Category
page 1Films about police misconduct

Batman Begins
2005 film by Christopher Nolan

Sin City
2005 film directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez

Crash
2004 film by Paul Haggis

The French Connection
1971 film by William Friedkin

L.A. Confidential
1997 film directed by Curtis Hanson

Training Day
2001 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

Les Misérables
2012 film directed by Tom Hooper

Witness
1985 film directed by Peter Weir

Serpico
Serpico is a 1973 American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino in the title role. The screenplay was adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from the book written by Peter Maas, with the assistance of its subject Frank Serpico. The story details Serpico's struggle with corruption within the New York City Police Department during his eleven years of service, and his work as a whistleblower which led to the investigation by the Knapp Commission.

Magnum Force
1973 film directed by Ted Post

La Haine
1995 film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz

Touch of Evil
1958 film by Orson Welles

Caché
2005 film directed by Michael Haneke

Cellular
2004 film directed by David R. Ellis

Straight Outta Compton
2015 film directed by F. Gary Gray

16 Blocks
2006 film directed by Richard Donner

Triple 9
2016 film directed by John Hillcoat

Cop Land
1997 film by James Mangold

Convoy
1978 film by Sam Peckinpah

Bright
2017 film directed by David Ayer

Safe
2012 film by Boaz Yakin

Cruising
1980 film by William Friedkin

Brooklyn's Finest
2009 film by Antoine Fuqua

Detroit
2017 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow

Premium Rush
2012 film directed by David Koepp

Honest Thief
2020 film directed by Mark Williams

Les Misérables
2019 film directed by Ladj Ly

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009 film by Werner Herzog

21 Bridges
2019 film directed by Brian Kirk

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
1975 film by Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta

Spenser Confidential
2020 film directed by Peter Berg

Q & A
1990 film by Sidney Lumet

Rampart
2011 film directed by Oren Moverman

Super Troopers
2001 film by Broken Lizard

Lone Star
1996 film by John Sayles

Black and Blue
2019 film directed by Deon Taylor

Beauty and the Dogs
2017 film by Kaouther Ben Hania

Shield of Straw
2013 film by Takashi Miike

The Roundup: No Way Out
2023 film directed by Lee Sang-yong

Crown Vic
2019 film directed by Joel Souza

Vikram Vedha
2017 Tamil film directed by Pushkar-Gayathri

Cop
1988 film by James B. Harris

Vettiyan
Vettaiyan ( ) is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by T. J. Gnanavel and produced by Subaskaran Allirajah's Lyca Productions. The film stars an ensemble cast of Rajinikanth, Amitabh Bachchan (in his Tamil debut), Fahadh Faasil, Rana Daggubati, Manju Warrier, Ritika Singh, Dushara Vijayan, Rohini, Rao Ramesh, Abhirami and Ramesh Thilak. The film follows a senior police officer who accidentally shoots an innocent person during an encounter killing, while investigating the murder of a teacher.

Visaranai
Visaranai () is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language crime drama film written and directed by Vetrimaaran. The film was produced by Dhanush under his banner Wunderbar Films. It is based on the novel Lock Up by M. Chandrakumar. The film stars Dinesh, Anandhi, Samuthirakani, Aadukalam Murugadoss, Kishore, Pradheesh Raj, and Silambarasan Rathnasamy. The film deals with the lives of two men before and after being thrown into a kafkaesque scenario in which they get tortured for confession. Vetrimaaran later told that, in the beating sequences in the film, the actors were really beaten (which was criticized

Shorta
2020 film directed by Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid

Extreme Justice
1993 film by Mark L. Lester

Rust Creek
2019 film by Jen McGowan

Bhagam Bhag
2006 film by Priyadarshan

Antigone
2019 film by Sophie Deraspe

Killerman
Killerman is a 2019 American action crime film starring Liam Hemsworth, Emory Cohen, Diane Guerrero, Zlatko Buric, Suraj Sharma, and Nickola Shreli. It was theatrically released in the United States on August 30, 2019.

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1996 film by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky

Beyond the Law
2019 film directed by James Cullen Bressack

Shakedown
1988 film by James Glickenhaus

Revenge: A Love Story
2010 film by Wong Ching-po

Newman's Law
1974 film by Richard T. Heffron

Banaz a Love Story
2012 documentary film directed by Deeyah

Psycho Cop
1989 film by Wallace Potts

I Corrupt All Cops
2009 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Jing

May You Stay Forever Young
2021 film

Tales from the Hood
1995 film directed by Rusty Cundieff