Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Films about the New York City Police Department" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has been the subject of many fictional or fictionalized portrayals in popular culture. In the 1990s and early 2000s, two of the most popular American television programs portraying the NYPD were NYPD Blue and Law & Order. [1]
21 Bridges is a 2019 American action-thriller film directed by Brian Kirk and written by Adam Mervis & Matthew Michael Carnahan.The film stars Chadwick Boseman as an NYPD Detective who shuts down the 21 river crossings of Manhattan to find two suspected cop killers, portrayed by Stephan James and Taylor Kitsch.
It Could Happen to You is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda.In a plot inspired by a real-life news story, [3] [4] a New York Police Department officer (Cage) who is short on cash and unable to tip his waitress (Fonda), half-jokingly offers to share his winnings if he happens to win the lottery.
New York City Police Commissioner Michael Codd stated that the film "tends to imply that Serpico was the only honest cop in the whole department". [47] Detective Durk was not pleased with Serpico. Durk, who was depicted in the character of Bob Blair, felt that the movie would deter other policemen to denounce corruption.
1977 TV Guide promotional advertisement. Contract on Cherry Street is a 1977 American made-for-television crime film adaptation of a novel written by Phillip Rosenberg about a New York City police detective, produced by Frank Sinatra's production company Artanis for Columbia Pictures Television and starring Sinatra.
Prince of the City is a 1981 American epic neo-noir [2] crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet.It is based on the life of Robert Leuci, called ‘Daniel Ciello’ in the film, an officer of the New York Police Department who chooses, for idealistic reasons, to expose corruption in the force.
The Super Cops is a 1974 action adventure film [1] [2] directed by Gordon Parks and starring Ron Leibman and David Selby.The film is based on the book The Super Cops: The True Story of the Cops Called Batman and Robin by L. H. Whittemore.