Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "black-police-officer"

1. Basic Instinct (1992)

R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 219,127 | Gross: $117.73M

2. Knives Out (2019)

PG-13 | 130 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.

Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis

Votes: 773,711 | Gross: $165.36M

3. Miami Vice (1984–1989)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

-Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami, Florida.

Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown

Votes: 30,191

4. Clue (1985)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.

Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd

Votes: 109,294 | Gross: $14.64M

5. 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: 286,372 | Gross: $65.81M

6. Training Day (2001)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger

Votes: 472,864 | Gross: $76.63M

7. Predator 2 (1990)

R | 108 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

The Predator returns to Earth, this time to stake a claim on the war-torn streets of a dystopian Los Angeles.

Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Kevin Peter Hall, Rubén Blades

Votes: 182,597 | Gross: $30.67M

8. American Gangster (2007)

R | 157 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin

Votes: 452,526 | Gross: $130.16M

9. The Invisible Man (I) (2020)

R | 124 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

Director: Leigh Whannell | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge

Votes: 255,434 | Gross: $70.41M

10. Boyz n the Hood (1991)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.

Director: John Singleton | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II

Votes: 154,620 | Gross: $57.50M

11. The Deuce (2017–2019)

TV-MA | 1,583 min | Drama

A look at life in New York City during the 1970s and '80s, when porn and prostitution were rampant in Manhattan.

Stars: James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Margarita Levieva

Votes: 31,934

12. Den of Thieves (2018)

R | 140 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew clash as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

Director: Christian Gudegast | Stars: Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O'Shea Jackson Jr., 50 Cent

Votes: 123,684 | Gross: $44.95M

13. Bad Boys II (2003)

R | 147 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two loose-cannon narcotics cops investigate the flow of Ecstasy into Florida from a Cuban drug cartel.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Gabrielle Union, Jordi Mollà

Votes: 267,236 | Gross: $138.61M

14. Lethal Weapon (2016–2019)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A slightly unhinged cop is partnered with a veteran detective trying to maintain a low stress level in his life.

Stars: Damon Wayans, Keesha Sharp, Kevin Rahm, Michelle Mitchenor

Votes: 40,444

15. BlacKkKlansman (2018)

R | 135 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace

Votes: 291,099 | Gross: $49.28M

16. Fright Night (1985)

R | 106 min | Horror

"Fright Night" sees a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead.

Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 78,648 | Gross: $24.92M

17. Cube (1997)

R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A group of strangers awaken to find themselves placed in a giant cube. Each one of them is gifted with a special skill and they must work together to escape an endless maze of deadly traps.

Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller

Votes: 247,628 | Gross: $0.50M

18. Candyman (1992)

R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Tony Todd, Kasi Lemmons

Votes: 100,155 | Gross: $25.79M

19. King of New York (1990)

R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller

A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo

Votes: 42,103 | Gross: $2.55M

20. Goodnight Mommy (2022)

R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Twin brothers arrive at their mother's house and begin to suspect that something isn't right.

Director: Matt Sobel | Stars: Naomi Watts, Cameron Crovetti, Nicholas Crovetti, Peter Hermann

Votes: 14,850

21. The Tower (2021–2023)

TV-14 | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a long-serving cop and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a London tower block, Detective Sarah Collins investigates the dark heart of policing.

Stars: Gemma Whelan, Emmett J Scanlan, Tahirah Sharif, Jimmy Akingbola

Votes: 6,074

22. Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit

Votes: 188,828 | Gross: $147.25M

23. The Informer (2019)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ex-convict working undercover intentionally gets himself incarcerated again in order to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison.

Director: Andrea Di Stefano | Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Common, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz

Votes: 42,086

24. Summer of Sam (1999)

R | 142 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito

Votes: 41,303 | Gross: $19.28M

25. Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

R | 127 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo

Votes: 172,246 | Gross: $130.44M

26. Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

R | 118 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh pursue a former LAPD officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo

Votes: 178,513 | Gross: $144.73M

27. L.A.'s Finest (2019–2020)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

The spinoff series of Bad Boys films focuses on drug enforcement agent Sydney Burnett, now working for the Los Angeles Police Department.

Stars: Jessica Alba, Gabrielle Union, Duane Martin, Zach Gilford

Votes: 8,389

28. Cop Out (2010)

R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Jimmy's rare baseball card is robbed. Since it's his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, he recruits his cop partner Paul to track down the robber, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster.

Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Juan Carlos Hernández, Cory Fernandez

Votes: 90,351 | Gross: $44.88M

29. Sleepless (III) (2017)

R | 95 min | Action, Thriller

A cop with a connection to the criminal underworld scours a nightclub in search of his kidnapped son.

Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Dermot Mulroney, Gabrielle Union

Votes: 34,197 | Gross: $20.78M

30. 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: 2,906 | Gross: $13.25M

31. The Detective (1968)

Approved | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

While grappling with his wife's infidelity, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a gay man, which he discovers is linked to official corruption involving sex and drugs.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman

Votes: 4,155 | Gross: $14.30M

32. Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders (2015)

Not Rated | 113 min | Documentary, Crime, Music

The inside story behind the Biggie and Tupac murder investigations is laid bare using police case files, taped confessions never before shown on film, and interviews with lead detective Greg Kading and other witnesses.

Director: Mike Dorsey | Stars: Imari Williams, Greg Kading, Frank Alexander, Xavien T. Bailey

Votes: 932

33. Bad Henry (2018)

85 min | Crime

Charlotte-Mecklenburg homicide detective Garry McFadden hosts the story of Henry Louis Wallace, an American serial killer who was known as "The Taco Bell Strangler." "Bad Henry" was convicted of killing ten women between 1990 and 1994.

Director: Gregory Palmer | Stars: Garry McFadden, Glenn Counts, Christopher A. Dias, David Discenza

Votes: 55

34. Rivers Wash Over Me (2009)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance

After his mother dies, Sequan, a sensitive teenager from Brooklyn, moves in with relatives living in a small town plagued with secrets hidden deep within its lush, rural Alabama terrain. ... See full summary »

Director: John G. Young | Stars: Julia Carothers Hughes, Elizabeth Dennis, Terrance Epps, Tina Jetter

Votes: 230

35. Crime + Punishment (2018)

112 min | Documentary

A group of brave NYPD officers risk it all to expose the truth about illegal quota practices in police departments.

Director: Stephen Maing | Stars: Manuel 'Manny' Gomez, Sandy Gonzales, Rukia Lumumba, Edwin Raymond

Votes: 697 | Gross: $0.02M

36. Death Game (2017)

83 min | Thriller

A hard-boiled cop must track down a female serial killer and stop a series of police assassinations.

Director: Gregory Hatanaka | Stars: Ron Becks, Magda Marcella, Kristine DeBell, Salih Mayi

Votes: 132

37. Babysitter (2018)

9 min | Short, Horror, Thriller

The average teenage babysitter shows up to watch Mr. Murphy's children. She receives strange calls all night from a prank caller. She tries to keep calm, but senses something terrible is bound to happen.

Director: Dana Rubanowitz | Stars: Zachary Cirino, Nina Quezada, Alexis White

38. Hill Street Blues (1981–1987)
Episode: Stan the Man (1982)

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

Davenport is held at knife-point by a suspect in the booking area. Larue and another office argue over who will make an undercover bust. Fearing that his apartment will be torn down, an ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Conrad, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz

Votes: 93

39. Dalgliesh (2021– )
Episode: A Taste for Death - Part One (2021)

TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two dead bodies are discovered in a church - one is a former Member of Parliament, while the other is a local vagrant. Dalgliesh's investigation leads him into the world of the British nobility, where everyone seems to have secrets.

Director: Lisa Clarke | Stars: Andrew Steele, Tilly Vosburgh, Sami Amber, Bertie Carvel

Votes: 413

40. Dalgliesh (2021– )
Episode: The Black Tower - Part Two (2021)

TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery

WIth Grace dead, the future of the estate is more uncertain than ever. Wilfred organizes a vote to establish whether he should continue as the residents' spiritual adviser. Dalgliesh digs deeper into the operation's secrets.

Directors: Andy Tohill, Ryan Tohill | Stars: Bertie Carvel, Mirren Mack, Jenny Howe, Steven Mackintosh

Votes: 424

41. Dalgliesh (2021– )
Episode: A Taste for Death - Part Two (2021)

TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dalgliesh digs into the Berownes' family secrets. He eventually confronts the killer - and reveals some deeply personal things about himself.

Director: Lisa Clarke | Stars: Bertie Carvel, Jim Norton, Jeremy Irvine, Carlyss Peer

Votes: 406

42. Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
Newsy Day, Memphis Video, Hamilton 68, Paul Pelosi Video, and More (2023 Podcast Episode)

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43. The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
Black Cops Beat Black Man. Media Blames White Supremacy. (2023 Podcast Episode)

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Star: Matt Walsh

44. One Dollar (2018)
Episode: Carol Seerveld (2018)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Carol Seerveld, an Elementary School teacher, reaches her breaking point with a student; A police confrontation goes awry for Rook; Dannie's first night babysitting Carrie doesn't go as planned.

Director: Craig Zobel | Stars: Nathaniel Martello-White, Philip Ettinger, Christopher Denham, Kirrilee Berger

Votes: 59