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

1. Scream VI (2023)

R | 122 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In the next installment, the survivors of the Ghostface killings leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter in New York City.

Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett | Stars: Courteney Cox, Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown

Votes: 119,700

2. 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: 201,696 | Gross: $46.87M

3. Army of Thieves (2021)

TV-MA | 127 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A prequel, set before the events of Army of the Dead, which focuses on German safecracker Ludwig Dieter leading a group of aspiring thieves on a top secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.

Director: Matthias Schweighöfer | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Nathalie Emmanuel, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin

Votes: 88,892

4. The Sting (1973)

PG | 129 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning

Votes: 280,070 | Gross: $159.60M

5. The Stranger (II) (2022)

TV-MA | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Two men who meet on a bus strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.

Director: Thomas M. Wright | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Jada Alberts, Cormac Wright

Votes: 26,523

6. Along Came a Spider (2001)

R | 104 min | Drama, Thriller

When a senator's daughter under Secret Service protection is kidnapped from a private school, detective Alex Cross investigates the case even though he's recovering from the loss of his partner.

Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Michael Wincott, Monica Potter, Dylan Baker

Votes: 95,938 | Gross: $74.08M

7. Taxi (I) (1998)

Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

To work off his tarnished driving record, a hip taxi driver must chauffeur a loser police inspector on the trail of German bank robbers.

Director: Gérard Pirès | Stars: Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard, Manuela Gourary

Votes: 89,462 | Gross: $0.27M

8. CHIPS (2017)

R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

An inexperienced rookie is teamed up with a hardened pro at the California Highway Patrol in Los Angeles; the newbie officer soon learns his partner is really an undercover Fed investigating a heist which may involve some crooked cops.

Director: Dax Shepard | Stars: Michael Peña, Dax Shepard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rosa Salazar

Votes: 50,732 | Gross: $18.60M

9. The Driver (1978)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakley

Votes: 19,441 | Gross: $4.91M

10. Above the Law (1988)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing.

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Henry Silva, Ron Dean

Votes: 34,633 | Gross: $18.87M

11. 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: 54,055

12. Tequila Sunrise (1988)

R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A former L.A. drug dealer tries to go straight but his past and his underworld connections bring him into the focus of the DEA, the Mexican feds and the Mexican drug cartels.

Director: Robert Towne | Stars: Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia

Votes: 33,954 | Gross: $41.29M

13. The Captive (I) (2014)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos

Votes: 35,797

14. Deep Cover (1992)

R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A uniformed police officer is recruited by the DEA to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring looking to expand its operation.

Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Lira Angel, René Assa

Votes: 14,074 | Gross: $16.64M

15. Nine Queens (2000)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").

Director: Fabián Bielinsky | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Graciela Tenenbaum, María Mercedes Villagra

Votes: 57,173 | Gross: $1.22M

16. Shoot to Kill (1988)

R | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown

Votes: 14,955 | Gross: $29.30M

17. Mr. Nice Guy (1997)

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

A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry, and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.

Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Stars: Jackie Chan, Richard Norton, Miki Lee, Karen McLymont

Votes: 28,827 | Gross: $12.67M

18. Code of Silence (1985)

R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take down an irresponsible cop.

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Mike Genovese

Votes: 9,406 | Gross: $20.35M

19. Vice Squad (1982)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A single mother prostitute, who goes by the name Princess, finds herself forced to work undercover for the police in order to apprehend a homicidal, misogynistic pimp named Ramrod, who will do anything not to get arrested.

Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: Season Hubley, Gary Swanson, Wings Hauser, Pepe Serna

Votes: 2,907 | Gross: $13.25M

20. Dark Blue (2009–2010)

60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Officer Carter Shaw and his team go undercover--sometimes too deep--among the criminals of modern-day Los Angeles.

Stars: Dylan McDermott, Omari Hardwick, Logan Marshall-Green, Nicki Aycox

Votes: 4,244

21. Albino Alligator (1996)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

While escaping from a foiled robbery attempt, three thieves find themselves surrounded by police at a New Orleans bar--only they're not the people the police are searching for.

Director: Kevin Spacey | Stars: Matt Dillon, Faye Dunaway, Gary Sinise, William Fichtner

Votes: 8,567 | Gross: $0.33M

22. Tenderness (2009)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A policeman works to figure out whether a violent teen murdered his family.

Director: John Polson | Stars: Russell Crowe, Jon Foster, Sophie Traub, Laura Dern

Votes: 8,205

23. Silverton Siege (2022)

TV-MA | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Follows three young freedom fighters who seek refuge in a South African bank in Silverton, and take the bank and its customers hostage and would only release them in exchange for the release of Nelson Mandela.

Director: Mandla Dube | Stars: Thabo Rametsi, Arnold Vosloo, Noxolo Dlamini, Stefan Erasmus

Votes: 4,525

24. Hero and the Terror (1988)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Danny was lucky 3 years ago at the arrest of Terror, a serial killer of young women. Danny's about to be a dad, when Terror escapes prison and is back killing. Will Danny get lucky this time?

Director: William Tannen | Stars: Chuck Norris, Brynn Thayer, Steve James, Jack O'Halloran

Votes: 4,429 | Gross: $5.30M

25. Until Death (2007)

R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things right.

Director: Simon Fellows | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Stephen Rea, Selina Giles, Mark Dymond

Votes: 10,373

26. Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania (2014)

Not Rated | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A girl from Ambala, Kavya Pratap Singh, is about to be married. When she visits Delhi to shop for her 'dhai lakh ka Ghagra, she meets Humpty Sharma, a carefree Delhiite, and falls in love with him.

Director: Shashank Khaitan | Stars: Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Ashutosh Rana, Sidharth Shukla

Votes: 14,053 | Gross: $0.38M

27. Rebus (1968)

80 min | Crime, Drama

An alcoholic croupier is recruited by the police to help bust an international casino crime syndicate planning a casino heist in Beirut.

Director: Nino Zanchin | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Ann-Margret, José Calvo, Alberto de Mendoza

Votes: 132

28. Max and the Junkmen (1971)

Not Rated | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.

Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Danielle Durou, Alain Belart, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider

Votes: 3,139 | Gross: $0.03M

29. Evilenko (2003)

Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.

Director: David Grieco | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, Ronald Pickup, Ruby Kammer

Votes: 3,542

30. 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: 2,261

31. Smart Money (1931)

Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama

A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp, Ralf Harolde

Votes: 2,238

32. Ajami (2009)

Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama

Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.

Directors: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Stars: Fouad Habash, Nisrin Siksik, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani

Votes: 6,535 | Gross: $0.62M

33. Brothers in Law (2009)

81 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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Director: Monti Parungao | Stars: Paolo Rivero, Janvier Daily, Andrew Miguel, Kaye Alipio

Votes: 81

34. Triplecross (1995 TV Movie)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Romance

T.C. Cooper is sprung from prison by Oscar Pierce, an F.B.I. agent, and given a task: take down master thief Jimmy Ray Danker. He accepts, but neither man expected the plan's single complication: Julia Summers, Jimmy Ray's lover.

Director: Jenõ Hódi | Stars: Michael Paré, Billy Dee Williams, Ashley Laurence, Patrick Bergin

Votes: 235

35. Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurrences involving Newcomers, who are found to be programmed to carry out someone's dirty work. The method by which they are brainwashed ... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas

Votes: 788

36. In the Flesh (1998)

Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama

A mature but uneasy cop takes in a young gay hustler following a knifing death in the area. A personal relationship wants to form but both are leery of it.

Director: Ben Taylor | Stars: Dane Ritter, Ed Corbin, Shimley Reynolds, Randy Cohlmia

Votes: 603

37. The Kiss of Evil (2011)

94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young student is found stabbed, and her family hires Vares to investigate the case.

Director: Anders Engström | Stars: Antti Reini, Matti Onnismaa, Eppu Salminen, Jasper Pääkkönen

Votes: 1,337

38. Operation 'The Bus' (1978)

94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.

Director: Virgil Calotescu | Stars: Mircea Albulescu, Aura Andritoiu, Ion Anghel, Aurelian Banica

Votes: 119

39. Caught (I) (2010)

Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Crime, Drama

In 1962, a hidden movie camera is used to trap sexual deviants in a public park.

Director: Monte Patterson | Stars: Richard 'Rick' Bobier, Seth Caskey, Gabriel Gatton, Christine Leistner

Votes: 194

40. Farewell, Dear Nela! (1972)

82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When a rich Romanian lawyer aims to find his 2 long-lost sons and inheritors he places an ad in the newspaper but many crooks show up instead.

Director: Cornel Todea | Stars: Stefan Iordache, Mircea Diaconu, Irina Gardescu, Dan Desliu

Votes: 53

41. Seize (2010)

Not Rated | 8 min | Short, Action, Crime

Officer Eva Minors goes on a routine patrol that quickly becomes more than she bargained for.

Directors: Bill Cornelius, Luke Dye | Stars: Katie Groshong, Scott Moreno, J.D. Hart, Scott C. Jackson

Votes: 13

42. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Brother's Keeper (1984)

TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their respective partners.

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

Votes: 2,369

43. Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode: Screamer (1974)

TV-14 | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ... See full summary »

Director: Shaun O'Riordan | Stars: Pamela Franklin, Donal McCann, Frances White, Jim Norton

Votes: 206

44. Fastlane (2002–2003)
Episode: Mighty Blue (2002)

Not Rated | 44 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A friend of Billies joins the team for an undercover drugs sting in hopes of apprehending a Triad gang leader, but after the gangster escapes custody and tragedy strikes the team, Van and Deaq must attempt to apprehend the fugitive.

Director: Guy Norman Bee | Stars: Peter Facinelli, Bill Bellamy, Tiffani Thiessen, Catherine Kwong

Votes: 62

45. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Badge of Dishonor (1988)

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

A group of crooked cops are robbing and murdering drug dealers. Sonny and Tubbs are on the case but their only lead is a homeless woman who's not what she seems.

Director: Richard Compton | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 297

46. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Cool Runnin' (1984)

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

Crockett and Tubbs must enlist the help of an unreliable petty thief to bust a drug operation run by a trio of homicidal Jamaicans.

Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 799

47. CBS Reports (1959– )
Episode: The Homosexuals (1967)

59 min | Documentary, News

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Stars: Mike Wallace, William Baer, Irving Bieber, James Braxton Craven

Votes: 29

48. The Closer (2005–2012)
Episode: Dial M for Provenza (2008)

Not Rated | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Carjackers compromise Priority Homicide's successful murder-for-hire sting operation when they make off with Lt. Provenza's car, containing all the compiled evidence.

Director: Arvin Brown | Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, Corey Reynolds, Robert Gossett

Votes: 471

49. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Spiraling Down (2011)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A retired pro quarterback is busted for having sex with a 14-year-old prostitute, but he may be suffering from diminished capacity because of all the concussions he had on the field.

Director: Alex Chapple | Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Danny Pino, Kelli Giddish, Richard Belzer

Votes: 1,175

50. QAnon Anonymous (2018– )
Episode 149: The January 6th FBI Inside Job Theory feat Trevor Aaronson (2021 Podcast Episode)

Documentary

We explore real cases of FBI undercover stings targeting Muslims as part of the "war on terror", "Black Identity Extremists" (their words) and, increasingly, far-right extremists as well.

Stars: Trevor Aaronson, Julian Feeld, Jake Rockatansky, Travis View