Killer & Cop

The ABCs of 250 Killer & Cop Movies:

(Movies I have seen are in bold.)

Death On The Nile (2022)

A: Agatha Christie

    1. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
    2. Ten Little Indians (1965)
    3. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
    4. Death on the Nile (1978)
    5. The Mirror Crack’d (1980)
    6. Evil Under the Sun (1982)
    7. Appointment with Death (1988)
    8. Murder On The Orient Express (2017)
    9. Death On The Nile (2022)
    10. A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)

B: Buddy Cop

    1. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
    2. Lethal Weapon (1987)
    3. Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
    4. Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
    5. Bad Boys (1995)
    6. Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
    7. Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
    8. Bad Boys II (2003)
    9. Bad Boys for Life (2020)
    10. Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)
Miss Congeniality (2000)

C: Cop Comedy

    1. Police Academy (1984)
    2. Dragnet (1978)
    3. Clue (1985)
    4. Turner & Hooch (1989)
    5. Kindergarten Cop (1990)
    6. Miss Congeniality (2000)
    7. Super Troopers (2001)
    8. Starsky & Hutch (2004)
    9. Hot Fuzz (2007)
    10. The Other Guys (2010)
On the Basis of Sex (2018)

D: Drama (Legal)

(See also: Lawyer-Courtroom.)

    1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
    2. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
    3. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
    4. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
    5. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
    6. The Verdict (1982)
    7. A Few Good Men (1992)
    8. Erin Brockovich (2000)
    9. Marshall (2017)
    10. On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Dirty Harry (1971)

E: Enforcer – Dirty Harry & Action

    1. Dirty Harry (1971)
    2. Magnum Force (1973)
    3. The Enforcer (1976)
    4. Sudden Impact (1983)
    5. The Dead Pool (1988)
    6. Midnight Run (1988)
    7. Die Hard 2 (1990)
    8. Rush Hour (1998)
    9. Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
    10. End of Watch (2012)
Les Misérables (2012)

F: Fugitive

    1. North by Northwest (1959)
    2. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
    3. Badlands (1973)
    4. Thelma & Louise (1991)
    5. The Fugitive (1993)
    6. U.S. Marshals (1998)
    7. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
    8. Les Misérables (2012)
    9. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
    10. Ride or Die (2021)
8 Mile (2002)

G: Gangs

    1. The Killers (1946)
    2. The Warriors (1979)
    3. The Outsiders (1983)
    4. Colors (1988)
    5. Boyz n the Hood (1991)
    6. American History X (1998)
    7. Traffic (2000)
    8. 8 Mile (2002)
    9. Gangs of New York (2002)
    10. Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

H: Heist

    1. White Heat (1949)
    2. Heat (1995)
    3. Snatch (2000)
    4. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
    5. Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
    6. Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)
    7. Hell or High Water (2016)
    8. Ocean’s Eight (2018)
    9. Widows (2018)
    10. Inside Man (2023)
All the President’s Men (1976)

I: Investigative Journalism

    1. All the President’s Men (1976)
    2. Blue Velvet (1986)
    3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
    4. The Insider (1999)
    5. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
    6. Zodiac (2007)
    7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
    8. Spotlight (2015)
    9. The Post (2017)
    10. She Said (2022)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

J: Jailhouse-Prison

    1. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
    2. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
    3. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
    4. Papillon (1973)
    5. Caged Heat (1974)
    6. Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
    7. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
    8. The Rock (1996)
    9. The Green Mile (1999)
    10. Hunger (2008)
Taxi Driver (1976)

K: Killer

    1. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
    2. M (1931)
    3. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
    4. Psycho (1960)
    5. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
    6. Taxi Driver (1976)
    7. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
    8. Se7en (1995)
    9. American Psycho (2000)
    10. No Country for Old Men (2007)
A Time To Kill (1996)

L: Lawyer – Courtroom

(More legal dramas.)

    1. Inherit the Wind (1960)
    2. My Cousin Vinny (1992)
    3. Philadelphia (1993)
    4. The Firm (1993)
    5. The Pelican Brief (1993)
    6. The Client (1994)
    7. A Time To Kill (1996)
    8. The Chamber (1996)
    9. The Rainmaker (1997)
    10. Runaway Jury (2003)
Rear Window (1954)

M: Mystery

(See also: Whodunit – Murder Mystery.)

    1. Laura (1944)
    2. Vertigo (1958)
    3. The Third Man (1949)
    4. Rear Window (1954)
    5. Dial M for Murder (1954)
    6. Body Heat (1981)
    7. Chinatown (1974)
    8. The Usual Suspects (1995)
    9. Basic Instinct (1992)
    10. Fargo (1996)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)

N: Noir

    1. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
    2. Casablanca (1942)
    3. The Big Sleep (1946)
    4. Key Largo (1948)
    5. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
    6. In a Lonely Place (1950)
    7. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
    8. The African Queen (1951)
    9. L.A. Confidential (1997)
    10. Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Godfather (1972)

O: Organized Crime

    1. Scarface (1931 & 1983)
    2. The Godfather (1972)
    3. The Godfather Part II (1974)
    4. The Godfather Part III (1990)
    5. Goodfellas (1990)
    6. A Bronx Tale (1993)
    7. Casino (1995)
    8. Donnie Brasco (1997)
    9. A Most Violent Year (2014)
    10. The Irishman (2019)
Road to Perdition (2002)

P: Prohibition

    1. The Public Enemy (1931)
    2. Little Caesar (1931)
    3. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
    4. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967)
    5. The Untouchables (1987)
    6. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
    7. Road to Perdition (2002)
    8. Public Enemies (2009)
    9. Lawless (2012)
    10. The Great Gatsby (2013)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Q: Conspiracy

    1. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
    2. Seven Days in May (1964)
    3. The Parallax View (1974)
    4. Three Days of the Condor (1975)
    5. Blow Out (1981)
    6. JFK (1991)
    7. Conspiracy Theory (1997)
    8. Wag the Dog (1997)
    9. Enemy of the State (1998)
    10. The Report (2019)
Die Hard (1988)
Die Hard (1988)

R: Ransom – Kidnaping/Hostage

    1. Die Hard (1988)
    2. Speed (1994)
    3. Ransom (1996)
    4. Executive Decision (1996)
    5. Air Force One (1997)
    6. The Negotiator (1998)
    7. The Transporter (2002)
    8. Man on Fire (2004)
    9. Taken (2008)
    10. Captain Phillips (2013)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

S: Sherlock Holmes

    1. Sherlock Holmes (1922)
    2. A Study in Scarlet (1933)
    3. Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
      • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
      • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
      • The Woman in Green (1945)
      • Terror by Night (1946)
      • Dressed to Kill (1946)
    4. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
    5. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
    6. Murder by Decree (1979)
    7. Sherlock Holmes (TV 1984)
    8. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
    9. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
    10. Mr. Holmes (2015)
In Cold Blood (1967)

T: True Crime

    1. In Cold Blood (1967)
    2. The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
    3. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
    4. Summer of Sam (1999)
    5. Monster (2003)
    6. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
    7. The Big Short (2015)
    8. Patriots Day (2016)
    9. I, Tonya (2017)
    10. Till (2022)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)

U: Undercover

    1. Serpico (1973)
    2. City On Fire (1987)
    3. Point Break (1991)
    4. Hard Boiled (1992)
    5. Infernal Affairs (2002)
    6. The Recruit (2003)
    7. The Departed (2006)
    8. Eastern Promises (2007)
    9. American Hustle (2013)
    10. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
The Bourne Identity (2002)

V: Vehicle Chase

    1. Bullitt (1968)
    2. The Italian Job (1969)
    3. The French Connection (1971)
    4. Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
    5. The Blues Brothers (1980)
    6. Ronin (1998)
    7. The Fast and the Furious (2001)
    8. The Bourne Identity (2002)
    9. The Italian Job (2003)
    10. Baby Driver (2017)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)

W: Whodunit – Murder Mystery

(See also: Mystery.)

    1. The Thin Man (1934)
    2. Charade (1963)
    3. In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
    4. Along Came a Spider (2001)
    5. Mystic River (2003)
    6. Oldboy (2003)
    7. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
    8. Gone Girl (2014)
    9. Knives Out (2019)
    10. Where The Crawdads Sing (2022)
I, Robot (2004)

X: X-Files & Sci-Fi Cops

    1. Soylent Green (1973)
    2. Logan’s Run (1976)
    3. Blade Runner (1982 & 2017)
    4. RoboCop (1987)
    5. Alien Nation (1988)
    6. Demolition Man (1993)
    7. Judge Dredd (1995 & 2012)
    8. The X Files (1998)
    9. Minority Report (2002)
    10. I, Robot (2004)
Black Rain (1989)

Y: Yakuza

    1. Drunken Angel (1948)
    2. Tokyo Drifter (1966)
    3. Outlaw: Gangster VIP (1968)
    4. The Yakuza (1974)
    5. Graveyard of Honor (1975)
    6. Black Rain (1989)
    7. Sonatine (1993)
    8. Fireworks (1997)
    9. Graveyard of Honor (2002)
    10. Outrage (2010)