Top 14 Dirty Cop/Police Procedurals (That I've Seen)
1. L.A. Confidential
2. The Departed
3. Training Day
4. Narc
5. Brooklyn's Finest
6. Gone Baby Gone
7. Street Kings
8. Pride and Glory
9. Cop Land
10. The Negotiator
11. We Own the Night
12. Dark Blue
13. Miami Vice
14. Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
I think the fact that Street Kings makes a Best Of list means it needs to be a shorter list :) Love the inclusion of The Negotiator though!
@Aaron: It was going to be a lot shorter, but I kept thinking of more and figured what the hell, why not include them. I like SK a lot... I'm not a big Keanu fan but this genre is my favorite and for me it's very difficult to find cop movies that i dislike. Do you have any favs that aren't on the list that you can recommend?
Great list. I'd do some swapping myself. "Street Kings" is greatly underrated. I was blown away when I read L.A. Confidential, the book's a masterpiece and remains my favourite book of all time. It would have been next to impossible to film it directly as it was from the book, being pretty much unfilmable in the exact context from the book. The screenplay adaptation was great and I enjoyed the movie, but the book is just so much more as they did cut out a great deal. It would've been great if they made it into some sort of epic mini-series.