Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
The Corruptor
TITLE DETAILS

The Corruptor

1999-03-12 · 110 min · ★ 6.1

Action · Crime · Thriller · Drama

Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
James Foley
Production companies
New Line Cinema, Illusion Entertainment Group
Countries
United States of America, Canada
Status
Released
Budget
USD 25,000,000
Revenue
USD 15,156,200

Top Cast

Mark WahlbergMark WahlbergDanny Wallace
Chow Yun-FatChow Yun-FatNick Chen
Byron MannByron MannBobby Vu
Kim ChanKim ChanBenny Wong
Ric YoungRic YoungHenry Lee
Paul Ben-VictorPaul Ben-VictorSchabacker
Jon Kit LeeJon Kit LeeJack
Andrew PangAndrew PangWilly Ung
Elizabeth LindseyElizabeth LindseyLouise Deng
Brian CoxBrian CoxSean Wallace
Bill MacDonaldBill MacDonaldVince Kirkpatrick
Tovah FeldshuhTovah FeldshuhU.S. Attorney Margaret Wheeler
Susie TrinhSusie TrinhAmy San
Olivia YapOlivia YapTai
Ho ChowHo ChowBlack Eyes
Lucille SoongLucille SoongElderly Immigrant
Marie MatikoMarie MatikoMay
Tim ProgoshTim ProgoshLackey
Beau StarrBeau StarrCaptain Stan Klein
Byron LawsonByron LawsonTall Kid

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Rental

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

Purchase

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

Free

Hoopla

With ads

The Roku Channel, Plex, Plex Channel, Tubi TV

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Recommendations

The Dead Pool
★ 6.3
The Dead Pool1988Action · Crime · Thriller · Drama

Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick game to predict such deaths, it may be too late.

The Rookie
★ 5.9
The Rookie1990Action · Crime · Thriller · Drama

Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.

The Substitute
★ 7.0
The Substitute1996Action · Crime · Thriller · Drama

When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.

We Die Young
★ 6.8
We Die Young2019Action · Crime · Thriller · Drama

Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises.

Out for Justice
★ 6.2
Out for Justice1991Action · Crime · Thriller · Drama

Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.

The Protector
★ 5.9
The Protector1985Action · Crime

Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate.

State Property
★ 6.4
State Property2002Action · Crime · Drama

A Philadelphia gang member becomes a drug kingpin and starts a feud with vicious rivals in his quest for the American Dream.

Hard to Kill
★ 6.0
Hard to Kill1990Action · Crime · Thriller · Drama

Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death

The Born Losers
★ 6.4
The Born Losers1967Action · Crime · Thriller · Drama

A biker gang incites a reign of terror in a California coastal town that culminates in four teenage girls being raped. Vietnam veteran Billy Jack has had enough, however, and takes on the depraved bikers single-handedly. He rescues young Vicky Barrington from their clutches, but then has to contend with not only the thugs, but also the ineffectual and racist local lawmen, who have it out for the half-Native American Billy.

Al Capone
★ 6.6
Al Capone1959Action · Crime · Drama

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.

Crown Vic
★ 6.2
Crown Vic2019Action · Crime · Drama

One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.

Wake of Death
★ 6.1
Wake of Death2004Action · Thriller

Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer, seeks revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the Chinese Triad.

Death Wish
★ 6.2
Death Wish2018Action · Crime · Thriller · Drama

A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

Blindfire
★ 6.8
Blindfire2020Crime · Thriller · Drama

A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the person responsible while examining his own accountability and the ingrained racism which brought him to this point.

New Jack City
★ 6.7
New Jack City1991Crime · Thriller · Drama

A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.

Until Death
★ 6.0
Until Death2007Action · Crime · Thriller

Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.

Exit Wounds
★ 5.9
Exit Wounds2001Action · Crime · Thriller

Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives secretly operating a drug ring, Boyd joins forces with an unlikely ally -- gangster Latrell Walker -- to bring down the rotten cops.

The Boondock Saints
★ 7.2
The Boondock Saints1999Action · Crime · Thriller

Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.

Payback
★ 6.8
Payback1999Action · Crime · Thriller · Drama

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

Citizen Vigilante
★ 6.5
Citizen Vigilante2026Action · Crime · Thriller

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.

Similar titles

Jacob's Ladder
★ 7.4
Jacob's Ladder1990Drama

After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.

Unfaithful
★ 6.7
Unfaithful2002Thriller · Drama

A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

Prime
★ 6.0
Prime2005Drama

A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.

Saving Grace
★ 6.5
Saving Grace2000Crime

Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.

Topaz
★ 6.0
Topaz1969Thriller · Drama

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

Teheran '43
★ 6.4
Teheran '431981Action · Thriller · Drama

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.

Peacock Alley
★ 5.0
Peacock Alley1930Drama

Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.

Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović
★ 6.8
Dreams, Life, Death of Filip Filipović1980Drama

The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbia upon his arrival from Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.

Valley of the Dolls
★ 6.1
Valley of the Dolls1967Drama

Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls."

The Crowd
★ 7.6
The Crowd1928Drama

John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.

Midnight Cowboy
★ 7.5
Midnight Cowboy1969Drama

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

Gangs of New York
★ 7.3
Gangs of New York2002Crime · Drama

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

Madigan's Millions
★ 4.0
Madigan's Millions1968Action · Crime

When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan owed the government, but managed to take to Italy with him. They send Agent Jason Phister over to Italy to nose out the million. His criteria for the job is that no one would ever guess he's an agent of the United States government.

As Good as It Gets
★ 7.4
As Good as It Gets1997Drama

A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

Danger: Diabolik
★ 6.3
Danger: Diabolik1968Action · Crime · Thriller

International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.

Deconstructing Harry
★ 7.2
Deconstructing Harry1997Drama

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.

Nickel Boys
★ 6.6
Nickel Boys2024Drama

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

15 Minutes
★ 5.9
15 Minutes2001Action · Crime · Thriller

When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."

A Case of Blue
★ 3.0
A Case of Blue2020Drama

Recently retired accountant Richard Flicker attends a life-drawing class and his world is turned upside down when he encounters free-spirited Amelia, the spitting image of a long lost love from decades ago. Grappling with a troubled home front, Richard flirts with the temptation of this second chance at romance.

Z
★ 7.8
Z1969Crime · Thriller · Drama

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.