The Wire. =)
I second The Wire. Perhaps the subject is too prone to contrivances to properly deal with in film as effectively as television with it’s greater length.
I am looking forward to a film called Police:Adjective, however. I am not sure when it will be coming to the states.
High and Low
Le Cercle Rouge count?
Rififi is pretty badass as well. The Wire is the greatest tv series of all time.
Something tells me I should watch The Wire.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Big Heat
High and Low
Zodiac
Walter Matthau in The Taking of Pelham 123 and The Laughing Policeman
…..
Siegel’s Charley Varrick
There is a French film titled La Balance….
Godard’s Detective.
Definetly The Wire needs to be on top of all or most of those movies, but its a TV show (and a long one too) so hopefully Criterion starts releasing TV shows in the future.
I would also add L.A. Confidential, Chinatown, High and Low, Reservoir Dogs, Dirty Harry, Fargo, Taking of Pelham 123, Seven, The Onion Field, but haven’t seen them yet.
Sam: Don’t know about Le Cercle Rouge, haven’t seen it, and what do you mean does it count?
Banal: Haven’t seen Zodiac, but I heard it’s supposed to be very good, and isn’t that Testament of Dr. Mabuse on Criterion?
Detective sounds interesting, especially since it’s by Godard, I dunno about La Balance, I’ll look into it.
PRINCE OF THE CITY
CRUISING
SERPICO
LA BALANCE
MEMORIES OF MURDER
HAMMETT
THE ONION FIELD
DEEP COVER
MAGNUM FORCE
NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN
Q & A
COPLAND
THE OFFENCE
BAD LIEUTENANT
MALTESE FALCON
SEVEN
THE BIG SLEEP
FALLEN
HEAT
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
CODE OF SILENCE
THE CHOIRBOYS
GORKY PARK
THE PINK PANTHER
Andrew, none of those films are in the Criterion Collection right?
Silence of the Lambs is a Criterion but out of print, I believe.
High and Low immediately comes to mind. Heat ranks up there. Same with Blade Runner.
High and Low immediately comes to mind. Heat ranks up there. Same with Blade Runner.
Silence of the Lambs is on Criterion, as has been said before, it’s out-of-print, but easy to get hold of for a few Pounds/Dollars/Euros etc.
Thin Blue Line
Robocop
LA Confidential
Twin Peaks anyone?
and even Clean, Shaven has a detective
Chinatown (How sweet would a Criterion edition be???) and The Wire
Seven
One of the best private eye movies ever: “Murder, My Sweet” directed by Edward Dmytryk.
All the great ones already mentioned, esp. procedurals like Heat, High & Low, Le Cercle Rogue and Stray Dog.
Also-
John Woo’s Hard Boiled
The Seven-Ups
H. G. Clouzot’s Quai des Orfèvres
J P. Melville’s Le Deuxieme Souffle
and… among the nastiest -
Beat Takeshi’s Violent Cop
Across the 110th Street
Any one of the three “Dr. Mabuse” movies that Fritz Lang made, especially the first two and of course “M.” For something more lighthearted you can’t go wrong, imo, with “The Thin Man” series starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. The Charlie Chan movies with Warner Orland as Charlie Chan are great as well. (Sydney Toler just doesn’t do it for me.)
My favorites include:
Chinatown
Blade Runner
The French Connection
Gosford’s Park
“Fargo” anyone?
Insomnia (Criterion)
L.A. Confidential
Lantana
Police- Maurice Pialat. Writer, Catherine Briellat/Pialat. A raw and idiosyncratic procedural. You might profit by looking at it beside The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, a film closer to it in tone and execution than any of the films cited on this thread.
Vengence Is Mine.
Blade Runner….good call Vanessa
Pls help get the name of a movie, which I want to see again.Plot: The Mayor of L.A set a unit in the Police Dept with Full carte blanche to get rid of criminal/potential criminal by any mean.
Hope this help
Gurp
So since Homicide is coming out next week, I was wondering what you people think are the greatest cop and detective movies of all time, and what are the greatest ones in the Criterion Collection?
Also which do you think deserve the Criterion treatment like Homicide has received?
Criterion Collection Cops (the ones I have)
233 – Stray Dog
380 – The Naked City
151 – Traffic
The Greatest Cop Movies that I’ve seen (these deserve the Criterion Treatment)
The Dark Knight
The French Connection
To Live and Die in L.A.
The Untouchables
Blade Runner
In the Heat of the Night
Narc
Black Rain
The New Centurions
Colors
Ghost in the Shell
Appleseed
Serpico
Training Day
Fort Apache, The Bronx
Mystic River
Heat
Internal Affairs
The Departed
Batman Begins
Robocop (re-release?)
Good Cop Movies
Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Die Hard Quadrilogy
Lethal Weapon Quadrilogy
48 Hrs/Another 48 Hours
Tango & Cash
Demolition Man
Harsh Times
Rush Hour Trilogy
Super Troopers
So what are your favorites?