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Plot Summary:
Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
Best tv shows and movies like A Question of Honor (1982):
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Tension(s) (2014)
Plot Summary:
A tortured ex-Negotiator, once pride of the Boston Police Department is taken hostage in his home. A psychological confrontation takes place while the kidnappers demand that he completes a mysterious mission for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: tension, surprise ending, suspense
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Hip-Hop Task Force (2005)
Plot Summary:
Chicago Detective Khalil Jones always took risks when being wired to bring down the bad guys. Now he's been given another tough assignment lined up in Baltimore with the FBI to go undercover as a music producer at a Hip-Hop record label to pick up as much information to snag a crime lord that is affiliated with the label. Twist and turns, mind games and tactics are now being played as Jones begins to get comfortable with his hidden identity by building a friendship with the CEO of the label, Dajun Manning and a love connection with his daughter. Jones now needs to make a decision, will it be his badge or his feelings?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Let Sleeping Cops Lie (1988)
Plot Summary:
This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Grindel (Delon) understands the feelings which motivate these deeds, but does not approve. However, he is not highly motivated to put an end to the group's activities until it begins to appear that they are now attacking fellow cops for reasons which are unclear.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Pale Blue Balloons (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dave is a bad cop fighting a deadly heroin addiction while working a case deep inside the mafia. After killing numerous drug dealers and even undercover police officers for the mob, he is kept from his money for trivial reasons. As his drug problem gets worse, and Dave sinks deeper into a murderous lifestyle, he runs from the city to live with an old friend. But Dave can't hide for long, and he is soon lured back to town in a dangerous war to get his money back from the men that wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980)
Plot Summary:
14 year police veteran, looking to make it to retirement, experiences the highs and lows of police work as a police woman in a male-dominated metropolitan police department.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Devlin (1992)
Plot Summary:
A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir
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One Police Plaza (1986)
Plot Summary:
A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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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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Dragon Flies (1975)
Plot Summary:
Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng (Jimmy Wang Yu) from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, perverse, realistic, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, independent film, poliziottesco, campy, cult film
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She Said No (1990)
Plot Summary:
A successful career woman is raped by a prominent lawyer. However, when she takes the case to court, it results in a hung jury. When the DA's office declines to retry the case, the lawyer opts to sue the woman for malicious prosecution and slander leaving her feeling raped again. - Written by John Sacksteder [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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To Trap a Spy (1964)
Plot Summary:
The men from U.N.C.L.E. are off to Africa to stop the assassination of a president.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Comedy, Adventure, Drama, Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, campy
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Gangsters (2002)
Plot Summary:
Franck Chaievski and Nina Delgado are two undercover detectives of a French special force trying to identify two corrupts members of the Paris Police Force. Franck is pretending to be a gangster and Nina a prostitute living with him, and involved in a robbery of a fortune in diamonds, having seven deaths and some injured persons.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, erotic, neo noir
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The Big Score (1983)
Plot Summary:
A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry, he's accused of stealing a lost briefcase filled with money and both the mob and the police are looking for him. A ruthless hit man, played by Bruce Glover, will stop at nothing to get what his boss wants; the money!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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The Son of No One (2011)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop is assigned to the 118 Precinct in the same district where he grew up. The Precinct Captain starts receiving letters about two unsolved murders that happened many years ago in the housing projects when the rookie cop was just a kid. These letters bring back bad memories and old secrets that begin to threaten his career and break up his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, rough, realistic, surprise ending, disturbing, suspenseful, twisted, independent film
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The Super Cops (1974)
Plot Summary:
The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, neo noir, cult film
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Report to the Commissioner (1975)
Plot Summary:
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, grim, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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The Last of the Finest (1990)
Plot Summary:
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly becomes three when one is killed early) band together to fight the drug ring undercover. They gain capital for weapons by ripping off minor drug dealers. Then well-armed they go after the kingpin (Boyd).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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New York Cop (1993)
Plot Summary:
Allegedly based on a true story, this film follows the life of Toshi, a Japanese man living in America and working with the New York City police. After being recommended for undercover work, Toshi decides to go after a gang lead by Hawk. Hawk and Toshi soon become friends, although Hawk's second-in-command, Tito, is suspicious of the newcomer. Will Toshi be able to bring the gang down, or will his cover be blown before he can finish the assignment?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Detroit 9000 (1973)
Plot Summary:
After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, action thriller, crime thriller, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical
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No Code of Conduct (1998)
Plot Summary:
A cop (Charlie Sheen), his partner (Dacascos), and his father (Martin Sheen) uncover a plot by city elders to smuggle drugs from Mexico into Phoenix, Arizona.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Ambushed (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the frenetic underbelly of Los Angeles, Agent Maxwell closes in on an international cocaine smuggling operation run by criminal mastermind Vincent Camastra. When Agent Beverly Royce goes undercover with the drug dealers and finds herself deeper then she can handle - the case becomes personal for Maxwell who has to combat ruthless killers and dirty cops in an all-out action filled finale to bring the criminals to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense
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L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001)
Plot Summary:
LA's finest have crossed the line between Cop and Criminal.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Crime, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, fast
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The New Centurions (1972)
Plot Summary:
An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, crime drama, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense
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One Good Cop (1991)
Plot Summary:
When his loyal longtime partner, a widower, is killed in the line of duty and leaves behind three young children, Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton), a dedicated New York City cop and his wife, Rita (Rene Russo), decide to take the kids in. But the lives of his new family members are quickly on the line as Artie investigates his partner's death. Can he find the killer -- and keep the girls safe?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, emotional, intense, suspenseful, serious, detective, crime drama, realistic, independent film, sentimental
Similar in 87%
Shaft in Africa (1973)
Plot Summary:
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: hood, exciting, rough, feel good, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, poliziottesco, sexy
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River of Death (1989)
Plot Summary:
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit off more than they can chew. What with a nazi doctor still doing his experiments on people in the same place.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, independent film, realistic
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Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
Plot Summary:
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tuff cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: detective, bleak, realistic, grim, hood, crime drama, perverse, rough, serious, captivating
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The Drug King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
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Snitch'd (2003)
Plot Summary:
When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but nobody is talking. And as McClure continues to dig for answers, it becomes clear that the two gangs are fighting for territory - and nobody is getting in their way.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, bleak
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Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
Plot Summary:
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspense, neo noir, hood, depressing, stylized, detective, bleak, rough