Police informant movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant police informant movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective, neo noir and suspense films and TV shows about / with snitch, police, murder, police officer, shot to death, law enforcement, informant, gangster, violence and gang plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Sweden and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as police informant: Narcos (2015), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Bullhead (2011), Fatal Beauty (1987), Madigan (1968), Year of the Dragon (1985), True Believer (1989), Before we die (2017), The Informant! (2009), Gods of the Plague (1970).

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 8.8
 466K
Narcos (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, political, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug cartel, drug dealer, cartel, drug dealing, rise to the top, gangster, drug lord, illegal drugs, cia agent, master criminal, dea, hitman ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia, latin america, south america, mexico, panama ...
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank ...
Style: neo noir, cynical, noir, retro, crime thriller ...
Audience: manly
Plot: gangster, criminal, betrayal, bartender, heist, hustler, robbery, mafia, organized crime, gang, city, politics ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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 7.3
 24K
Bullhead (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Young Limburg cattle farmer, Jacky Vanmarsenille, is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious West-Flemish beef trader. But the assassination of a federal policeman, and an unexpected confrontation with a ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, emotional, surreal, tense ...
Plot: mafia, friendship, violence, farm, character study, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, revenge, tragic event, notoriety, murder, organized crime ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium, france, flanders
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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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 6.5
 4K
Madigan (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes ...
Style: neo noir, detective, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, police, police detective, police commissioner, psychopath, anti hero, police procedural, partner, law enforcement, investigation, hierarchy, police partner ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, new york
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Year of the Dragon (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows ...
Style: neo noir, controversial, intense, brutal, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: chinese mafia, triad, organized crime, culture clash, racism, gangster, sexually frustrated woman, murder, violence, police detective, police corruption, vigilante ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: new york, china, vietnam, thailand, bangkok thailand ...
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True Believer (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic ...
Style: neo noir, detective, clever, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, courtroom, prison, investigation, conspiracy, neo nazi, legal, idealism, racial discrimination, cross examination, mentor protege relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, new york
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Before we die (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The police woman Hanna Svensson has a strained relationship to her son after having arrested him for drug dealing. Her married police man lover disappears, possibly kidnapped by MC gangs, although ties to Bosnia also appear.
Style: suspenseful, detective, enigmatic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: sting operation, informant, undercover, police investigation, organized crime, drug traffic, danger, nordic, police officer, police, motorcycle gang, law enforcement ...
Time: 2010s
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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 6.5
 67K
The Informant! (2009)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of ...
Style: clever, dark comedy, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, whistleblower, fbi, psychology, legal, corruption, business, greed, mental illness, bipolar disorder, undercover, spy ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 2000s, 90s, year 1994
Place: usa, illinois, hawaii, tokyo
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Gods of the Plague (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
Style: art house, realistic, serious, offbeat, stylized ...
Plot: prison, released from prison, prostitute, betrayal, dead body, girlfriend, dying young, lack of money, nightclub owner, nightclub, bank robbery, plague ...
Time: 60s
Place: munich germany
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 7.8
 7K
Informer (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Raza, a young second-generation British-Pakistani man from London is coerced by Gabe, a counterterrorism officer, into informing.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, detective
Plot: infiltration, terrorism, spy, snitch, undercover, police, uncover truth, threat, police investigation, danger, bomb, politics ...
Place: london
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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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 7.0
 9K
The Hit (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance...
Style: road movie, neo noir, offbeat, dark comedy, thrilling ...
Audience: manly
Plot: hitman, killer, criminal, organized crime, kidnapping, road trip, underworld, exodus, professional, criminal mind, mafia, spirituality ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 70s
Place: spain, britain, paris france, europe, france ...
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The Color of the Chameleon (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In Emil Christov's ĂĽber-stylish spy-movie pastiche, a charismatic schemer in an authoritarian police state, fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds up an archive that he turns ...
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous, biting ...
Plot: snitch, fighting the system, politics, satire, state affairs, dishonesty, government agency, society, dark humor, cons and scams, secret police, informant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bulgaria
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 6.6
 42K
The Informer (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the lives of his loved ones…
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, rough, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, organized crime, police, prison gang, violence, murder, kidnapping, betrayal, danger, brutality, ex convict, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
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 7.8
 3K
Ultraviolet (1998)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: A police officer learns of the existence of vampires and joins an elite arm of the British government dedicated to figuring out what they're up to.
Style: detective, gothic, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, supernatural, occult, police, dracula, monster, undercover, police investigation, secret government organization, hunting, alternate reality, imaginary ...
Time: 20th century
Place: london
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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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 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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 77K
Triple 9 (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, stylized, intense ...
Plot: heist, police corruption, murder, bank robbery, dirty cop, corrupt cop, mafia, violence, corruption, betrayal, strip club, gangster ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, usa, tel aviv israel
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 7.8
 774K
The Batman (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, 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, detective, tense, gothic, epic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: superhero, corruption, psychopath, vigilante, masked superhero, batman, organized crime, vengeance, gotham city, serial killer, dark hero, villain ...
Time: 2020s
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Michael Collins (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Ireland, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Style: political, brutal, harsh, intense, factual ...
Plot: politics, terrorism, biopic, revolution, civil war, irish history, ira, fighting the system, freedom, british empire, fight, secret service ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s ...
Place: ireland, england, london, northern ireland, europe ...
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Code of Silence (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style: exciting, cult classic, suspense, detective, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police officer, one man army, revenge, explosions, police, mafia, gangster, chase, hitman, police investigation, police corruption ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: chicago, usa
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 6.8
 2K
Mafia Inc (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 143 min.
Story: The Gamache, tailors from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generation. Vincent "Vince" Gamache works on behalf of Frank the godfather with his eldest son Giaco. Vince, reckless and rash, seeks to earn ...
Style: tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot: mafia, cosa nostra, gang war, crime boss, violence, organized crime, mob boss, crime family, family business, gangster, murder, betrayal ...
Time: 2010s, year 1994, 80s, 90s, year 1980 ...
Place: canada, montreal, quebec, rome italy, venezuela
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The Case for Christ (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.
Style: christian film, biblical, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: christianity, christian, atheist, investigation, journalist, religion, faith, reporter, court case, trial, religious, interview ...
Time: year 2017, year 1980, year 1987
Place: indiana, jerusalem, california, wisconsin, los angeles ...
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 5.8
 63
Crosscurrent (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain
Style: detective
Plot: murder, drug dealer, hitman, police detective, business tycoon, crime investigation, crime boss, witness, teenager, meeting, police inspector, father daughter relationship ...
Place: san francisco
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Lakeview Terrace (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young interracial couple has just moved into their California dream home when they become the target of their next-door neighbor, who disapproves of their relationship. A tightly wound LAPD officer has appointed himself the watchdog of the ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense, harsh ...
Plot: neighbor, racism, interracial relations, interracial couple, home invasion, family in danger, harassment, interracial love, obsession, lapd, corrupt cop, family problems ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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The Stone Killer (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Style: retro, hood, detective, grindhouse, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, tough guy, war veteran, surveillance, showdown, vigilante, ghetto, cosa nostra, gang, brainwashing, gunfight ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa, vietnam, asia, mojave desert ...
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Johan Falk: Vapenbröder (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: John Falk is on a routine mission with the Gothenburg police special unit GSI. With the help of a Norwegian undercover police and a civilian infiltrator in one of Gothenburg's heaviest criminal gangs, the GSI are trying buy six assault rifles ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: criminal, police detective, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, investigation, working undercover, gang, danger, arms dealing, criminal gang, swedish police, weapons ...
Time: 21st century
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 4.2
 111
Hard Gun (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Panna and Tony play members of a desperate gang of thieves who are forced into hiding after a robbery goes wrong; when the police launch a raid on their hide-out, the pair are forced to make a bid for freedom, and in the ensuing battle, Panna's ...
Plot: snitch, con artists, gang, soccer, martial arts, undercover cop, surveillance, wife beater, robbery, bicycle, police, gambling ...
Place: thailand
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 7.0
 58
75 (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A car crash victim, humiliated housewife and two repressed teens are connected by their relationships with hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, existential, freeze frame ...
Audience: kids
Plot: double life, strong female character, social problems, doctor patient relationship, friendship between men, secret, secret life, organized crime, drug use, social realism, introspection, car accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: america, usa, midwest, ohio, kentucky ...
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