Killer & Cop Films

The ABCs of 200 Killer & Cop Films:

(I have seen the 86 movies in bold.)

The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)
A: Assassin
    1. The Killer (1989)
    2. La Femme Nikita (1990)
    3. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
    4. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
    5. In Bruges (2008)
    6. 13 Assassins (2010)
    7. Sicario (2015
    8. The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)
    9. Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021)
    10. Bullet Train (2022)
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. Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
    7. Rush Hour (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. Midnight Run (1988)
    4. Turner & Hooch (1989)
    5. Kindergarten Cop (1990)
    6. My Cousin Vinny (1992)
    7. Miss Congeniality (2000)
    8. Super Troopers (2001)
    9. Starsky & Hutch (2004)
    10. Hot Fuzz (2007)
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
D: Drama (Legal)

(See also: Lawyer-Courtroom for movies based on books by John Grisham.)

    1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
    2. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
    3. Inherit the Wind (1960)
    4. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
    5. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
    6. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
    7. A Few Good Men (1992)
    8. Philadelphia (1993)
    9. Erin Brockovich (2000)
    10. On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Dirty Harry (1971)
E: Enforcer – Dirty Harry
    1. Dirty Harry (1971)
    2. Magnum Force (1973)
    3. The Enforcer (1976)
    4. Sudden Impact (1983)
    5. The Dead Pool (1988)
Les Misérables (2012)
F: Fugitive
    1. North by Northwest (1959)
    2. Thelma & Louise (1991)
    3. The Fugitive (1993)
    4. U.S. Marshals (1998)
    5. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
    6. Les Misérables (2012)
    7. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
    8. Ride or Die (2021)
8 Mile (2002)
G: Gangs
    1. The Killers (1946)
    2. The Warriors (1979)
    3. The Outsiders (1983)
    4. Boyz n the Hood (1991)
    5. American History X (1998)
    6. Traffic (2000)
    7. 8 Mile (2002)
    8. Gangs of New York (2002)
    9. End of Watch (2012)
    10. Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
H: Heist
    1. Heat (1995)
    2. Snatch (2000)
    3. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
    4. Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
    5. Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)
    6. Ocean’s Eight (2018)
All the President’s Men (1976)
I: Investigative Journalism
    1. All the President’s Men (1976)
    2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
    3. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
    4. Zodiac (2007)
    5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
    6. Spotlight (2015)
    7. The Post (2017)
    8. She Said (2022)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
J: Jailhouse-Prison
    1. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
    2. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
    3. Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
    4. Tango & Cash (1989)
    5. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
    6. The Rock (1996)
    7. The Green Mile (1999)
    8. Hunger (2008)
Taxi Driver (1976)
K: Killer
    1. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
    2. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)
    3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
    4. Taxi Driver (1976)
    5. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
    6. Se7en (1995)
    7. American Psycho (2000)
    8. No Country for Old Men (2007)
A Time To Kill (1996)
L: Lawyer – Courtroom

(Movies based on books by John Grisham.)

    1. The Firm (1993)
    2. The Pelican Brief (1993)
    3. The Client (1994)
    4. A Time To Kill (1996)
    5. The Chamber (1996)
    6. The Rainmaker (1997)
    7. Runaway Jury (2003)
Rear Window (1954)
M: Mystery
    1. Vertigo (1958)
    2. The Third Man (1949)
    3. Rear Window (1954)
    4. Dial M for Murder (1954)
    5. Body Heat (1981)
    6. The Verdict (1982)
    7. The Usual Suspects (1995)
    8. Basic Instinct (1992)
    9. Fargo (1996)

(See also: Whodunit – Murder Mystery.)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
N: Noir
    1. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
    2. Chinatown (1974)
    3. L.A. Confidential (1997)
    4. Mulholland Drive (2001)
    5. Collateral (2004)
The Godfather (1972)
O: Organized Crime
    1. Scarface (1931)
    2. The Godfather (1972)
    3. The Godfather Part II (1974)
    4. Scarface (1983)
    5. The Godfather Part III (1990)
    6. Goodfellas (1990)
    7. Casino (1995)
    8. Donnie Brasco (1997)
    9. 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. Road to Perdition (2002)
    7. Public Enemies (2009)
    8. The Great Gatsby (2013)
Death On The Nile (2022)
Q: Queen of Mystery – Agatha Christie
    1. A Night of Terror (1937)
    2. And Then There Were None (1945)
    3. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
    4. Murder She Said (1961)
    5. Ten Little Indians (1965)
    6. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
    7. Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot
      • Death on the Nile (1978)
      • Evil Under the Sun (1982)
      • Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
      • Dead Man’s Folly (1986)
      • Murder in Three Acts (1986)
      • Appointment with Death (1988)
    8. The Mirror Crack’d (1980)
    9. Crooked House (2017)
    10. Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot
      • Murder On The Orient Express (2017)
      • Death On The Nile (2022)
      • A Haunting in Venice (2023)
    • Miss Marple (TV 1985, 1987, 1989)
    • Poirot (TV 1989-2013)
    • Marple (TV 2004-2013)
    • And Then There Were None (TV 2015)
    • The ABC Murders (TV 2018)
Man on Fire (2004)
R: Ransom – Kidnaping/Hostage
    1. Speed (1994)
    2. Executive Decision (1996)
    3. Air Force One (1997)
    4. The Transporter (2002)
    5. Man on Fire (2004)
    6. Taken (2008)
    7. Captain Phillips (2013)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
S: Sherlock Holmes
    1. Sherlock Jr. (1924) (Buster Keaton)
    2. Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
      • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
      • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
      • Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
      • Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
      • Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
      • Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
      • The Spider Woman (1943)
      • The Scarlet Claw (1944)
      • The Pearl of Death (1944)
      • The House of Fear (1945)
      • The Woman in Green (1945)
      • Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
      • Terror by Night (1946)
      • Dressed to Kill (1946)
    3. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) (Peter Cushing)
    4. A Study in Terror (1965) (John Neville)
    5. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) (Robert Stephens with Christopher Lee)
    6. Murder by Decree (1979) (Christopher Plummer)
    7. Without a Clue (1988) (Michael Caine with Ben Kingsley)
    8. Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes and Patrick Macnee as Dr. Watson
      • Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)
      • Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)
    9. Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes
      • Sherlock Holmes (2009) (Robert Downey Jr.)
      • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) (Robert Downey Jr.)
    10. Mr. Holmes (2015) (Ian McKellen)
    • Sherlock Holmes (TV 1954–1955) (Ronald Howard)
    • Sherlock Holmes (TV 1964–1968) (Peter Cushing & Douglas Wilmer)
    • Sherlock Holmes (TV 1984-1988) (Jeremy Brett)
    • Sherlock (TV 2010-2017) (Benedict Cumberbatch)
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. Point Break (1991)
    3. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Bullitt (1968)
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. The Italian Job (2003)
Knives Out (2019)
W: Whodunit – Murder Mystery
    1. The Thin Man (1934)
    2. Along Came a Spider (2001)
    3. Mystic River (2003)
    4. Oldboy (2003)
    5. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
    6. Gone Girl (2014)
    7. Knives Out (2019)
    8. Where The Crawdads Sing (2022)

(See also: Mystery.)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
X: Conspiracy
    1. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
    2. Seven Days in May (1964)
    3. Three Days of the Condor (1975)
    4. JFK (1991)
    5. Conspiracy Theory (1997)
    6. Wag the Dog (1997)
    7. Enemy of the State (1998)
    8. The Report (2019)
Black Rain (1989)
Y: Yakuza
    1. Black Rain (1989)