

Votes: 112,949 | Gross: $18.49M

11. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

Director: Stephen Chow | Stars: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen, Siu-Lung Leung

Votes: 150,788 | Gross: $17.11M

12. We Own the Night (2007)

R | 117 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A New York City nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian Mafia hitmen.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Danny Hoch

Votes: 92,940 | Gross: $28.56M

13. Mallrats (1995)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.

Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Shannen Doherty, Jeremy London, Jason Lee, Claire Forlani

Votes: 128,833 | Gross: $2.12M

14. Black Book (2006)

R | 145 min | Drama, Thriller, War

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn

Votes: 80,491 | Gross: $4.40M

15. The Cable Guy (1996)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A designer makes a grievious mistake when he rejects the friendship of a borderline cable guy.

Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black

Votes: 178,034 | Gross: $60.24M

16. The 400 Blows (1959)

Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble

Votes: 128,032

17. Police Story (1985)

PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A virtuous Hong Kong Police Officer must clear his good name when the drug lord he is after frames him for the murder of a dirty cop.

Directors: Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen | Stars: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Yuen Chor

Votes: 41,842 | Gross: $0.11M

18. Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)

R | 76 min | Animation, Action, Crime

As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.

Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Tara Strong, Ray Wise

Votes: 61,520 | Gross: $3.78M

19. Child 44 (2015)

R | 137 min | Crime, Drama, History

A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.

Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman

Votes: 75,778 | Gross: $1.21M

20. A Shot in the Dark (1964)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Inspector Clouseau falls in love with a murder suspect and tries to clear her name.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom

Votes: 30,924 | Gross: $12.37M

21. Hard Boiled (1992)

R | 128 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.

Director: John Woo | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan

Votes: 54,002

22. Identity Thief (2013)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Mild mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Florida to confront the deceptively harmless looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.

Director: Seth Gordon | Stars: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho, Amanda Peet

Votes: 140,874 | Gross: $134.51M

23. Wonderland (2003)

R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In the police investigation of a brutal crime scene, one man was at the center of it all: legendary porn star John Holmes.

Director: James Cox | Stars: Val Kilmer, Lisa Kudrow, Kate Bosworth, Christina Applegate

Votes: 23,288 | Gross: $1.06M

24. Good Kids (I) (2016)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama

Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.

Director: Chris McCoy | Stars: Nicholas Braun, Zoey Deutch, Mateo Arias, Israel Broussard

Votes: 10,960

25. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner

Votes: 35,680

26. Sunshine (1999)

R | 181 min | Drama, History, Romance

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle

Votes: 15,790 | Gross: $5.10M

27. Double Whammy (2001)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A world-weary police detective who fails to stop a fast-food restaurant massacre struggles to regain his departmental reputation, public image and self-worth.

Director: Tom DiCillo | Stars: Denis Leary, Elizabeth Hurley, Luis Guzmán, Victor Argo

Votes: 3,934

28. Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008 Video)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Camp Manabe is where kids torment one another--but people soon start turning up dead.

Director: Robert Hiltzik | Stars: Vincent Pastore, Michael Gibney, Paul DeAngelo, Jonathan Tiersten

Votes: 4,470

29. Boy A (2007)

R | 106 min | Drama

The story of a young Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a violent crime he committed as a child.

Director: John Crowley | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Shaun Evans, Siobhan Finneran

Votes: 38,856 | Gross: $0.11M

30. Chatterbox! (1977)

R | 73 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble.

Director: Tom DeSimone | Stars: Candice Rialson, Larry Gelman, Jane Kean, Perry Bullington

Votes: 817

31. Room for Rent (2019)

81 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.

Director: Tommy Stovall | Stars: Lin Shaye, Oliver Rayon, Valeska Miller, Ryan Ochoa

Votes: 4,074

32. Essex Boys (2000)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the murders of three drug dealers in Rettendon, Essex, UK. On 6th December Patrick Tate, Craig Rolfe and Tony ... See full summary »

Director: Terry Winsor | Stars: Charlie Creed-Miles, Sean Bean, Gareth Milne, Alex Kingston

Votes: 4,322

33. Joe the King (1999)

R | 93 min | Crime, Drama

A disadvantaged, abused, neglected, exploited but basically decent kid slips into criminality while trying to cope with his harsh, inescapable reality.

Director: Frank Whaley | Stars: Noah Fleiss, Karen Young, Camryn Manheim, Austin Pendleton

Votes: 2,960 | Gross: $0.06M

34. Ciske the Rat (1984)

TV-14 | 180 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A poor 11-year-old schoolboy with a heart of gold grows up in 1930s Amsterdam.

Director: Guido Pieters | Stars: Danny de Munk, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Herman van Veen, Willem Nijholt

Votes: 3,013

35. The Woman for Joe (1955)

91 min | Drama, Romance

A sideshow owner and his main attraction, a midget, fall for the same woman.

Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi, David Kossoff

Votes: 131

36. Linkeroever (2008)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery.

Director: Pieter Van Hees | Stars: Eline Kuppens, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sien Eggers, Marilou Mermans

Votes: 2,934

37. The Ardennes (2015)

Unrated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A brutal home-jacking by two brothers goes hopelessly wrong, and one of them goes to prison. Four years later, his brother tries to help him get his life back on track.

Director: Robin Pront | Stars: Kevin Janssens, Jeroen Perceval, Veerle Baetens, Jan Bijvoet

Votes: 5,632 | Gross: $0.01M

38. Shola Aur Shabnam (1992)

Not Rated | 165 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

The spoiled and arrogant brother, Bali, of notorious gangster, Kali Baba, enlists in the National Cadet Corps, and wants to have his way with his fellow-students and trainer, Inder Mohan ... See full summary »

Director: David Dhawan | Stars: Govinda, Divya Bharti, Gulshan Grover, Alok Nath

Votes: 1,192

39. Cop or Hood (1979)

PG | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen.

Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Georges Géret, Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset

Votes: 3,103

40. Yerra Mandaram (1991)

Drama

This Is a movie based on the caste divide and the attrocities of the higher caste people on the poor and downtrodden low caste farmers. The movie is entirely based on a short story written ... See full summary »

Director: Muthyala Subbaiah | Stars: Rajendra Prasad, Yamuna, Narayana P.L., Sanjeevi

Votes: 42

41. L'instant norvégien (2000– )

Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

Squeaky parody of television and almost limitless.

Stars: Maurice Barthélémy, Marina Foïs, Elise Larnicol, Pierre-François Martin-Laval

Votes: 53

42. Stolismenos (2015)

12 min | Short, Drama

Policeman's 19009 solitude route reflects society's rage against the uniform and his own perspective of himelf as a human being.

Director: Katerina Bakagianni | Stars: Orestis Zakinthinos, Vasiliki Dimou, Jerome Kaluta, Stelios Karambinas

Votes: 14

43. Is Spiritualism a Fraud? (1906)

7 min | Short, Comedy

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

Director: J.H. Martin

Votes: 130

44. Le pire des Robins des Bois (1999–2000)

Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

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Stars: Maurice Barthélémy, Marina Foïs, Elise Larnicol, Pierre-François Martin-Laval

Votes: 45

45. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: Reputation (2006)

TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

DI Robert Lewis teams up with DS James Hathaway to look into the murder of an Oxford mathematics student.

Director: Bill Anderson | Stars: Charlie Cox, Sophie Winkleman, Colin Starkey, Jack Ellis

Votes: 2,810

46. Marple (2004–2013)
Episode: Miss Marple: Nemesis (2007)

TV-14 | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Miss Marple and her nephew, novelist Raymond West, embark on a coach tour of historic English houses with an eclectic group of characters at the behest of a late friend who had knowledge of an unsolved murder.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Laura Michelle Kelly, Dan Stevens, Graeme Garden

Votes: 1,855

47. Psych (2006–2014)
Episode: American Duos (2007)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Shawn & Gus are hired to protect a reality-show judge who has escaped a series of attempts on his life.

Director: John Landis | Stars: James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson

Votes: 1,668

48. The Rookie (2018– )
Episode: The Bet (2019)

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

Officer Nolan navigates his relationship with Jessica and a developing rapport with Grace while working a high-stakes criminal case involving an undercover homeland security agent; Officer Chen meddles with Officer Bradford's love life.

Director: Barbara Brown | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones, Titus Makin Jr.

Votes: 1,118

49. Notruf Hafenkante (2007– )
Episode: Für eine Handvoll Euro (2020)

Crime, Drama

Justin Hertels is brought to ER, electrocuted in his bedroom, allegedly knocked out by a robber. Mattes and Melanie doubt it, as a neighbor reports Hertel's daughter Sina (11) fled the home... See full summary »

Director: Tanja Roitzheim | Stars: Sanna Englund, Matthias Schloo, Rhea Harder, Bruno F. Apitz

50. Notruf Hafenkante (2007– )
Episode: Gier (2019)

Crime, Drama

In an exclusive Hamburg private club, a lock-down fails to turn up loot or thief when pilfering of various valuables from the locker-room and elsewhere is spotted. Mattes and Melanie gaze ... See full summary »

Director: Dietmar Klein | Stars: Sanna Englund, Matthias Schloo, Aybi Era, Marc Barthel