Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Summary: As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

Release Date: September 19, 1997

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Curtis Hanson

Writers: James Ellroy

, Brian Helgeland

, Curtis Hanson

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Regency Productions, The Wolper Organization, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS, VC4

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 64,616,940

International: $ 61,600,000

Lone Star (1996)

Summary: When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

Release Date: June 21, 1996

Genres: Drama, Mystery

Director: John Sayles

Writer: John Sayles

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment, Rio Dulce

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Warner Home Video, Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 12,408,986

The Guard (2011)

Summary: An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an uptight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.

Release Date: July 07, 2011

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Director: John Michael McDonagh

Writer: John Michael McDonagh

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Reprisal Films, Element Pictures, Hindsight Media, Aegis Film Fund, UK Film Council, Crescendo Productions, EDS Pictures, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,360,274

International: $ 14,201,630

Magnum Force (1973)

Summary: Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan pursues a conspiracy of vigilante cops, who are not above going beyond the law to kill San Francisco's undesirables.

Release Date: December 25, 1973

Genres: Action, Crime, Mystery

Director: Ted Post

Writers: Harry Julian Fink

, Rita M. Fink

, John Milius

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Malpaso Company, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros.

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Dirty Harry

Domestic: $ 39,768,000

Oh Mercy! (2019)

Summary: A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.

Release Date: August 21, 2019

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Arnaud Desplechin

Writers: Mosco Boucault

, Arnaud Desplechin

, Léa Mysius

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

Production: Why Not Productions, Arte France Cinéma, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Pictanovo, Région Hauts-de-France, Cinéventure 4, Palatine Etoile 16, Indéfilms 7, Cofinova 15, Cinémage 13

Distributor: Wild Bunch

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 3,810,000

The Laughing Policeman (1973)

Summary: In San Francisco, California, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.

Release Date: January 23, 1974

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writers: Thomas Rickman

, Per Wahlöö

, Maj Sjöwall

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Key Video, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,280,000

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Midsomer Murders (1997)

Summary: A veteran Detective Chief Inspector and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer County.

Release Date: June 28, 1998

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Bentley Productions, ITV - Independent Television

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Summary: A skilled London police officer, after irritating superiors with his embarrassing effectiveness, is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations, as a string of grisly murders strikes ...

Release Date: April 20, 2007

Genres: Action, Comedy, Mystery

Director: Edgar Wright

Writers: Edgar Wright

, Simon Pegg

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Working Title Films

Distributor: Rogue Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United Kingdom, France, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Three Flavours Cornetto

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 23,637,265

International: $ 57,106,098

Texas Killing Fields (2011)

Summary: In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.

Release Date: October 14, 2011

Genres: Drama, Crime, History

Director: Ami Canaan Mann

Writer: Don Ferrarone

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Anchor Bay Films, Blue Light, Block / Hanson, Covert Media, Forward Pass, Gideon Productions

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 45,469

International: $ 1,225,850

The Silence (2010)

Summary: 13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

Release Date: August 19, 2010

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Baran bo Odar

Writers: Baran bo Odar

, Jan Costin Wagner

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Cine Plus, Lüthje Schneider Hörl Film, Das kleine Fernsehspiel (ZDF)

Distributor: Bavaria Film International

Country: Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 2,300,000

Domestic: $ 100,214

International: $ 316,461

The Glimmer Man (1996)

Summary: Two cops are forced to work together to solve a chain of mysterious killings by a killer nicknamed "The Family Man".

Release Date: October 04, 1996

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: John Gray

Writer: Kevin Brodbin

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Seagal/Nasso Productions, Sprockets Music

Distributor: Warner Bros., American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 45,000,000

Domestic: $ 20,351,264

Memories of Murder (2003)

Summary: In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.

Release Date: May 02, 2003

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Bong Joon Ho

Writers: Bong Joon Ho

, Kwang-rim Kim

, Sung-bo Shim

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sidus, CJ Entertainment, Muhan Investment

Distributor: Neon, Palm Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Vivendi Entertainment

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

Movie budget: $ 2,800,000

Domestic: $ 15,357

International: $ 1,189,484

Dragnet (1987)

Summary: The equally strait-laced and "by-the-book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.

Release Date: June 26, 1987

Genres: Comedy, Crime

Director: Tom Mankiewicz

Writers: Dan Aykroyd

, Alan Zweibel

, Tom Mankiewicz

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Universal Pictures, Applied Action, Permut Presentations

Distributor: MCA Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MCA/Universal Home Video, Shout Select

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 57,387,516

International: $ 9,286,000

Bullitt (1968)

Summary: An all-guts, no-glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

Release Date: October 17, 1968

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Peter Yates

Writers: Alan Trustman

, Harry Kleiner

, Robert L. Fish

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: M/PG

Production: Solar Productions

Distributor: CBS, Warner Home Video, Creative Design

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,500,000

Domestic: $ 511,350

International: $ 72

The Enforcer (1976)

Summary: Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan reluctantly teams up with rookie Inspector Kate Moore to foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans.

Release Date: December 22, 1976

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: James Fargo

Writers: Harry Julian Fink

, Rita M. Fink

, Stirling Silliphant

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., The Malpaso Company, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: Warner Bros., American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Dirty Harry

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 46,236,000

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

Summary: Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.

Release Date: May 20, 1987

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Tony Scott

Writers: Danilo Bach

, Daniel Petrie Jr.

, Eddie Murphy

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Eddie Murphy Productions

Distributor: CBS, CMT, HBO Max, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Network

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Beverly Hills Cop

Movie budget: $ 27,000,000

Domestic: $ 153,665,036

International: $ 146,300,000