Honest law enforcer movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant honest law enforcer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective, rough and tense films and TV shows about / with honest law enforcer, police, law enforcement, police officer, fighting crime, police detective, investigation, cop, violent content and criminal plots mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as honest law enforcer: Line of Duty (2012), Hawaii Five-0 (2010), Motive (2013), King (2011), Rookie Blue (2010), The Shield (2002), Gangaajal (2003), On the Job (2013), Axe Cop (2012), Walking Tall (1973).

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 8.7
 69K
Line of Duty (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Steve Arnott is a young officer who’s fallen foul of his superiors for refusing to help in the cover-up of an operation that ended in the shooting of an innocent father. He seems ideal to join AC-12, an anti-corruption police unit, just as it ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, crime drama, detective ...
Plot: police corruption, honest law enforcer, corruption, female police detective, dirty cop, police detective, police, british police, policewoman, twists and turns, law enforcement, law enforcer ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom
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 7.4
 78K
Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.
Style: exciting, detective, realistic, cliffhanger, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: investigation, partners against crime, police protagonist, police, crime investigation, fighting crime, hotshot, teamwork, policewoman, honest law enforcer, police detective, suspicion ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa
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 7.4
 6K
Motive (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A cat-and-mouse series with a twist on the everyday whodunit, "Motive" centers on Angie Flynn, a detective on a backwards chase for clues to a killer that has already been revealed to viewers. The series, filmed in Vancouver, is an ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, detective, realistic ...
Plot: murder investigation, female detective, murder mystery, police detective, honest law enforcer, investigation, police investigation, fighting crime, sergeant, murder, law enforcement, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, vancouver
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 6.9
 1K
King (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: King is a Canadian police drama which premiered April 17, 2011 on Showcase. The series stars Amy Price-Francis as Jessica King, a veteran police officer who gets promoted to head of the Major Crimes Task Force in Toronto after her predecessor has a ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, detective ...
Plot: policewoman, female detective, police detective, female police detective, law enforcement, who done it, honest law enforcer, investigation, police investigation, task force, fighting crime, leadership ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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 7.7
 18K
Rookie Blue (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Ambitious young cops try to prove themselves in their high-stakes careers, in which the smallest mistake can have deadly consequences. At the core of the close-knit group is perfectionist Andy McNally, whose father was a homicide detective before he ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, sentimental, detective ...
Plot: policewoman, rookie, workplace romance, lesbian, female police officer, cop, workplace situations, police, law enforcement, fighting crime, shooting, relationship vs career ...
Time: 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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 8.7
 87K
The Shield (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
Style: tense, rough, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police detective, law enforcement, corrupt cop, dirty cop, cop, police brutality, dishonesty, cruelty, murder, tough law enforcer, peril ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 7.8
 18K
Gangaajal (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: An SP Amit Kumar who is given charge of Tezpur police station in Bihar. The area is full of corruption, inefficiency, bribery, nepotism, favoritism and crime with help from the local police. Gradually Amit realizes that the local politician Sadhu ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, inspirational ...
Plot: police station, law enforcement, fighting crime, police brutality, police corruption, rivalry, bribery, vigilantism, honest law enforcer, criminal's revenge, confession, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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 6.9
 3K
On the Job (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
Story: On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, corruption, danger, corrupt law enforcer, honest law enforcer, assassination, politics, criminal heroes, dishonesty, asian, prison, contract killer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: the philippines, asia, manila philippines
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 7.3
 2K
Axe Cop (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: Axe Cop is an animated series based on the webcomic of the same name. It premiered on Fox on July 21, 2013, as a part of the channel's Animation Domination HD programming block. The series aired 6 11-minute episodes in its first season, which ...
Style: adult animation, humorous, not serious, surreal, adult cartoon ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: heroic mission, good versus evil, fighting crime, heroes, silly humor, imaginary, rivalry, tough heroes, law enforcement, machismo, super weapon, allies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.9
 7K
Walking Tall (1973)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Buford Pusser's a wrestler, whose wife wants him to settle down, so they go to his home town in Tennessee, where he plans to get into business with his father. But he is shocked to discover all sorts of graft and corruption going on. And when ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, vigilantism, vigilante, redneck, small town, danger, sheriff, police corruption, corruption, fighting crime, criminal syndicate, law enforcement ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place: tennessee, usa
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 7.2
 2K
The District (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Plot: fighting crime, workplace situations, honest law enforcer, mayor, price of justice, boss and employee, police, nypd, investigation, justice, president, police officer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
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 7.1
 3K
The Commish (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style ...
Style: suspenseful, humorous, realistic, semi serious, detective ...
Plot: police commissioner, police, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, family relations, honest law enforcer, couple relations, workplace, police officer, friends, murder, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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 7.1
 2K
Babylon (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: London's police force is in need of a public image revamp. And Chief Constable Richard Miller has found just the woman to do it...American visionary from the world of new media Liz Garvey, sets out to revolutionise the force's PR ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, detective ...
Plot: workplace, law enforcement, workplace situations, police station, fighting crime, public relations, honest law enforcer, society, police procedural, sniper, incompetent police, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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 6.5
 2K
NYC 22 (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: NYC 22 is an American police procedural drama which ran on CBS from April 15 to August 11, 2012. The series was a mid-season replacement for CSI: Miami. On May 13, 2012, both series were canceled by CBS.
Style: realistic, serious, detective, tense, suspense ...
Plot: rookie, police, fighting crime, partner, law enforcement, police officer, state trooper, streetwise, ex athlete, partners against crime, supportive coworker, honest law enforcer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Life Without Principle (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A criminal, a bank clerk and a police officer find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank in the midst of the world financial crisis.
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, bank clerk, human nature, stock exchange, crime investigation, disorder, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, danger, honest law enforcer, financial ruin, financial problem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
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The Stolen Children (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Switzerland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the ...
Style: sincere, thought provoking, touching, captivating, road movie ...
Plot: child abuse, coming of age, orphanage, social differences, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, gain trust, on the road, family problems, society, self discovery, custody ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: italy, switzerland, europe, sicily
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 7.1
 9K
Kojak (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the ...
Style: detective, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: police, investigation, danger, police investigation, fighting crime, rivalry, law enforcement, honest law enforcer, police detective, murder investigation, police officer, cop ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.4
 7K
Singam 2 (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Picking up the storyline from where Singam ended, Duraisingam (Suriya) has gone undercover after meeting the Home Minister and is working as an NCC officer in a school in Thoothukudi. The only people who know about this operation are the Chief ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, love triangle, social relations, good versus evil, heroes, fighting crime, rivalry, working undercover, undercover cop, smuggling, covert operation, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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 6.5
 21K
Blood Ties (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: family relations, police, family problems, love, dishonesty, betrayal, family reunited, police detective, rivalry, honest law enforcer, gang, mobster ...
Time: 70s, year 2013, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.3
 110K
Walking Tall (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
Style: intense, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one against many, vigilante, ex military, small town, home invasion, lone hero, one man army, justice, revenge, organized crime, vigilantism, heroes ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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 7.5
 2K
Salamander (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: A police inspector investigates the robbery of 66 safe deposit boxes at a private bank in Brussels.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, secret movement, dishonesty, honest law enforcer, secret agenda, robbery, boarding school, nordic, murder mystery, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, flanders
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 7.5
 11K
Copper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Kevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City while searching for information on the disappearance of his wife and death of his daughter.
Style: serious, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: law enforcement, fighting crime, gunfight, american civil war, power struggle, ex military, society, priest, african american, racial slur, black american, corruption ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era, 1860s
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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The Untouchables (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, stylized, clever, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: mafia, gangster, organized crime, corruption, smuggling, mentor, tough cop, tough law enforcer, gunfight, prohibition, tax evasion, prohibition era ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: chicago, usa, america
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 6.2
 3K
Firestorm (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A crew of seasoned criminals led by the notorious Nam, armed with high-powered weapons, pulls off another smooth and violent armored car heist in broad daylight in a crowded street. Whoever tries to get in their way, they will show no mercy. This ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, hood ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, master criminal, undercover, gain trust, chase, law enforcement, rivalry, gunfight, organized crime, gang, triad, armed forces ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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 7.7
 4K
Zen (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen ...
Style: atmospheric, sexy, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, workplace, law enforcement, suspicion, corruption, transcendence, investigation, nypd, chief of police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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Pride and Glory (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. ...
Style: suspense, tense, intense, detective, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: police, police corruption, police investigation, organized crime, murder, corruption, investigation, conspiracy, betrayal, cop, moral dilemma, family relations ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, washington d.c., bronx new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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 8.8
 214K
Twin Peaks (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1505 min.
TV show
Story: The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into ...
Style: atmospheric, psychological, mind bending, enigmatic, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, small town, surrealism, murder, nightmare, supernatural, investigation, secret, hallucination, mysterious death, mysterious villain, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1990, year 1989
Place: washington state, hawaii, washington d.c., usa
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 8.0
 792K
Sin City (2005)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, surreal, dark, anthology ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: corruption, vengeance, justice, gory, hitman, revenge, dark hero, comic book, redemption, vigilante, killings, distopia ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, 80s, 90s, 2000s ...
Place: texas, iran
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 8.2
 1.6M
Batman Begins (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal ...
Style: suspense, dark, exciting, action packed, harsh ...
Audience: teens, manly, chick flick, kids, boys' night
Plot: superhero, batman, heroes, secret identity, double life, corruption, disguise, martial arts, good versus evil, social decay, justice, vigilante ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 20th century, 80s, 90s ...
Place: usa, himalaya, africa, tibet
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 9.0
 2.8M
The Dark Knight (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, exciting, atmospheric, epic ...
Audience: manly, date night, kids, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot: superhero, batman, heroes, secret identity, tragic hero, psychopath, moral dilemma, corruption, organized crime, joker, double life, villain ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, london, hong kong
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