Subgenre Sampler
Television > Suspense/Crime: 576 Films to Buy & Rent
Monk (TV Series) (2002-2004)
- Feat. Tony Shalhoub, Ted Levine
- A curious detective series, in which the brilliant lead sleuth must not only crack some devious and bizarre crimes, but also contend with his own…
Shield, The (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Michael Chiklis, Walton Goggins, C.C.H. Pounder…
- Daring police series with a controversially dark streak about an elite LAPD strike team that “knock down the doors that other cops don’t want…
Spooks - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Peter Firth…
- Watchable and fast–paced teledrama set around the activites of Britain's official spy agency, MI5.
Based around half a dozen characters in…
Wire, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wood Harris…
- Tough, patient HBO TV policier (from David Simon, creator of HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS) follows the Baltimore drug scene from both the police and…
Without a Trace (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Anthony LaPaglia, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
- Television crime drama from the Jerry Bruckheimer stable (see also CSI) that traces the investigations of the FBI's Missing Persons Squad, led by the…
Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The (TV Series) (2001-2008)
- Feat. Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small, Lesley Vickerage
- British crime drama based on the novels by American writer Elizabeth George centred around the detective work and personality and class clash of the…
Law and Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series) (2001-2004)
- Feat. Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan…
- One of the various spin–offs to the long–running crime drama LAW AND ORDER, in which D'Onofrio and Erbe track down the bad guys for the…
Mary Higgins Clark - Collection One (All Around Town, Haven't We Met Before?, Loves Music Loves to Dance) (2001-2002)
- Feat. Nastassja Kinski, Nicollette Sheridan
- Two telemovie thrillers from the prolific pen of Mary Higgins Clark which generally revolve around a female protagonist who must resolve a difficult…
Messiah (TV Series) (2001-2005)
- Feat. Ken Stott, Frances Grey, Michelle Forbes
- Grisly BBC serial in the tradition of PRIME SUSPECT and CRACKER shadows the case solving of a partially–deaf detective with a disturbed nose…
Murder In Mind (TV Series) (2001)
- Excellent star–studded series of self–contained stories on the theme of murder, generally centered around apparently 'normal people' who…