Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.

Welcome Home Brother Charles

1975

English

4.9

♡ 2

41%

Action

blaxploitation cinema

Jamaa Fanaka Director

Reatha Grey as Carmen

Sam Ingraffia as First Cop

Stan Kamber as Jim

Mordo Dana as Physician

After wrongly doing time in prison for murder, a man seeks revenge on a racist law enforcement system and the detective who framed him.

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

1971

English

5.5

♡ 3

73%

Melvin Van Peebles Director

Joe Tornatore as

Nick Ferrari as

John Amos as Biker

Melvin Van Peebles as Sweetback

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

The Offence

1973

English

6.9

♡ 16

73%

Sidney Lumet Director

Sean Connery as Detective Sergeant Johnson

Ian Bannen as Kenneth Baxter

Trevor Howard as Lieutenant Cartwright, Detective Superintendant

John Hallam as Panton

A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.

Rendition

2007

English

6.8

♡ 21

46%

62%

Action

central intelligence agency (cia)

Gavin Hood Director

Meryl Streep as Corrine Whitman

Jake Gyllenhaal as Douglas Freeman

Reese Witherspoon as Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi

J.K. Simmons as Lee Mayer

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

Outside the Law

2010

French

6.6

♡ 4

76%

Rachid Bouchareb Director

Antonio Saboia as

Sami Bouajila as Abdelkader

Bernard Blancan as Colonel Faivre

Roschdy Zem as Messaoud

After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.

Let Us Prey

2014

English

5.8

♡ 38

77%

Brian O'Malley Director

Brian Vernel as Caesar Sargison

Pollyanna McIntosh as PC. Rachel Heggie

Douglas Russell as Sgt. MacReady

Liam Cunningham as Six

Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the bitter-and-twisted who all think that, really, they deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they're there by accident and that, with a little luck, life is going to get better. Wrong, on both counts. Six is about to arrive - and All Hell Will Break Loose!

Man on the Roof

1976

Swedish

7.2

♡ 8

87%

Action

based on novel or book

Bo Widerberg Director

Ingvar Hirdwall as Åke Eriksson

Håkan Serner as Einar Rönn

Sven Wollter as Lennart Kollberg

Bellan Roos as Mrs. Eriksson

Detective Martin Beck investigates the grisly murder of a police Lieutenant in his hospital room, he soon realises the urgency of the case when it turns out the killer may hold a hatred for all policemen.

When a City Rises

2021

Cn

7.0

♡ 2

Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as diverse as the youths of the rest of the world. But they share a demand for democracy and freedom. They have the will and the courage to fight – and they can see that things are going in the wrong direction in the small island city, which officially has autonomy under China but is now tightening its grip and demanding that ‘troublemakers’ be put away or silenced. Amid the violent protests, we meet a 21-year-old student, a teenage couple and a new father.

Violent Cop

1989

Japanese

7.1

♡ 32

83%

Takeshi Kitano Director

Susumu Terajima as

Maiko Kawakami as Akari

Sei Hiraizumi as Iwaki

Shirô Sano as Yoshinari

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

From Spikes to Spindles

1976

English

6.3

♡ 1

Christine Choy Director

This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely depicted, a vibrant community whose young and old join forces to protest police brutality and hostile real estate developers. With bold strokes, it paints an overview of the community and its history, from the early laborers driving spikes into the transcontinental railroad to the garment workers of today.

Le deuxième souffle

1966

French

7.9

♡ 12

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Lino Ventura as Gustave 'Gu' Minda

Jean-Claude Bercq as Inspecteur Godefroy

Marcel Bozzuffi as Jo Ricci

Raymond Pellegrin as Paul Ricci

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Catch a Fire

2006

English

6.7

♡ 4

75%

71%

Action

anc (african national congress)

Phillip Noyce Director

Brandon Auret as Army Commandant

Tim Robbins as Col. Nic Vos

Marius Weyers as Police Brigadier

Nelson Mandela as Self

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.

American Experience The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

2021

English

8.2

♡ 2

Jamila Ephron Director

Brent Jennings as Isaac Woodard

Harry S. Truman as Self

Orson Welles as Self

André Holland as Self - Narrator

In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel’s book Unexampled Courage, the film details how the crime led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman, who desegregated federal offices and the military two years later. The event also ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement.

No Visible Trauma

2020

English

8.1

♡ 1

Marc Serpa Francoeur Director

Deftly upending the popular assertion that Canadian law enforcement agencies differ from those in the US, this provocative exposé fixes a sharp lens on the Calgary Police Service’s rampant, unchecked use of excessive force.

Topside

2020

English

6.0

♡ 20

80%

Celine Held Director

Jared Abrahamson as Les

Zhaila Farmer as Little

Gino Vento as Mac

Tonye Patano as Violet

Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a sudden police-mandated eviction, the pair are forced to flee aboveground into a brutal winter night. Determined to return home, they fight to find shelter as their world is thrown into chaos.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

2009

English

6.9

♡ 31

1970s

Action

based on novel or book

Julian Jarrold Director

Shaun Dooley as Dick Alderman

Andrew Garfield as Eddie Dunford

Sean Bean as John Dawson

Rebecca Hall as Paula Garland

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.

Cornbread, Earl and Me

1975

English

6.9

♡ 5

86%

Joseph Manduke Director

Logan Ramsey as Deputy Coroner

Tierre Turner as Earl Carter

Charles Lampkin as Fred Jenkins

Laurence Fishburne as Wilford Robinson

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.

I lagens namn

1986

Swedish

6.1

♡ 1

Action

based on novel or book

Kjell Sundvall Director

Lennart Hjulström as Chief of Police

Sven Wollter as Jarnebring

Marrit Ohlsson as Mrs. Larsson

Ernst Günther as Walltin

A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up a drunk who later was found dead. The four policemen deny any knowledge. Police inspector Jarnebring gets the case and finds out that these four policemen have been reported for 22 cases of police brutality. Shortly after, another criminal dies in their van...