Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "police-shooting"

1. The Fugitive (1993)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal.

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore

Votes: 318,274 | Gross: $183.88M

2. Strange Days (1995)

R | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore

Votes: 78,361 | Gross: $7.92M

3. The Hate U Give (2018)

PG-13 | 133 min | Crime, Drama

Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.

Director: George Tillman Jr. | Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Anthony Mackie

Votes: 40,080 | Gross: $29.72M

4. The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)

R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj

Votes: 207,853 | Gross: $65.45M

5. Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)

R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A teen comes into possession of a new laptop and soon discovers that the previous owner is not only watching him but will also do anything to get it back.

Director: Stephen Susco | Stars: Colin Woodell, Stephanie Nogueras, Betty Gabriel, Rebecca Rittenhouse

Votes: 38,288 | Gross: $8.78M

6. Fruitvale Station (2013)

R | 85 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand

Votes: 85,827 | Gross: $16.10M

7. Ricochet (1991)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A District Attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak

Votes: 20,351 | Gross: $21.76M

8. Two Hands (1999)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A 19 year old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.

Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, David Field, Tom Long

Votes: 13,647

9. Queen & Slim (2019)

R | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A couple's first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.

Director: Melina Matsoukas | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Chloë Sevigny

Votes: 34,593

10. In the Electric Mist (2009)

R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of ghostly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen

Votes: 19,849

11. Silent Rage (1982)

R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Horror

A sheriff tries to stop the killing spree of a silent maniacal murderer who, as the result of secret genetic experimentation by an unethical scientist, has the ability to self-heal.

Director: Michael Miller | Stars: Chuck Norris, Ron Silver, Steven Keats, Toni Kalem

Votes: 6,692 | Gross: $10.49M

12. Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In a dystopian near future America, a young man infiltrates a powerful drug dealing rollerblading youth gang that runs his town in order to end their reign for good.

Director: Rick King | Stars: Corey Haim, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Collet, Julius Harris

Votes: 2,765

13. The Funhouse Massacre (2015)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Horror

Six of the world's scariest psychopaths escape from a local Asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween Funhouse, whose themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror.

Director: Andy Palmer | Stars: Jere Burns, Scottie Thompson, Matt Angel, Robert Englund

Votes: 4,315

14. The Harder They Come (1972)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Wishing to become a successful reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

Director: Perry Henzell | Stars: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw, Ras Daniel Hartman

Votes: 7,022

15. Night Killer (1990)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A surviving amnesiac victim of a serial killer is terrorized while the police works with a psychiatrist to bring him to justice and stop the crime wave.

Directors: Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Peter Hooten, Tara Buckman, Richard Foster, Mel Davis

Votes: 1,114

16. L.A. Confidential (2003 TV Movie)

47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Unsold TV pilot based on the James Ellroy novel. An ambitious internal affairs investigator, a simple but tough patrolman and a morally gray vice squad detective investigate corruption and a mysterious heroin smuggling ring in 1950s L.A.

Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, David Conrad, Josh Hopkins, Pruitt Taylor Vince

Votes: 812

17. Hard Luck Love Song (2020)

R | 104 min | Romance, Thriller

A gritty love story about a charismatic but down-on-his-luck troubadour living out of cheap motels and making bad decisions.

Director: Justin Corsbie | Stars: Michael Dorman, Sophia Bush, Dermot Mulroney, RZA

Votes: 542

18. 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: 363

19. Terror at London Bridge (1985 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror

Jack the Ripper is on the loose in Lake Havasu, AZ, and it's up to a local detective (David Hasselhoff) to stop him.

Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Stepfanie Kramer, Randolph Mantooth, Adrienne Barbeau

Votes: 746

20. The Other Fellow (2022)

80 min | Documentary, Biography, Thriller

A film about Men, Real Men. Named James Bond.

Director: Matthew Bauer | Stars: Gunnar James Bond Schäfer, James Alexander Bond, James Bond Jr., Gregory Itzin

Votes: 184

21. The Hoodlum (1951)

PG | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Paroled sociopath and career criminal Vincent Lubeck betrays his family's trust when he masterminds a complex armored car robbery.

Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan, Lisa Golm

Votes: 1,158

22. The Revenger (1990)

R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Mike Teller, with the help of Harry Crawford, must retrieve Mike's wife, Lisa from the clutches of Jack Fisher over a matter of $500,000.

Director: Cedric Sundstrom | Stars: Oliver Reed, Frank Zagarino, Jeff Celentano, Nancy Mulford

Votes: 390

23. Crack-Up (1946)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which may not have actually happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a wicked plot?

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins

Votes: 1,628

24. When Two Worlds Collide (2016)

103 min | Documentary

An indigenous environmental activist takes on the large businesses that are destroying the Amazon.

Directors: Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel | Stars: Alberto Pizango, Alan García, Aruwihtu Pizanku, Ander Ordoñez

Votes: 561 | Gross: $0.01M

25. 9 Ways to Hell (2022)

104 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A multi-award winning Horror Compilation inspired by Dante's Inferno. 9 diverse filmmakers deliver a twisted mix of blood and violence, comedy and carnage, demonic creatures and real world terrors, social commentary and WTF madness.

Directors: Scott Alan Richards, Nick Dragon, Alejandra Díaz, Tai-Lynia Jones, Emily Louise Rua, Derek Silvers, Shelly Skandrani, Deven Spencer, Dillon Wilson | Stars: Emily Killian, Ashiko Westguard, Joe Castro, Al Burke

Votes: 129

26. Quiz (2012)

85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A famous game show host is being harassed in a restaurant by a strange man who claims to have kidnapped his wife and daughter. A morbid game ensues in which the game show host turns out to be the contestant.

Director: Dick Maas | Stars: Barry Atsma, Pierre Bokma, Susan Radder, Hanna Verboom

Votes: 1,923

27. Shield of Straw (2013)

117 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A team of cops must protect an accused killer with a billion-yen bounty on his head.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Takao Osawa, Nanako Matsushima, Gorô Kishitani, Masatô Ibu

Votes: 2,710

28. Haunts (1976)

PG | 97 min | Horror

May Britt plays a seemingly innocent farm girl convinced that her slovenly uncle (Cameron Mitchell) is the man responsible for the bloody scissor-murders of several local girls.

Director: Herb Freed | Stars: May Britt, Cameron Mitchell, Aldo Ray, William Gray Espy

Votes: 706

29. The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

A chronicle of Fred Hampton's revolutionary leadership of the Illinois Black Panther Party, followed by an investigation into his assassination at the hands of the Chicago Police Department.

Director: Howard Alk | Stars: Skip Andrew, Edward Carmody, James Davis, Rennie Davis

Votes: 553

30. Bardaasht (2004)

155 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A young man gets wrongly framed for drug trafficking and killed in a fake encounter by corrupt police force, the victim's brother vows to bring the killers to justice and to end the tyranny of their corrupt system.

Director: Eeshwar Nivas | Stars: Bobby Deol, Lara Dutta, Rahul Dev, Riteish Deshmukh

Votes: 793

31. Burn Motherfucker, Burn! (2017)

TV-MA | 99 min | Documentary

Explores the roots of civil unrest in California and the relationship between African Americans and LAPD.

Director: Sacha Jenkins | Stars: Alex Alonso, Nicolas Alonso, B-Real, Danny Bakewell

Votes: 601

32. Kendrick Lamar: Alright (2015 Music Video)

7 min | Music

Music video for "Alright", song by Kendrick Lamar.

Directors: The Little Homies, Colin Tilley | Stars: Ab-Soul, Al Burke, Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q

Votes: 381

33. Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York (2023)

Documentary, History

Once a failing city that by 1990 had over 2,200 murders and 93,000 violent robberies annually, New York went on to be the revitalized word capital.

Director: Matthew Taylor | Stars: Nicole Gelinas, Michael Goodwin, Larry Mone, Fred Seigel

Votes: 28

34. The Pyramid (1976)

PG | 94 min | Drama

A young TV news reporter grows tired of Commercial programming and decides to cover more positive stories. He is fired for his troubles, and goes on a personal search for truth and beauty ... See full summary »

Director: Gary Kent | Stars: Michael Ashe, Tomi Barrett, Dave Beidleman, Charley Brown

Votes: 167

35. Charley Hannah (1986 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama

A Fort Lauderdale, Florida Police Captain (Robert Conrad) accidentally kills a youth when he is pursuing some cop killers. The investigation into the murders and into a cocaine connection ... See full summary »

Director: Peter H. Hunt | Stars: Robert Conrad, Shane Conrad, Christian Conrad, Joan Leslie

Votes: 63

36. My Name is Myeisha (2018)

82 min | Drama

Hip-hop, poetry and dream sequences chronicle the finals moments of a young woman's life before she is shot and killed by police officers.

Director: Gus Krieger | Stars: Rhaechyl Walker, John Merchant, Dominique Toney, Dee Dee Stephens

Votes: 144

37. Stockwell (2009 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, Drama

Dramatized documentary about the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot and killed by Police Officers at Stockwell tube station in London, England after he was mistaken for a terrorist suspect.

Director: Jonathan Rudd | Stars: Nicholas Rowe, Marva Alexander, Pavel Douglas, Niall Refoy

Votes: 6

38. Lawful Killing: Mark Duggan (2016 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Docudrama about the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, North London in August 2011 that caused the worst riots in recent British history. With dramatised reconstructions of events and interviews with his family and the police.

Director: Jaimie D'Cruz | Stars: Leonie Alert, Nicola Ama, Neil Ashton, Chris Bell

Votes: 17

39. The Just (2018)

14 min | Short, Drama

When a desperate young man decides to rob a house, he is mistaken for the homeowner after the police make a fatal error.

Director: Kandace Cornell | Stars: Sean Patrick Small, Michael Linowitz, Frederick Lawrence, Han Safar

40. Carlo Giuliani, ragazzo (2002)

75 min | Documentary

Documentary about the death of Carlo Giuliani, who was shot by a police officer in Genoa on July 20, 2001 during a peaceful protest.

Director: Francesca Comencini | Stars: Heidi Gaggio Giuliani, Carlo Orlando

Votes: 134

41. Shots Fired (III) (2019)

9 min | Short, Crime, Drama

A police chase gone wrong leads to the killing of an African-American teenager. Rookie cop Ryan finds himself in the balance between his partner and the thin line separating right and wrong.

Directors: Sascha Kuznia, Vladimir Scheiermann | Stars: Brian Caspe, Marios Gavrilis, Terrell Robinson

Votes: 15

42. Police Survival and Low Light Shooting (1996 Video)

49 min | Documentary

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Director: Richard A. Diercks | Stars: Michael J. McAnally, Julio Santiago, Grant Thorstad, Marilyn O'Connor

43. Home Soon (2022)

19 min | Short, Drama

Set at the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, a weary mother's fears and desires for her mentally distressed son's future hang in the balance while awaiting his arrival home. ... See full summary »

Director: Maisha Azadi | Stars: Maisha Azadi, Sydney Morgan Currie, Logan Slater

44. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode: The Unlighted Road (1955)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

Young Jeff Latham stops at a roadside diner and ends up working there. After meeting a nice local girl, everything seems to be going his way. Things get complicated when he unwittingly gets involved with criminals working out of the diner.

Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: James Dean, Murvyn Vye, Edgar Stehli, Patricia Hardy

Votes: 79

45. Adam-12 (1968–1975)
Episode: Suspended (1973)

TV-PG | 25 min | Crime, Drama

After an off night at the shooting range, Reed leaves work and stops at an all night grocery. As he is leaving with both arms full of groceries, a young man approaches as if he knows Reed. ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Freedle | Stars: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, Don Dubbins, William Boyett

Votes: 101

46. Barney Miller (1975–1982)
Episode: The Hero (1975)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Chano deals with psychological trauma after killing two bank robbers. Liz makes a citizen's arrest of her assailant -- an eight-year-old boy.

Director: Noam Pitlik | Stars: Hal Linden, Barbara Barrie, Abe Vigoda, Max Gail

Votes: 191

47. Brenner (1959–1964)
Episode: I, Executioner (1959)

26 min | Crime, Drama

Ernie is rattled after a shooting a disturbed young man who stabbed him and then attacked another police officer. The doctor treating his wounds doesn't give him much sympathy, but he meets... See full summary »

Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Edward Binns, James Broderick, Kathleen Murray, Ruth White

48. C-16: FBI (1997–1998)
Episode: Hitting Olansky (1998)

Action, Crime, Drama

Olansky survives a hit attempt. Rooney asks a twitchy informant she's very fond of to infiltrate the chop shop of the gangster behind it. At J. Edgar Hoover party, Olansky comforts his daughter, and Stoddard and Reardon discuss the kiss.

Director: Elodie Keene | Stars: Eric Roberts, D.B. Sweeney, Christine Tucci, Angie Harmon

Votes: 11

49. Cagney & Lacey (1981–1988)
Episode: Unusual Occurence (1984)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The press paints Christine's self-defense shooting of a Hispanic drug-dealer as being racially motivated.

Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, Al Waxman, Carl Lumbly

Votes: 57

50. The Hitchhiker (1983–1991)
Episode: Man at the Window (1985)

TV-MA | 27 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Faded playwright Arthur Brown uses electronic equipment to record private chats of other people as inspiration for his work. His subject Diane is having an affair with Carla Magnuson. When Diane's husband finds out, everyone is in danger.

Director: Christopher Leitch | Stars: Edward Albert, Michael Madsen, Penelope Milford, Belinda Montgomery

Votes: 84