| Saamy (2003) | 7.3 | |
| Road House (2024) | 6.2 | |
| Cat Ballou (1965) | 6.8 | |
| Ravage (2019) | 5.0 | |
| Wyatt Earp (1994) | 6.7 |
Corrupt sheriff movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant corrupt sheriff movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, independent film and realistic films and TV shows about / with corrupt sheriff, revenge, corruption, small town, murder, sheriff, violence, gunfight, vigilantism and moral ambiguity plots mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as corrupt sheriff: I Spit on Your Grave (2010), Even Lambs Have Teeth (2015), Ravage (2019), Banshee Origins (2013), First Blood (1982), Nightmare in Badham County (1976), Convoy (1978), Jonah Hex Motion Comics (2010), Trigger Warning (2024), The Crumbs (2020).
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List of corrupt sheriff movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in ...
Style:
disturbing, brutal, scary, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
vengeance, rape and revenge, torture, violence, rape, revenge, rapist, sexual abuse, serial killer, danger, female vigilante, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Two wronged women dish out vigilante justice ala Kill Bill’s “Bride”.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
violence, human trafficking, revenge, abused woman, torture, corrupt priest, russian roulette, corrupt sheriff, justice, wrath, danger, female vigilante ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When a nature photographer explains to the Police how she fought her way out of the Watchatoomy Valley, they dismiss her crazed and violent story as a meth-induced nightmare. But when they discover that she's telling the truth, it's too ...
Style:
disturbing, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, violence, female protagonist, rape and revenge, woods, corrupt sheriff, decapitation, survival, captive, murder, woman in jeopardy, self defense ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Banshee: Origins is a series of webisodes based on the American drama television series produced by Cinemax called Banshee. The series offers flashbacks in-between the time where Lucas Hood was arrested and when Sheriff Lucas Hood first arrived in ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
criminal, law enforcement, tough heroes, small town, heroes, criminal heroes, cons and scams, gang war, bandit, mafioso, corrupt sheriff, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspense, perverse, action adventure ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
gunfight, one man army, manhunt, police brutality, tough guy, vietnam war, soldier, survival, revenge, lone hero, danger, tough heroes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1982, post world war two ...
Place:
vietnam, washington state, usa, north america, arizona ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at ...
Style:
crying, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, lesbian rape, prison, brutality, cruelty, rape victim, lesbianism, sexual humiliation, raped woman, murder, sexploitation ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
Style:
road movie, dark comedy, surprise ending, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
truck, car chase, on the road, chase, rebellion, on the run, desert, police brutality, highway, car, corrupt sheriff, state trooper ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, arizona, new mexico, austin texas, albuquerque new mexico ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
One long and two short motion comic adventures of Jonah Hex, a deadly cynical bounty hunter with a lip and a horrible facial scar. He hunts a necromancer and his crony - undead Wild Bill Hickok, some robbers and a rotten old judge.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, offbeat
Plot:
bounty hunter, tough heroes, rivalry, mad scientist, chases and races, vengeance, gang, chase, corrupt sheriff, framed for murder, murder, gunfight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Special Forces commando uncovers a dangerous conspiracy when she returns to her hometown looking for answers into her beloved father's death.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating
Plot:
homecoming, special forces, death of father, conspiracy, female protagonist, domestic terrorism, corrupt sheriff, corrupt politician, soldier, evidence, weapons, investigation ...
Place:
syria
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Dr. Benjamin and his family run a Bed and Breakfast in the woods whereby the family performs experiments on unsuspecting guests.
Style:
dark, psychotronic, stylized, suspense
Plot:
incest, cabin in the woods, corrupt sheriff, child murder, family relations, cannibalism, eccentric family, danger, parents and children, husband wife relationship, family tradition, brother sister relationship ...
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An ex-cop turned bounty hunter shows up in a small town looking for a man who's jumped bail. However, the real reason he's there is to avenge his old friend, an Indian who lived in the area and was murdered by the local sheriff, who is ...
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, detective, period piece, independent film
Plot:
bounty hunter, revenge, corrupt sheriff, friendship, justice, native american, small town, racial injustice, betrayal, honor, lawlessness, land dispute ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A violent sadist has been appointed a deputy sheriff by his uncle, the alcoholic and corrupt county sheriff, who runs a drug-smuggling and bootlegging operation on the side. When the sheriff's nephew decides to steal the land of some local ...
Style:
crime drama, dark, tense, independent film
Plot:
bootlegging, intense violence, corrupt sheriff, abuse of power, brutality, nepotism, intimidation, power struggle, alcoholism, drug smuggling, racial tension, racial prejudice ...
Place:
tennessee
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Duell McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town.
Framed for the murder of Sheriff John Whaley, McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him.
Style:
period piece, tense
Plot:
cowboy, corrupt sheriff, vigilantism, small town, drifter, showdown, male protagonist, lawlessness, revenge, moral ambiguity, redemption, outlaw ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
arizona
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Former assassin Hutch Mansell takes his family on a nostalgic vacation to a small-town theme park, only to be pulled back into violence when they clash with a corrupt operator, a crooked sheriff, and a ruthless crime boss.
Style:
fast paced, suspense, neo noir, surprise ending, black comedy ...
Plot:
russian mafia, one man army, revenge, assassin, violence, small town, hand to hand combat, corrupt sheriff, crime boss, corruption, male protagonist, vigilante ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
ohio
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Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.
Style:
tense, period piece, independent film
Plot:
sawmill, sabotage, corrupt sheriff, teamwork, corruption, wilderness, working class, blue collar, greed, survival, friendship, man versus nature ...
Time:
70s
Place:
alaska
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After exposing police corruption, a journalist is drawn into an underground world of violent vigilantism.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, crime thriller, dark ...
Plot:
police corruption, investigative reporter, investigation, vigilante, problem, investigative journalism, secret, corruption, private investigation, corrupt sheriff, intrigue, corrupt cop ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Madrid, Spain. During an eviction procedure, Dani, a police officer, makes a shocking discovery.
Style:
tense, thrilling, exciting, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
police corruption, conspiracy, eviction, political corruption, corrupt cop, runaway, political conspiracy, corruption, adventure hero, corrupt sheriff, corrupt law enforcer, problem ...
Place:
madrid
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Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A corrupt cop who has a heartbreaking childhood realises his mistakes and turns into a sincere officer to take on a dreaded criminal and his son.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, intense, crime thriller ...
Plot:
corruption, police corruption, revenge, criminal, justice, redemption, battles, problem, organized crime, corrupt official, corrupt sheriff, police officer ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A policeman accepts bribes from corrupt politicians and local thugs to help them in their illegal work. However, he decides to correct his mistakes after he falls in love with a woman.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot:
criminal, fight, going straight, police, changing lives, political corruption, corrupt sheriff, corruption, male female relationship, corrupt cop, battles, corrupt law enforcer ...
Place:
india
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jessie Weston is an ex-con recently released from prison after serving two years for auto theft. He is welcomed back into his small California down by his best friend Dillion and his older brother, Paul. But Jessie is not warmly received by his old ...
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, tense, noir, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ex convict, vigilante justice, wrongful conviction, revenge, murder, manhunt, corrupt sheriff, escape, small town, chase, survival, justice ...
Place:
california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jeremy Rollins, a shy and underdeveloped young man with an uncanny condition, learns how to cope with life in a small corrupt town.
Style:
independent film, tense
Plot:
corruption, compassion, small town, isolation, morality, acceptance, character study, corrupt sheriff, sacrifice, coming of age, family secret, mother son relationship ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Hooch is an inexpensive regional exploitation action-comedy (hicksploitation) about a small county in the Appalachians and its many moonshine-brewing inhabitants, who are all struggling to make a living. The older "brewers" are pissed off ...
Style:
action comedy, cult classic, period piece, tension
Plot:
small town, bootlegging, hicksploitation, corrupt sheriff, working class, blue collar, underdog, rivalry, machismo, organized crime, corruption, redneck ...
Time:
70s
Place:
appalachia
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Father William is an ambitious Catholic priest and former Vietnam veteran sucked into a world of crime, drugs, and duplicity. He investigates the murder of an old army buddy of his which leads him to a mysterious femme fatal, named Angelica. She ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, noir, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot:
conspiracy, corruption, vietnam war, moral ambiguity, femme fatale, duplicity, betrayal, tragic hero, drug trade, corrupt sheriff, vietnam veteran, obsession ...
Place:
vietnam
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
TV show
Story:
Somewhere in the Nordic wilderness, in a place that lives by its own rules, lies Utmark. A corrupt sheriff, cross-dressing farmer, possessed shopkeeper, alcoholic shepherd, nature-loving bootlegger, God-hating pastor, grieving pimp. Everyone knows ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, captivating, disturbing, offbeat ...
Plot:
small town, satire, nordic, village, society, small town life, lifestyle, moral ambiguity, isolation, social satire, school teacher, corruption ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A family of bootleggers fight against the sheriff and local gangsters.
Style:
crime drama, tense, crime thriller, suspenseful, southern gothic ...
Plot:
bootlegging, smuggling, backwoods, organized crime, revenge, survival, corrupt sheriff, exploitation, cat and mouse, family relations, smuggler, father son relationship ...
Time:
60s
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 191 min.
Story:
Covering the life and times of one of the West's most iconic heroes Wyatt Earp weaves an intricate tale of Earp and his friends and family. With a star studded cast, sweeping cinematography and authentic costumes Wyatt Earp led the way during ...
Style:
cult classic, historical drama, period piece, retro, anamorphic ...
Plot:
western hero, brother brother relationship, gunfight, modern western, wyatt earp, husband wife relationship, wagon train, modern west, civil war, gunslinger, old west, historical event ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 90s, 1880s, 1860s ...
Place:
arizona, kansas, tucson arizona, missouri, alaska ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on ...
Style:
retro, tense, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
kidnapping, civil war veteran, rescue, homecoming, train, brother brother relationship, marriage proposal, shootout, pursuit, woman in jeopardy, civil war, brothers ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century
Place:
texas, mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
Style:
funny, melancholic, harsh, talky, semi serious ...
Plot:
revenge, alcoholic, murder, female protagonist, vengeance, train robbery, ranch, redemption, horse, drunkenness, father daughter relationship, death of father ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
wyoming, persia
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Get swept up in the action as an armored car driver (Christian Slater) tries to elude a gang of thieves (led by Morgan Freeman) while a flood ravages the countryside. Hard Rain is "a wild, thrilling, chilling action ride" filled with close ...
Style:
suspense, intense, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, evacuation, rain, small town, heist, flood, money, chase, redemption, justice, armored car ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
indiana, new orleans, california
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Buck (Gary Busey) is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his daughter, Buck and his friends arm themselves ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, vietnam veteran, motorcycle gang, home invasion, hospital, intimidation, motorcycle, biker, vietnam war, small town, murder, rape ...
Time:
80s
Place:
miami, usa, asia, vietnam, florida ...
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