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Bad police

by guisreis • Created 10 years ago • Modified 3 weeks ago
Excluded movies about dictatorships, as police is always bad in authoritarian regimes. A list of excellent movies about dictatorships may be seen HERE.

Add: Quien mató a Pablo Escobar, Netflix 45 minute documentary directed by Santiago Fernández Calvete (I give it a 7: great footage and interviews but not a good edition and soundtrack) https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/356928-quien-mat-a-pablo-escobar?language=en
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  • Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning (1988)

    1. Mississippi Burning

    19882h 8mR65Metascore
    7.8 (123K)
    Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights activists.
    DirectorAlan ParkerStarsGene HackmanWillem DafoeFrances McDormand
  • Michael Peña and Ashlyn Sanchez in Crash (2004)

    2. Crash

    20041h 52mR66Metascore
    7.7 (457K)
    Racial tensions collide in a collection of intertwined stories involving residents of Los Angeles.
    DirectorPaul HaggisStarsDon CheadleSandra BullockThandiwe Newton
  • Terribly Happy (2008)

    3. Terribly Happy

    20081h 39mUnrated74Metascore
    6.7 (7.3K)
    A thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown.
    DirectorHenrik Ruben GenzStarsJakob CedergrenLene Maria ChristensenKim Bodnia
  • Jamie Bell in Billy Elliot (2000)

    4. Billy Elliot

    20001h 50mR74Metascore
    7.7 (149K)
    A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
    DirectorStephen DaldryStarsJamie BellJulie WaltersJean Heywood
  • Gabriel Byrne and John Turturro in Miller's Crossing (1990)

    5. Miller's Crossing

    19901h 55mR66Metascore
    7.7 (147K)
    Tom Reagan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties.
    DirectorsJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsGabriel ByrneAlbert FinneyJohn Turturro
  • 7 Boxes (2012)

    6. 7 Boxes

    20121h 45mTV-1472Metascore
    7.1 (6.5K)
    Víctor receives an unusual proposal, to carry 7 boxes of unknown content through the Market Number 4 but things get complicated along the way.
    DirectorsJuan Carlos ManegliaTana SchémboriStarsCelso FrancoVíctor SosaLali Gonzalez
  • Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

    7. The Shawshank Redemption

    19942h 22mR82Metascore
    9.3 (3.1M)
    A banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.
    DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob Gunton
    Bad prision guards.
  • The Assailant (2009)

    8. The Assailant

    20091h 34mR
    5.9 (1.8K)
    Based on the life of a legendary capoeira fighter from Bahia, "Besouro" spins a fantastic tale of a young Brazilian man of African descent in search of his mission.
    DirectorJoão Daniel TikhomiroffStarsAílton CarmoJéssica BarbosaFlávio Rocha
  • Rodrigo Santoro in Bicho de Sete Cabeças (2000)

    9. Bicho de Sete Cabeças

    20001h 14m
    7.7 (7.1K)
    A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The marijuana cigarette is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Send to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director give this movie a sensation of realty that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through change this relations with his father.
    DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsRodrigo SantoroOthon BastosCássia Kis
  • Peter Fonda in Easy Rider (1969)

    10. Easy Rider

    19691h 35mR85Metascore
    7.2 (121K)
    Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
    DirectorDennis HopperStarsPeter FondaDennis HopperJack Nicholson
  • The Pope's Toilet (2007)

    11. The Pope's Toilet

    20071h 30mTV-MA
    7.2 (2.9K)
    A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit.
    DirectorsCésar CharloneEnrique FernándezStarsCésar TroncosoVirginia MéndezMario Silva
  • The Mechanism (2018)

    12. The Mechanism

    2018–201916 epsTV-MATV Series
    8.0 (37K)
    Dramatic fiction series loosely inspired by an investigation of corruption in Brazil's private and state oil companies and construction companies.
    CreatorJosé PadilhaStarsCaroline AbrasSelton MelloEnrique Diaz
    This dire TV series show Brazilian Federal Police comitting crimes as something nice.
  • Jenny Agutter, Farrah Fawcett, Michael York, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Richard Jordan in Logan's Run (1976)

    13. Logan's Run

    19761h 59mPG53Metascore
    6.8 (64K)
    A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
    DirectorMichael AndersonStarsMichael YorkJenny AgutterRichard Jordan
  • El bonaerense (2002)

    14. El bonaerense

    20021h 45m66Metascore
    6.8 (2.3K)
    A young locksmith is forced to leave his home and family to join the Buenos Aires police force.
    DirectorPablo TraperoStarsJorge RománMimí ArdúDarío Levy
  • Edward Norton and Colin Farrell in Pride and Glory (2008)

    15. Pride and Glory

    20082h 10mR45Metascore
    6.6 (65K)
    A family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
    DirectorGavin O'ConnorStarsEdward NortonColin FarrellNoah Emmerich
  • Fernanda Montenegro and Vinícius de Oliveira in Central Station (1998)

    16. Central Station

    19981h 50mR80Metascore
    8.0 (48K)
    The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
    DirectorWalter SallesStarsFernanda MontenegroVinícius de OliveiraMarília Pêra
  • Inhabitants of Belo Vale Boa Morte and Cidade de Congonhas and Paige Ellens in City of God (2002)

    17. City of God

    20022h 10mR79Metascore
    8.6 (845K)
    In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
    DirectorsFernando MeirellesKátia LundStarsAlexandre RodriguesLeandro FirminoMatheus Nachtergaele
  • James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope (1970)

    18. The Great White Hope

    19701h 43mPG-1353Metascore
    6.9 (3K)
    A Black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
    DirectorMartin RittStarsJames Earl JonesJane AlexanderLou Gilbert
  • Rita Cortese, Ricardo Darín, Diego Gentile, Darío Grandinetti, Oscar Martínez, María Marull, Erica Rivas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Mónica Villa, María Onetto, and Julieta Zylberberg in Wild Tales (2014)

    19. Wild Tales

    20142h 2mR77Metascore
    8.1 (231K)
    Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
    DirectorDamián SzifronStarsDarío GrandinettiMaría MarullMónica Villa
  • City of Men (2007)

    20. City of Men

    20071h 46mR63Metascore
    7.2 (17K)
    Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
    DirectorPaulo MorelliStarsDouglas SilvaDarlan CunhaJonathan Haagensen
  • Ernesto Alterio, Luis Tosar, and Michelle Jenner in Gun City (2018)

    21. Gun City

    20182h 6mTV-MA
    6.3 (4.5K)
    In 1921 a tough cop is sent from Madrid to Barcelona to locate stolen military weaponry.
    DirectorDani de la TorreStarsLuis TosarMichelle JennerVicente Romero
  • August Winds (2014)

    22. August Winds

    20141h 17mUnrated78Metascore
    6.3 (642)
    The August winds gust and a poetic duel between life, death, loss, memory, the wind and the sea ensues.
    DirectorGabriel MascaroStarsDandara de MoraisGeová Manoel Dos SantosMaria Salvino Dos Santos
  • Dancing with the Devil (2009)

    23. Dancing with the Devil

    20091h 45m
    7.5 (194)
    Rio slum-set film: drug lord Spiderman, 28, oversees territory; cop Torres hunts criminals amid gunfire; pastor Dione seeks to end narcotics conflict. Depicts three perspectives in city's violent drug war through unprecedented access.
    DirectorJon BlairStarsLeonardo TorresDione Dos SantosMarcio da Silva Lima
  • José Wilker in The Man in the Black Cape (1986)

    24. The Man in the Black Cape

    19862h
    7.3 (340)
    Biography of Brazilian congressman Tenório Cavalcanti, who used to appear in public carrying a machine-gun, and wearing a black cloak.
    DirectorSergio RezendeStarsJosé WilkerMarieta SeveroJonas Bloch
  • Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)

    25. Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury

    20131h 14m
    7.1 (2.1K)
    Revolves around the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years, through Brazil's colonization, slavery, military regime and the future, in 2096, in the midst of wars for water.
    DirectorsLuiz BolognesiJean Cullen De MouraMarcelo Fernandes De MouraStarsSelton MelloCamila PitangaRodrigo Santoro

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