Movies Like Dirty Cops

If you liked Dirty Cops (2024), a crime and thriller movie directed by Ricky Greenwood, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Vice Squad (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and thriller
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
2
The Protector (1985)
★ 5.9/10Also crime
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is…
3
The Rookie (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and thriller
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help…
4
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also crime
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
5
Avengement (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and thriller
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
6
Cop (1988)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and thriller
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
7
Crank: High Voltage (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and crime
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
8
Close Range (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and thriller
A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.
9
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
★ 7.1/10Also crime
After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.
10
Cop Land (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and thriller
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s…
11
Out for Justice (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and thriller
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.
12
Crimes of Passion (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and thriller
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…
13
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
★ 7/10Also crime
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
14
Payback (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and thriller
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless…
15
Brooklyn's Finest (2010)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and thriller
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes…
16
The Dead Pool (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and thriller
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick…
17
Gotti (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also crime
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion…
18
The Devil's Double (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and crime
A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.
19
John Doe: Vigilante (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and crime
When John Doe is convicted of being a vigilante serial killer, a vigilante group named 'Speak for the Dead' emerges in support of John's cause—elevating the debate about justice versus vengeance.
20
Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and thriller
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.