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Pages in category "Films about the Los Angeles Police Department" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
End of Watch is a 2012 American action thriller film [5] [6] written and directed by David Ayer. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala, two Los Angeles Police Department officers who work in South Central Los Angeles. The film focuses on their day-to-day police work, their dealings with a certain group of ...
In 1953, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) aims to improve its public image following decades of corruption. Career-focused sergeant Edmund Exley lives in the shadow of his legendary detective father, whose murderer was never identified; Exley names the suspect "Rollo Tomasi,” representing any criminal who escapes justice.
Rampart is a 2011 American crime drama film. Directed by Oren Moverman and co-written by Moverman and James Ellroy, the film stars Woody Harrelson, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Anne Heche, Brie Larson, Ice Cube, Cynthia Nixon, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, and Steve Buscemi.
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in Los Angeles respectively in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of some of the more memorable films set in Los Angeles, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to ...
Colors is a 1988 American police procedural action crime film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, and directed by Dennis Hopper.The film takes place in the gang ridden neighborhoods of Los Angeles: late-1980s South Central Los Angeles, Echo Park, Westlake and East Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States. [6] With 8,832 officers [ 6 ] and 3,000 civilian staff, [ 2 ] it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City ...
Shooting of the film took place in Los Angeles in March 1986 shortly after Carradine signed on and ended in late October of that year. [8] Carradine was able to keep his musical commitments with his group, The Waybacks, while shooting the film. [9] He is credited for singing Dear Mr. Fantasy and Gimme Some Lovin' in the film.