Movies Like The Thin Blue Lie
If you liked The Thin Blue Lie (2000), a drama movie directed by Roger Young, 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.
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Serpico (1973)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaNew York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
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Dark Blue (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaSet during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
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Cop Land (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaFreddy 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…
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Broken City (2013)
★ 6/10Also dramaIn a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched…
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Medium Cool (1969)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaJohn Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network is helping the FBI by granting them access to…
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Rebel Ridge (2024)
★ 7/10Also dramaA former Marine confronts corruption in a small town when local law enforcement unjustly seizes the bag of cash he needs to post his cousin's bail.
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The Insider (1999)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaA research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
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Magnum Force (1973)
★ 7.1/10Also drama"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only…
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Havoc (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaWhen a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.
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Training Day (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaOn his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
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Nothing but the Truth (2008)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaWhen reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail…
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Brooklyn's Finest (2010)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaEnforcing 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…
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Rapid Fire (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaCollege student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
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Nightcrawler (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaWhen Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news…
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Rising Sun (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaWhen a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Connor has previous experience working…
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American Gangster (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaLoosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being…
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Street Kings (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaTom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the…
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The Dead Pool (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaDirty 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…
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Out for Justice (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaGino 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.
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Crown Vic (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaOne memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets…