Police violence movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant police violence movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful and neo noir films and TV shows about / with police violence, police, violence, police brutality, police officer, murder, death, society, investigation and cop plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as police violence: Detroit (2017), Hate (1995), Cargo 200 (2007), The Heat (2013), The Cost of Deception (2021), Brother (2022), Unlawful Entry (1992), Paulina (2015), Stonewall (2015), Who Killed Pixote? (1996).

List of police violence movies

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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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 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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 7.1
 11K
Cargo 200 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.
Style: rough, bleak, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, sadism, sexual abuse, murder, rape victim, sexual perversion, life is a bitch, psychopath, perversion, rape, teenage rape, psycho killer ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 90s, 20th century
Place: afghanistan, soviet union, russia
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 6.6
 180K
The Heat (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence--and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins, one of Boston P.D.'s "finest," is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, ...
Style: buddy comedy, action comedy, humorous, light, slapstick ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: women, misfit partners, fbi, policewoman, buddy, friendship, police, police investigation, sarcasm, female protagonist, buddy cop, profanity ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa, new york
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The Cost of Deception (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When a young, ambitious market researcher finds out her boss is involved in the leaking of a scandalous Prime Minister speech, she decides to investigate the case to gain a position among the big-shots. Based on actual events.
Style: political, suspense, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: radicalism, political conspiracy, vandalism, political leader, henchman, democracy, police violence, street fight, political scandal, propaganda, true crime, house ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hungary, budapest, central europe, europe
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 6.9
 1K
Brother (2022)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene. A mystery unfolds when escalating tensions set off a series of events which changes the ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: brother brother relationship, family relations, grownups, gay interest, brother, social problems, two brothers, hip hop, immigrant, black cast, family life, identity ...
Place: toronto ontario canada
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 6.4
 19K
Unlawful Entry (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops that answered their call. He helps them install the security system, and begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol, and spends a lot of time discussing the ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense, neo noir ...
Plot: obsession, stalking, stalker, home invasion, psychopath, murder, suburbs, corruption, police investigation, hostage, violence, police officer ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
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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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 6.5
 2K
Paulina (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Paulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina decides to teach in a suburban high school as part of an inclusion ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, non-linear
Plot: teacher student relationship, sexualized violence, female teacher, teacher, female protagonist, rape, school teacher, violence, gang rape, life is a bitch, lawyer, police ...
Place: paraguay
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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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Who Killed Pixote? (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little success. As time went by, ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy, emotional
Plot: boy, nudity, police violence, actor, biopic, profanity, artists and showbiz, juvenile delinquency, ambition, life is a bitch, society, hopes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: brazil
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Chicken with Vinegar (1985)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
Style: neo noir, detective, cynical, serious, realistic ...
Plot: small town, postman, sick mother, murder disguised as accident, investigation, judiciary, murder, woman in a wheelchair, mother, widow, police brutality, murder investigation ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: france
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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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 5.5
 4K
The Quarry (2020)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's unorthodox sermons, but so is a police chief who has his suspicions.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: drug dealing, small town, murder, interracial relations, father son relationship, pursuit, cousin cousin relationship, false accusation of murder, brother brother relationship, nightmare, chief of police, forgiveness ...
Place: texas
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 6.6
 2K
The Divide (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Raf and Julie, a couple on the verge of breaking up, find themselves in an emergency ward bordering on collapse on the evening of a Parisian Yellow Vest protest. Their encounter with Yann, an angry and injured demonstrator, will shatter each ...
Plot: lgbt, lgbtq, woman, politics, night, lesbian, medical examiner, anger, police violence, lesbian couple, hostage situation, class differences ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france
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Nothing to Declare (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
Style: witty, realistic, funny, feel good, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: customs officer, culture clash, reluctant partners, french police, comedy duo, partner, unsupportive coworkers, snobbism, politics, society, frontier town, coworker relationship ...
Time: 90s, 80s, year 2011, year 1993, year 1986 ...
Place: belgium, france, europe
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 5.3
 23K
Twisted (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Recently promoted and transferred to the homicide division, Inspector Jessica Shepard feels pressure to prove herself -- and what better way than by solving San Francisco's latest murder? However, as Shepard and her partner, Mike Delmarco, soon ...
Style: suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, intense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder mystery, police investigation, who done it, investigation, policewoman, murder, law enforcement, dangerous attraction, who to trust, life is a bitch, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
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 5.0
 52
The Missing (1999)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When her child is missing an Australian mother calls for an priest from Italy she has not seen in years.
Style: detective
Plot: a vision, truck, police, father daughter relationship, murder, priest, police officer, long lost daughter, long lost father, catholic, religion, police investigation ...
Place: australia
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 7.3
 2K
Babylon (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Plot: jamaican, reggae, black, racism, religion, blaxploitation, racial issues, rock and roll, african, stoner, nightclub, multiculturalism ...
Place: london, britain, africa, caribbean
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 6.4
 516
Them and Us (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Lasse & Geir, two suburban boys in their late teens, kick up a row on the bus into town, making the driver call the police. They get arrested and have to spend the night in jail. The next morning they are sent home - Geir to his alcoholic ...
Style: offbeat, surprise ending
Plot: rebellion, bad father, vandalism, suburbs, drunkenness, brother brother relationship, controversy, drug use, teenager, bus, low life, worried mother ...
Time: 70s
Place: oslo norway
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 7.0
 673
Sambizanga (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Angola, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. He does not betray his companions, but is beaten to death in prison, and not knowing he is dead, his wife goes from a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: colonialism, dictator, dictatorship, african, blaxploitation, violence, racial issues, woman, black, genocide, independence, activist ...
Place: africa, portugal, angola
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 6.6
 580
Sass (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: sibling relationship, stolen money, luxury, robbery, gangster, brother brother relationship, rags to riches, true crime, police investigation, gang, interrogation, loss of father ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s
Place: berlin germany, venice, hamburg germany
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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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 6.1
 14K
Dark Angel (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner ...
Style: detective, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, drug lord, heroin, police investigation, buddy cop, evil alien, investigation, good versus evil, humanoid alien, tough cop, space and aliens, alien ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: houston texas, austin texas, texas
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Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Confessions of a Police Captain (Italian: Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica, also known as Confessions of a Police Commissioner to the District Attorney) is an Italian crime-drama film about a cop starring ...
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female nudity, police, mafia, police officer, corruption, italian mafia, corrupt, love letter, woman with a gun, organized crime, bureaucracy, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
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Cadillac Records (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Style: realistic, inspirational, intense, stylized, talky ...
Plot: musician's life, music, rock and roll, blues, jazz, biopic, african american, pop music, success, music business, singer, greed ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 2008, 1940s ...
Place: chicago, usa, indiana, london, mississippi
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 7.4
 94K
Biutiful (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story: This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate ...
Style: depressing, bleak, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: single father, cancer, terminal illness, death, parenthood, immigrant, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, reconciliation, parents and children ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain, iran, senegal, mexico
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 5.9
 444
Pirate TV (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jean-Lou, Yasmina, Victor, Clara, Adonis and the others will create their own TV channel. They especially want to make the revolution.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: fighting the system, youth, media satire, partner, society, media, television, television studio, activist, male pubic hair, male nudity, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france
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A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
Style: clever, bleak, tense, political, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: espionage, terrorism, spy, intelligence, surveillance, immigrant, war on terror, islam, secret service, investigation, betrayal, intelligence agency ...
Time: year 2014, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, hamburg germany, britain
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The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is probably the best example of a 70's Italian crime movie, though not the "best" movie of the genre (does that make sense?). It has, besides Saxon, an entirely Italian cast but most of them are pretty recognizable regulars in ...
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police officer, police, organized crime, mafia, gangster, strong violent content, tough heroes, car chase, chase, rebellion, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
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