Undercover cop movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant undercover cop movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, realistic, detective, suspense, tense and rough films and TV shows about / with undercover cop, police, police officer, gangster, investigation, violence, brutality, corruption, vengeance and undercover plots mostly in Crime, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, Germany, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as undercover cop: Private Call (2001), Rush (1991), The Departed (2006), Cruising (1980), Sleepless (2017), Miss Congeniality (2000), Destroyer (2018), Jill Rips (2000), Serpico (1973), 22 Jump Street (2014).
Best films
New films
| RRR (2022) | 7.8 | |
| Mafia Mamma (2023) | 5.4 | |
| Maria (2023) | 4.2 | |
| Plainclothes (2025) | 7.1 | |
| The Stranger (2022) | 6.6 |
List of undercover cop movies
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In order to avenge the murder of an old friend, a recently suspended female police officer goes undercover at an illegal gambling den where the winning prize is a night with one of the female staff.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, sexploitation film, f word
Plot:
undercover cop, illegal gambling, police, undercover, murder investigation, police officer, prostitute, investigation, one night stand, seduction, seductive woman, seductive ...
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11K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Undercover cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, period piece, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
drug addiction, addiction, undercover cop, junkie, drug, heroin, drug addict, police, paranoia, drug abuse, cop, recovery ...
Time:
70s, 90s
Place:
texas, usa, montana, houston texas, los angeles ...
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1.5M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, clever, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, police, undercover cop, twists and turns, mole, organized crime, working undercover, mobster, espionage, plot twist, undercover, irish mob ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, america, persia, usa ...
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32K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S/M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, controversial, homoerotic, sexual ...
Plot:
serial killer, gay, undercover cop, murder, police investigation, gay sex, violence, brutality, pretending to be gay, gay club, working undercover, undercover ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, new york state, san francisco, canada
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36K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs’ teenage son. In one sleepless night ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot:
organized crime, undercover cop, police detective, black cop, female warrior, kidnapping, police corruption, rescue, death, brutality, race against time, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
las vegas
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only ...
Style:
feel good, funny, sweet, entertaining, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot:
undercover agent, working undercover, fbi agent, beauty pageant, fish out of water, female agent, tomboy, teenage girl, tough girl, fbi, strong female lead, female fbi agent ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 80s, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
austin texas, usa, san antonio texas, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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34K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Erin Bell is an LAPD detective who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, melancholic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
badass female lead, policewoman, female warrior, female protagonist, revenge, haunted by the past, sociopath, murder, bank, gang, women, undercover cop ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2002
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A tough guy goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance into the hardcore world of S&M, to find out who's responsible for the death of his brother.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, scary, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
tough heroes, serial killer, investigation, law enforcement, vengeance, dishonesty, dominatrix, death of brother, older brother, stripper, violent, prostitute ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, san francisco
Is relevant?
145K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, political, clever, grim ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
police corruption, police, fighting the system, corruption, whistleblower, undercover cop, police investigation, corrupt cop, hippie, female nudity, cop, mafia ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973, 60s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the ...
Style:
hilarious, action comedy, buddy comedy, exciting, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
college, undercover cop, buddies, dimwit, high school, buddy cop, youth, campus, friendship, police, satire, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, mexico, tokyo, new orleans
Is relevant?
130K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Miami Vice is a feature film based on the 1980s action drama TV series. The film tells the story of vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs and how their personal and professional lives are dangerously getting mixed.
Style:
visually stunning, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug smuggling, police detective, drug dealing, partners against crime, buddy cop, justice, vengeance, partner, mole, cartel, drug cartel, drug ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
miami, florida, south america, usa, havana cuba ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and become the head of the local chapter.
Style:
detective, dutch angle, political, dark comedy, inspirational ...
Plot:
racism, african american, undercover cop, white supremacy, ku klux klan, activist, racist cop, police detective, bomb, black cop, police, undercover ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 20th century, year 2017, year 1972
Place:
usa, colorado, africa
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and ...
Style:
dark comedy, cult classic, neo noir, talky, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
heist, crime gone awry, robbery, gangster, dark hero, organized crime, undercover cop, gang, psychopath, perfect crime, violent, mafia ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place:
los angeles, usa, bolivia, southern california, california
Is relevant?
126K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a ...
Style:
detective, neo noir, hood, harsh, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, dirty cop, police, corruption, twists and turns, gunfight, violence, police investigation, ghetto, undercover cop, gangster, vigilantism ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, south america, usa, california
Is relevant?
45K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly ...
Style:
bleak, cynical, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, drug addiction, dark humor, police investigation, working undercover, police brutality, drug, addiction, drug addict, brutality, violence, foul language ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The black policeman Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA: the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspenseful, suspense, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
undercover, undercover cop, blaxploitation, murder, police investigation, gangster, drug, betrayal, organized crime, racial slur, black, urban ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, year 1972, 70s
Place:
los angeles, cleveland ohio, ohio, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick, teens
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, mob boss, squad, tough law enforcer, undercover cop, partners against crime, law enforcement, revenge, corruption, violent ...
Time:
1940s, year 2013, 2010s, 20th century, year 1949 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, israel, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
police investigation, violence, undercover, tough girl, undercover cop, female police officer, female protagonist, drug dealer, one woman army, good versus evil, murder, reluctant partners ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending, disturbing, serious, slasher ...
Plot:
mute, murder, chase, masked killer, undercover cop, home invasion, voyeur, russian mafia, witnessing a crime, brutality, voyeurism, american abroad ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
An undercover LAPD cop struggles to find a balance between his professional life running sting operations and his family life raising three adopted kids.
Style:
captivating, tense, thrilling, psychological, detective ...
Plot:
undercover cop, lapd, fighting crime, undercover agent, police, police detective, criminal, working undercover, police officer, police investigation, undercover police officer, family values ...
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Stefan and Kai have good going business, self-grown cannabis screened as pizza delivering service. For now they only have to deal with plant-louses.
Style:
humorous, light, funny, witty, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug dealing, stoner, undercover cop, marijuana, weed, friendship, male male relationship, adolescence, loneliness, drug, undercover agent, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe, tokyo
Is relevant?
710
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An ex-terrorist, Madina Taburova, who was presumed dead, turns up in Helsinki seeking political asylum. Using a fake identity, the Intelligence Agency officer Mari Saari has to befriend this ex-terrorist to find out why she’s here. In order to ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorist plot, police detective, investigation, undercover cop, undercover, refugee, danger, intrigue, gain trust, police officer, identity, female protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A beautiful vampire turns a crime lord into a creature of the night.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, scary, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
vampire, femme fatale, gangster, supernatural, female vampire, violence, female protagonist, crime boss, love, villain, anti heroine, good versus evil ...
Time:
90s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
An operation against the notorious druglord in Thailand changed the destiny of a HK narcotic team- the workaholic captain lost his men and bright career; the loyal officer was abandoned and went missing; the undercover cop who was salvaged chose to ...
Style:
crime drama, rough, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
gunfight, undercover cop, drug, police officer, police shootout, police officer killed, police, heroic bloodshed, fight, survival, chinese mafia, armed forces ...
Place:
china, thailand
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Leon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, ...
Style:
neo noir, touching, rough, suspenseful, retro ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
hitman, mentor, revenge, friendship, murder, loneliness, organized crime, redemption, sniper, loner, life philosophy, dark hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, france, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
747
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Two warring lords are fighting over water and bloodshed. When the wife of one of them decides to send her son away from the land to a safe space, he returns to the same battlefield, much to her exasperation.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, intense, masala ...
Plot:
undercover cop, fight, mafia, organized crime, criminal, undercover police officer, working undercover, gang, bandit, undercover agent, criminal gang, justice ...
Place:
kannada, india
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Reiji's final mission is to prevent the smuggling of 600 billion yen of drugs. For his mission, he gets on luxury passenger ship and he faces his strongest enemy to date.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, action comedy, fast paced, absurd
Audience:
adult
Plot:
yakuza, undercover cop, satire, drug smuggling, police, police officer, undercover police officer, working undercover, criminal, japanese man, police detective, bandit ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young detective goes undercover at an elite private school to destroy an international stolen car ring.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, light, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
undercover, working undercover, investigation, lifestyle, police investigation, teachers and students, drug dealer, high school, undercover cop, bmx, preparatory school, impostor ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
222K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send ...
Style:
exciting, action thriller, cult classic, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience:
manly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, extreme sports, extreme sport, working undercover, surfing, surfer, bank robber, gang, undercover, robbery, gangster, buddy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, southern california, australia ...
Is relevant?
106K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Disgraced Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains hidden in the kids' house.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, spoof, teen ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
children, nanny, mischievous children, undercover cop, fish out of water, good versus evil, bodyguard, adult child friendship, single father, babies and infants, one against many, chase ...
Time:
year 2005, 2010s
Place:
usa
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