Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Policier: 262 Films to Buy & Rent
Scott & Bailey (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Suranne Jones, Lesley Sharp, Rupert Graves…
- A tough–minded and level–headed female policier in the spirit of CAGNEY & LACEY (with shades of PRIME SUSPECT), framed around the private…
Shadow Line, The (TV Series) (2011)
- Dir. Hugo Blick
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Rafe Spall…
- This quality BBC production builds a compelling and morally complex story around the death of a convicted drugs smuggler, whose murder is…
Silence, The (Das letzte Schweigen) (2011)
- Dir. Baran bo Odar
Feat. Ulrich Thomsen, Katrin Sass, Wotan Wilke Möhring
- German thriller set in 2009, 23 years after the unsolved rape and murder of an 11–year old girl, when a remarkably similar crime attracts the…
Son of No One, The (2011)
- Dir. Dito Montiel
Feat. Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Ray Liotta…
- Channing Tatum plays a rookie policeman assigned to the neighborhood of his troubled youth in this excitable crooked cop tale.
Great cast, though…
Zen (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Rufus Sewell, Caterina Murino, Julie Cox…
- Short–lived but stylish BBC detective series wades into the overcrowded male crime fighter market with suave Rufus Sewell in the role of…
Blue Bloods (TV Series) (2010-2020)
- Feat. Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan
- Character driven police procedural set in New York City where an Irish Catholic family has a history of work in law enforcement, with each family…
DCI Banks (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Stephen Tompkinson, Caroline Catz, Andrea Lowe
- Stephen Tompkinson embodies the firm, working class stock of Peter Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks in this solid British police procedural.
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Five Days (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Suranne Jones, Anne Reid, Bernard Hill…
- High concept BBC crime series magnifies the complex thread of events and consequences surrounding a lengthy crime investigation by focusing on five…
Guard, The (2010)
- Dir. John Michael McDonagh
Feat. Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham…
- A straitlaced FBI agent (Cheadle) and a raucous Irish cop (Gleeson) buddy up to take down an international drug smuggling ring in this riotous…
Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim…
- A souped–up, though still relatively faithful update of the funky surf and sun policier, originally a hit in the late sixties. Alex O'Loughlin…