The Top 100 Police Detective Films of All Time

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The Top 100 Police Detective Films of All Time
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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16 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa NR -
19 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme R -
23 Se7en 1995 David Fincher R -
28 M 1931 Fritz Lang NR -
64 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles NR -
145 Memories of Murder 2003 Bong Joon Ho NR -
213 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin R -
253 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma R -
255 Heat 1995 Michael Mann R -
273 Le Cercle Rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville R -
275 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson R -
317 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison NR -
344 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent R -
362 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang NR -
395 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel R -
416 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa NR -
480 Prisoners 2013 Denis Villeneuve R -
527 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo R -
533 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner R -
591 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates NR -
623 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy R -
803 The Batman 2022 Matt Reeves PG13 -
851 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher R -
895 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Fritz Lang NR -
1014 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 William Friedkin R -
1063 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood R -
1084 Out of Sight 1998 Steven Soderbergh R -
1135 Police Story 1985 Jackie Chan PG13 -
1201 Magnum Force 1973 Ted Post R -
1248 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill R -
1252 The Naked City 1948 Jules Dassin NR -
1331 Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang NR -
1541 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 Richard Donner R -
1634 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder R -
2091 The Enforcer 1976 James Fargo R -
2245 The Narrow Margin 1952 Richard Fleischer NR -
2305 Bunny Lake Is Missing 1965 Otto Preminger NR -
2389 Green for Danger 1946 Sidney Gilliat NR -
2528 The Exorcist III 1990 William Peter Blatty R -
2587 Sudden Impact 1983 Clint Eastwood R -
2606 One False Move 1991 Carl Franklin R -
2634 Narc 2002 Joe Carnahan R -
2768 The Big Combo 1955 Joseph H. Lewis NR -
2782 French Connection II 1975 John Frankenheimer R -
2799 Insomnia 2002 Christopher Nolan R -
2830 Police Story 2 1988 Jackie Chan PG13 -
2866 Supercop 1992 Stanley Tong R -
2923 Cure 1997 Kiyoshi Kurosawa NR -
2945 On Dangerous Ground 1952 Nicholas Ray NR -
3046 The Gauntlet 1977 Clint Eastwood R -
3071 The Negotiator 1998 F. Gary Gray R -
3085 Cruising 1980 William Friedkin R -
3209 Across 110th Street 1972 Barry Shear R -
3283 The Dead Pool 1988 Buddy Van Horn R -
3333 The Big Easy 1986 Jim McBride R -
3431 Lethal Weapon 3 1992 Richard Donner R -
3447 Running Scared 1986 Peter Hyams R -
3493 Alien Nation 1988 Graham Baker NR -
3518 Miami Blues 1990 George Armitage R -
3537 A Lizard in a Woman's Skin 1971 Lucio Fulci R -
3646 Experiment in Terror 1962 Blake Edwards NR -
3671 Rush Hour 2 2001 Brett Ratner PG13 -
3729 Revenge of the Pink Panther 1978 Blake Edwards PG -
3747 Basic Instinct 1992 Paul Verhoeven R -
3749 The Pledge 2001 Sean Penn R -
3865 Maniac Cop 1988 William Lustig R -
4005 Lantana 2001 Ray Lawrence R -
4013 2 Days in the Valley 1996 John Herzfeld R -
4016 Citizen X 1995 Chris Gerolmo NR -
4104 Wolfen 1981 Michael Wadleigh R -
4113 Batman: Year One 2011 Sam Liu, Lauren Montgomery PG13 -
4205 Cobra 1986 George P. Cosmatos R -
4218 From Hell 2001 Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes R -
4226 Copycat 1995 Jon Amiel R -
4260 Dirty Money 1972 Jean-Pierre Melville PG -
4279 Tightrope 1984 Richard Tuggle R -
4293 The Seven-Ups 1973 Philip D'Antoni PG -
4296 Lethal Weapon 4 1998 Richard Donner R -
4404 In the Valley of Elah 2007 Paul Haggis R -
4438 Insomnia 1997 Erik Skjoldbjærg NR -
4514 Blue Thunder 1983 John Badham R -
4806 Kiss the Girls 1997 Gary Fleder R -
4833 Gorky Park 1983 Michael Apted R -
4943 Red Heat 1988 Walter Hill R -
4999 Dragged Across Concrete 2018 S. Craig Zahler R -
5173 Coogan's Bluff 1968 Don Siegel R -
5218 Year of the Dragon 1985 Michael Cimino R -
5295 Blown Away 1994 Stephen Hopkins R -
5374 Mr. Brooks 2007 Bruce A. Evans R -
5522 The Bone Collector 1999 Phillip Noyce R -
5531 Freebie and the Bean 1974 Richard Rush R -
5587 Out of Time 2003 Carl Franklin PG13 -
5599 Above the Law 1988 Andrew Davis R -
5693 Raw Meat 1972 Gary Sherman R -
5869 The Rookie 1990 Clint Eastwood R -
5987 The Presidio 1988 Peter Hyams R -
6045 The Interview 1998 Craig Monahan NR -
6155 Hard to Kill 1990 Bruce Malmuth R -
6233 Along Came a Spider 2001 Lee Tamahori R -
6262 Edge of Darkness 2010 Martin Campbell R -

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