Best Cop movies of 1990s

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Helen Hunt, David Caruso, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Barbet Schroeder,

A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Patrick O'Neal, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him in this gritty ...

Actors : Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, Jean-Claude Van Damme, George Dickerson,
Directors : Deran Sarafian,

In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.

Actors : Twinkle Khanna, Rakhee Gulzar, Amrish Puri, Shah Rukh Khan,

A small time detective is mistaken as a CBI agent and gets embroiled in a deadly mission to save the Chief Minister from an assassination attempt.

Actors : Graham Beckel, Uma Thurman, Andy Garcia, Lance Henriksen,
Directors : Bruce Robinson,

A big-city cop from L.A. moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a ...

Actors : Kelly Lynch, Mary Stuart Masterson, Eric Roberts, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Phil Joanou,

A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.

Actors : Kevin Pollak, Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T,
Directors : Russell Mulcahy,

A District Attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Actors : Ezio Greggio, Leslie Nielsen, Ophélie Winter, Peter Egan,
Directors : Allan A. Goldstein,

Leslie Nielsen once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the 'Naked Gun' movies, but this time as Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix. When odd reports are received through official ...

Actors : Michael Boatman, Erich Anderson, Lori Petty, Richard Anderson,
Directors : Charles Burnett,

J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. ...

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Daniel Baldwin, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer ...

Actors : Dean Jones, Christina Ricci, George Dzundza, Doug E. Doug,
Directors : Bob Spiers,

A maid is kidnapped and scratches a message onto D.C. the cat's collar and when his owner Patti discovers this, she plays amateur detective with the help of D.C. to try to find the culprits.

Actors : Reese Witherspoon, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Paul Newman,
Directors : Robert Benton,

A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.

Actors : Michael J. Pollard, Alastair Duncan, Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall,
Directors : Tony Maylam,

In a flooded dystopian future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since. He soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.

Actors : Emma Vilarasau, Toni Sevilla, Tristán Ulloa, Karra Elejalde,
Directors : Jaume Balagueró,

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two pieces of evidence could be used to identify...

Actors : Peter Greene, Alice Levitt, Megan Owen, Jennifer MacDonald,
Directors : Lodge Kerrigan,

After a man suffering from schizophrenia is released from a mental institution, he attempts to get his daughter back from her adoptive family.

Actors : Maura Tierney, Adrien Brody, Laila Robins, James Naughton,
Directors : Richard Shepard,

A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini, who has kidnapped a rich woman and has buried ...

Actors : Leland Orser, Christopher Lambert, Barbara Tyson, Robert Joy,
Directors : Russell Mulcahy,

Chicago homicide detectives John Prudhome and Andrew "Andy" Hollingsworth are assigned to investigate a gruesome murder, and both become entangled in the plot of a serial killer whose goal is to recreate the body of Christ.

Actors : Brian Benben, Matthias Hues, Betsy Brantley, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Craig R. Baxley,

Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst ...

Actors : Michael Chiklis, Joe Pantoliano, Elizabeth Berkley, Wade Dominguez,
Directors : Avi Nesher,

A tax investigator chasing a tax evader stumbles over a series of bloody murders and gets involved in an investigation with a rookie cop despite his boss' orders to stay out of the way.

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Ed Harris, Patricia Healy, Charles Dance,
Directors : John Bailey,

Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle reluctantly agrees to help hide the body, but Kyle's partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues.