Crime fighter movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant crime fighter movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, humorous, stylized, suspenseful, epic and entertaining films and TV shows about / with crime fighter, superhero, heroes, villain, vigilante, rivalry, violence, vigilantism, good versus evil and martial arts plots mostly in Action, Crime and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as crime fighter: MacGyver (1985), Demolition Man (1993), The Punisher (2004), Arrow (2012), The Punisher (1989), Kick-Ass 2 (2013), The Flash (2014), Dredd (2012), The Spirit (2008), The Green Hornet (1966).

List of crime fighter movies

 7.7
 40K
MacGyver (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: crime fighter, problem solving, secret agents, heroes, gadget, race against time, spy, justice, undercover, irony of fate, organized crime, blind character ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
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 6.7
 182K
Demolition Man (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: distopia, cyberpunk, future dystopia, crime fighter, utopia, dystopic future, time travel, maverick cop, police, violence, good versus evil, surveillance ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 80s, 90s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.4
 163K
The Punisher (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, vengeance, vigilante, vigilantism, lone hero, violence, one man army, superhero, tough guy, lone wolves, mafia, tough heroes ...
Time: year 2003
Place: florida, puerto rico, miami, virginia
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 7.5
 435K
Arrow (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, heroes, double life, fighting crime, martial arts, rivalry, parkour, crime fighter, vigilante, archer, dual identity, scheme ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, fictional island
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 5.6
 24K
The Punisher (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. Only his ex-partner believes Castle ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, stylized, serious, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: superhero, mafia, vigilante, crime fighter, vigilantism, vengeance, gangsters, torture, one man army, revenge, organized crime, murder ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, new york
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 6.5
 277K
Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After Kick-Ass’ insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, he joins a patrol led by the Colonel Stars and Stripes. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist — reborn as The Mother Fucker — only the ...
Style: intense, humorous, stylized, entertaining, brutal ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: superhero, revenge, vigilante, violence, double life, heroes, high school, youth, vigilantism, vengeance, crime fighter, masked vigilante ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.5
 351K
The Flash (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: After a particle accelerator causes a freak storm, CSI Investigator Barry Allen is struck by lightning and falls into a coma. Months later he awakens with the power of super speed, granting him the ability to move through Central City like an unseen ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, epic, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: superhero, heroes, time travel, speed, supernatural power, superhuman powers, multiverse, good versus evil, alternate universe, secret identity, super strength, masked superhero ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.1
 280K
Dredd (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, South Africa, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called ...
Style: futuristic, intense, neo noir, touching, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: distopia, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, judge, violent, drugs, brutality, police, lone hero, villain, gangsters, corruption ...
Time: future, near future
Place: usa, america
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 4.7
 62K
The Spirit (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Down these mean streets a man must come. A hero born, murdered, and born again. A Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The ...
Style: stylized, exciting, rough, serious, ridiculous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heroes, superhero, vigilantism, fighting crime, good versus evil, crime fighter, samurai, villain, immortality, police officer killed, female assassin, secret identity ...
Time: 21st century
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The Green Hornet (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
TV show
Story: A newspaper publisher and his Asian valet/martial arts expert battle crime as the feared Green Hornet and Kato. After Bruce Lee's untimely death in 1973, and the global success of 'Enter The Dragon', two 90-minute feature films were ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: superhero, heroes, vigilantism, crime fighter, fighting crime, undercover, friendship, rivalry, good versus evil, organized crime, justice, irony of fate ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: usa
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 7.8
 682K
The Batman (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
Story: In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
Style: neo noir, tense, epic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: superhero, masked superhero, gotham city, heroes, corruption, vigilante, organized crime, psychopath, batman, villain, masked vigilante, conspiracy ...
Time: 2020s
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 7.6
 571K
Kick-Ass (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Style: stylized, funny, entertaining, brutal, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night
Plot: superhero, heroes, young heroes, double life, lifestyle, youth, vigilante, friends, courage, misfit, killings, vigilantism ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 2.9
 14K
Steel (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Justice. Safe streets. Payback. Metallurgist John Henry Irons (O'Neal) vows to claim them all when a renegade military reject (Judd Nelson) puts new superweapons in dangerous hands. Helped by an electronics wiz (Annabeth Gish) and an ...
Style: humorous, exciting, suspenseful, parody, ridiculous ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, good versus evil, vigilante, gang, villain, paraplegic, one man army, african american, african american protagonist, crime fighter, military, soldier ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
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 6.1
 69
Lastikman (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Young Hilario was nearby a rubber tree when it was struck by a meteorite. This incident gave Hilario the powers of elasticity and morphing. To honor his dead parents he vowed to use his powers for good. Hilario grows up and becomes Professor Larry, ...
Style: parody, humorous, exciting, captivating, stylized
Plot: superhero, super villain, crime fighter, secret identity, rescue, love interest, superhuman powers, laboratory, nerd, werewolf, shapeshifting, shapeshifter ...
Place: the philippines
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Painkiller Jane (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jane, a young soldier, is exposed to a biochemical weapon that endows her with self-healing powers. She uses her abilities to fight crime while eluding the military.
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: female warrior, superheroine, superhero, vigilante, crime fighter, female protagonist, marine, super strength, female soldier, military, soldier, supernatural ability ...
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 7.1
 1K
WordGirl (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: WordGirl is an American children’s animated television series for children aged 9 –12, produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. The show began as a series of shorts that premiered on PBS Kids Go! on ...
Style: exciting, humorous, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: superhero, young heroes, superhuman powers, escapades, youth, crime fighter, secret identity, monkey, villain, schoolgirl, friendship, heroes ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s
Place: usa
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 7.3
 559
Gotham Girls (2000)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 3 min.
TV show
Story: Gotham Girls is an American Flash animation series about the females of Gotham City, created and produced jointly by Warner Brothers and Noodle Soup Productions in 2000 to 2002. Episodes starred Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Batgirl, Catwoman and ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: superhero, femme fatale, master villain, escapades, master criminal, rivalry, crime fighter, batman, heroes, feminism, strong female presence, superheroine ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
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 5.6
 134
Gagamboy (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Gagamboy (Spiderboy) is -you guessed it- Spiderman parody. both the main villain and Spiderboy gain their powers by eating radioactive bugs.
Style: parody, humorous, exciting, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, satire, mutant, escapades, rivalry, disorder, undercover, crime fighter, secret identity, mutation, superhuman powers, secret love ...
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 8.2
 1.5M
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: dark, exciting, harsh, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: teens, manly, chick flick, kids, boys' night
Plot: superhero, batman, heroes, secret identity, double life, corruption, martial arts, good versus evil, suspense, fight, disguise, social decay ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, himalaya, africa, tibet
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Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Style: humorous, exciting, psychotronic, tense, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: female protagonist, superhero, betrayal, anti heroine, female warrior, tough girl, superhero team, female assassin, superheroine, revenge, one woman army, police ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: new york, sicily, new jersey
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Black Lightning (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a New Orleans neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, neo noir, exciting, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: superhero, electricity, heroes, villain, black superhero, vigilante, super powers, lesbian, african american, vigilantism, secret identity, crime fighter ...
Place: usa, new orleans
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 4.6
 2K
Rendel (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Finnish superhero, a masked vigilante Rendel seeks for revenge and fights against VALA, the huge criminal organization.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot: masked vigilante, superhero, revenge, vigilante, crime fighter, torture, violence, corruption, loss of family, split personality, delusion, father son relationship ...
Place: finland
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Teen Titans Go! (2013)
Genre: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story: Teen Titans Go! is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics fictional superhero team, the Teen Titans. The series was announced following the popularity of DC Nation's New Teen Titans shorts, both of which are based on the ...
Style: exciting, funny, anime, entertaining, futuristic ...
Audience: kids, teens, preschoolers
Plot: superhero, save the world, superhero team, young heroes, heroes, escapades, youth, friendship, satire, crime fighter, teenager, teenage superheroine ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: United States President Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of a Kryptonite meteor to frame Superman and declare a $1 billion bounty on the heads of the Man of Steel and his ‘partner in crime’, Batman. Heroes and villains alike launch a ...
Style: stylized, anime, atmospheric, talky, exciting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, batman, good versus evil, superman character, justice, frame up, false accusation, violence, transformation, heroes, fight scenes, supernatural power ...
Place: washington d.c., japan, tokyo, new york
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Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: After the events of Justice League: War, Ocean Master and Black Manta have declared a war against the surface in retaliation of the aftermath of Apokoliptian-tyrant Darkseid's planetary invasion. Queen Atlanna seeks out her other son, Ocean ...
Style: light, anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night
Plot: superhero, superhero team, atlantis, justice league, superman character, good versus evil, revenge, fight, teenager, brutality, monster, transformation ...
Place: athens greece, atlantic ocean, maine
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Iron Man: Armored Adventures (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, UK, France, Luxembourg, India
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Iron Man: Armored Adventures is a 3D CGI cartoon series based on the Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man. It debuted in the USA on the Nicktoons on April 24, 2009, and has already begun airing on Canadian network Teletoon. Iron Man: Armored Adventures ...
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, teenage hero, hidden identity, good versus evil, young heroes, rivalry, heroes, urban decay, crime fighter, teenage boy, warrior, masked hero ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
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The Green Hornet (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has been, thus far, happy to lead an aimless life. After his father (Tom Wilkinson) dies, Britt meets Kato (Jay Chou), a resourceful company ...
Style: funny, stylized, humorous, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, martial arts, heroes, partners against crime, car chase, gunfight, fight, violence, chase, justice, good versus evil, fight scenes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story: Joker goes to Metropolis with an offer and plan to kill Superman for Lex Luthor while Batman pursues the clown to Superman's turf
Style: stylized, witty, entertaining, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: teens, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, good versus evil, vigilantism, super villain, secret identity, killer clown, save the world, save the day, fighting crime, heroic mission, superhuman powers, righting the wronged ...
Time: 90s, 80s, future
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Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, South Korea
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Explore Bruce Wayne's transition from his beginning as a tormented vigilantee to The Dark Knight of a crumbling metropolis with six distinct chapters but intended to be viewed as a whole.
Style: anime, stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, batman, justice, fighting crime, good versus evil, lone wolves, rivalry, organized crime, irony of fate, crime fighter, fight, villain ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s ...
Style: serious, exciting, emotional, intense, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, kids, girls' night ...
Plot: superhero, heroes, superhuman powers, double life, spider man character, good versus evil, save the day, protector, fight, death of girlfriend, secret identity, fighting crime ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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