Best Cop movies of 2000s

Actors : Stephen Dorff, Stephen Rea, Natascha McElhone, Udo Kier,
Directors : William Malone,

A New York City detective investigates mysterious deaths occurring 48 hours after users log onto a site named feardotcom.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Gattlin Griffith, Amy Ryan, Colm Feore,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.

Actors : Rhys Ifans, Justine Clarke, Rhys Muldoon, Miranda Otto,
Directors : Jeff Balsmeyer,

An Aussie becomes a national sensation when he lifts off in his deck chair tied to balloons.

Actors : Johannes Björk, Magnus Börjeson, Sanna Persson, Bengt Braskered,

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

Actors : Alan Bates, Jeremy Northam, Tilda Swinton, Michael Caine,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Tale of a former Nazi executioner who becomes a target of hit men and Police investigators.

Actors : Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Michèle Bernier, Audrey Dana,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

A popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore, Ann Magnuson, Damir Andrei,
Directors : Kasi Lemmons,

A cave-dwelling man sets out to track down the killer of a homeless boy, and bring him to justice.

Actors : Ned Beatty, Lauren Bacall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Woody Harrelson,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.

Actors : Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny DeVito, Bette Midler,
Directors : Nick Gomez,

When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.

Actors : Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes, Luis Guzmán,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

A former cop who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a cover-up at his latest job.

Actors : Glenn Jacobs, Christina Vidal, Michael J. Pagan, Samantha Noble,
Directors : Gregory Dark,

A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain - a group that includes the cop who put a bullet in Goodnight's head four years ago - band together to survive against the brutal killer.

Actors : Nathalie Baye, Roschdy Zem, Antoine Chappey, Jalil Lespert,
Directors : Xavier Beauvois,

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

Actors : John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen Eric McIntyre, William Allen Young,
Directors : Nicolas Winding Refn,

When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident Harry (Turturro), prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale,
Directors : John Singleton,

New York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.

Actors : Pavan Malhotra, Kay Kay Menon, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Aditya Srivastava,
Directors : Anurag Kashyap,

Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.

Actors : Robin Tunney, Brad Hunt, Tim Blake Nelson, Liz Phair,
Directors : Finn Taylor,

After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.

Actors : Orlando Bloom, Zoe Saldana, Bill Paxton, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Frank E. Flowers,

In Cayman Island, the daughter of a powerful man - Andrea - and the fisherman Shy are in a deep but secret love, hidden from Andrea's parents. When Andrea's father sails in a fish-trip, ...

Actors : Radha Mitchell, Bruce Willis, Rosamund Pike, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Jonathan Mostow,

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson, Charles Malik Whitfield, Gabriel Macht,
Directors : John Moore,

A Navy navigator is shot down over enemy territory and is ruthlessly pursued by a secret police enforcer and the opposing troops. Meanwhile his commanding officer goes against orders in an attempt to rescue him.

Actors : Jean Reno, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Vincent Cassel,
Directors : Mathieu Kassovitz,

A murder detective must follow the footsteps of a brutal killer within the secrets of a classist college.