Ex-cop movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant ex-cop movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, tense and exciting films and TV shows about / with ex-cop, investigation, murder, ex cop, police officer, violence, revenge, police, female nudity and fight plots mostly in Thriller, Crime and Action genres shot in USA, Australia, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as ex-cop: Homefront (2013), Broken City (2013), Small Town Crime (2017), Old School (2014), Final Payback (2001), Rentnercops (2015), Human Target (2010), Spenser Confidential (2020), Sunrise (2024), Sweet Sting of the Black Widow (2022).
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his action against a biker gang went horribly wrong and it cost the life of his boss' son. He is recently widowed and is left with a 9-years-old daughter,Maddy. He decides to ...
Style:
serious, breathtaking, tense, rough, noir ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, protector, ex law enforcer, chase, single father, single parent, tough heroes, secret service, retiring, drug, undercover cop, one against many ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, rough, political, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revenge, private detective, conspiracy, twists and turns, betrayal, politics, infidelity, mayor, political corruption, corruption, haunted by the past, private investigator ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night
Plot:
private investigation, redemption, ex-cop, investigation, prostitute, murder, violence, danger, disorder, society, death, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
utah, idaho, mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
Ted McCabe, a retired cop, and Lennie Cahill a retired crim, get together to solve crimes, unravel scams and make some cash, while avoiding the wrath of the police and the underworld.
Style:
suspenseful, humorous, witty, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
odd couple, law enforcer criminal relations, investigation, partner, ex-cop, misfit partners, fighting crime, disorder, elderly, misfit, urban, partners against crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In this action-packed thriller, ex-cop Joey Randall (Richard Grieco) suddenly finds his affair with Sharon Moreno (Priscilla Barnes), wife of Police Chief George Moreno (John Saxon), has turned deadly. Randall discovers her lifeless body in a pool ...
Style:
detective, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
frame up, ex-cop, killer, ex cop, murder investigation, falsely accused, accusation, investigation, accused of murder, uncover truth, homicide detective, police detective ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
Faced with staff shortages, the chief of a Cologne police department convinces two retired homicide detectives to come back into the force. With their immediate superior being a young woman, a generational cultural clash is inevitable.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, humorous, comedy drama, lighthearted
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
investigation, teamwork, ex-cop, old man, partner, police partner, generation gap, partners against crime, crime investigation, police investigation, murder investigation, team ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Human Target is an American action drama television series that was broadcast by Fox in the United States. Based loosely on the Human Target comic book character created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino for DC Comics, it is the second series based ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, smart, cliffhanger ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
expert, team, teamwork, bodyguard, hidden identity, outsmarting, life risking, mercenary, heroes, vigilante, peril, mission ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, bay area
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Spenser, a former Boston patrolman who just got out from prison, teams up with Hawk, an aspiring fighter, to unravel the truth behind the death of two police officers.
Style:
action comedy, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
police, ex convict, police corruption, one against many, conspiracy, ex-cop, corrupt cop, organized crime, revenge, bodyguard, ex cop, investigation ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
boston
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a vampire who feeds on blood and fear. After he is befriended by a kind immigrant family, the ...
Style:
bleak, serious, captivating, psychological, suspenseful
Plot:
ex-cop, family relations, night, family tragedy, bereavement, loss of family member, family drama, fight, tragedy, family problems, death of girlfriend, death of daughter ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A serial killer is loose on the streets of LA, leaving behind a steaming trail of bodies marked with lipstick: the calling card of a Black Widow who loves them and leaves them dead. As homicide detectives unravel the case, they discover the victims ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, bleak, serious, disturbing
Plot:
serial killer, homicide detective, ex-cop, murder, police, homicidal maniac, revenge killing, investigation, serial murder, police officer killed, murderer, police detective ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story:
A disgraced cop in debt is forced to return to his home state of Florida for a shady mission only to get swept up in a wild — and deadly — treasure hunt.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
criminal, investigation, ex-cop, police, crime investigation, uncover truth, police investigation, treasure hunter, secret mission, crime solving, murder investigation, treasure ...
Place:
florida
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Genre: Action
Country: Spain
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
MG, a policewoman who has been expelled from the Corps due to the problems with alcohol and drugs that she has had since the loss of her son, receives a call from a man asking her to look for Macarena Gómez, a popular TV actress.
Style:
metafiction, emotional, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
police, ex-cop, character study, addiction, alcoholism, trauma, grief, female protagonist, loss of child, fighting crime, fight, lifestyle ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A former police officer gets hired by a gangster to trace missing call girls and their abductor.
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, missing woman, model, false accusation, woman in danger, infidelity, couple relations, prostitute, ex-cop, pimp, couples ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
ADGP Mathew Manjooran, returns to work after a seven-month sabbatical, only to take voluntary retirement. His last day has him investigating a case involving triple murder, including a police officer. Soon a pattern emerges and each clue also links ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, contemplative, suspense
Plot:
murder investigation, ex-cop, police investigation, partner, serial murder, evidence, death, violence, investigation, partners against crime, uncover truth, who done it ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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15K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
Style:
neo noir, clever, suspense, talky, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
private detective, bare breasts, murder, murder mystery, femme fatale, amateur detective, swimming pool, voyeurism, missing person, corruption, betrayal, police investigation ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, mexico
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre ...
Style:
apocalyptic, road movie, perverse, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, truck, desert, loner, car chase, planet, chase, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, oil ...
Time:
future, 20th century, distant future, year 1982, near future ...
Place:
australia, oceania, middle east
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hell-bent on avenging the murder of his family, a former detective infiltrates a remote island that serves as a prison for vicious death row criminals.
Style:
suspense, brutal, exciting, tense, crime thriller
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, revenge, island prison, prison, confined, ex-cop, remote island, murderer, murder, vengeance, vigilantism, danger ...
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119K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
Style:
scary, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, evil, demon, supernatural horror, twists and turns, mirror, death, haunted house, schizophrenia, possession, brutality ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, new york
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Genre: Action
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story:
Every two minutes, someone disappears in Brazil. Os Ausentes, an agency run by a former cop with a search of his own, takes the cases no one will to help other people reunite with their loved ones.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
investigation, ex cop, missing person, private investigation, mysterious disappearance, crime investigation, police officer, vanished man, ex-cop, private investigator, detective agency, family drama ...
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Adapted from the manga Hell Dogs by Fukamachi Akio.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, serious, dark ...
Plot:
japanese mafia, gangster, ex cop, criminal underworld, police, gang, undercover cop, revenge, ex-cop, mafia, criminal gang, criminal ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
An unidentified female body was found in a cave in outskirts of Longwan. A man suddenly showed and required for a DNA match with the body. The latter turned out to be his mum Luo Hongying who was the missing suspect of the case 20 years ago which ...
Style:
tense, detective, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, murder investigation, homicide detective, killing, murderer, police investigation, police detective, sleuth, crime solving, forensics, murder, family secret ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Roland Sallinger is an LA cop who after nearly being killed by his greedy partner, and eventually being forced to retire for medical reasons, flees to San Antonio, Texas, after being asked to work as a bodyguard for the daughter of a wealthy ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, gangster, daring rescue, ex-cop, law enforcement, race against time, vengeance, rivalry, one man army, ransom, gunfight, businessman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new mexico, san antonio texas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, tense, stylized, suspense ...
Plot:
heist, gangster, robbery, nightclub, caper, organized crime, alcoholic, corruption, mafia, great ending, thief, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
paris france, europe, marseille, france
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, saga, action adventure, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopia, lone hero, end of the world, post apocalyptic, desert, mad max, camel, car chase, group of children, australian outback, wasteland ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 80s
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, sydney australia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The e-cop Tom Beckwith has just quit his police job in order to study psychology. But his professor, Lauren Porter, is more interested in his criminology abilities than in his progress in psychology. Because of traumatic circumstances during her ...
Style:
neo noir, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, erotica, nudity, bare breasts, woman seduces a man, psychology, professor, police, ex-cop, split personality, obsession, murder ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A newly retired police officer looks forward to spending more quality time with his wife and three kids only to discover he faces much tougher challenges at home than he ever did on the streets.
Style:
sitcom, satirical, light, funny, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
ex cop, ex-cop, police officer, husband wife relationship, family relations, friends, exodus, retirement, satire, single parent, single father, relationships ...
Place:
new york, long island
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
P.S. I Luv U is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS as a part of its 1991-92 schedule. The title derived from the phone number of fictitious Palm Security and Investigations, which was 774-5888, which can be reached by dialing ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
posing as husband and wife, pretend relationship, witness protection, pretty girl, con man, detective agency, ex-cop, gangster, testimony, hidden identity, unlikely partners, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, new york, usa, palm springs california
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Hack is a television series that aired on the American CBS television network from 2002 to 2004. The series centers on the fictional life of a former police officer, Polish-American Mike Olshansky, who left the force after being charged with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Plot:
taxi driver, vigilante, law enforcement, ex law enforcer, taxi, driver, crooked cop, chinese mafia, revenge, triad, nypd, dirty cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Mayor candidate Mike Rhodes is kidnapped in his own home outside of Los Angeles by unknown, masked terrorists. His wife Kelly barely survives the attempted murder on her, and is able to identify one of the kidnappers. She's placed on the ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
bounty hunter, kidnapping, one woman army, warehouse, superhero, ex-cop, psychopath, missing person, drug dealing, confined, chases and races, law enforcement ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When former cop and current security expert Jim Holland has a one night stand with Amanda after getting in her way roller-blading. That introduction turns out to be a well thought out plan by Amanda and her sister Molly, to obtain security codes. ...
Style:
independent film, fast, serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot:
disability, disabled character, witness, ex-cop, one night stand, danger, love and romance, law enforcement, dishonesty, drug dealing, fall in love, heist ...
Time:
90s
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