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Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994), also Police Academy 7, is Alan Metter's final theatrical Police Academy comedy, in which Gaynes, Winslow, Graf, Easterbrook, and Bailey join Ron Perlman and Christopher Lee in Moscow; it grossed $126,247.

Police Complaint

Police Complaint (పోలీస్ కంప్లైంట్) is a 2026 Telugu crime-horror thriller directed by Sanjeev Megoti, starring Varalaxmi Sarathkumar and Naveen Chandra, released 12 June 2026, UA 16+, 156 minutes.

Police of The Wire

Police of The Wire: the fictional Baltimore Police Department officers in HBO's The Wire (2002-2008), created by David Simon and Ed Burns, portrayed as a serialized procedural focusing on police violence, statistics, and institutional dysfunction.

Police Police (TV series)

Police Police (போலீஸ் போலீஸ்) is a 2025 Tamil comedy-drama web series on JioHotstar starring Mirchi Senthil as SI Raja and Jayaseelan as gambler Murali, who is secretly recruited into the police force; 100 episodes, Thai Creations, ended March 2026.

Police Squad!

Police Squad! (1982) was a six-episode ABC police-procedural parody by ZAZ starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin, canceled because viewers had to watch closely, later spawning The Naked Gun films.

Police Story (film series)

Police Story (警察故事系列) is Jackie Chan's Hong Kong action film series: four Chan Ka-kui films (1985–1996), the reboots New Police Story (2004) and Police Story 2013, the Supercop 2 spin-off, and the announced New Police Story 2.

Police Story (ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಸ್ಟೋರಿ) (1996 film)

Police Story (ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಸ್ಟೋರಿ) is a 1996 Kannada action film directed by Thriller Manju, starring Saikumar as cop Agni, with Sadhu Kokila's music; a blockbuster dubbed into Telugu, Tamil and Hindi, spawning a 2007 sequel.

Police Story (警察故事) (1985 film)

Police Story (警察故事) is Jackie Chan's 1985 Hong Kong action comedy about cop Chan Ka-kui protecting a witness from drug lord Chu Tao; Golden Harvest production that won Best Film and Best Action Choreography at the 5th Hong Kong Film Awards.

Police Story 2 (警察故事续集)

Police Story 2 (警察故事續集, Police Story II) is Jackie Chan's 1988 Hong Kong action-comedy sequel to Police Story, in which demoted detective Chan Ka-kui hunts serial bombers; it won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Design.

Police Story 2013 (警察故事2013)

Police Story 2013 (警察故事2013), also released as Police Story: Lockdown, is a 2013 Chinese-Hong Kong hostage thriller directed by Ding Sheng, the sixth Police Story film, starring Jackie Chan as mainland police captain Zhong Wen; it opened 24 December 2013 and grossed over 500 million yuan in China.

Police Story 3: Supercop

Police Story 3: Supercop is a 1992 Hong Kong action film directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh as police officers infiltrating a drug syndicate.

Police Story 4: First Strike

Police Story 4: First Strike (警察故事4之简单任务), aka Jackie Chan's First Strike, is a 1996 Stanley Tong action film, the fourth Police Story entry, about Chan Ka-Kui tracking a stolen nuclear warhead from Ukraine to Australia; it topped Hong Kong's 1996 box office.

Police Woman (TV series)

Police Woman is an American television crime drama that aired from 1974 to 1978, starring Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson, an undercover officer for the LAPD.

Police, Adjective

Police, Adjective (Polițist, adjectiv) is Corneliu Porumboiu's 2009 Romanian New Wave drama, 115 minutes, in which detective Cristi (Dragoș Bucur) resists arresting a hashish-sharing teenager; it won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2009 and ends with a famous dictionary scene.

Policegiri

Policegiri (पोलिसगिरी) is a 2013 Hindi action comedy film directed by K.S. Ravikumar and starring Sanjay Dutt as a police officer posing as a goon.

Polish brothers

The Polish brothers are American identical twin filmmakers Mark and Michael Polish (born 1970 or 1972), creators of Twin Falls Idaho (1999), Jackpot (2001), Northfork (2003), The Astronaut Farmer (2007), and For Lovers Only (2011).

Polish Film Chronicle

The Polish Film Chronicle (Polska Kronika Filmowa) was a weekly Polish cinema newsreel produced from 1944 to 1994, serving as an instrument of state propaganda.

Politically Incorrect

Politically Incorrect was Bill Maher's late-night political panel talk show on Comedy Central (1993–1996) and ABC (1997–2002), featuring four nonexpert guests; it ended after Maher's controversial post-9/11 "cowards" remark and advertiser withdrawals.

Polka-Dot Man

Polka-Dot Man (Abner Krill), also Mr. Polka-Dot, is a DC Comics Batman villain created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff, debuting in Detective Comics #300 (1962) with transforming weapon dots, later reinvented tragically in The Suicide Squad (2021).

Polladhavan (பொல்லாதவன்) (2007 film)

Polladhavan (பொல்லாதவன்), 2007 Tamil action drama, Vetrimaaran's directorial debut starring Dhanush and Divya Spandana; a stolen Bajaj Pulsar drags Prabhu into Chennai's underworld, sharing its title with Rajinikanth's 1980 film.

Pollock (film)

Pollock (2000) is Ed Harris's directorial debut biographical drama about painter Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, based on the Naifeh-Smith Pulitzer biography; Marcia Gay Harden won the 2001 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Polly Bergen

Polly Bergen (Nellie Paulina Burgin, 1930-2014), American Emmy-winning actress, singer, and cosmetics entrepreneur; won the 1958 Emmy for The Helen Morgan Story on Playhouse 90, starred in The Polly Bergen Show and Cape Fear, and founded the Polly Bergen Co.

Polly Draper

Polly Draper (Polly Carey Draper, born 1955) is an American actress, writer, director, and producer known as Ellyn Warren on thirtysomething and as creator of The Naked Brothers Band, starring her sons Nat and Alex Wolff.

Polly Holliday

Polly Dean Holliday (1937-2025), American actress, played waitress Flo Castleberry on CBS's Alice (1976-1985) and its spin-off Flo, famous for 'Kiss my grits!'; two Golden Globes, four Emmy nominations, 1990 Tony nomination.

Polly Parsons (producer)

Polly Parsons (born 1967), American producer and daughter of Gram Parsons; founder of DaddyVan Productions, producer of the 2004 Return to Sin City tribute and the 2023 Last Roundup release; distinct from the British presenter of the same name.

Polly Walker

Polly Walker (born 1966, Warrington, England) is a British actress; trained in ballet then Drama Centre London; known for Atia in Rome (Golden Globe-nominated 2006), Gill Biggeloe in Line of Duty, and Lady Portia Featherington in Bridgerton.

Pollyanna (1960 film)

Pollyanna (1960) is Walt Disney Productions' live-action family drama directed and written by David Swift from Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 novel, starring Hayley Mills in her American debut, released May 19, 1960, filmed in Santa Rosa and Napa, California.

Polo (TV series)

Polo is a 2024 five-episode Netflix documentary series, executive produced by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle via Archewell, following elite players at the U.S. Open Polo Championship in Wellington, Florida; it earned poor reviews (Metascore 40, RT 25%).

Poltergeist (1982 film)

Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall, in which spirits abduct a family's five-year-old daughter.

Poltergeist (2015 film)

Poltergeist is a 2015 American supernatural horror film directed by Gil Kenan and starring Sam Rockwell, a remake of the 1982 film about a family haunted by malevolent spirits.