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1. L.A. Confidential (1997)
R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger
Votes: 617,757 | Gross: $64.62M
2. Detroit: Become Human (2018 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Take control of three androids in their quest to discover who they really are.
Director: David Cage | Stars: Valorie Curry, Bryan Dechart, Jesse Williams, Audrey Boustani
Votes: 22,906
3. Homeboy (1988)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A simple self-destructive drifter and tough small-time boxer with a brain injury that could kill him meets and falls for a cute beach carnival owner, Ruby, but also befriends a sleazy friendly criminal, Wesley, who's planning a big score.
Director: Michael Seresin | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken, Debra Feuer, Thomas Quinn
Votes: 2,831
4. Affliction (1997)
R | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A deeply troubled small-town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while other events jeopardize his sanity.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Brigid Tierney
Votes: 19,090 | Gross: $6.30M
5. The Escort (1997 Video)
R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A escort lady rents a guest room from a couple in order to get close to the wife and have her revenge for perceived injustice.
Director: Gary Graver | Stars: Shauna O'Brien, Landon Hall, Scott Coppola, Gregory O'Rourke
Votes: 221
6. The Force (1994 Video)
R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
When a police officer is killed in the line of duty, his spirit enters into the body of a rookie cop to seek revenge for his murder.
Director: Mark Rosman | Stars: Jason Gedrick, Kim Delaney, Gary Hudson, Jarrett Lennon
Votes: 273
7. Condor (1985 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 73 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Unsold TV pilot about a hardboiled special police agent prejudiced towards robots and his beautiful new female android partner hunting his nemesis, an escaped female terrorist known as Black Widow, in the noir future of 1999.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Ray Wise, Wendy Kilbourne, Vic Polizos, James Avery
Votes: 197
8. The Hunted (1948)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Despite her pleas of innocence, an honest cop arrests his own girlfriend for her alleged part in a jewel robbery and he keeps hounding her after her release from prison, even though he still loves her.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin, Larry J. Blake
Votes: 668
9. White Cargo (1996)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Joe Hargatay is a police detective who works just for the fun of it, investigating a murder that leads him into a dangerous underground world of drugs, models, models as escorts, Asian and Italian mobs, and his ex-wife.
Director: Daniel Reardon | Stars: David Bradley, Shannon Tweed, Lydie Denier, Grace Del Rey
Votes: 118
10. This Is the Police (2016 Video Game)
M | Crime, Drama
Neo-Noir adventure/strategy game about the disillusioned hardboiled police chief Jack Boyd who is forced to deal with the untouchable criminals who run his city in order to stay alive and get $500,000 when he retires in 180 days.
Director: Ilya Yanovich | Stars: Jon St. John, Michele Benzin, Chris Brandjes, Norman Daniels
Votes: 140
11. This Is the Police II (2018 Video Game)
M | Crime, Drama
Grim adventure/strategy game about Jack Boyd, a disgraced ex police chief who teams up with the new idealistic female sheriff of a small snowy town where he's hiding to fix everything - only to end up on an even darker path than before.
Director: Ilya Yanovich | Stars: Jon St. John, Sarah Hamilton, Michele Benzin, Peter Palmisano
Votes: 51
12.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
Confession
(1996)
Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Evans, a sly horror screenwriter suspected in a series of grisly murders of women whose heads were taken by the killer as trophies, is interrogated by Jack Lynch, a clever hardboiled homicide detective whom every cop idolizes.
Director: Peter Hewitt | Stars: Eddie Izzard, Ciarán Hinds, Alun Armstrong, John Benfield
Votes: 468