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51. Law & Order: LA (2010–2011)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Los Angeles police detectives investigate crimes and district attorneys prosecute the offenders.
Stars: Corey Stoll, Rachel Ticotin, Alfred Molina, Terrence Howard
Votes: 2,836
52. 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003 TV Movie)
R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Ray Baker, Douglas Spain
Votes: 5,484
53. Dragnet (2003–2004)
60 min | Crime, Drama
LAPD Detectives Joe Friday and Frank Smith methodically investigate homicides.
Stars: Ed O'Neill, Ethan Embry, Christina Chang, Desmond Harrington
Votes: 1,119
54. Vice Squad (1982)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A single mother prostitute, who goes by the name Princess, finds herself forced to work undercover for the police in order to apprehend a homicidal, misogynistic pimp named Ramrod, who will do anything not to get arrested.
Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: Season Hubley, Gary Swanson, Wings Hauser, Pepe Serna
Votes: 2,917 | Gross: $13.25M
55. He Walked by Night (1948)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell
Votes: 6,738
56. True Confessions (1981)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama
A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
Director: Ulu Grosbard | Stars: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Kenneth McMillan
Votes: 8,888 | Gross: $10.20M
57. Phil Spector (2013 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 92 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A drama centered on the relationship between Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while the music business legend was on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Tambor, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Votes: 7,947
58. Cop Rock (1990)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The musical adventures of a police force.
Stars: Anne Bobby, Barbara Bosson, David Gianopoulos, Larry Joshua
Votes: 665
59. The Formula (1980)
R | 117 min | Crime, Thriller
The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of World War II, is sought after by some who aim to sell it, and by others who wish to destroy it.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller, John Gielgud
Votes: 2,919
60. Tommy (2020)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama
A former high-ranking NYPD officer becomes the first female Chief of Police in Los Angeles.
Stars: Edie Falco, Michael Chernus, Adelaide Clemens, Russell G. Jones
Votes: 2,939
61. Martial Law (1990 Video)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two cops who are martial arts experts team up to stop a criminal organization headed by a ruthless boss who's also a martial artist.
Director: Steve Cohen | Stars: Chad McQueen, Cynthia Rothrock, David Carradine, Andy McCutcheon
Votes: 1,737
62. Cisco Pike (1971)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.
Director: Bill Norton | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black, Gene Hackman, Harry Dean Stanton
Votes: 1,949
63. The Big Bang (2010)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper. A simple job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead.
Director: Tony Krantz | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Thomas Kretschmann, William Fichtner, Sienna Guillory
Votes: 7,397
64. Common Law (2012)
43 min | Comedy, Crime
Centers on cops Wes Mitchell and Travis Marks, who have a problem -- each other -- so their captain sends them to couples therapy.
Stars: Michael Ealy, Warren Kole, Sonya Walger, Jack McGee
Votes: 6,414
65. Extreme Justice (1993)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A rogue cop joins an elite L.A.P.D. unit who secretly operate as a vigilante death squad, but soon begins to question their methods.
Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn, Chelsea Field, Yaphet Kotto
Votes: 1,400
66. LA 92 (2017)
R | 114 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, filmmakers examine that tumultuous period through rarely seen archival footage.
Directors: Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin | Stars: Henry Alfaro, Danny Bakewell, John D. Barnett, Bart Bartholomew
Votes: 6,930
67. Most Wanted (1976–1977)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Dan Stoddard, the mayor of Los Angeles, California, has created a special unit, "The Most Wanted" unit, in the Police Department to capture the most wanted criminals. Captain Linc Evers ... See full summary »
Stars: Robert Stack, Shelly Novack, Jo Ann Harris, Hari Rhodes
Votes: 92
68. The Blue Knight (1973 TV Movie)
240 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after twenty years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: William Holden, Lee Remick, Joe Santos, Sam Elliott
Votes: 664
69. Dragnet 1966 (1969 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Initially intended as a pilot for the Dragnet-1967 TV series, featuring L.A. police detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners, but not aired until 1969.
Director: Jack Webb | Stars: Jack Webb, Harry Morgan, Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg
Votes: 611
70. The Black Marble (1980)
PG | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A romantic comedy which explores the pressures on police officers.
Director: Harold Becker | Stars: Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbara Babcock
Votes: 905
71. Time Trackers (1989)
PG | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine, his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer (Wil Shriner), pursues him back to ... See full summary »
Director: Howard R. Cohen | Stars: Wil Shriner, Ned Beatty, Kathleen Beller, Bridget Hoffman
Votes: 262
72. Johns (1996)
R | 96 min | Drama, Romance
It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Silver | Stars: David Arquette, Lukas Haas, Tony Epper, John C. McGinley
Votes: 1,822 | Gross: $0.05M
73. The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In contemporary Hollywood, private investigator Sam Marlow gets plastic surgery to look like Humphrey Bogart and solves various cases just like Bogart's silver-screen detective characters from the 1940s.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey
Votes: 670
74. Dragnet (1954)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member.
Director: Jack Webb | Stars: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Ann Robinson
Votes: 1,138
75. The Protector (2011)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Single mother Gloria Sheppard juggles her demanding personal and professional lives: raising two children while working as an LAPD homicide detective.
Stars: Ally Walker, Tisha Campbell, Miguel Ferrer, Chris Payne Gilbert
Votes: 639
76. Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)
TV-MA | 110 min | Documentary, Crime
Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.
Directors: Nick Broomfield, Barney Broomfield, Marc Hoeferlin | Stars: Nick Broomfield, Lonnie David Franklin Jr., Donna, Steve
Votes: 3,231
77. The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime (1996 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jim Rockford runs across an old flame, only to find that her cousin and his connections to the Russian Mob will put them all in great danger.
Director: David Chase | Stars: James Garner, Kathryn Harrold, Joe Santos, Bryan Cranston
Votes: 285
78. The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play (1996 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A friend of Jim's seeks his help for her murdered son, but when she winds up dead not long after an altercation with a mafioso, Jim must do what it takes to put both her soul and her son's to rest himself.
Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: James Garner, Marcia Strassman, Joe Santos, David Proval
Votes: 265
79. Scorcher (I) (2002)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, California.
Director: James Seale | Stars: Mark Dacascos, John Rhys-Davies, Tamara Davies, Mark Rolston
Votes: 1,486
80. The Glitter Dome (1984 TV Movie)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In this seedy neo-noire tale, two Hollywood homicide cops investigating a movie mogul's murder stumble upon a child-pornography ring.
Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: James Garner, Margot Kidder, John Lithgow, John Marley
Votes: 365
81. Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 (2017)
TV-MA | 144 min | Documentary, History
An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.
Director: John Ridley | Stars: Daryl Gates, Tom Bradley, Damian 'Football' Williams, Michael Moulin
Votes: 838
82. Dragnet (1989–1991)
30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two strait-laced L.A.P.D. detectives, Vic Daniels and Carl Molina, fight crime.
Stars: Jeff Osterhage, Bernard White, Thalmus Rasulala, Don Stroud
Votes: 117
83. Bunco Squad (1950)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A detective goes after a ring of phony "mediums" who are trying to swindle a rich widow out of her fortune.
Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 326
84. Flashfire (1994)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Police Detective Jack Flinder (Billy Zane) is already in trouble with the rest of his force for imprisoning a corrupt partner, but now he has a new problem with which to deal. Things get much worse from there.
Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: Billy Zane, Louis Gossett Jr., Kristin Minter, Louis Giambalvo
Votes: 411
85. Zig Zag (1970)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In order to collect the ransom offered by the family of a kidnapped industrialist, a terminally-ill man frames himself for the crime, but he accidentally uncovers the real culprit.
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: George Kennedy, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Steve Ihnat
Votes: 427
86. Undercover Maisie (1947)
Passed | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Streetwise but kind-hearted Maisie Ravier has put her vaudeville life behind her, but not its associated outward good looks, flash and glamor. Trying to get to New York for a job, she ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Ann Sothern, Barry Nelson, Mark Daniels, Leon Ames
Votes: 274
87. Code Two (1953)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The adventures of motorcycle cops, from their academy days, to chasing crooked truckers.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Ralph Meeker, Elaine Stewart, Sally Forrest, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 474
88. Mylène Farmer: California (1996 Music Video)
5 min | Short, Drama, Music
Farmer appears in the movie in two roles: as a woman of high society, and as a street prostitute. The partner of the singer in the video is an American TV actor Giancarlo Esposito, who also... See full summary »
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Mylène Farmer, Giancarlo Esposito
Votes: 404
89. L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later (2017 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 86 min | Documentary, History
L.A BURNING: The Riots 25 Years Later is a 2-hour documentary film exploring the lives of the people at the flashpoint of the LA riots, 25 years after the uprising made national headlines and highlighted the racial divide in America.
Directors: One9, Erik Parker | Stars: George Holliday, John Singleton, Michael Winters, Henry Keith Watson
Votes: 204
90. Once a Thief (1950)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress... See full summary »
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Cesar Romero, June Havoc, Marie McDonald, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 220
91. Sudden Danger (1955)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman who heads a sportswear manufacturing company is found dead. Although it is ruled a suicide, the police detective in charge believes she was murdered, and his subsequent ... See full summary »
Director: Hubert Cornfield | Stars: Bill Elliott, Tom Drake, Beverly Garland, Dayton Lummis
Votes: 246
92. Criticsized (2016)
86 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The most vicious serial killer of the 21st-century... and he's just getting warmed up!
Director: Carl T. Evans | Stars: Callum Blue, Kerr Smith, James Kyson, Mike Marino
Votes: 231
93. Christmas Crime Story (2016)
TV-MA | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A botched Christmas Eve robbery leads to disaster for a police officer reconnecting with his estranged mother, along with an erratic photographer, his vindictively murderous fiancée, her secret lover, and a strung-out mall Santa.
Director: Richard Friedman | Stars: Adrian Paul, Eric Close, Mary-Margaret Humes, Alex Fernandez
Votes: 239
94. Rodney King Beating Video (1991 Video)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
On March 3, 1991, in Los Angeles, California, USA, a group of police officers arrested 25-year-old black taxi driver Rodney King. But what must have been a controlled procedure, turned into... See full summary »
Director: George Holliday | Stars: Rodney King, Stacey Koon, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind
Votes: 81
95. Peace Officer (2015)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Crime
A look at the increasingly militarized state of American police told through the story of "Dub" Lawrence, a former sheriff who established his state's first SWAT team only to see it kill his son-in-law in a standoff 30 years later.
Directors: Brad Barber, Scott Christopherson | Stars: Radley Balko, William 'Dub' Lawrence
Votes: 477 | Gross: $0.03M
96. Absolutely 100% Guilty (1999 Video)
450 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Former Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi explores and explains virtually all aspects of the infamous O.J. Simpson murder trial of 1995. This special video program is a ... See full summary »
Director: David G. Phinney | Stars: F. Lee Bailey, William Bodziak, Nicole Brown Simpson, Denise Brown
Votes: 29
97. Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind (2019)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
The untold story of Charles Manson's obsession to become a rock star, his rise in the LA music scene, the celebrities who championed his music including the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson and his descen...
Director: Tom O'Dell | Stars: Simon Wells, Jeff Guinn, Anthony DeCurtis, Peter Richardson
Votes: 308
98. Food 4 Dragonz
Crime | Pre-production
In 2019 a war in the streets takes place in every major city in America. Ikhwan Alsyf has become the primary Political influence in the Middle-East aside from Israel. Internal American ... See full summary »
99. Paparazzi Princess: The Paris Hilton Story (2008 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy
A look at the lavish lifestyles of young, wealthy girls living in Hollywood.
Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Amber Hay, Sara Canning, Bruce Ramsay, Farrah Aviva
Votes: 148
100. A Week in Watts (2018)
91 min | Documentary
A Week in Watts is a feature length documentary that tells the story of six students in Watts, Los Angeles, involved in a program called Operation Progress - which gives youth scholarships ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Caruso | Stars: Emada Tingirides, John Coughlin, Erik Shear, Eric Ortiz
Votes: 203