Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "hard-boiled-cop"

1. Watchmen (2019)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name, while attempting to break new ground of its own.

Stars: Regina King, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Tom Mison, Sara Vickers

Votes: 134,251

2. Double Indemnity (1944)

Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr

Votes: 167,435 | Gross: $5.72M

3. Street Kings (2008)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An undercover cop, disillusioned by the death of his wife, is implicated in the murder of an officer and must struggle to clear himself.

Director: David Ayer | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans

Votes: 120,805 | Gross: $26.42M

4. Jesse Stone: Stone Cold (2005 TV Movie)

R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jesse Stone (Selleck) is a New England police chief investigating a series of murders, in an adaptation of Robert B. Parker's novel.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Jane Adams, Reg Rogers, Viola Davis

Votes: 8,237

5. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer

Votes: 80,898 | Gross: $1.70M

6. Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama

In this prequel to 'Stone Cold,' Tom Selleck reprises his role as Jesse Stone, an L.A. cop who relocates to a small town only to find himself immersed in one mystery after the other.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Saul Rubinek, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth

Votes: 6,253

7. Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama

Police Chief Jesse Stone's shrink recommends looking into old, unsolved cases to reduce drinking by staying busy. Of 3 cases before his time, he starts on the killing of a bank teller. He's also investigating an alleged rape.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Rebecca Pidgeon

Votes: 4,964

8. Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama

A body's found on the shore of a lake. Police Chief Jesse Stone starts an investigation. It turns out to be a pregnant high school student. There's also a case of a persistent wife beater. Jesse starts seeing a shrink and dating.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth, Orla Brady

Votes: 5,509

9. Fear in the Night (1946)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.

Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Kay Scott, Ann Doran

Votes: 1,805

10. Dead Bang (1989)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A man kills a storekeeper and a cop. LASD homicide detective Jerry Beck gets the case. His murder suspect is connected to a heavily armed white supremacy group.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, Bob Balaban

Votes: 4,482 | Gross: $8.13M

11. The Burglars (1971)

PG | 120 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

In 1970s Athens a group of professional burglars plans an emerald heist from the home of a gem collector, but corrupt Greek police inspector Abel Zacharia is on their trail.

Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon, Robert Hossein

Votes: 2,990

12. On Dangerous Ground (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.

Directors: Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper

Votes: 8,066

13. The FBI Story (1959)

Approved | 149 min | Crime, Drama, History

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell

Votes: 3,879

14. Tension (1949)

Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife's lover.

Director: John Berry | Stars: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan

Votes: 3,577

15. Mann & Machine (1992)

60 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

In the near future, cop Bobby Mann is teamed with a voluptuous robot partner, Sgt. Eve Edison. He's a brash, wise-cracking maverick; she's serious, naive, by-the-book and tends to take ... See full summary »

Stars: David Andrews, Yancy Butler, S. Epatha Merkerson, Christine Belford

Votes: 342

16. Candela (2021)

93 min | Drama, Thriller

The lives of three strangers -A high society girl, a lonely lieutenant and a drag queen cabaret performer- intertwine on the eve of a hurricane following the mysterious death of a young poet and drug dealer.

Director: Andrés Farías | Stars: Lidia Ariza, Mario Cersósimo, Fico Cruz, Jose Cruz

Votes: 55

17. Hunt the Man Down (1950)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

The suspect in a 12-year-old murder case is finally caught and tried, but the witnesses are a bit hard to track down...

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson, Willard Parker

Votes: 1,050

18. Breathless (2021)

106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In the DR, hardened cop Manolo tries to take down an infamous drug cartel; meanwhile, his daughter has fallen in love with Lorenzo, a construction worker who's unwittingly gotten embroiled in the drug cartel's dealings.

Director: Ettore D'Alessandro | Stars: Elvis Nolasco, Ettore D'Alessandro, Judith Rodriguez Perez, Camila Santana

Votes: 38

19. London by Night (1937)

Passed | 69 min | Mystery, Romance

A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing London.

Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: George Murphy, Rita Johnson, Virginia Field, Leo G. Carroll

Votes: 349

20. Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)

Approved | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Lola Lane, Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy, Anthony Averill

Votes: 448

21. Robots (1988 Video)

45 min | Crime, Family, Mystery

Novel-based VCR game about a tough cop and his android partner who must solve the attempted murder of a leading scientist to prevent a war between Earth and its space colonies. A set of cards that goes with the VHS reveals the culprit.

Directors: Doug Smith, Kim Takal | Stars: Valarie Pettiford, Stephen Rowe, Richard Levine, Larry Block

Votes: 58

22. American Clown Story (2023)

Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

A clown has been murdered in Big Tent City. Pockets the Clown is on the case, a hard-boiled detective living on the fringe. Can Pockets catch the elusive perp? Or has he already gone over the edge?

Director: Kyle C. Johnson | Stars: Barrett Allison, McKenna Anderson, Marfa Al Bakry, Taylor Dixon