Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Policier: 103 Films to Buy & Rent
- Red Heat (1988)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle…
- Director reworks his 48HRS for Arnie and Belushi as mismatched cops on a mission in Moscow.
- Cop (1987)
- Dir. James B. Harris
Feat. James Woods, Brian Dennehy
- James Woods gives another intense performance enduring the occupational hazards of crime–fighting. Based on the James Ellroy novel 'Blood On…
- Robocop (1987)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox…
- Loaded with sweat–breaking violence and suspense, dir. Paul Verhoeven never surpassed this stunning dystopian satire about a prototype cyborg…
- Cobra (1986)
- Dir. George P. Cosmatos
Feat. Sylvester Stallone
- Gruesome post–RAMBO vehicle for Sly Stallone as a tough city cop.
- Sledge Hammer! (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. David Rasche, Harrison Page, Anne-Marie Martin
- GET SMART meets DIRTY HARRY in this riotous late–night spoof detailing the exploits of unorthodox Inspector 'Sledge Hammer', a loose cannon of…
- Code of Silence (1985)
- Dir. Andrew Davis
Feat. Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Dennis Farina
- One of action star Chuck Norris's best films is this non–martial arts vehicle in which he plays a streetwise plainclothes cop who takes down a…
- To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow
- Super–charged policier with slimeball cop Petersen on the trail of big–time counterfeiters led by Dafoe. Swirlingly paced, with a car…
- Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
- Dir. Martin Brest
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Steven Berkoff
- Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley has never been funnier than in this winning combo of action and comedy.
- Blue Thunder (TV Series) (1984)
- Feat. James Farentino, Dana Carvey
- Television series based on the 1983 movie of the same name about the law enforcers and tacticians operating the Blue Thunder helicopter and its…
- Tightrope (1984)
- Dir. Richard Tuggle
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold, Dan Hedaya…
- Eastwood boldly portrays an obsessed cop, forced to confront his own disturbed sexuality when on the trail of a sex murderer on the lurid streets of…