History DirtyCop / LiveActionFilms

* Nick Chen, the VillainProtagonist and titular character of ''Film/TheCorruptor'', who is a decorated LA policeman well-respected by his higher-ups, given a powerful authoritarian position investigating activities involving TheTriadsAndTheTongs in LA... and an informant actively accepting bribes from the local Tong boss, Uncle Benny. He attempts to convert rookie cop Danny Wallace onto his side after Danny finds out about Nick's shady dealings, hence the film's title. Much later in the film, Danny's father is revealed to be an ex-dirty cop, yet his father has the gall to call his son worse than him because Danny is an undercover Internal Affairs officer.

%%* Creator/NicolasCage's version in ''Film/TheBadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans'' is even worse.

* ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'': Sonny Burch has an FBI agent who feeds him inside information. Eventually, he's killed by Ghost while trying to steal Hank Pym's lab to deliver to Burch.

* ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'': During his montage of DoingInTheWizard in the climax, Sherlock Holmes mentions that [[spoiler:[[BigBad Lord Blackwood]] paid a prison guard to pretend to be possessed to enhance Blackwood's [[TheDreaded malevolent aura]]]].

* ''Film/{{Sunset}}'' has Captain Blackworth, a.k.a. "Dirty Bernie", who is on the payroll of gangster Dutch Kieffer.

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Doc is interrupted by a cop while rigging his lightning rod. The cop asks to see a permit for his "weather experiment". Notice that Doc reaches into his wallet to look for the permit. The deleted scene then shows that the "permit" is actually a $50 bill.

* Barricade from ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' is a Decepticon who can turn into a police car.

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Doc is interrupted by a cop while rigging his lightning rod. The cop asks to see a permit for his "weather experiment". Notice that Doc reaches into his wallet to look for the permit. The deleted scene then shows that the "permit" is actually a $50 bill. That's equivalent to about $500 in 2023.

* ''Film/TheEqualizer'': There's dirty cops scattered throughout the movie, either working with the Russian mob or shaking down small business owners. All of them come to regret crossing paths with Robert.

* In ''Film/TheFugitive'', Frederick Sykes is an ex-cop and contract killer who [[spoiler:happens to have one arm]]. The Chicago Police Department is portrayed in a neutral but [[PoliceAreUseless incompetent]] light.

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Doc is interrupted by a cop while rigging his lightning rod. The cop asks to see a permit for his "weather experiment". Notice that Doc reaches into his wallet to look for the permit. The deleted scene then shows that the "permit" is actually a $50 bill.

* In ''Film/{{Stiletto}}'', Det. Beck is in the pocket of crime lord Virgil Vadalos. When Raina starts the RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he orders Beck to bring Raina to him alive without involving the rest of the police.

* In ''Film/LethalWeapon4'', Riggs suspects Murtaugh of being on the take, pointing out that he has spent ''way'' more money than a police sergeant nearing retirement should. Not an unreasonable suspicion, considering that Murtaugh has rebuilt his house twice (after a hitman drove a car into the living room in the first installment and another one blew up the bathroom in the second), bought a new boat, consistently has worn and bought snazzy suits and sent two kids to college. The whole thing is compounded by the fact that Murtaugh refuses to offer other explanations. It turns out that his wife has written several MillsAndBoonProse-heavy {{Romance Novel}}s (Riggs describes them as "the cheesy sex novels") that sell ''extremely'' well, and he's been embarrassed about where the money comes from.

* In ''Film/LethalWeapon4'', Riggs suspects Murtaugh of being on the take, pointing out that he has spent ''way'' more money than a police sergeant nearing retirement should. Not an unreasonable suspicion, considering that Murtaugh has rebuilt his house twice (after a hitman drove a car into the living room in the first installment and another one blew up the bathroom in the second), bought a new boat, always decked in very snazzy suits and sent two kids to college. The whole thing is compounded by the fact that Murtaugh refuses to offer other explanations. It turns out that his wife has written several MillsAndBoonProse-heavy {{Romance Novel}}s (Riggs describes them as "the cheesy sex novels") that sell ''extremely'' well, and he's been embarrassed about where the money comes from.

* In ''Film/LethalWeapon4'', Riggs suspects Murtaugh of being on the take, pointing out that he has spent ''way'' more money than a police sergeant nearing retirement should. Not an unreasonable suspicion, considering that Murtaugh has rebuilt his house twice (after a hitman drove a car into the living room in the first installment and another one blew up the bathroom in the second), bought a new boat and sent two kids to college. The whole thing is compounded by the fact that Murtaugh refuses to offer other explanations. It turns out that his wife has written several MillsAndBoonProse-heavy {{Romance Novel}}s (Riggs describes them as "the cheesy sex novels") that sell ''extremely'' well, and he's been embarrassed about where the money comes from.