Movies like Edison
If Edison's mix of police brutality, elite unit and police corruption stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Edison's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Usual Suspects
1995 · Directed by Bryan Singer · 106 min8.2
Why you'll like itWith Kevin Spacey · Shares: police corruption · Also drama and thriller
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million…
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itWith Morgan Freeman · Shares: police brutality
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
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Magnum Force
1973 · Directed by Ted Post · 124 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: police corruption · Also drama and action
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands.
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Witness
1985 · Directed by Peter Weir · 112 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: police brutality · Also drama and thriller
While protecting an Amish boy—the sole witness to a brutal murder—and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life comes under threat.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 · Directed by Martin McDonagh · 115 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: police brutality, police corruption
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the…
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Cop Land
1997 · Directed by James Mangold · 104 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: police corruption · Also drama and thriller
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired.
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Black and Blue
2019 · Directed by Deon Taylor · 109 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: police corruption · Also action and thriller
Rookie cop Alicia West, an Army veteran, inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from…
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Rapid Fire
1992 · Directed by Dwight H. Little · 95 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: police corruption · Also action and thriller
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
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Havoc
2025 · Directed by Gareth Evans · 107 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: police corruption · Also action and thriller
When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.