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Films with theme "La corruption policière", sorted by production date
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The Stronghold (2021)
Directed by Cédric Jimenez
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La corruption policière, Medical-themed films, La provence, Films about drugs
Actors Adèle Exarchopoulos, François Civil, Gilles Lellouche, Karim Leklou, Cyril Lecomte, Michaël Abiteboul
En 2012, les quartiers nord de Marseille détiennent le « titre » du pire taux de criminalité de France. En raison de la pression de la hiérarchie, les policiers de la BAC Nord vont tout faire pour améliorer leurs résultats. Certains vont parfois franchir la « ligne jaune ».
Thugocratie (2018)
Origin France
Genres Thriller
Themes La corruption policière, Gangster films
Actors Salim Kechiouche, Abel Jafri, Hichem Yacoubi, Pierre Abbou
A sa sortie de prison, Sam tente de se réinsérer mais il est vite rattrapé par le milieu et sombre peu à peu dans un engrenage criminel. A travers les yeux de son fils, il perçoit une lueur d'espoir.
Cold Comes the Night (2013)
, 1h30Directed by Tze-ngo Chun
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston, Logan Marshall-Green, Leo Fitzpatrick, Erin Cummings, Robin Lord Taylor
Chloe, a single mother living with her daughter Sophia, operates a motel. Topo is a blind man traveling cross country in a Jeep with his associate John. They stop by Chloe's motel, when John hires prostitute Gwen, and convinces Topo to stay the night. When Gwen is entertaining John, an argument has John fatally shooting Gwen, waking Chloe up. Chloe investigating finds Gwen and John dead.
Wrong Cops (2013)
, 1h23Directed by Quentin Dupieux
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Éric Judor, Marilyn Manson, Grace Zabriskie, Arden Myrin, Eric Wareheim, Ray Wise
In the not very distant future, where crime has been completely eradicated, a group of crooked cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.
Rampart (2012)
, 1h48Directed by Oren Moverman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Woody Harrelson, Ice Cube, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Anne Heche, Robin Wright
Officer Dave Brown (Harrelson) has two ex-wives who are sisters (Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon), and he cheated on both. Brown has a daughter from each marriage which creates conflict at home. Dave also has contentious relationships with his children. However, the film starts with his other home, which is the beat. Dave patrols streets occupied by gangs, and he creates problems for himself with increasing severity. Dave forcibly obtains a confession out of a convenience store thief. Later he is caught on tape beating someone almost to death. The beating is still playing on television when he's involved in a suspicious shooting. These incidents get Dave in trouble with an already beleaguered police department, and he faces either sanctions or forced retirement. Dave tries to talk his way out of trouble with an assistant district attorney (Sigourney Weaver). Dave realizes that his superiors are less concerned about what he has done but more concerned about the predicament he has created by getting caught.
Beyond Outrage (2012)
, 1h52Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La corruption policière, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Ryō Kase, Tomokazu Miura, Yutaka Matsushige, Tao Okamoto
The film begins with two anti-corruption detectives observing the discovery of dead bodies in a car being recovered from the bottom of a harbor. The detectives suspect that the drowned bodies are related to the recent gang war and power struggle at the huge Sanno-kai crime syndicate, which covers a large portion of eastern Japan. The new Grand Yakuza leader of Sanno-kai, Kato (Tomokazu Miura), must now reform his standing with the powerful rival Hanabishi-kai of western Japan. Otomo (Beat Takeshi), a former Yakuza, is serving time in a maximum security prison after falling out of favor with Sekiuchi, the former Grand Yakuza before Kato murdered him and took control.
Singham (2011)
, 2h23Directed by Rohit Shetty
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes La corruption policière, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Ajay Devgn, Kajal Agarwal, Prakash Raj, Murali Sharma, Sachin Khedekar, Ashok Saraf
Singham opens with an honest police officer in Goa, Rakesh Kadam (Sudhanshu Pandey), committing suicide because of false accusations of corruption by Jaikant Shikre (Prakash Raj), a don and politician in Goa running a kidnapping racket. Kadam's wife Megha Kadam (Sonali Kulkarni) vows revenge.
Outrage (2010)
, 1h49Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La corruption policière, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Takeshi Kitano, Ryō Kase, Tomokazu Miura, Jun Kunimura, Tetta Sugimoto, Eihi Shiina
The film begins with a sumptuous banquet at the opulent estate of the Grand Yakuza leader Sekiuchi (Soichiro Kitamura), boss of the Sanno-kai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, and he has invited the many Yakuza leaders under his control. After the formal conclusion of the banquet, Kato, the chief lieutenant of Sekiuchi, pulls one of the Yakuza leaders, Ikemoto, aside and makes plain that he is displeased with the news that Ikemoto has become friendly with a rival gang leader, Murase, while the two were unexpectedly imprisoned together. Kato orders Ikemoto to bring the unassociated Murase-gumi gang in line, and he immediately passes the task on to his subordinate Otomo (Beat Takeshi), who runs his own crew.
Street Kings (2008)
, 1h49Directed by David Ayer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La corruption policière, Psychologie, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Jay Mohr, Cedric the Entertainer
Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is a disillusioned LAPD Vice detective working for a unit known as Vice Special and haunted by the death of his wife. Working undercover, he meets with Korean gangsters (whom he believes have kidnapped two Korean schoolgirls) in a parking lot, who are looking to buy a machine gun from him. After a vicious beatdown, the Koreans then proceed to steal Tom's car. Tom however planned on this and has the cops locate the vehicle via GPS. Upon arrival at their hideout, Tom storms in and kills the four inside with his .45 Smith & Wesson 4506 pistol, and then locates the missing children after covering up what really happened. While the other officers in his unit congratulate him, he is confronted by his former partner, Detective Terrence Washington (Terry Crews). Washington no longer approves of the corruption and deception and has gone straight, reporting the problems to Captain James Biggs (Hugh Laurie), of internal affairs, who starts an investigation against Ludlow.
Pride and Glory (2008)
, 2h10Directed by Gavin O'Connor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle, John Ortiz
Jimmy Egan (Colin Farrell) leads the New York City Police Department to victory in police-league football. While everybody is celebrating, Francis "Franny'" Tierney Jr. (Noah Emmerich), Jimmy's brother-in-law and superior officer, answers his phone to find out that several men from their unit have been killed during a failed drug bust of a local gang leader, Angel Tezo.
Haïti chérie (2007)
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes La corruption policière
Jean-Baptiste et Magdaleine sont un couple marié de Haïtiens qui travaille dans une plantation de canne à sucre en République Dominicaine. Quand leur bébé meurt de faim, Magdaleine décide de revenir en Haïti.
Elite Squad (2007)
, 1h55Directed by José Padilha
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes La corruption policière, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, André Ramiro, Fernanda Machado, Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda de Freitas
Captain Roberto Nascimento (Wagner Moura) narrates the film, briefly explaining how the police and the drug lords of Rio de Janeiro cooperate with each other (policemen collect periodic bribes and drug lords are left free to operate) in the 90's.
My New Partner III (2003)
, 1h45Directed by Claude Zidi
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Lorànt Deutsch, Chloé Flipo, Jean-Luc Bideau, Bernadette Lafont
Comme il le souhaitait dès l'époque de sa rencontre avec René Boirond, François Lesbuche est devenu commissaire à l'IGS, là où lui et René avaient été embauchés à la fin du deuxième opus. Malgré son grade et sa volonté d'être incorruptible, il n'hésite pas à rejouer les ripoux pour aider son vieil ami René, retraité reclus sur sa péniche. Impliqué bien malgré lui dans une affaire de blanchiment d'argent, René qui a accidentellement perdu le magot qui lui avait été confié est poursuivi par les commerçants chinois de Belleville. Avec l'aide d'un ami chirurgien, Albert, René change d'identité et devient Jean Morzini, un patient de la clinique d'Albert récemment décédé. Il reçoit alors la visite d'une certaine Maud qui lui remet les instructions pour le casse d'une banque que Morzini avait prévu de cambrioler ; et de la fille du vrai Morzini, Marie, qui n'avait jamais vu son père et croit que c'est René. Simultanément, François prend sous sa tutelle un jeune stagiaire, Julien, filleul de son patron, qui s'éprend de Marie.
Narc (2002)
, 1h42Directed by Joe Carnahan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La corruption policière, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Films about psychiatry, Gangster films
Actors Jason Patric, Ray Liotta, Chi McBride, Busta Rhymes, Stacey Farber, Alan Van Sprang
Undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) chases a drug dealer through the streets of Detroit after Tellis' identity has been discovered. During the pursuit, the dealer holds a child hostage. Tellis shoots and kills the dealer before he can hurt the child, however a stray bullet hits the child's pregnant mother, causing her to miscarry.
Training Day (2001)
, 2h2Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes La corruption policière, L'action se déroule en une journée, Mafia films, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Films about psychiatry, Gangster films
Actors Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin, Raymond J. Barry
The film follows a day in the life of Los Angeles Police Department officer, Jake Hoyt, who is scheduled to be evaluated by Detective Alonzo Harris, a highly decorated LAPD narcotics officer. In Alonzo's car, the officer sees teenage Mara Salvatrucha gang members dealing drugs in a park. Alonzo confiscates the drugs and tells Jake to take a hit of the marijuana. Jake refuses, but Alonzo puts a gun to his head and says that Jake's failure to use drugs could get him killed by a street dealer.