Subgenre Sampler
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Wiseguy (TV Series) (1987-1990)
- Feat. Ken Wahl, Kevin Spacey, Tim Curry…
- Influential 80's crime series featuring the appealing Ken Wahl as an undercover FBI agent attempting to infiltrate the Mafia and destroy them from…
Cobra (1986)
- Dir. George P. Cosmatos
Feat. Sylvester Stallone
- Gruesome post–RAMBO vehicle for Sly Stallone as a tough city cop.
Crime Story (TV Series) (1986-1988)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Dennis Farina, Andrew Dice Clay
- Genre stylist Michael Mann (COLLATERAL) followed up MIAMI VICE with this good–looking crime story set in hardboiled 60s Chicago. Dennis Farina…
Off Beat (1986)
- Dir. Michael Dinner
Feat. Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel
- Comedy about a likeable librarian who impersonates a police officer at a charity function as a favour to a friend, but then finds himself in the…
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…
Dempsey & Makepeace (TV Series) (1985)
- Feat. Michael Brandon, Glynis Barber
- Glynis Barber attained minor cult status as the smart, sexy partner of a rough and tumble New York cop (Brandon), mismatched of course in this…
P.D. James Collection, The (TV Series) (1985-1998)
- Feat. Roy Marsden
- Award winning drama collections written by P.D. James detailing the challenges of a disciplined detective commander solving a series of scandalous…
Police Story (1985)
- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung
- The incomparable Jackie Chan – a mix of Bruce Lee and Buster Keaton – is in prime form here, weaving his brand of sly Asian humour into a series…
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…