Internal Affairs is a 1990 American crime thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, written by Henry Bean, and starring Richard Gere and Andy García.

Set in Los Angeles, the film follows the police department's Internal Affairs Division as they investigate Dennis Peck, an officer who may be using his colleagues as pawns for his own nefarious purposes.

Raymond Avilla joins the LAPD's Internal Affairs Division (IAD) and is partnered with Amy Wallace to investigate the drug bust.

Avilla begins to look into Peck, who is held up as an LAPD role model but whose lifestyle (including wife Heather and spousal support for three ex-wives and eight children) is hard to explain with only a patrolman's salary.

Meanwhile, Peck not only has a widespread web of corruption based on extortion, favors to cops and criminals alike and complicit dealings with pimps, he also moonlights as a hitman.

As the IAD net tightens around Peck, they discover his many wives' inexplicable real estate holdings are handled by Penny Stretch.

Breaking under pressure, Heather tells Avilla and Wallace that two recent murder victims share the same surname as a Steven Arrocas who had contacted her husband.

As he is beaten and shot in the leg by Avilla, Peck proudly boasts his ability to manipulate him and disingenuously ascribes his corruption and sociopathy to the need to provide for his offspring.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, "Internal Affairs is, for the dim movie season that is traditionally January, an unusually bright light.