Highest-Rated Movies about 'Black Cop'

Reservoir Dogs (1992), Boyz n the Hood (1991), Training Day (2001), Inside Man (2006), The Crow (1994), Kick-Ass (2010), Lethal Weapon (1987), A Time to Kill (1996) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Black Cop movies.

#16. Magnum Force (1973)

Storyline: San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) and his new partner, Earlington "Early" Smith (Felton Perry) have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. Meanwhile, those of the city's criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callahan begins to investigate the murders despite orders from his superior officer, Lieutenant Neil Briggs (Hal Holbrook). A man has to know his limitations.

Plot Keywords: breasts, prostitute, prostitution, murder of a nude woman, female nudity, upskirt, menage a trois ...

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#17. The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Storyline: Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in the computer generated parallel world his company has created (which looks like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions). Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine...

Plot Keywords: time travel, soul, detective, clock, future, research, telephone ...

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#18. Fright Night (1985)

Storyline: For young Charley Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charley with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is explained by the fact that they are a vampire and his undead day guardian. The only one who can help him hunt them down is a washed-up actor, Peter Vincent, who hosts Charley's favorite TV show, Fright Night. Vincent doesn't really believe that vampires exist, but does it for the money...

Plot Keywords: vampire, homosexual subtext, cult film, transformation, ghoul, held at gunpoint, hypnosis ...

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#19. Den of Thieves (2018)

Storyline: A gritty L.A crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan an impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.

Plot Keywords: strip club, female frontal nudity, breasts, female rear nudity, female nudity, nudity, bare breasts ...

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#20. The Limey (1999)

Storyline: An ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. His investigations are helped by another ex-con. Together they learn that his daughter had been having an affair with a record producer, who is presently having an affair with another young woman. An aging actress, who also knew his daughter, forces him to look at his own failures as a father. The movie does focus on the drama of the situation and the inter-relationships of the characters and seldom slips into an action piece.

Plot Keywords: revenge, friendship, friend, gay slur, gay, reference to god, grocery store ...

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#21. Fallen (1998)

Storyline: Det. John Hobbes is convinced that when killer Edgar Reese is executed, all of his troubles are over. But when people he knows and people on the street start to sing the same tune that Reese sang in the gas chamber, and those same people taunt him, he is told that maybe the cursed fallen angel Azazel is behind it all. Azazel is cursed to roam the Earth without a form, and he can switch bodies by any contact, making him hard to track. When Hobbes is forced to kill a man possessed by Azazel, he must clear his name while protecting his family and others from the evil, vengeful Azazel.

Plot Keywords: demon, demonic possession, neo noir, devil, death, good versus evil, murder of a police officer ...

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#22. King of New York (1990)

Storyline: After completing a lengthy prison sentence, one-time drug kingpin Frank White returns to New York intent on reestablishing his empire and making things as they were before he left. Others of course have taken over the business during his absence but that clearly isn't going to stop White. While he is gunning down the opposition, he decides he's going to give away the money he'll make to modernize the hospital in his old neighborhood. Drug dealers aren't the only thing he has to worry about however: a group of rogue cops decide they are going to take him down.

Plot Keywords: mob boss, cult film, female rear nudity, neo noir, female nudity, hooker, lingerie ...

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#23. Rush Hour (1998)

Storyline: Cultures clash and tempers flares as the two cops named Detective Inspector Lee a Hong Kong Detective and Detective James Carter FBI, a big-mouthed work-alone Los Angeles cop who are from different worlds discovers one thing in common: they can't stand each other. With time running out, they must join forces to catch the criminals and save the eleven-year-old Chinese girl of the Chinese consul named Soo Yung.

Plot Keywords: smuggling, axe, chinatown, lifting someone into the air, action hero, tough guy, tough cop ...

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#24. Little Murders (1971)

Storyline: An idealistic girl, Patsy Newquist, saves a young apathetic photographer, Alfred Chamberlain, from a gang of hooligans. She falls for him, but he turns out to be a nihilist. They go out anyway. All this happens against the background of random shootings in NYC (at the time the play the movie is based on was written, the city was going broke). Her family accept him, but when she tries to change him and get him to find meaning in life, things go horribly wrong in a cruel twist of fate.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: husband wife relationship, closet, church, candle, candlelight, camera, brother sister relationship ...

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#25. Clockers (1995)

Storyline: Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little, who, when not playing with model trains or drinking Moo for his ulcer, just likes to chill with his brothers near the benches outside the project houses. When a night man at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn't buy the story, however, and sets out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.

Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, crack cocaine, drug dealer, ghetto, organized crime, racial slur, role model ...

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#26. The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Storyline: The Muppets graduate from college and decide to take their senior revue on the road. They hit the streets of Manhattan trying to sell their show to producers, finally finding one young and idealistic enough to take their show. After several mishaps and much confusion, things begin to come together for them.

Plot Keywords: penguin, nursery, new job, multiple cameos, movie theater, mouth to mouth resuscitation, missing person ...

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#27. Bad Boys (1995)

Storyline: Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

Plot Keywords: death, attempted murder, captain, dead woman on floor, fire, brothel madam, panties ...

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#28. Deep Cover (1992)

Storyline: A black uniformed policeman is recruited by a devious drug enforcement agent to infiltrate a smuggling organization seeking to expand into designer drugs. This 'ugly side of the war on drugs' explores the context of race, identity and hypocrisy within a brutal and alienating investigation.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>

Plot Keywords: neo noir, racial slur, police, black cop, undercover, drugs, government conspiracy ...

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#29. Cop Land (1997)

Storyline: Sometime in the 1970's, police officers from New York City wanted a safe haven to live, away from the dangers of the streets of New York City, this is when they established a "Cop Land" in the small New Jersey town of Garrison. Freddy Heflin who was always admired by the New York cops wanted to become one, but because he was deaf in one ear this prevents him from achieving his goal, but has become sheriff of Garrison. Recently there have been a dark omen surrounding the NYPD, and Freddy is now investigating on this case, then Internal Affairs officer Mo Tilden is also on the case and asks Freddy for help, but Freddy could not. Now Freddy suspects that a New York City cop named Ray Donlan might be one of the many cops who is corrupted by the mob and other criminals. Now, Freddy must find a cop who is nicknamed "Superboy" who can testify against Donlan and protect him, before Donlan finds Superboy and kills him.

Plot Keywords: corruption, internal affairs, falling off a roof, faked death, dirty cop, corrupt cop, justice ...

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#30. Street Kings (2008)

Storyline: LAPD detective Tom Ludlow is a ruthlessly efficient, unorthodox undercover cop. Captain Jack Wander always covers for Ludlow, as do even his somewhat jealous colleagues. After technically excessive violence against a vicious Korean gang during the liberation of kidnapped child sex slaves, Ludlow becomes the target of hotshot Internal Affairs captain James Biggs, who feels passed over after Wander's promotion to chief. Ludlow's ex-patrol partner, Terrence Washington, sides with IA but is killed during a shop robbery in Ludlow's presence. Ludlow works his way through the twisted rungs of the police and the deadly streets of Los Angeles for answers that lead to more and more questions.

Plot Keywords: violence, racial prejudice, police officer killed, police harassment, police corruption, planting evidence, pistol ...

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