The Best Police Movies on Fandor

What it's about: This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV & Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Paramount+, Epix & 3 others), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).

What it's about: Tania Head was the ultimate 9/11 survivor. She had the grimmest story. None of it was true.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & PlutoTV), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Fandor, Hoopla & 2 others) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Best friends Deco (Lázaro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador de Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna (Alice Braga), and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bonds of their friendship to the limit.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Fandor).

What it's about: Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden planned to get him out of Jail and get Willie Green and Mitchell busted for what they did to him.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Plex, Vudu & 2 others), stream on a subscription service (Philo, fuboTV, Fandor & 1 other) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Vudu, IMDb TV & 1 other), stream on a subscription service (Fandor & ConTV) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Vudu, IMDb TV & 1 other), stream on a subscription service (Paramount+, Epix, Fandor & 1 other), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $4.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Prime Video).

What it's about: 25 years later after the events of Samurai Cop (1991), Detective Frank Washington is forced to team up with his long estranged partner Joe Marshall to solve a series of assassinations being committed by a secret group of female vigilante killers.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Plex & Vudu), stream on a subscription service (Fandor & ConTV) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 2 services (Google Play & Microsoft).

What it's about: Emma has a strong aversion towards her family’s new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also seems unhappy and unsettled. The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma attacks her viciously.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Vudu & Crackle), stream on a subscription service (Philo, fuboTV, Fandor & 1 other) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).

What it's about: A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi), stream on a subscription service (Fandor & ConTV) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: A C.I.A. agent is assigned to go to Beijing to look for a hidden "treasure," which turns out to be a woman who has supernatural powers, and is the National Treasure of China.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Fandor).

What it's about: A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV & Vudu), stream on a subscription service (Fandor & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi), stream on a subscription service (Paramount+, Epix & Fandor), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Fandor & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Prime Video).

What it's about: A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Fandor) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Prime Video).

What it's about: While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Paramount+, Epix & Fandor), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $0.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).

What it's about: A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at gunpoint, and having makeout parties when her parents are away. Their "fence" gets them to trash the school on request of sinister un-American clients, and they run afoul of the law, apple pie, and God himself.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Paramount+, Epix & 1 other), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Fandor) & rent or buy from $2.00 on 1 service (Vudu).

What it's about: An undercover police officer attempts to take down a drug trafficking syndicate from the inside.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Vudu & IMDb TV), stream on a subscription service (Fandor & ConTV) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Fandor) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).

What it's about: Three psychotic murderers escape from a mental institution and stalk women in Los Angeles.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi) & stream on a subscription service (Fandor).

What it's about: A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Paramount+, Epix & Fandor) & stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix).

What it's about: Aadid tells us his life in seven minutes. He's an Arabic-speaking young man working the night shift at a laundromat and dry cleaners somewhere in the United States. In the aftermath of 9/11, they wash U.S. flags for free. He says they get six or seven per day. He tells us about Napoleon's two wives: Marie Louise for an heir, Josephine for love. Aadid likes Adela, his co-worker. She's his Josephine. We watch Aadid and Adela hand wash the flags and put them in dryers. They fold them. They dance. They stand side by side outside the door of the laundromat looking at the dawn. Will this companionship become something more?

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (The Criterion Channel & Fandor).

What it's about: After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the private eye, aided by his comely secretary, vies with a bumbling police detective to find the murderer among several suspects, including the dead man's daughter, her current husband, her former husband, and an ex-convict.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Fandor).

What it's about: Charlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves two police officers, all five people end up in the local pond to cool off.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Fandor).

What it's about: A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a mercantile establishment when the cops stage a raid.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Fandor).

What it's about: A cowboy (Hoot Gibson) rides by night to catch the man who killed his brother.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Paramount+, Epix & Fandor) & stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix).

What it's about: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV & Plex), stream on a subscription service (Paramount+, Epix, Fandor & 2 others), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).