Police lieutenant movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant police lieutenant movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, detective, rough, realistic and exciting films and TV shows about / with police lieutenant, police, murder, police detective, investigation, law enforcement, police officer, police station, police investigation and chase plots mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as police lieutenant: Bad Lieutenant (1992), The Closer (2005), Major Crimes (2012), Region (2003), Forgiven (2016), Four Seasons in Havana (2016), McQ (1974), Batman Begins (2005), Fatal Beauty (1987), Predator 2 (1990).

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 7.0
 47K
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Style: neo noir, independent film, disturbing, detective, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: gambling, redemption, police, rape, corruption, drug addiction, masturbation, baseball, police corruption, heroin, police lieutenant, nun ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.8
 29K
The Closer (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Deputy Police Chief Brenda Jean Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, tense ...
Plot: investigation, police, crime investigation, police investigation, murder, female detective, workplace romance, homicide detective, couples, twists and turns, strong female character, police detective ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 7.8
 16K
Major Crimes (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Major Crimes explores how the American justice system approaches the art of the deals as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction. Los Angeles Police Captain Sharon Raydor heads up a special squad within the LAPD ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, detective, tense
Plot: female detective, female protagonist, homicide detective, policewoman, police detective, law enforcement, murder investigation, lapd, murder, fighting crime, investigator, interrogation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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The Millionaire Detective: Balance - Unlimited (2020)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The story centers around millionaire Daisuke Kambe, the heir to one of the wealthiest families in Japan, who is assigned as a detective to the Modern Crime Prevention Task Force (aka MCPTF), at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Taking full ...
Style: anime, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: genius, butler, police detective, billionaire, friendship, who done it, investigation, law enforcement, friends, evidence, society, danger ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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 6.8
 529
Region (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 630 min.
TV show
Story: The protagonist of the picture is the senior police lieutenant Pavel Kravtsov (actor Sergey Bezrukov). He is a rather strange person. If someone has to handcuff, apologizes and asks if they are too tight. Kravtsov is ambitious and honest, young and ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, light, entertaining ...
Plot: police dog, investigation, police lieutenant, honest, escapades, drunkenness, murder investigation, storytelling, gossip and rumors, police station, police, romantic rivalry ...
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 4.4
 362
Forgiven (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When Lieutenant Morgan (Kevin Sorbo) and his armed force arrive on the scene of a church hostage situation, James (Casey Fuller) weighs his options for an escape while Elizabeth (Jenn Gotzen) makes it her mission to save his life.
Style: suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: church, christianity, kidnapping, rescue, rescue mission, hostage situation, heroic mission, hostage, police lieutenant, mission, lieutenant, shooting ...
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Four Seasons in Havana (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Cuba
TV show
Story: Follow lieutenant Conde as he solves crime, beds beautiful women and navigates the corruption and politics of his Havana police department
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, crime drama, detective
Plot: unconventional method, hotshot hero, crime investigation, police investigation, sleuth, detective inspector, crime solving, lieutenant, police detective, investigation, police lieutenant, gay subtext ...
Place: cuba
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 6.2
 6K
McQ (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
Style: serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, detective ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: car chase, murder, police detective, police corruption, fighting crime, uncover truth, law enforcement, rivalry, investigation, twists and turns, urban, criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
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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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 5.4
 4K
Fatal Beauty (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics cop with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of 'Fatal Beauty' begin turning up next to too many dead bodies. Mike ...
Style: detective, crying, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, violence, good versus evil, murder, reluctant partners, gangster, cocaine, massacre, mob hit, female police officer, showdown, female protagonist ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
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 6.3
 181K
Predator 2 (1990)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Ten years after a band of mercenaries first battled a vicious alien, the invisible creature from another world has returned to Earth -- and this time, it's drawn to the gang-ruled and ravaged city of Los Angeles. When it starts murdering drug ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, alien invasion, monster, deadly creature, evil alien, predator, drug lord, gory, survival, space and aliens, creature, extraterrestrial ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century, year 1997
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.7
 136K
Police Academy (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the ...
Style: funny, parody, light, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: police, police academy, officers and cadets, chase, dumb, recruit, rookie, instructor, cadet, mentor, creativity, police corruption ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984, 1950s
Place: usa
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: supernatural, dream, supernatural horror, murder, nightmare, gory, serial killer, fear, nightmare comes true, high school, sleep deprivation, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place: ohio, usa
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 6.8
 5K
Humanity (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ...
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, erotic, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: small town, masturbation, female nudity, female pubic hair, lust, voyeur, sex, orgasm, murder, dead body, strike, rape ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, flanders, europe
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Freebie and the Bean (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.
Style: black comedy, action comedy, neo noir, fast, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, buddy cop, buddy, law enforcement, police, hitman, mobster, kickass, dirty harry, cop, car crash, police chase ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: san francisco, california, usa, detroit
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 5.5
 6K
Officer Down (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a cop's crooked past comes back to get him, can he do the right thing, or will he succumb to the threats of his dangerous connections?
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, police corruption, cop, police detective, manipulation, vigilantism, law enforcement, vengeance, haunted by the past, dishonesty, murder, wrestling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.2
 31K
S.W.A.T. (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Follows a locally born and bred S.W.A.T. lieutenant who is torn between loyalty to the streets and duty to his fellow officers when he's tasked to run a highly-trained unit that's the last stop for solving crimes in Los Angeles.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, detective
Plot: swat team, twists and turns, fight scenes, danger, friendship, gunfight, heroes, die hard, dialogue, propaganda, police officer, police ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles
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 4.0
 12K
Trauma Center (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lt. Wakes is a vengeful police detective determined to solve the murders of his partner and an informant, and joins forces with a witness injured during the shootings. After the killers pursue the witness across the abandoned floor of a hospital, ...
Style: tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: murder witness, asthma, asthmatic, murder, fight, pursuit, police investigation, danger, damsel in distress, hunt down, woman in danger, law enforcement ...
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The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros. Television. It starred Karl ...
Style: detective, realistic, retro, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, police detective, cop, vietnam war, fighting crime, car chase, investigation, police officer, team, punishment, american football, police inspector ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa
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 5.6
 3K
The Formula (1980)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: oil, money, investigation, murder, world war two, espionage, police detective, dishonesty, danger, intrigue, uncover truth, state affairs ...
Time: year 1980, 1940s
Place: rome italy, haiti, west germany, hamburg germany, berlin germany ...
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 5.8
 863
Black Gunn (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed. Their ...
Style: independent film, neo noir, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, organized crime, black, gangster, racism, nightclub, injustice, chase, gang, fighting the system, chases and races ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, los angeles
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City of Pirates (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
Style: surreal, disturbing, suspenseful, rough
Plot: surrealism, boy, perversity, irrational behavior, little boy, murder, killer child, evil child, seance, sleepwalking, island, melancholy ...
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Batman: Year One (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story: Two men come to Gotham City: Bruce Wayne after years abroad feeding his lifelong obsession for justice and Jim Gordon after being too honest a cop with the wrong people elsewhere. After learning painful lessons about the city's corruption on ...
Style: stylized, atmospheric, tense, light, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: batman, superhero, vigilante, vigilantism, police corruption, corruption, partners against crime, organized crime, brutality, comic book, partner, fighting crime ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 80s
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.
Style: slasher, scary, dark comedy, grindhouse, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, chainsaw, gory, cannibalism, masked killer, chainsaw murder, monster, radio, zombie, murder, texas chainsaw massacre, dark humor ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, austin texas, dallas texas, usa
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 4.4
 413
Burden of Evil (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When the daughter of a powerful senator is kidnapped by a psychopath, the senator requests a particular homicide detective, Caitlyn Conner, to head up the case. She knows the kidnapper better than anyone else - he just killed her husband. Against ...
Style: captivating, scary, suspenseful
Plot: serial killer, female protagonist, police detective, kidnapping, investigation, psychiatrist, police protagonist, police officer killed, policewoman, laptop, waking up, death of husband ...
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 6.5
 108K
Sister Act (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing ...
Style: feel good, funny, light, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: nun, music, fish out of water, convent, church choir, friendship, women, murder, blues, murder witness, witness protection, dancing ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992, year 1968
Place: san francisco, usa, california, nevada, reno nevada
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 5.5
 18K
Shocker (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.
Style: slasher, sadistic, splatter, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, police investigation, gory, malice, monster, obsession, evil, reincarnation, blood, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, year 1989
Place: california
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Seeking Justice (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, intense, tense, serious ...
Plot: twists and turns, revenge, conspiracy, vigilante, vigilantism, conspiracy theory, rape, life turned upside down, secret movement, murder, plot twist, fbi ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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 5.8
 30K
The Relic (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover ...
Style: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, splatter ...
Plot: monster, creature feature, human versus monster, supernatural, museum, deadly creature, gory, beast, creature, violence, fear, police investigation ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: chicago, brazil, usa
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 6.6
 7K
Q & A (1990)
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, intense, neo noir, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, corruption, murder, investigation, police brutality, lawyer, fighting the system, life is a bitch, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, legal, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, puerto rico
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