Retired cop movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant retired cop movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out detective, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful and dark films and TV shows about / with retired cop, revenge, investigation, moral ambiguity, murder, corruption, small town, urban, police procedural and cat and mouse plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, India, Hong Kong and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as retired cop: The Dying Detective (2018), Baptiste (2019), Extremely Easy Job (2022), The Hunters (2018), Gangland Odyssey (1990), Saved by Grace (2016), Joseph (2018), Technically Crazy (2012), Recipe for Crime (2010), Frozen Lake (2015).
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New films
| Hope Street (2020) | 6.7 | |
| Hangman (2017) | 5.2 | |
| Jailer (2023) | 7.2 | |
| Villain (2017) | 6.1 | |
| Anamadheya Ashok Kumar (2025) | 5.6 |
List of retired cop movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
Story:
After a mild stroke leaving his right side paralyzed, the doctor telling him a total change of lifestyle is required to escape a massive heart attack. Being Sweden's most successful detective, the doctor tells him her father, a priest, now ...
Style:
detective, tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cold case, crime investigation, investigation, pedophile, child murder investigation, child murder, rape, rapist, unsolved crime, rape and revenge, retired cop, murder ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Julien Baptiste delves into the criminal underworld of the red light district and uncovers a complex web of deceit and lies.
Style:
detective, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
murder, criminal underworld, investigation, gangster, niece, missing girl, retired cop, hitman, british police, dutch mafia, danger, private detective ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, amsterdam
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Remake from Korean movie "Extreme Job".
Style:
crime drama, semi serious, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
investigation, retired cop, private investigation, con artists, police investigation, uncover truth, teamwork, escapades, crime investigation, satire, sleuth, private investigator ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
vietnam
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Erik returns to the northernmost of Sweden after a lifetime with Stockholm police save The Hunters (1996) and False Trail (2011). Retirement doesn't become him so he helps his nephew Peter, a rookie at the local police.
Style:
captivating, serious, disturbing, detective, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, retired cop, police, police investigation, intrigue, police procedural, police officer, uncover truth, nordic, businessman, family relations ...
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A retired cop is summoned by his ex-boss to save his kidnapped son from the hands of a deadly Japanese triad. Action violence and a little romance makes GANGLAND ODYSSEY a promising treat!
Style:
crime thriller, intense, fast paced, noir, heroic
Plot:
yakuza, violence, gunfight, triad, underworld, retired cop, rescue mission, organized crime, kidnapping, gangster, martial arts, rescue attempt ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A retired police officer, despondent over the loss of his family, contemplates a dramatic decision which will change his life forever, until he meets a mysterious woman who, through her personal stories, gives him a reason to re-examine what is most ...
Style:
christian film, sincere, suspenseful, inspirational, reflective ...
Plot:
faith, grief, healing, father son relationship, christian, family relations, love, father, husband wife relationship, fatherhood, integrity, redemption ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Joseph is a retired police officer with adept investigative skills. He accidentally gets involved in a crime case after his ex-wife’s unexpected demise.
Style:
suspense, twisted, detective, crime thriller, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, retired cop, family drama, character study, family conflict, justice, loneliness, sacrifice, grief, revenge, moral ambiguity, slow burn ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A sixteen-year-old, bipolar, runaway named Jay breaks into the house of a retired former cop named Bill, just as Bill reaches rock bottom due to his own issues. These two move from distrust to understanding and come to realize that even though they ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, independent film
Plot:
mental illness, character study, bipolar disorder, retired cop, runaway teen, self discovery, loneliness, healing, redemption, coming of age, bonding, empathy ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
I delitti del cuoco is an Italian television series.
Style:
crime drama, humorous, funny, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
restaurant, investigation, employer employee relationship, co worker co worker relationship, satire, chef, crime investigation, in love, restaurant owner, fall in love, thief, humour ...
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Genre: Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A body is found on a frozen village pond in the Waldviertel. Ironically, the former police officer Sepp Ahorner finds the dead man. When the Linz Commissioner Grete Öller and her young colleague Lisa Nemeth arrive in the sleepy village, the case ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, murder, winter, suspicion, killing, uncover truth, murder investigation, homicide detective, forensics, crime investigation, countryside ...
Place:
austria
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
Hunting down killers to help bereaved families get justice is more than just a job; it’s a duty for Thomas Bareski, a retired, hotshot police detective eager to reopen unsolved murder cases in a mission to find the culprits.
Style:
suspense, tense, detective, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
investigation, cold case, justice, sleuth, murder investigation, fighting crime, uncover truth, private investigator, murder, unsolved crime, crime solving, social activist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two men kidnap the daughter of a rich man, and the latter approaches a retired cop to track the missing woman.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, family relations, organized crime, ex convict, kidnapped, gang, criminal, abduction, prisoner, escapades, retired cop, investigation ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Macau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, suspense, neo noir
Audience:
adult
Plot:
law enforcement, organized crime, cat and mouse, police procedural, heist, investigation, retired cop, criminal syndicate, ambush, betrayal, moral ambiguity, surveillance ...
Place:
macau
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An architect builds a new church in San Francisco that ultimately displeases the local vampire community so its leader, Anton Voytek, kills the man's girlfriend to show his displeasure. The architect then teams with a local cop to get even.
Style:
atmospheric, gothic, suspense, detective, tense ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, blood, revenge, threat, retired cop, cemetery, obsession, monster, investigation, cat and mouse, haunting ...
Time:
70s
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet Proxima Centauri 3 where he meets bounty-hunter Walker, and the Colonel, a retired policeman from LA ...
Style:
futuristic, action packed, suspenseful, crime thriller, tense ...
Plot:
prison escape, bounty hunter, prison, space opera, outer space, penal colony, manhunt, survival, bank robbery, retired cop, violent, isolation ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
space western
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Begins with an interview between retired S.P Chandrakanth and Journalist Aadinarayana. The Journalist prompts Chandrakanth to recount some of his service memories and chandrakanth delves into the story of goutham.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, dark, suspense, detective
Plot:
investigation, police corruption, corruption, police procedural, moral ambiguity, retired cop, ethical dilemma, trauma, violence, betrayal, journalism, male protagonist ...
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Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While interviewing a retired senior lawyer at his house, investigative journalist Praveen Rajashekhar hears a commotion upstairs. Concerned, he rushes to check and is attacked by an intruder. In self-defense, he stabs the attacker and calls the ...
Style:
crime thriller, detective, suspense, dark, twist ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suspicion, murder investigation, investigative journalism, crime scene, whodunit, moral ambiguity, conspiracy, wrongful accusation, betrayal, small town, cat and mouse, self defense ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Joseph (Roy Scheider) a retired New York police officer and Holocaust survivor, travels to Nuremberg to visit his son Ronnie (Scott Cohen) years after turning his back on him for rejecting a promising career in the NYPD and marrying a local artist, ...
Style:
dark, grim, tense, psychological, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, revenge, nazi hunter, retribution, vigilante, war crime, father son relationship, ethical dilemma, retired cop, post war, assassination, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Kokila, a village girl and grieving mother, commits suicide and the investigation for this crime falls on two police officers, Nattraayan and Retired DSP Muthukaruppan.
Style:
tense, crime drama, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, family conflict, family tragedy, village life, battles, uncover truth, fight, crime solving, competitor, crime investigation, murder investigation, fighting crime ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A cop tasked with investigating the murder of a judge finds out that a businessman might be the key to cracking the case.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, captivating, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, forensics, murder investigation, cop, police procedural, crime investigation, sleuth, police officer, crime solving, police, police detective ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The theme of the film is ethics. Sammo Hung is a retired cop who trains assassins to do the jobs of cops, whom Sammo sees as unable to do the right things. He sends his four students to assassinate drug dealers. They more than complete the job when ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, intense, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gang, police shootout, police officer, assassin, violence, vigilante, murder, bandit, organized crime, vengeance, fighting crime, avenge ...
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
An ambitious traffic cop sets out to solve a murder which took place four decades ago with the help of a journalist and a retired cop.
Style:
captivating, suspense, detective, dark, twist ending ...
Plot:
investigation, murder investigation, police, police investigation, homicide detective, murder, cold case, uncover truth, workplace, crime investigation, police officer, murder mystery ...
Time:
80s, 70s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
From Critically-Acclaimed Underground Filmmaker Giuseppe Andrews (Trailer Town, Touch Me in the Morning) comes Period Piece, his most ambitious film experiment yet! Featuring talking tater tots, fornicating teddy bears, a smoking dead pig and the ...
Style:
independent film, offbeat, tragicomedy, absurd, surreal ...
Plot:
character study, delusion, isolation, loneliness, loss, grief, bereavement, bittersweet, absurd humor, obsession, imaginary friend, mental illness ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Moskow police detective Andrei Somov resigns and emigrates from Russia, but has to accept a menial job in a restaurant while his adolescent son and pregnant daughter-in-law are denied exit visa's. 'Andy' does however get to know some ...
Style:
tense, detective, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
immigration, father son relationship, illegal immigration, russian immigrant, hugging, border crossing, chief of police, police detective, police, police officer, illegal immigrant, smuggler ...
Place:
los angeles, russia, mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
Style:
romantic, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
wedding, loss of father, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship, party, father son relationship, friend, wedding ceremony, retired cop, marijuana ...
Time:
year 1969
Place:
los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A retired NYPD detective writes a book about his family's ties to the mob, igniting a firestorm between the corrupt cops working for the city's brutal crime boss and the officers trying to bring them to justice.
Style:
detective
Plot:
retired cop, dirty cop, nypd, book, american gangster, american mafia, crime family, crime boss, drug dealing, prison, police detective, cosa nostra ...
Time:
year 2002, 80s, 90s, 2000s, year 1988 ...
Place:
las vegas, brooklyn new york city, nevada, new york, bronx new york city
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Victoria is a young mother trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts and a motorcycle to take out a ...
Style:
perverse, suspense, captivating, neo noir, independent film ...
Plot:
cell phone, female warrior, ambush, abduction, woman with a gun, revenge, kidnapping, murder, criminal, blackmail, criminal's revenge, lynching ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
murder, danger, hidden identity, witnessing a crime, on the run, haunted by the past, gangster, identity, witness protection, secret, female protagonist, new identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, chicago, pennsylvania
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young writer's research prompts the police to revisit a famous murder case that convicted Amy's colleague at Elmstead, so Travis & Amy get a second chance at clearing the professor's name.
Style:
suspenseful, tension, intellectual
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, cold case, small town, wrongful conviction, college campus, amateur sleuth, false accusation, bookstore, police procedural, christmas ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but ...
Style:
suspense, cult classic, slasher, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, female nudity, killing spree, macabre, police investigation, murder, retired cop, immigrant, police detective, couples, law enforcement, danger ...
Time:
70s
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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