Director: Syafiq Yusof
Two officers from different departments, one guarded and experienced, one young and still idealistic, get forced onto the same case in Sheriff, a 2024 Malaysian crime thriller built around a methamphetamine network with a body count.
What is Sheriff about?
The film pairs a seasoned Integrity Department officer named Sheriff with Nazri, a newer recruit from Narcotics who still believes the job can be done cleanly. Their assignment is to take down a drug syndicate run by a kingpin known as Tony, whose meth operation has already left a string of victims behind, earning him a grim nickname among investigators. As the two officers dig deeper, their contrasting approaches to the badge, and to each other, become as central to the story as the manhunt itself, with the syndicate's reach complicating every step forward.
Cast & crew
Zul Ariffin plays the title role opposite Syafiq Kyle as Nazri, with Aaron Aziz and Elizabeth Tan rounding out a cast built for a fast-moving crime picture. Director Syafiq Yusof, known for genre work in Malaysian cinema, keeps the pacing tight across the film's runtime.
Context & significance
Sheriff arrived in 2024 as part of a wave of Malaysian action and crime titles built around organized-crime investigations rather than courtroom drama, favoring undercover tension and street-level stakes over procedural exposition. The narcotics-versus-integrity framing gives the two leads different reasons to want the same outcome, which is part of what distinguishes this from a standard buddy-cop setup, since neither officer fully trusts how the other department operates. It sits comfortably alongside other regional crime thrillers that have been gaining wider international attention in recent years, part of a broader push by Malaysian studios into bigger-budget genre filmmaking.
Where & how to watch
Sheriff can be watched on K-Time after logging into a free account, with the platform's Farsi interface and Persian dubbing and subtitles available for audiences who prefer to follow the story in Farsi. Reading about the film here requires no login at all; only playback does.