Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Policier: 103 Films to Buy & Rent
- Brannigan (1975)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson…
- Effective late–career casting for Wayne, playing a Chicago cop who pursues a criminal across the Atlantic to London. Although featuring a…
- French Connection 2, The (1975)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson…
- Hackman reprises his role as Lt. Doyle, where unfinished business leads him to perilous encounters on French soil.
- Super Cops, The (1974)
- Dir. Gordon Parks Snr.
Feat. Ron Leibman, David Selby, Pat Hingle…
- 70's buddy cop movie which was released almost simultaneously with the more well–known and similar SERPICO, and lifted from relative obscurity…
- Magnum Force (1973)
- Dir. Ted Post
Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Dirty Harry sequel in which supercool Clint tracks down a ruthless vigilante ring. The irony is purely intentional.
- Serpico (1973)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Al Pacino
- Pacino plays a tough, non–conformist cop who exposes police corruption and suffers persecution. Influential, authentic crime drama.
- Stone Killer, The (1973)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin…
- Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner duet for this pre–DEATH WISH actioner about a disgraced NYC cop who joins the L.A.P.D. where he…
- Across 110th Street (1972)
- Dir. Barry Shear
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa
- Three black youths steal from the mob, urging Anthony Quinn to prevent an explosion of ethnic unrest. A brutal excursion through the streets of 70s…
- Dirty Harry (1971)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Classic genre film with Clint Eastwood as Inspector Callaghan, a dynamic cop determined to bring in a psycho–killer, even if he has to break a…
- French Connection, The (1971)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider…
- An influential crime picture based on the largest narcotics seizure of all time. Won the Oscar for Best Picture for its realistic portrait of New…
- Organization, The (1971)
- Dir. Don Medford
Feat. Sidney Poitier
- Poitier takes on heroin traffickers in an adept second sequel to IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT.