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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
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Strong Language (2000)
Plot Summary:
While a narrator tells the story of a night of terror that changes his life forever, 16 young people chat about their lives in London. With topics ranging from the drug "ecstasy," to AIDs and one-night stands, to the sound of BritPop, and to the urban issues of racism, punk, hooliganism, and the London Police, the film documents funny and revealing insights with an unforgettable and unexpected chain of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: independent film, mockumentary
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Kaizokuban Bootleg Film (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends—Tatsuo, a retiring Yakuza member, and Kiyoshi, a cop—travel to the funeral of a woman they both loved.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: black and white, postmodern
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Action Family (1987)
Plot Summary:
At work, Chris is a hardboiled no-nonsense detective who's investigating a series of brutal murders of jazz musicians. At home, he's a family man straight out of sitcom who has to satisfy every whim of his wife and kids.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, sitcom, detective, twisted
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Beyond the Law (1968)
Plot Summary:
Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, cinema verite, fake documentary
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The James Gang (1997)
Plot Summary:
After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Mr. Vampire 5 (1990)
Plot Summary:
A former cop rejoins the police department to investigate a drug ring that employs ghosts and vampires.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: detective
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Heat Team (2004)
Plot Summary:
Eason Chan is K.C, Chan and Y.T. Lee is Aaron Kwok, both are very smart cop, who both were assign to interpol. The only thing that make them different is woman. K.C Chan is known for courting with a lot of woman and Y.T. Lee get nervous around woman. The case for this movie is about a international thief who come to Hong Kong to steal, a diamond necklace worth over 10 million US. Anyway, Yumiko Cheng who is engage with a fertilizer mogul, soon for in love with KC Chan.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Winter Potato Dumplings (2014)
Plot Summary:
Crime comedy set in a village somewhere in Bavaria, centering around a village policeman's attempt to solve a murder case, his chaotic private life and the dysfunctional relationship with his wacky father.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, detective
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Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold (1980)
Plot Summary:
When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the company and claims that all designs of Robert are his. When Robert's Porsche gets stolen by two thieves, he manages to track them down. When they tell him about 40 Porsche's in a dealer shop garage owned by Banninger things change and suddenly get very interesting.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Alone in the Neon Jungle (1988)
Plot Summary:
A by the book female police officer is assigned to the most corrupt precinct in Pittsburgh and told to get it cleaned up.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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One Man Against the Organization (1975)
Plot Summary:
An airport employee switches a pack of drugs for baking soda and absconds to Barcelona, meanwhile the drug-runners are on his trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, eurospy
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The Dumpling Affair (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the morning after a wild marriage between two police officers Franz Eberhofer (Sebastian Bezzel) finds himself woken from heavy-armed special forces, who arrest him because of suspected murder. His boss, inspector Barschl (Francis Fulton-Smith), was found dead, killed by Franz' knife in his back - furthermore he and Franz were known in the whole village as archrivals. Franz is lucky that his father (Eisi Gulp) can testify an alibi for him, so that he is released again. Together with his friend and colleague Rudi Birkenberger (Simon Schwarz) they try to prove his innocence and to find the true murderer. However, there are more Problems to be solved: like Paul (Branko Samarovski), his grandma's (Enzi Fuchs) young love, or his girlfriend Susi (Lisa Maria Potthoff), who pushes for marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, light, humorous, captivating
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Arrest the Restless (1992)
Plot Summary:
Two juveniles get mixed up in a street gang, resulting in the murder of a rival gang leader. A crooked cop pins the murder on the boy, but a detective who knows the truth risks his career to help the kid out.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Knock Out Cop (1973)
Plot Summary:
This cop doesn't carry a gun - his fist is loaded!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, fast, poliziottesco, slapstick comedy
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Super Troopers 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an international border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers- Mac, Thorny, Foster, Rabbit and Farva, are called in to set up a new Highway Patrol station in the disputed area.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: absurd, captivating, semi serious, funny
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The Big Family (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: noir, poliziottesco
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Poliziotti (1995)
Plot Summary:
When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Down Under (2016)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, it is the story of two carloads of hotheads from both sides of the fight destined to collide.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film, black comedy
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The Mule (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, realistic, stylized
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Police Chief Pepe (1969)
Plot Summary:
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Highway Patrolman (1991)
Plot Summary:
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol has to adapt to survive as he contends with dangerous drug-runners and widespread corruption.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing, gloomy, independent film
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Collar (2015)
Plot Summary:
Timothy James 'TJ' Williams (David Wilson) is a streetwise detective whose checkered career, family life and long standing friendship with the would-be mayor, police chief Hamilton Markham (Tom Sizemore), spins out of control and teeters on the brink of catastrophe as a result of a bust gone bad. While his life begins to crumble, his fast fading future is bartered for political gain by his former best friend and boss, a mayor with her eye on a Senate seat (Rebecca De Mornay) and an ambitious, activist 'man-of-the-cloth,' the Rev. Alonso Sparks (Richard Roundtree). The political machinery, geared to grind up Williams as a bad cop, has a wrench tossed into the works by the detective, who with the help of his partner, Angel Santangelo (Jaime Santana), gets back on the job to reclaim his reputation and his dignity in spite of their worst efforts.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Shakes the Clown (1991)
Plot Summary:
Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, surreal, talky, stylized, semi serious, parody, cult classic, clever
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Crazy in Alabama (1999)
Plot Summary:
An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, intense, captivating, gothic, touching, realistic, semi serious, crying, road movie
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Rikos ja Rakkaus (1999)
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min
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Small Crime (2008)
Plot Summary:
Leonidas, a young, ambitious police officer, is assigned to a remote island in the Aegean Sea. He dreams of solving important crimes, but there are few to be found in the sleepy beach community where he is left to such menial chores. Each day at the town café, Leonidas and the other locals watch the beautiful Angeliki, the small islands most famous daughter, as she hosts a popular talk show on national TV. These daily rituals are shattered when the island experiences what appears to be an actual crime-the island drunk, Zacharias, is found dead at the base of a cliff. Eager to do some sleuthing, Leonidas soon finds clues that tie the victim to Angeliki, who returns to the island and joins the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Cyprus, Greece
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, light, humorous
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Money for Nothing (1993)
Plot Summary:
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, intense, humorous, realistic, captivating, factual, detective, anamorphic, hilarious, clever
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Mama Weed (2020)
Plot Summary:
Patience Portefeux is a French-Arabic police translator, specialized in phone tappings for the anti-narcotics unit. The job is tough and low-paid, but the commander is charming... One day, whilst listening to wanted drug dealers, she discovers one of them is the son of the fantastic woman who takes care of her mother. She decides to protect him and is brought in the middle of a drug network. When she gets her hands on a huge load of hash, with the help of her new partner, the former police dog DNA, she seizes the opportunity and becomes Mama Weed, drug wholesaler, thanks to her field experience... and all the information she gets in her job!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, disturbing, touching
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The Glass Shield (1994)
Plot Summary:
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white-male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, harsh, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, thought provoking
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Crown Vic (2019)
Plot Summary:
One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, brutal, captivating, disturbing, intense, perverse