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The Glass Shield (1994)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white-male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.
Style:
harsh, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot:
racism, police corruption, murder, police investigation, racial issues, hip hop, gangster, fbi, justice, brutality, crime gone awry, false accusation, tough law enforcer, legal action, fighting the system, society, law enforcement, dishonesty, police, cancer, corruption, cop, rapper, lady, crooked cop ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Most similar movies to The Glass Shield
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about law enforcement, dishonesty, murder, police corruption, life is a bitch, police investigation and society mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Glass Shield: Scared Silent (2002), The Thin Blue Lie (2000), Mississippi Burning (1988), Hot Boyz (2000), Rampart (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When the newlywed wife of a Minnesota police chief accuses a new officer on his force of raping her several years earlier, it sets the stage for a tense confrontation in this riveting story. Penelope Ann Miller and Reed Diamond star as Kathy and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense
Plot:
violence against women, rape, rape victim, injustice, life is a bitch, society, sexual abuse, law enforcement, strong female presence, husband wife relationship, justice, deception ...
Time:
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Place:
minnesota, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick investigative reporter, Jonathan Neumann, has heard some troubling rumors: stories of innocent people ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
journalism, police corruption, amateur detective, murder, legal investigation, media, fighting the system, uncover truth, wrongful conviction, police brutality, state affairs, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the ...
Style:
political thriller, southern gothic, political, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, small town, police, civil rights, african american, ku klux klan, murder, politics, deep south, investigation, racial prejudice, racial segregation ...
Time:
year 1964, 20th century, 60s, year 1988
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, america, usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style:
hood, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, social decay, police corruption, murder, false accusation, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.
Style:
bleak, rough, psychological, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot:
police corruption, police, police brutality, dysfunctional family, bigotry, cop, scandal, tough law enforcer, dishonesty, sexualized violence, dirty cop, crooked cop ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy ...
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, closeted homosexual, murder, true crime, police investigation, legal, death sentence, trial, moral ambiguity, manipulation, morality, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979, 60s, year 1963
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, las vegas
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style:
hood, melancholic, brutal, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, brutality, ghetto, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
Similarity:
27%
673
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
What's the bond between partners, between brothers, and between spouses? In L.A., Bill Holt handcuffs Sean Rickhart inside a rebar frame for a freeway pillar at a construction site; Bill's going to bury Sean in quick-drying cement. Guided ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, rough, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, gangster, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, rivalry, police investigation, drug dealing, life is a bitch, dishonesty, law enforcement, drug abuse, showbiz ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
Style:
serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
courtroom, false accusation, racism, interracial relations, discrimination, injustice, human spirit, politics, hopes, society, against the odds, fighting the system ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, alabama, new york
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino ...
Style:
cult classic, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, hitman, crime family, gang, courtroom drama, gangsta, italian mafia, organized crime, cosa nostra, professional killer, italian gangster ...
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him.
Style:
talky, neo noir, intense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, corruption, murder, investigation, police brutality, lawyer, tough law enforcer, fighting the system, against the rules, uncover truth, law enforcement, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york, puerto rico, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Style:
tense, neo noir, detective, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, police officer, police investigation, police brutality, cop, corruption, investigation, profanity, rookie, robbery, partner, fighting the system ...
Time:
20th century, year 1992, y2k, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, southern california, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.
Style:
tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
law enforcement, police investigation, murder, perfect crime, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, dirty cop, crooked cop, male pubic hair, male nudity, politics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the "V-Dubs", an ...
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gangster, juvenile delinquency, racism, social decay, dishonesty, city life, dysfunctional family, police investigation, interracial relations, drug dealing, law enforcement ...
Place:
usa, san francisco
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In 1965 a bomb was planted in a Church in Alabama, killing four black girls. Thirty years later, Tom Cherry breaks his silence to discredit his father's alibi for the night in question.
Style:
realistic, rough, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
racism, investigation, moral dilemma, introspection, haunted by the past, rebellion, legal, society, injustice, parents and children, hopes, civil rights ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, birmingham alabama, alabama
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style:
bleak, serious, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, frame up, false accusation, investigation, lovers reunited, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, rebellion, power relations, state affairs, murder ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
Style:
suspense, talky, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, police, police corruption, corruption, nypd, police investigation, district attorney, lawyer, courtroom, murder, legal action, jury ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
Similarity:
24%
542
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two pounds of pressure on a trigger pays really well... Ex special forces mercenary and now hardened criminal Vic, lives in a world of cons, double crosses, crooked cops, mob bosses and drug dealing crime lords. Playing by his own rules, Vic and his ...
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
fighting crime, gangster, hitman, police detective, drug dealing, rivalry, danger, murder, crime boss, city life, dishonesty, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame the crimes on street gangs. Their scheme is going along smoothly until they kill an undercover DEA ...
Style:
hood, detective, neo noir, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
hip hop, dirty cop, gangster, police corruption, drug, violence, urban, black, lawyer, brutality, corruption, murder ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several dead bodies and not a witness in sight.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
small town, temptation, crooked cop, cop, nypd, cash, sheriff, investigation, drug dealing, law enforcement, witnessing a crime, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Based on true events, The Lena Baker Story recounts one African-American womans struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices she makes, and to ultimately triumph over her...Lena Baker was the first and only woman to be ...
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom, electric chair, courtroom drama, racism, boss and employee, false accusation, workplace, dishonesty, destructive relationship, couples, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
usa, georgia, africa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Style:
grindhouse, hood, independent film, funny, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, urban, african american, black, exploitation, ghetto, pimp, corrupt cop, street life, corruption, revenge, prison ...
Time:
70s
Place:
oakland california, bay area, usa, california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
racism, serial killer, racial discrimination, interracial, corruption, police, investigation, police corruption, violent content, special agent, juvenile delinquency, society ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Sadhu Agashe, a police officer in Mumbai, makes a name for himself by killing criminals in sting operations instead of locking them up in prison. The film follows his method of working, gives an insight into the Mumbai Police Crime Branch, and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, experimental ...
Plot:
dirty cop, law enforcement, dishonesty, police corruption, police, police officer, cop, duel, hindu, gangster, police department, treatment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
22%
150
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, detective
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, partner, police detective, fighting crime, police investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, amateur detective, society, partners against crime, murder, police station ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute
Style:
neo noir, detective, intelligent, crime drama, talky ...
Plot:
murder, catholic priest, cop, priest, politics, serial killer, clergy, redemption, police corruption, political corruption, desert, catholic ...
Time:
1940s, year 1981, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
small town, police investigation, heist, gangster, gunfight, justice, corruption, criminal heroes, law enforcement, criminal, femme fatale, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
los angeles, texas, arkansas, california, louisiana ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
legal investigation, courtroom drama, murder, frame up, vietnam veteran, false accusation, law enforcement, dishonesty, legal action, life is a bitch, legal, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy ...
Style:
tense, neo noir, realistic, bleak, political ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
police, corruption, drug addiction, drug, lawyer, addiction, police corruption, whistleblower, police investigation, betrayal, redemption, fighting the system ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
new york, america, usa, washington d.c., virginia ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Plot:
police detective, police station, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, partner, partners against crime, law enforcement, workplace, die hard, crime solving, law and order ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
baltimore, usa
Similarity:
21%
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