The Force

Jan 22, 2017

1h 20m

★ 6.8

A Film About The Oakland Police Department

Overview

The Force presents a cinema vérité look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson, MO, and an explosive scandal.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Kino Lorber

ITVS

JustFilms / Ford Foundation

Cinereach

Tribeca Film Institute

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Independent Lens

CNN Films

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Cast

Bridesgroom

Juan-Carlos Zapata

A documentary film about a Berlin police unit comprised of five former foreign nationals. Their primary areas of operation are neighborhoods with a high immigrant population. The camera follows them on their day and night shifts, documenting operations and arrests, and exploring the unit's self-image.

7.1

Power

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Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing embodies one word: power.

0.0

Mais que fait la police au cinéma ?

Apr 24, 2023

No overview available.

7.6

Hot Fuzz

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0.0

Kops

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Candy and other sweets have been banned, and the kids of the United States aren't going to accept it.

0.0

Polizeyposchtä Feyf

Oct 10, 2025

Police Station 5 in Lucerne celebrates the birthday of their superior Renggli and the return of investigator Lamberti from his three-month leave late into the night. When Lamberti discovers his car missing the next morning, he attempts to find out what happened to it using surveillance camera footage. Unfortunately, however, these images are only of limited use. What can just be seen in the images causes excitement among the team of investigators led by Lamberti and Haas, as they see their superior Renggli being kidnapped by an unknown person in Lamberti's car.

6.0

Terrorist Command

Oct 8, 1992

A group of terrorists puts the authorities on alert, creating hellish chaos.

4.7

Move On

Dec 9, 1917

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.

8.0

Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey

Sep 30, 2018

On the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old 'Lisa McVey' is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive and is raped. She manages to talk her attacker into releasing her, but when she returns home, no one believes her story except for one detective, who suspects she was abducted by a serial killer. Based on horrifying true events.

5.5

The Policeman's Niece

Jun 30, 2025

A group of young, ambitious candidates for a special police unit in Baden-Württemberg are driven to perform at their best. One of them is 23-year-old Rebecca Henselmann, who will soon be deployed in undercover operations. She works hard and is ambitious, just like her colleague Christoph Laurin, whom Rebecca is getting to know. The young policewoman is highly motivated in her operations against drug and arms trafficking. In the process, she encounters abuses of power and encounters right-wing extremist attitudes in the police force too.

5.0

City of Vultures

Dec 10, 2015

Inside of an impoverished community in Chicago, Illinois, an ex-convicted felon, “Marcus Julian” returns from prison after eight years incarcerated. A product of a failed family structure, Marcus, like so many others in his community, functioned under a “street-code” of savagery. The “Gangster Disciples” governed the territories, and as a former outstanding member he lived in ongoing regret of the mob-related acts that led him to prison.

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10.0

Those Who Walk in Darkness

Aug 3, 2003

Hip-hop star Lil' Kim voices main character Soledad in this urban anime action film, about a police officer living in futuristic Los Angeles -- a place that is now home to citizens with incredible genetic structures. With these super genes, the people of the city now have powers that make them shockingly superior to all other human beings. It's up to Soledad to join a special task force to take on the mighty creatures.

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5.0

Stuttgart Shanghai

Feb 22, 2007

A young pair from Stuttgart fly to Shanghai to hop aboard the textile business of his father while she prepares for the birth of their son. A story about the ever more common movement of Germans into the East for professional gain.

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5.0

Janine F.

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The humorous portrait of a female artist. The film follows the career of 24-year-old Janine F. who in 2002 caused a commotion from the rooftop of a Berlin building.

0.0

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8.0

Grünes Fliegen - Reisen in der Zukunft

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No overview available.

0.0

Casemiro, o Pai de Todos

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No overview available.

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0.0

La Gigue

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0.0

ICON EYE

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Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras meet legendary dub reggae group The Congos in St. Catherine, Jamaica and create the full-length album, ICON GIVE THANK. In conjunction, RVNG released ICON EYE, a feature film documenting the young musicians’ time spent living and learning The Congos way. The visual companion to the musical fruit of GIVE THANK, ICON EYE, is a feature-length travelogue executively produced by Christine Vachon (Killer Films) and Randall Poster & Gelya Robb (Search Party Music).

5.0

Three Men and a Fish Pond

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Three elderly country bachelors idle away their time amidst semi-wild nature, closer to birds and pond fish than to humans.

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