Movies like The Detective

20 movies like The Detective, ordered by similarity : Madigan(1968), The Big Heat(1953), Chinatown(1974), The Enforcer(1951), Pride and Glory(2008), Vengeance Is Mine(1979), The Public Eye(1992), On Dangerous Ground(1951), 21 Bridges(2019), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans(2009), And Then You Die(1987), Violence at Noon(1966) ...

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The Detective

Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay 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.

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Madigan

In New York City's Spanish Harlem, detectives Madigan and Bonaro are given 72 hours by their superior to capture a hoodlum wanted for homicide in Brooklyn.

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The Big Heat

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

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Chinatown

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

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The Enforcer

A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.

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Pride and Glory

A family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.

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Vengeance Is Mine

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.

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The Public Eye

Story of a 1940s photographer who specializes in crime and is not getting involved until this time.

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On Dangerous Ground

Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.

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21 Bridges

An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy.

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.

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And Then You Die

An intense crime drama about a Canadian drug lord who amasses a fortune from the cocaine and marijuana trade. His empire is threatened by the Mafia, Hell's Angels and the police who are all trying to bring him down.

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Violence at Noon

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

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Let Us Live

Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real ... See full summary »

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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.

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L.A. Confidential

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.

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Lady in the Lake

The lady editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.

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Dog Day Afternoon

Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

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The Departed

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

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Red Riding: 1983

The disappearance of a young girl leads a Yorkshire detective (David Morrissey) to believe that he may have helped convict the wrong man of murder three years earlier.

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Inspector Bellamy

A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.

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