Top Corrupt Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Dev Patel

Sikandar Kher

Makrand Deshpande

Pitobash

Monkey Man (2024)

6.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Canada, Singapore

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Kid is an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Plot: police brutality, corruption, social injustice, revenge thriller, indian politics, action thriller, night club, urban poverty, ...

Sarkar (2005)

6.9 93 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 123 min.

Story: Subhash Nagre runs a parallel government in the city where he has a cult following. When his enemies plot to murder him, his son takes charge and stands up against them.

Plot: corruption, politics, political corruption

Cast

Sebastian Stan

Jeremy Strong

Martin Donovan

Maria Bakalova

The Apprentice (2024)

6.8 988 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

Style: absurd

Plot: new york city, rape, corruption, aids, funeral, politics, blackmail, biography, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s

Cast

Bruce Willis

Damon Wayans

Chelsea Field

Noble Willingham

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

6.8 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.

Plot: sniper, assassin, corruption, bomb, anti hero, cocaine, senator, puppet, ...

Cast

Russell Crowe

Ben Affleck

Rachel McAdams

Helen Mirren

State of Play (2009)

6.8 2.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

Plot: newspaper, journalist, assassin, assassination, washington dc, usa, government, corruption, ...

Cop Land (1997)

6.8 1.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.

Plot: new york city, corruption, new jersey, police, handcuffs, fbi, bridge, car crash, ...

Cast

Emilio Estevez

Kiefer Sutherland

Lou Diamond Phillips

Charlie Sheen

Young Guns (1988)

6.7 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.

Style: absurd, whimsical

Plot: sheriff, bounty hunter, corruption, deputy sheriff, anti hero, ranch, based on true story, outlaw, ...

Time: 1870s

Cast

Adam Sandler

Chris Rock

James Cromwell

Nelly

The Longest Yard (2005)

6.7 3.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

Plot: prison, corruption, prisoner, smuggling (contraband), sports, american football, blackmail, american football coach, ...

Place: texas

Street Kings (2008)

6.7 1.8K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

Plot: corruption, police, machinegun, ghetto, alcoholism, murder, undercover cop, shootout, ...

Cast

Rana Daggubati

Harsha Vardhan

Priya Anand

Subbaraju

Leader (2010)

6.7 30 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 172 min.

Story: Upon the death of his father, Arjun Prasad campaigns to become the CM of Andhra. He hopes to eradicate corruption from Indian Politics.

Plot: corruption, politics, inspiration

Cast

Rob Schneider

David Carradine

Jennifer Morrison

Scott Wilson

Big Stan (2007)

6.6 1.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.

Plot: prison, martial arts, corruption, anti hero, fraud, slapstick comedy, gang, cons and scams, ...

Cast

Oscar Isaac

Jessica Chastain

David Oyelowo

Alessandro Nivola

A Most Violent Year (2014)

6.6 1.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Arab Emirates, United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Plot: new york city, immigrant, husband wife relationship, corruption, capitalism, winter, american dream, business ethics, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Mel Gibson

Vince Vaughn

Tory Kittles

Michael Jai White

Dragged Across Concrete (2019)

6.6 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Canada, United Kingdom

Duration: 159 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.

Plot: gold, husband wife relationship, corruption, sibling relationship, hostage, heist, murder, shootout, ...

U.S. Marshals (1998)

6.5 1.8K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.

Plot: chicago, illinois, central intelligence agency (cia), escape, chase, espionage, innocence, transport of prisoners, ...

Cast

Johnny Depp

Joel Edgerton

Julianne Nicholson

Dakota Johnson

Black Mass (2015)

6.5 3.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Plot: prostitute, corruption, boston, massachusetts, gangster, fbi, senator, based on true story, ...

Time: 1980s

Temper (2015)

6.5 41 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 147 min.

Story: Daya is a corrupt cop who joins hands with the local don. When Daya's girlfriend gets kidnapped, it triggers Daya to go against Vasu and his empire, leading him to uncover a bigger motive behind the kidnapping.

Plot: corruption, anti hero, dirty cop, gang rape, corrupt official

Cast

Luke Wilson

Giovanni Ribisi

Gabriel Macht

James Caan

Middle Men (2009)

6.5 346 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.

Plot: pornography, corruption, nightclub, stripper, deception, website, money, wealth, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen

Eva Green

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Mikael Persbrandt

The Salvation (2014)

6.5 964 votes

Genre: Drama, Western

Country: Belgium, Brazil

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

Plot: corruption, war veteran, coffin, gang leader, frontier, money, revenge, murder, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Armie Hammer

Costas Mandylor

Du00e9siru00e9e Giorgetti

Steffen Mennekes

Citizen Vigilante (2026)

6.5 244 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Germany, Croatia

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A man takes justice into his own hands, hunting down criminals. His vigilante crusade makes him a social media star but puts him at odds with the local police chief.

Style: provocative

Plot: rape, corruption, police, immigration, rape victim, murder, vigilante, justice, ...

Cast

Jake Johnson

Damon Wayans Jr.

Rob Riggle

Nina Dobrev

Let's Be Cops (2014)

6.5 3.0K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

Style: absurd

Plot: robbery, corruption, police, kidnapping, nightclub, investigation, affectation, male friendship, ...

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