Se7en (1995), L.A. Confidential (1997), Serpico (1973), The French Connection (1971), Training Day (2001), Dirty Harry (1971), Lethal Weapon (1987), End of Watch (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Police Protagonist movies.
Storyline: Rugged and irritable Carl Morck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and his colleague, the Syria-born Assad, run the cold-case division of the Copenhagen police. After a desperate appeal to Morck about the unsolved killing of his own teenage children, an ex-cop commits suicide. This leads the detective pair on a twisted mission to discover what really happened in the 1990s at one of the country's poshest boarding schools. Director Mikkel Norgaard reunites with lead stars Kaas and Fares to portray this taut fiction which again alternates deftly between the past and present.
Plot Keywords: bare breasts, based on novel, police inspector, cat, false accusation of rape, zebra, cowgirl sex position ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A police Lieutenant goes about his daily tasks of investigating homicides, but is more interested in pursuing his vices. He has accumulated a massive debt betting on baseball, and he keeps doubling to try to recover. His bookies are beginning to get agitated. The Lieutenant does copious amounts of drugs, cavorts with prostitutes, and uses his status to take advantage of teenage girls. While investigating a nun's rape, he begins to reflect on his lifestyle.
Plot Keywords: rape, drugs, gambling, police, police protagonist, male frontal nudity, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An old note is found in a bottle in Jutland which has traveled very long across the ocean a long time ago. The note is hard to decipher, but when the Danish investigator from Section Q receives it, the odd personalities within the section find a new angle on it and try to unveil yet another old and diabolic case even though the lead is cold.
Plot Keywords: religious faith, church, religious zealot, baptism, scissors, school, conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Taking place in a dystopian Australia in the near future, Mad Max tells the story of a highway patrolman cruising the squalid back roads that have become the breeding ground of criminals foraging for gasoline and scraps. When his wife and child meet a grisly end at the hands of a motorcycle gang, Max sets out across the barren wastelands in search of revenge.
Plot Keywords: post apocalypse, woman wearing only a man's shirt, murder of wife, outlaw gang, dystopia, revenge, biker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New York narcotics detective Popeye Doyle follows the trail of the French connection smuggling ring to France where he teams up with the gendarmes to hunt down the ringleader.
Plot Keywords: organized crime, neo noir, drug trafficking, american abroad, detective, sequel, heroin ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.
Plot Keywords: gang, violence, police shootout, female frontal nudity, pubic hair, m 16, shotgun ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Following charges of corruption, Colva's (Goa) Police Inspector Rakesh Kadam kills himself, leaving a devastated wife, Megha, and son, Nitin. She takes it upon herself to canvas support that her husband was framed by a gangster, Jaykant Shikre, and vainly insists on a CBI Inquiry. When the High Court requires Jaykant, on unrelated charges, to present himself at Shivgad Police Station, which is located at the borders of Maharashtra and Karnataka, he refuses to do so, and the local Inspector Bajirao Singham, who has recently fallen in love with stunning Kavya Bhosle, summons him. An enraged Jaikant does appear along with an army of goons, but is no match for Bajirao, who has support from the entire community. Humbled and humiliated, Jaykant returns to Goa, and ensures Bajirao gets transferred there. It is here he not only plans to use an army of goons, his control and influence over politicians and senior police officers to plan the ultimate vengeance with impunity but also contest and ...
Plot Keywords: police officer, snobbery, rich snob, extortion, threat, death of husband, suicide by gunshot ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.
Plot Keywords: japan, yakuza, police chase, counterfeit, pistol, police badge, rain ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tuff cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: police, prostitute, police brutality, new york city, cop killer, bronx new york city, police station ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Plot Keywords: lesbian kiss, gay bar, lesbian, lesbian relationship, gay marriage, protest, dying ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse.
Plot Keywords: lieutenant, flood, hallucination, murder investigation, nude photograph, national anthem, new orleans louisiana ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs.—Regis M. Donovan <regis@apocalypse.org>
Plot Keywords: neo noir, police corruption, homophobia, murder investigation, homosexuality, bisexual, death penalty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The policeman Dave Speed is assigned to a mission in an ex-Indian reservation near a military shooting range. Casually, Dave is doing an investigation on the spot. A nuclear missile explodes. The radiation gives him superpowers. Dave is able to move object with the mind force, to discover mysterious crimes and to jump with no problem from a skyscraper. His friends cannot understand those transformations.—Tognacci Sebastiano <seblog@maya.dei.unipd.it>
Plot Keywords: superhero, parody, freak accident, frame up, poliziottesco, police, walking on water ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam War veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of the "Sicilian Vespers" when the previous generation of Sicilian mafiosi were all killed on a single day. Torrey gets various clues that something big is about to happen, but will he discover what is planned before the big day?—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: shot to death, shootout, revolver, shot multiple times, chauffeur, trapdoor, parking garage ...
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