In January 1971, John Shaft, a private detective, is informed that some gangsters are looking for him.

Undercover San Francisco narcotics cops Sean Kane (Norris) and Dave Pierce (Terry Kiser) head into a dark alley to meet up with an informant named Tony Montoya (Mel Novak), who promises to break their big investigation wide open, by providing the name of the oriental drug ringleader.

On December 16, 1985, in a remote wooded cabin, a mob informant is under protection by the FBI.

Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, returns home to Seattle after hearing that his brother, Ritchie, was killed in a drunk-driving accident.

At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is drugged with a tranquilizer dart, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor to travel to Africa, assuming the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker.

After a break-in at the San Francisco headquarters of a company, the police are called in.

When a team of undercover narcotics officers is targeted by a serial killer, the police recruit karate champion Matt Logan to bring the murders to an end.

Joe Huff is tough Alabama cop who is frustrated with a system that handles criminals with kid gloves.

NYPD Lieutenant Nick Chen is head of the Asian Gang Unit.

Kung Wei, a police officer of the People's Republic of China, is assigned to spy on a group of Hong Kong terrorists.

On Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, a dispatched LASD Sheriff is shot dead by an armed robber, who early on robbed a convenience store and also killed its African-American owner.

In 1998, NYPD Detective John Shaft II, a relative of legendary private investigator John Shaft I, is called in to investigate the grievous assault of Trey Howard outside of a restaurant.

After returning home from South Korea, three members of the U. S. National Team set up a martial arts studio in Las Vegas.

A former Spokane, Washington cop turned private investigator takes on a case of a missing diamond cutter that leads him on an adventure of love and villainy spanning from the Nazis to the present day Mob.

Tom Sharky, a narcotics sergeant for the Atlanta Police Department, is working on a transaction with a drug dealer called Highball.

Jack Murphy (Bronson), a hardened, antisocial LAPD detective, frequently escapes the harsh reality that his ex-wife (Angel Tompkins) has become a stripper and his career is going nowhere by drinking.

During a firefight in Vietnam, U. S. soldiers John Eastland and his best friend, Michael Jefferson, are captured by the Viet Cong.

The Tough Ones (Italian: Roma a mano armata, lit. "Rome at gunpoint") is a 1976 Italian poliziottesco film directed by Umberto Lenzi.

The Rookie is a 1990 American buddy cop action film directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Howard G. Kazanjian, Steven Siebert and David Valdes.

Sean Vetter (Vin Diesel) and Demetrius Hicks (Larenz Tate), who are former criminals, are members of the U. S. DEA working on the California/Mexico border.