Police brutality movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant police brutality movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspense, suspenseful, rough and detective films and TV shows about / with police brutality, violence, police, police officer, murder, brutality, death, gangster, profanity and blood plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as police brutality: Fruitvale Station (2013), Menace II Society (1993), Battle in Seattle (2007), Den of Thieves (2018), Elite Squad (2007), Hate (1995), Wasabi (2001), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Red Heat (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989).

List of police brutality movies

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Fruitvale Station (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
Style: emotional, sad, hood, intense, heartbreaking ...
Audience: preschool
Plot: racism, african american, police brutality, black, black history, introspection, civil rights, black lives matter, character study, new year's eve, tragic hero, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2007, year 2009 ...
Place: california, new york, usa, san francisco, oakland california ...
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Menace II Society (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style: bleak, realistic, stylized, tense, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, coming of age, street gang, friendship, organized crime, gangsta, gunfight ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, south central los angeles, north america
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Battle in Seattle (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a ...
Style: political, intellectual, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot: politics, protest, fighting the system, idealism, police brutality, freedom, political unrest, state affairs, hopes, rebelliousness, chaos and mayhem, resistance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, ambiguous ending, psychological, depressing ...
Plot: small town, police brutality, rape, small town life, loss of daughter, billboard, regret, revenge, guilty conscience, anger, suffering, death of daughter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa, america, persia, idaho
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: It's Yorkshire in 1974, and fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police ...
Style: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder mystery, investigation, journalism, police brutality, conspiracy, strangulation, brutality, justice, violence, journalist ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2009, year 1974
Place: yorkshire, england, britain, northern england, europe
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 7.0
 123K
Den of Thieves (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, bank robbery, police brutality, tough guy, strip club, shootout, armored truck, police, criminal, investigation, fbi, divorce ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, california, london
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 8.0
 110K
Elite Squad (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Style: disturbing, bleak, serious, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police brutality, drug traffic, slum, drug lord, favela, squad, law enforcement, torture, poverty, police, organized crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1997 ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
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Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Romania, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.
Style: thought provoking, tense, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: police brutality, bullying, rebelliousness, fighting the system, globalization, political unrest, violence spree, anarchist, violence, demonstration, political protest, humiliation ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, italy
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 8.1
 194K
Hate (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social ...
Style: bleak, black and white, art house, disturbing, hood ...
Audience: teens
Plot: racism, rebel, ghetto, poverty, skinhead, youth, police brutality, police, friendship, rebellion, drug, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: paris france, france, middle east, europe
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 6.6
 43K
Wasabi (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his ...
Style: funny, realistic, semi serious, exciting, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: yakuza, father daughter relationship, justice, police brutality, lone hero, investigation, japanese mafia, police detective, youth, tough guy, culture clash, inheritance ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, france, paris france, asia ...
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style: clever, inspirational, touching, sentimental, twist ending ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, freedom, human spirit, hopes, stephen king, life, friendship between men, friendship, plot twist, life philosophy, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 1950s, 2010s, year 1994 ...
Place: usa, america, iran, persia, pacific ocean ...
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 6.1
 76K
Red Heat (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Style: detective, exciting, humorous, black comedy, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: cold war, buddy cop, culture clash, drug dealer, police brutality, buddy, police, gunfight, brutality, manhunt, russian abroad, drug lord ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: chicago, moscow russia, soviet union, ussr, usa ...
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Do the Right Thing (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Style: realistic, talky, hood, stylized, independent film ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: heat wave, hip hop, police brutality, pizzeria, urban ghetto life, racism, pizza, ghetto, prejudice, african american, black, social commentary ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1989
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, new york state
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 7.3
 56K
Detroit (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
Style: suspense, hood, social, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot: racism, murder, police violence, police brutality, racial tension, police, riot, trial, violence, fear, motel, african american ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, year 2017, 2010s, year 1969 ...
Place: michigan, detroit
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 5.8
 11K
Let Us Prey (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the ...
Style: scary, serious, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: police station, police brutality, police, mysterious stranger, psychopath, murder, serial killer, stranger, chaos, danger, police officer killed, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, scotland
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 7.2
 78K
Strange Days (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a ...
Style: tech noir, futuristic, cyber, serious, psychological ...
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, murder, dystopia, police brutality, conspiracy, violence, corruption, haunted by the past, uncover truth, serial killer, computer ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1995, near future, year 1999 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 7.1
 43K
Narc (2002)
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, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police corruption, investigation, drug addiction, police, murder, drug, police brutality, addiction, drug addict, drug overdose, dark humor ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style: neo noir, tense, noir, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: corruption, police corruption, murder, murder mystery, police, police detective, organized crime, fighting the system, call girl, dangerous attraction, police brutality, twists and turns ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, persia, arizona
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, psychology, surrealism, gang, dystopia, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, brutality, sociopath ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1971, year 1995, 70s ...
Place: britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
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Leave No Traces (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Political thriller is based on a true story about a young student beaten to death by the police in 1980s Communist Poland.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: police brutality, police corruption, brutality, anti communist, fight for justice, political unrest, social injustice, witnessing a crime, wartime, political conspiracy, corrupt politician, violence ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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 7.7
 273K
First Blood (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo ...
Style: cult classic, serious, suspense, exciting, bloody ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: gunfight, one man army, vietnam war, manhunt, soldier, tough heroes, tough guy, danger, police brutality, escape, bad cop, lone wolves ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place: vietnam, washington state, usa, arizona
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 6.6
 24K
Dark Blue (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Style: neo noir, tense, detective, harsh, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police investigation, police brutality, cop, police, corruption, investigation, police officer, rookie, robbery, partner, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, 90s, year 1992
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
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 5.3
 4K
Stonewall (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: "Stonewall" is a drama about a young man in New York caught up during the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a pivotal event widely considered the starting point for the modern gay civil rights movement.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, controversial, social ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, police brutality, homosexuality, lgbt, police raid, protest, gay culture, police corruption, gay bar, parent child relationship, bigotry, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1970
Place: usa, new york, indiana
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 7.7
 470K
Training Day (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Style: neo noir, realistic, tense, harsh, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: police corruption, gang, corrupt cop, ghetto, gunfight, drug dealer, police, african american, rookie, mentor, dirty cop, drug ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Too Old to Die Young (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 758 min.
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Story: The numb existences of Martin Jones, a police officer with secrets to hide, and Jesus, a traumatized avenging son, collide in a ghostly Los Angeles where several ruthless criminal gangs fight for their turf and dictate who lives and who dies.
Style: neo noir, art house, artsy, suspense, bloody ...
Plot: vigilantism, social satire, double life, gang war, police brutality, criminal underworld, sex with a minor, shooting, torture, criminal, mexican immigrant, mother son relationship ...
Place: los angeles
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The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses – the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing – yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding ...
Style: scary, creepy, bloody, grindhouse, suspense ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, revenge, killer clown, sheriff, murder, kidnapping, brutality, gory, female villain, maniac ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: texas, austin texas, bolivia, usa
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 7.5
 73K
Hunger (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.
Style: disturbing, bleak, political, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: prison, prison life, ira, suicide, dying, rebellion, idealism, police brutality, resistance, suffering, nudity, male nudity ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 90s, 2000s, year 1981 ...
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, europe
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Mississippi Burning (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the ...
Style: suspense, political, disturbing, realistic, political thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: racism, small town, civil rights, african american, police, ku klux klan, investigation, murder, deep south, racial slur, discrimination, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1988, year 1964
Place: mississippi, america, usa, southern usa
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Memories of Murder (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story: 1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style: realistic, neo noir, psychological, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, police, rape, police investigation, murderer, murder, twists and turns, investigation, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, true crime ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, y2k, year 1986, 20th century ...
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The ...
Style: political, bleak, realistic, intellectual, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: terrorism, anti war, revolution, protest, revolutionary, journalist, prison, politics, idealism, capitalism, assassination, terrorist attack ...
Time: 70s, year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1967 ...
Place: germany, somalia, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, africa ...
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