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

1. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

8.1

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This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.

Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T, Dann Florek

Votes: 125,090

2. NYPD Blue (1993–2005)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.7

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Detectives from NYPD's 15th Precinct investigate homicides within their precinct.

Stars: Dennis Franz, Jimmy Smits, Gordon Clapp, James McDaniel

Votes: 16,343

3. The Closer (2005–2012)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.8

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Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson runs the Priority Homicide Division of the LAPD with an unorthodox style. Her innate ability to read people and obtain confessions helps her and her team solve the city's toughest, most sensitive cases.

Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, Corey Reynolds, Robert Gossett

Votes: 28,929

4. Major Crimes (2012–2018)

Not Rated | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.8

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The Closer (2005) spin-off series, which follows Captain Raydor of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Stars: Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan

Votes: 16,085

5. Elite Squad (2007)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.0

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33 Metascore

In 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits.

Director: José Padilha | Stars: Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira, Milhem Cortaz

Votes: 110,338 | Gross: $0.01M

6. The Watch (2020–2021)

TV-14 | 381 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

5.5

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A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe.

Stars: Richard Dormer, Lara Rossi, Adam Hugill, Marama Corlett

Votes: 6,521

7. Les rivières pourpres (2018– )

60 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

6.8

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A bizarre series of murders, a stubborn investigator duo and a lot of bodies.

Stars: Olivier Marchal, Erika Sainte, Ken Duken, Patrick Catalifo

Votes: 2,135

8. Prince of the City (1981)

R | 167 min | Crime, Drama

7.4

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81 Metascore

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett

Votes: 9,526 | Gross: $8.12M

9. Polisse (2011)

Not Rated | 127 min | Crime, Drama

7.3

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74 Metascore

A journalist covering police assigned to a juvenile division enters into an affair with one of her subjects.

Director: Maïwenn | Stars: Karin Viard, JoeyStarr, Marina Foïs, Nicolas Duvauchelle

Votes: 15,330 | Gross: $0.17M

10. Busted (1997 Video)

R | 85 min | Comedy

2.7

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In the town of Amity, the cops take crime off of the streets and put it into the police station where it belongs.

Director: Corey Feldman | Stars: Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Dominick Brascia, Mariana Morgan

Votes: 877

11. Midnight Sun (2016)

440 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.4

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The brutal murder of a French citizen sees French homicide investigator Kahina Zadi go to Kiruna, Sweden. Together with Rutger Burlin she begins an investigation that soon takes on staggering proportions.

Stars: Leïla Bekhti, Gustaf Hammarsten, Albin Grenholm, Jakob Hultcrantz Hansson

Votes: 5,385

12. Kaakha Kaakha (2003)

Not Rated | 153 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.0

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After a police team kills his brother, a drug-dealing gangster vows to kill the entire team and their respective families.

Director: Gautham Vasudev Menon | Stars: Suriya, Jyotika, 'University' Jeevan, Daniel Balaji

Votes: 6,872

13. Force (2011)

R | 137 min | Action, Crime, Drama

6.5

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A vengeful gangster targets and terrorizes an entire police unit and their families.

Director: Nishikant Kamat | Stars: John Abraham, Genelia Deshmukh, Vidyut Jammwal, Raj Babbar

Votes: 8,400

14. Identity (2010)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.8

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A drama series following an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime.

Stars: Aidan Gillen, Keeley Hawes, Holly Aird, Elyes Gabel

Votes: 720

15. The Wings of the Kirin (2011)

129 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.5

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A man is stabbed to death in Tokyo's Nihonbashi area. The victim staggers with the knife still in the wound for eight minutes before collapsing under the winged statues of two Kirin on the ... See full summary »

Director: Nobuhiro Doi | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Aragaki, Junpei Mizobata, Tôri Matsuzaka

Votes: 884

16. Dandam Dashagunam (2011)

143 min | Action, Crime, Drama

6.1

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The conscientious policeman ACP Surya is a powerful and efficient officer who works for law and order and protects people. One day when he is chasing criminals, he meets Maya and falls in ... See full summary »

Director: K. Madesh | Stars: Chiranjeevi Sarja, Ramya, P. Ravi Shankar, Thilak Shekar

Votes: 15

17. María y los niños pobres (2010)

80 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

9.2

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Due to different circumstances several kids work in the streets of La Paz (Bolivia). While a group of Catholic priests help them they are endangered by organ thieves and drug dealers. When ... See full summary »

Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Mariana Liquitaya, Sebastián Obermaier, Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato, Mauricio Aparicio

Votes: 23

18. Police Quest: SWAT 2 (1998 Video Game)

Action, Crime, Thriller

7.1

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In the near future of 1999, L.A. is threatened by Five Eyes, a left-wing domestic terrorist group led by mysterious Basho and his right hand Dante. Only SWAT can stop them. You can also play as Dante instead and be the bad guy.

Stars: Ron Simons, Mike Shapiro, Scott Burns, Henry Dardenne

Votes: 32

19. NYPD Blue (1993–2005)
Episode: Nude Awakening (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

8.7

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Sipowicz and Clark investigate when Julian Pisano is wounded in a shooting incident; McDowell and Ortiz assist a woman who doggedly pursues justice when she's conned out of $100; Clark ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Tinker | Stars: Dennis Franz, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gordon Clapp, Charlotte Ross

Votes: 131

20. The Met: Policing London (2015– )
Episode: Episode #3.3 (2019)

58 min | Documentary

8.2

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A specialist police unit tries to tackle moped crime using tactical contact. For the first time in its 50 year history police at Notting Hill Carnival introduce a controversial tactic to deter knife crime.

Directors: Mark Casebow, Leo Fawkes, Natalie Hewit, Jonathan Low, Matt Haan | Star: Lennie James

Votes: 8

21. Head Hunters (2019– )
Episode: Episode #1.24 (2019)

44 min | Game-Show

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The question categories today are mountains and volcanoes, politics, rappers, horror films, inventions and discoveries, fashion, Shakespeare, food and drink and rugby union.

Director: Chris Power | Star: Rob Beckett

22. Chicago P.D. (2014– )
Episode: The Right Thing (2021)

TV-14 | Action, Crime, Drama

8.6

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Voight and the team pursue a ruthless crime ring whose business has hit close to home. As they dig deeper, the extent of the danger becomes more apparent. Deputy Superintendent Samantha Miller second-guesses her decisions.

Director: Vincent Misiano | Stars: Jason Beghe, Jesse Lee Soffer, Tracy Spiridakos, Marina Squerciati

Votes: 473

23. Flashpoint (2008–2012)
Episode: Follow the Leader (2010)

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.3

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Following an interception of a white supremacist compound the team discovers that they have a much bigger problem on their hands - multiple bomb targets across the city.

Director: David Frazee | Stars: Brendan Penny, Tyler Johnston, Adrian Hough, Hugh Dillon

Votes: 152

24. GREYLOCK (2023– )
Episode: Waking Your Subconscious (2024)

Not Rated | History, Horror, Mystery

9.2

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A showing of a allegedly cursed but scientific tape that is meant to change your brain, eyes and body is played by an unknown user, however, outside of the tape, the monsters of Mount Greylock are becoming stronger than ever.

Director: Rob Gavagan

Votes: 13