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Rental > Suspense/Crime > Television: 532 Films to Rent on DVD
- Angela Black (Mini-series) (2021)
- Feat. Joanne Froggatt, Michiel Huisman, Samuel Adewunmi
- 6–Part TV thriller about a wife and mother of two (Joanne Froggatt, DOWNTON ABBEY) who is approached out of the blue by a private investigator…
- Before We Die (TV Series) (2021)
- Feat. Lesley Sharp, Patrick Gibson, Vincent Regan
- 6 part Police drama based on the popular Scandi–noir series of the same name, shifting the setting from Stockholm to Bristol.
Follows a…
- Hollington Drive (Mini-series) (2021)
- Feat. Anna Maxwell Martin, Rachael Stirling, Peter McDonald…
- 4–Part drama–thriller created and written by Sophie Petzal (BLOOD), following the lives of two sisters whose suburban comforts are…
- Mare of Easttown (TV Mini-series) (2021)
- Dir. Craig Zobel
Feat. Kate Winslet, Evan Peters, Angourie Rice…
- Crime series set in rural Pennsylvania following a detective investigating an unsolved murder.
Kate Winslet is a triumph in the role of the…
- Smother (TV Series) (2021)
- Feat. Dervla Kirwan, Seána Kerslake, Niamh Walsh…
- Riveting Irish TV thriller set on the wild and rugged coast of County Clare, where a matriarch (Dervla Kirwan) is determined to find out who killed…
- Whitstable Pearl (TV Mini-series) (2021)
- Feat. Kerry Godliman, Howard Charles, Frances Barber
- Cosy crime miniseries based on the novels by Julie Wassmer about a single mum and ex–police officer who pursues her dream to start a detective…
- Bloodlands (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Feat. James Nesbitt, Lisa Dwan, Lorcan Cranitch…
- A gripping 4–part BBC police procedural set in Northern Ireland, where a veteran police detective (James Nesbitt) re–opens a cold case…
- C.B. Strike: Lethal White (TV Miniseries) (CB Strike (Season 2)) (2020)
- Feat. Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Kerr Logan
- The second season in the C. B. Strike series which adapts J. K. Rowling's Cormoran Strike novels, published under the pseudonym Robert…
- Dead Still (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Feat. Michael Smiley, Kerr Logan, Eileen OHiggins
- Dark comedy miniseries set in Dublin in 1880, exploring the emergence of photography as an affordable and accessible art, and the decline in…
- Deceived, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Feat. Emmett J Scanlan, Catherine Walker, Paul Mescal
- Psychological thriller miniseries following an English student who falls in love with a charismatic lecturer then moves to Ireland to be with him…
- Des (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Feat. David Tennant, Daniel Mays, Jason Watkins
- Grisly TV miniseries based on the 1983 arrest of Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen, one of the most infamous criminal cases in UK…
- Miss Scarlet and The Duke (TV Series) (2020)
- Feat. Kate Phillips, Danny Midwinter, Stuart Martin
- Crime series set in Victorian London, where a penniless single woman decides to keep her father's detective agency running after his death, and hires…
- Nest, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Feat. Martin Compston, Sophie Rundle, Mirren Mack…
- Suspenseful Scottish 5–part TV drama starring Martin Compston (LINE OF DUTY) and Sophie Rundle (PEAKY BLINDERS, BODYGUARD) as a wealthy couple…
- Outsider, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Bill Camp, Jeremy Bobb…
- Slow burning crime TV series based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, with Ben Mendelsohn playing a troubled detective in the Cherokee City…
- Pale Horse, The (2020)
- Dir. Leonora Lonsdale
Feat. Rufus Sewell, Sheila Atim, Georgina Campbell…
- Two–part miniseries based on the 1961 Agatha Christie novel of the same name, involving all manner of malevolent goings on in the picturesque…
- Roadkill (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Feat. Hugh Laurie, Millie Brady, Helen McCrory…
- Four part British political thriller starring Hugh Laurie as a charismatic Justice Minister on the cusp of a major promotion when a secret in his…
- Sister, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Dir. Niall MacCormick
Feat. Russell Tovey, Bertie Carvel, Amanda Root…
- British psychological thriller series from writer Neil Cross (LUTHER, HARD SUN) based on his own novel "Burial". Russell Tovey plays a newly married…
- Sounds, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Dir. Peter Stebbings
Feat. Matt Whelen, Rachelle Lefevre, Matt Nable…
- Kiwi mystery drama series from writer Sarah–Kate Lynch (800 WORDS), about a Canadian couple who move to the Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere region in…
- Undoing, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
- Dir. Susanne Bier
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Édgar Ramírez…
- A rote but beautifully–appointed psychological thriller from HBO starring Nicole Kidman as a wealthy New York therapist whose life is turned…
- White House Farm (TV Mini-series) (Murders at White House Farm, The) (2020)
- Feat. Freddie Fox, Mark Addy, Gemma Whelan…
- Crime mini–series based on the notorious White House Farm murders that occurred in 1985, in which five members of a family were shot to death…
- A Confession (TV Mini-Series) (2019)
- Feat. Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, Siobhan Finneran
- British crime drama with Martin Freeman playing a Detective Superintendent willing to risk his career and reputation to catch the killer of a…
- All the Sins (TV Series) (2019)
- Dir. Mika Ronkainen
Feat. Johannes Holopainen, Maria Sid, Matti Ristinen
- Compulsive Nordic noir miniseries following a detective who returns to his home town in Northern Finland to investigate two murders, while…
- Baptiste (TV Series) (2019)
- Feat. Tcheky Karyo, Tom Hollander, Jessica Raine…
- A TV spin–off of the acclaimed BBC crime drama THE MISSING, with the same writers and some of the same cast, which follows the character Julien…
- Bay, The (TV Series) (2019)
- Feat. Morven Christie, Marsha Thomason, Daniel Ryan…
- British crime series starring Morven Christie (GRANTCHESTER) as a detective sergeant family liaison officer, who is involved in an investigation into…
- Big Little Lies - Season 2 (TV Mini-series) (2019)
- Dir. Andrea Arnold
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley…
- The second chapter of this acclaimed HBO series, this time from the director of FISHTANK and AMERICAN HONEY, throws a grief ridden…
- Boys, The (TV Series) (2019)
- Feat. Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr…
- TV series based on the Garth Ennis comic about a team of vigilantes who fight back against corrupt superpowered individuals.
Series 1 – 8…
- Cheat (TV Mini-series) (2019)
- Dir. Louise Hooper
Feat. Katherine Kelly, Molly Windsor, Tom Goodman-Hill…
- Another female–centric psychological thriller from Britain premised on a dangerous relationship between university professor and her student.…
- Chimerica (TV Series) (2019)
- Dir. Michael Keillor
Feat. Alessandro Nivola, Cherry Jones, Sophie Okonedo…
- A Trump–era political thriller starring Alessandro Nivola as a discredited photojournalist whose reputation hinges on a return to Beijing to…
- Dark Money (TV Mini-series) (2019)
- Dir. Lewis Arnold
Feat. Babou Ceesay, Jill Halfpenny, Susan Wokoma…
- A struggling working–class father decides to accept hush money rather than drag his family through publicity hell by pressing charges against a…
- Enemy Within, The (TV Series) (2019)
- Feat. Jennifer Carpenter, Morris Chestnut, Raza Jaffrey…
- Gripping counter–intelligence drama series following an ex–CIA–spy–turned–traitor (Jennifer Carpenter, DEXTER) who is…
- Hatton Garden (TV Mini-series) (2019)
- Feat. Timothy Spall, Kenneth Cranham, Brian F O'Byrne…
- Four elderly men carry out a large–scale robbery in this series based on the 2015 Hatton Garden Diamond Heist, one of the most audacious…
- Manhunt (TV Mini-series) (2019)
- Dir. Marc Evans
Feat. Martin Clunes, Stephen Wight, Katie Lyons
- Solid Brit–cop drama starring Martin Clunes as a London Metropolitan police detective who tracks down a serial killer. Based on the true story…
- Miss Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (TV Mini-Series) (2019)
- Feat. Geraldine Hakewill, Joel Jackson, Catherine McClements…
- Spin–off of the popular Australian TV series MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES, set in Melbourne in the 1960's, and following a woman who aspires…
- MotherFatherSon (TV Mini-series) (2019)
- Feat. Richard Gere, Helen McCrory, Billy Howle…
- BBC TV thriller of distinction, interweaving themes of politics, media and law enforcement as it follows three members of a fractured but powerful…
- Queens of Mystery (TV Series) (2019)
- Feat. Julie Graham, Rebecca Grant, Andrew Leung…
- Delightfully tongue–in–cheek British crime series set in a picturesque fictional English village, following a young detective and her…
- Russian Doll (TV Series) (2019)
- Feat. Natasha Lyonne, Charlie Barnett, Yul Vazquez…
- Emmy–nominated comedy–thriller series, in which co–creator Natasha Lyonne stars as a game developer who repeatedly dies and relives…
- Traitors (TV Series) (2019)
- Feat. Emma Appleton, Luke Treadaway, Michael Stuhlbarg…
- 6–part TV series set in London in 1945, where a young women is recruited by the American Office of Strategic Services to spy on her own…
- True Detective - Season 3 (TV Series) (2019)
- Dir. Daniel Sackheim, Jeremy Saulnier, Nic Pizzolatto
Feat. Mahershala Ali, Carmen Ejogo, Stephen Dorff…
- A return–to–form for the third season of the Emmy–winning crime show that this time features Mahershala Ali as a retired detective…
- Twin (TV Series) (2019)
- Feat. Kristofer Hivju, Rebekka Nystabakk
- Intriguing eight–part Norwegian crime drama series starring "Game of Thrones" actor Kristofer Hivju as identical twin brothers living…
- Wild Bill (TV Mini-series) (2019)
- Feat. Rob Lowe, Bronwyn James, Rachael Stirling…
- British drama with Rob Lowe playing a US police chief who moves to Lincolnshire from Miami with his 14 year old daughter. Hoping to escape a painful…
- ABC Murders, The (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Alex Gabassi
Feat. John Malkovich, Andrew Buchan, Eamon Farren…
- Three–part adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel with John Malkovich refreshing as retired detective Hercule Poirot who is here targeted by a…
- Alienist, The (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Feat. Daniel Bruhl, Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning…
- Crime drama series that assembles an ad hoc team in mid–1890s New York to investigate a serial killer who is murdering street children. The…
- Bad Seed, The (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Helena Brooks
Feat. Dean O'Gorman, Matt Minto, Madeleine Sami…
- Four–part New Zealand crime series based on the books by Charlotte Grimshaw telling the story of two brothers from a dysfunctional family with…
- Black Earth Rising (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. John Goodman, Michaela Coel, Tamara Tunie
- Political thriller series about the prosecution of war criminals, with Michaela Coel playing a Rwandan–born British legal investigator whose…
- Bletchley Circle, The: San Francisco (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Feat. Julie Graham, Rachael Stirling, Crystal Balint…
- Set during the thrilling social change of the mid–1950s, these new episodes see two characters from the original British series travel to…
- Blood (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Feat. Adrian Dunbar, Diarmuid Noyes, Carolina Main
- Brooding Irish psychological thriller following an isolated woman whose estrangement from her family is interrupted by the sudden death of her…
- Castle Rock (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. André Holland, Melanie Lynskey, Bill Skarsgård…
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- Cry, The (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Glendyn Ivin
Feat. Jenna Coleman, Ewen Leslie, Asher Keddie…
- A twist–laden psychological thriller that chronicles the disintegration of a British couple's marriage after their four–month–old…
- Escape at Dannemora (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Ben Stiller
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano…
- TV miniseries based on the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, where a prison employee (Patricia Arquette, who steals the show) becomes…
- Hard Sun (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Jim Sturgess, Agyness Deyn, Nikki Amuka-Bird…
- Neil Cross (LUTHER, SPOOKS) penned this dystopian British crime drama, where two mismatched police officers investigate evidence that a mysterious…
- Homecoming (TV Series) (2018)
- Dir. Sam Esmail
Feat. Julia Roberts, Bobby Cannavale, Stephen James…
- Haunting psychological thriller with Julia Roberts playing a woman who discovers she has been working for a mysterious government facility. Season…
- Homeland - Season 7 (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Elizabeth Marvel, Maury Sterling…
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- Informer (TV Series) (2018)
- Dir. Jonny Campbell
Feat. Nabhaan Rizwan, Paddy Considine, Bel Powley
- A complex, character–driven thriller that follows a young East Londoner who is coerced into going undercover for a counter–terrorism…
- Innocent (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Feat. Lee Ingleby, Daniel Ryan, Adrian Rawlins
- TV miniseries following a man who is released from prison after his conviction for the murder of his wife is overturned, and sets about rebuilding…
- Instinct (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Alan Cumming, Bojana Novakovic, Naveen Andrews
- Police procedural based on the novel "Murder Games" by James Patterson, with Alan Cumming playing an academic and married gay man, who is lured back…
- Jack Ryan (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. John Krasinski, Abbie Cornish, Wendell Pierce…
- John Krasinski inhabits the TV incarnation of the action–man role created by Tom Clancy and previously played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford,…
- Killing Eve (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw…
- Phoebe Waller–Bridge (FLEABAG) created this gripping British thriller TV series based on the Villanelle novel series by Luke Jennings. Sandra…
- Little Drummer Girl, The (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Michael Shannon, Alexander Skarsgard, Florence Pugh…
- Korean master Park Chan–Wook directs this typically savvy adaptation of the novel by John le Carré that follows the life of a young English…
- Mayans M.C. (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. J. D. Pardo, Clayton Cardenas, Sarah Bolger…
- Spin–off series to SONS OF ANARCHY that takes place in its same fictional universe – set around the California–Mexico border and…
- Mrs. Wilson (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Richard Laxton
Feat. Ruth Wilson, Iain Glen, Keeley Hawes…
- Fascinating 60's period drama series starring and executive–produced by Ruth Wilson, who plays her real–life grandmother, a widow who…
- Mystery Road (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Rachel Perkins
Feat. Aaron Pedersen, Judy Davis, Deborah Mailman…
- Six–part miniseries based on the outback noir film of the same name, following indigenous detective Jay Swan as he investigates the…
- Next of Kin (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Feat. Archie Panjabi, Jack Davenport
- Contemporary ITV thriller mini–series following a woman (Archie Panjabi) who is drawn into a complex familial conspiracy after her brother is…
- Ordeal By Innocence (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Sandra Goldbacher
Feat. Bill Nighy, Anthony Boyle, Anna Chancellor…
- Three–part BBC drama based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name. Set in 1954, where a wealthy philanthropist is murdered and her…
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Feat. Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan, Lola Bessis…
- A second screen re–imagining of the iconic Australian novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay. On Valentines day in 1900, three school girls and…
- Pine Gap (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Mat King
Feat. Parker Sawyers, Tess Haubrich, Jacqueline McKenzie…
- Gripping political crime thriller exploring the intensely secretive relationship between Australia and the USA and their joint defence facility in…
- Requiem (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Feat. Lydia Wilson, Joel Fry, James Frecheville
- 6–part British supernatural thriller following the mysterious connection between a toddler who disappeared from a Welsh village in 1994, and…
- Rookie, The (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Nathan Fillion, Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones
- Police procedural drama with Nathan Fillion playing a small–town guy pursuing his dream of becoming an LAPD officer, and proving himself…
- Save Me (TV Series) (Gone) (2018)
- Dir. Nick Murphy
Feat. Lennie James, Suranne Jones, Stephen Graham…
- Dark and gripping 6–part crime thriller set in South London, following an ordinary man who embarks on a brave search for his missing 13 year…
- Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators (TV Series) (2018)
- Light BBC crime drama set in Stratford–upon–Avon and following a ex–Detective Inspector turned debt–laden private…
- Sharp Objects (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina…
- Searing psychological thriller with Amy Adams playing a reporter who returns to her small home town to investigate the murders of two preteen girls.…
- Succession (TV series) (2018)
- Feat. Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin…
- Provocative and witty satirical drama created by Jesse Armstrong (IN THE LOOP) about a dysfunctional dynasty led by an aging patriarch (Brian Cox).
- Truth Will Out, The (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Robert Gustafsson, Johan Ulveson, Maria Sundbom
- Swedish crime series about a detective who gathers together a mismatched team of cold–case investigators to crack a case involving eight…
- White Dragon (TV Series) (Strangers) (2018)
- Dir. Paul Andrew Williams
Feat. John Simm, Anthony Wong, Emilia Fox…
- A cross–cultural, conspiracy thriller series set on the hyper–modern island of Hong Kong, where a university lecturer (John Simm) must…
- X-Files, The - Season 11 (TV Series) (2018)
- Dir. Chris Carter, James Wong, Glen Morgan
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Mitch Pileggi
- Likely to be the final ever X–Files season, remaining loyal to the themes and tone lovingly cultivated throughout previous seasons, but with…
- 13 Reasons Why (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Dylan Minnette, Katherine Langford, Christian Navarro…
- Controversial and sometimes gruelling teenage mystery series about a high school student who discovers a box of cassette tapes recorded by his friend…
- Acceptable Risk (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Elaine Cassidy, Morten Suurballe, Angeline Ball…
- Irish crime series about a woman from Dublin whose husband is murdered during a business trip in Montreal. Seeking to uncover the truth, she starts…
- Apple Tree Yard (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Dir. Jessica Hobbs
Feat. Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin
- Gripping drama with Emily Watson superb as a woman whose impulsive and passionate affair with a complete stranger is the first in a series of events…
- Bancroft (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Sarah Parish, Faye Marsay, Adam Long…
- Contemporary thriller miniseries created by Kate Brooke (MR SELFRIDGE), which centres on Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft, trusted and…
- Big Little Lies - Season 1 (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley…
- A superb, darkly comedic seven–part HBO miniseries set in the tranquil seaside town of Monterey, California, that weaves a tale of murder and…
- Bridge, The - Series 4 (TV Series) (Bron/Broen) (2017)
- Feat. Sofia Helin, Thure Lindhardt
- Fourth series of the enormously popular Danish–Swedish murder mystery is set two years after the conclusion of Series 3 with the central…
- Broadchurch - Series 3 (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker…
- The third and final series has detectives Hardy and Miller investigating a serious sexual assault in the beleagured Dorset village, and explores the…
- Cardinal (TV Series) (2017)
- Dir. Daniel Grou
Feat. Billy Campbell, Karine Vanasse
- Based on the award–winning novel Forty Words for Sorrow by writer Giles Blunt, this Canadian TV noir follows a detective hunting down a serial…
- City and the City, The (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Christian Camargo, Ron Cook, Mandeep Dhillon…
- Compelling blend of sci–fi dystopia and crime set in a European city–state called Beszel, where an inspector in the Extreme Crime Squad…
- Counterpart (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. J.K. Simmons, Olivia Williams, Ulrich Thomsen
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- Fargo - Season 3 (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead…
- Third season of the much acclaimed mid–western noir, this time set in 2010. Features more deception, intrigue and murder in a frosty Minnesota…
- Fearless (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Helen McCrory, Wunmi Mosaku
- A classy 6–part British miniseries following a human rights lawyer (Helen McCrory in an absorbing performance) as she attempts to secure a…
- Guerrilla (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Idris Elba, Freida Pinto, Babou Ceesay…
- 6–part Miniseries set in 1970's London, where a politically active couple have their relationship and values tested after forming a radical…
- In the Dark (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. MyAnna Buring
- Detective Helen Weeks (MyAnna Buring) finds out she is pregnant shortly before being drawn into the dark side of urban Manchester, when she returns…
- Keeping Faith (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Eve Myles
- An ordinary woman fights to protect her family and her sanity when her husband unexpectedly disappears on his way to work. She discovers he is part…
- Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Edie Falco, Anthony Edwards, Miles Gaston Villanueva…
- The first season of the crime anthology series, Law & Order True Crime, dramatizes the trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were famously convicted…
- Liar (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Ioan Gruffudd, Joanne Froggatt, Zoe Tapper…
- Intense thriller in which the initial attraction between a dedicated teacher and a renowned surgeon devolves into a devastating chain of events that…
- Mr. Mercedes (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Brendan Gleeson, Harry Treadaway, Kelly Lynch
- Tense mystery thriller based on the novel trilogy by Stephen King, where retired detective Bill Hodges is haunted by the unsolved case of "Mr.…
- One of Us (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Juliet Stevenson, Joanna Vanderham, Laura Fraser…
- A grim British drama series set in a remote Scottish Highland village where a newly married couple are found murdered. Their families and neighbours…
- Prime Suspect 1973 (TV Series) (Prime Suspect: Tennison) (2017)
- Dir. David Caffrey
Feat. Stefanie Martini, Sam Reid, Blake Harrison…
- A retro–dated prequel to Lynda LaPlante's long–running British detective drama series, originally starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane…
- Rebecka Martinsson (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Eva Melander, Ardalan Esmaili, Jakob Ohrman
- Engrossing Swedish series following a successful lawyer who returns to her remote hometown above the Arctic Circle to hunt for the person who…
- Rellik (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Richard Dormer, Jodi Balfour, Ray Stevenson
- The title is "Killer" backwards, as so is the structural conceit of this innovative BBC crime thriller that starts at the end, with a prime suspect…
- Replacement, The (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Dir. Joe Ahearne
Feat. Morven Christie, Vicky McClure, Richard Rankin…
- Three part British miniseries set in Glasgow, with a successful architect who interrupts her work on a big project to have a child, hiring an…
- Riverdale (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. KJ Apa
- Millennial neo–noir teen drama set in the deceptively idyllic town of Riverdale, based on characters from the Archie Comics universe. Centres…
- Riviera (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Julia Stiles, Lena Olin, Adrian Lester…
- A TV mini–series set on the French Riviera, where a recently widowed art curator from the Midwest (Julia Stiles) seeks the truth about her…
- Salvation (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Santiago Cabrera, Jennifer Finnigan, Charlie Rowe
- Sci–fi suspense series about a grad student whose self–designed app discovers a giant asteroid is hurtling toward the planet and the…
- Sinner, The (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Jessica Biel, Christopher Abbott, Bill Pullman
- An 8–episode miniseries starring Jessica Biel as a seemingly ordinary woman who brutally murders someone out of nowhere during a trip to the…
- SS-GB (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Feat. Sam Riley, James Cosmo, Rainer Bock…
- BBC series speculating on what German occupied Britain would like like if the Nazis had won WII. Arrestingly dystopian TV, based on the…
- StartUp (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Martin Freeman, Adam Brody
- A unique cyber thriller in which the entrepreneurs behind a revolutionary unregulated digital currency are three strangers from the wrong side of the…
- Strike (TV Series) (The Cuckoo's Calling; The Silkworm; Career of Evil) (2017-2018)
- Feat. Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger
- A crime drama series adapted from the Cormoran Strike detective novels written by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Tom Burke…
- Taken (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Clive Standen, Gaius Charles, Michael Irby…
- An action–packed prequel spin–off to the blockbuster TAKEN movies, with Liam Neeson replaced by VIKINGS star Clive Standen, who plays a…
- Tin Star (TV Series) (2017)
- Dir. Rowan Joffe
Feat. Tim Roth, Christina Hendricks
- TV show by writer–director of BRIGHTON ROCK, set in the majestic Canadian Rockies and following a former British detective who moves with his…
- Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017)
- Dir. Jane Campion, Ariel Kleiman
Feat. Elisabeth Moss, Nicole Kidman, Gwendoline Christie …
- Jane Campion relocates her outstanding crime thriller TV series to Sydney's Bondi Beach, where detective Robin Griffin is attempting to rebuild her…
- Wake in Fright (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Dir. Kriv Stenders
Feat. Sean Keenan, Alex Dimitriades, Caren Pistorious…
- Australian miniseries based more on the original novel than the subsequent cult film, depicting the psychological journey of schoolteacher John…
- Animal Kingdom (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Ellen Barkin, Scott Speedman, Shawn Hatosy
- Dark crime family drama set in LA, but based on the powerful Australian movie of the same name (whose director David Michod is a producer here).…
- Berlin Station (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Richard Armitage, Rhys Ifans, Leland Orser…
- TV thriller following the clandestine activities of a CIA team in Berlin, with Richard Armitage playing an ex–Langley analyst who moves to…
- Dark Heart (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Tom Riley, Charlotte Riley
- Crime mini–series set in London, following an alcoholic and workaholic detective investigating a string of horrific murders, all the while…
- Fall, The - Series 3 (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, John Lynch
- Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan reprise their roles, and continue their gripping game of cat and mouse through the streets of Belfast.
- Frozen Dead, The (TV Series) (Glacé) (2016)
- Feat. Charles Berling, Julia Piaton, Pascal Greggory
- Chilly crime thriller set in the French Pyrenees that unravels after the discovery of a headless body of a horse hanging suspended from the edge of a…
- Girl vs. Boy (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Will Robertson, Emma Draper, Courtney Abbot
- Kiwi romantic whodunit set in "The Bay", where an amateur detective takes it upon herself to solve the mystery behind the divisions in her tight knit…
- Homeland - Season 6 (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend…
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- In Plain Sight (TV Mini-series) (2016)
- Dir. John Strickland
Feat. Douglas Henshall, Martin Compston, Shauna Macdonald
- Three–part drama series covering the crimes committed by serial killer Peter Manuel in Lanarkshire, Scotland in the 1950s, shocking local…
- Kettering Incident, The (TV Mini-series) (2016)
- Dir. Rowan Woods
Feat. Elizabeth Debicki, Matthew Le Nevez
- Tasmanian mystery drama centred around a doctor (Elizabeth Debicki) who returns to the logging town of Kettering, where tensions between…
- Level, The (TV Series) (2016)
- Dir. Mark Everest, Andy Goddard
Feat. Karla Crome, Lindsey Coulson, Noel Clarke…
- Six–part British crime drama featuring Karla Crome as a detective with the National Crime Division assigned to Brighton CID to investigate the…
- Lucifer (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Tom Ellis, Lauren German, D.B. Woodside…
- Dark fantasy series based on the Neil Gaiman comic has a bored devil set up shop in Los Angeles running a piano bar and aiding the L.A.P.D. in the…
- Maigret (TV Series) (2016)
- Dir. Ashley Pearce
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Lucy Cohu, Shaun Dingwall
- Rowan Atkinson plays it straight in this immaculate update of Georges Simenon's Inspector Jules Maigret, set in 1950s Paris.
Across two features…
- Moonstone, The (TV Mini-series) (2016)
- Feat. John Thomson, Sarah Hadland, Joshua Silver…
- Updated BBC version of the Wilkie Collins' novel in which the numerous party guests at an English country house have a motive for stealing a missing…
- New Blood (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Mark Strepan, Ben Tavassoli, Mark Addy…
- A light–on–its–feet London–based BBC police series from the creator of FOYLE'S WAR that brings together a pair of cheeky…
- Night Manager, The (TV Mini-Series) (2016)
- Dir. Susanne Bier
Feat. Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman…
- Stellar John Le Carré adaptation with Tom Hiddleston as a former British soldier recruited to infiltrate an international arm dealer's network.
- Night Of, The (TV Mini-Series) (2016)
- Feat. Riz Ahmed, John Turturro, Michael Kenneth Williams…
- Much–acclaimed crime drama from the pen of Richard Price (THE WIRE, CLOCKERS) featuring a revelatory performance from Riz Ahmed as a man…
- Preacher (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Joe Gilgun…
- Much acclaimed adaptation of the DC Comics series with Dominic Cooper as a small town preacher possessed by a supernatural force.
- Quarry (TV Series) (2016)
- Dir. Greg Yaitanes, John Hillcoat
Feat. Logan Marshall-Green, Jodi Balfour, Damon Herriman…
- A dark yet realistic crime drama series in which a disillusioned Vietnam War vet returns home to Memphis in 1972 only to find rejection and scrutiny,…
- Rillington Place (TV Mini-series) (2016)
- Dir. Craig Viveiros
Feat. Tim Roth, Samantha Morton, Nico Mirallegro…
- Three–part crime drama starring Tim Roth as serial killer John Christie, who strangled a string of victims during the 1940s and early 1950s…
- Secret, The (TV Mini-series) (2016)
- Dir. Nick Murphy
Feat. James Nesbitt, Genevieve O’Reilly, Jason Watkins…
- Award–winning mini–series based on Belfast journalist Deric Henderson's true–life account of the double murder of a couple whose…
- Sherlock - Series 4 (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Toby Jones…
- Cumberbatch's beloved modern Sherlock is back on British soil once more, while Doctor Watson and Mary prepare for becoming first–time parents…
- Thirteen (TV Mini-series) (2016)
- Feat. Jodie Comer, Natasha Little, Stuart Graham…
- Five–part BBC psychological drama that follows a 26–year–old woman who learns to live again after being abducted and held in…
- Agatha Christie: Partners in Crime (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. David Walliams, Jessica Raine, James Fleet…
- Cheery update of Agatha Christie's crime–fighting duo, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, who solve mysteries and search for enemy spies in 1950s…
- And Then There Were None (Mini-series) (2015)
- Feat. Douglas Booth, Charles Dance, Maeve Dermody…
- A three–part miniseries based on the popular Agatha Christie novel, perhaps her darkest and most sinister work. Ten strangers are invited to an…
- Angelby (TV Series) (Ängelby) (2015)
- Feat. Mia Skaringer, Goran Ragnerstam, Amanda Ooms
- Unsettling Swedish mystery series about a wife–and–mother who is forced to take a job in a small remote city of Ängelby where she…
- Arthur & George (TV Mini-series) (2015)
- Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Martin Clunes, Arsher Ali, Art Malik
- Three–part drama set in 1906 that follows the intersecting lives of Arthur Conan Doyle, world–famous author of 'Sherlock Holmes', and…
- Black Work (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Sheridan Smith, Matthew McNulty, Geraldine James…
- Pacy British crime series with Sheridan Smith as a policewoman who sets out to discover who murdered her husband, an undercover officer.
- Blindspot (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Jaimie Alexander, Sullivan Stapleton
- Twisty thriller begins with the discovery of a Jane Doe found in Times Square with no memory and mysterious tattoos on her body.
- Bloodline (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini…
- Knotty thriller about a family of adult siblings who find that their past secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep of a brother returns…
- Broadchurch - Series 2 (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Andrew Buchan…
- Second season of the compelling mystery series returns to the titular town one year after Danny Latimer's killer was revealed.
Inevitably more…
- Capital (2015)
- Feat. Adeel Akhtar, Danny Ashok, Mona Goodwin…
- A three–part British TV adaptation of the novel by John Lanchester, set on an affluent London street, where residents receive a strange note…
- Catching Milat (TV Mini-series) (2015)
- Feat. Richard Cawthorne, Malcolm Kennard
- Rigorous psychological thriller based on the investigation into the 1990s backpacker murders leading to the arrest and conviction of serial killer…
- Coroner, The (TV Series) (2015-2016)
- Feat. Claire Goose, Matt Bardock
- Light and fanciful whodunnit drama series starring Claire Goose as a coroner poring over suspicious corpses in a fictional South Devon coastal town.…
- Dickensian (TV Mini-series) (2015)
- Feat. Tuppence Middleton, Sophie Rundle, Stephen Rea…
- A drama series that plays within the detailed literary universe of Charles Dickens, colliding many of his iconic characters on the streets of 19th…
- Doctor Foster (TV Series) (2015-2017)
- Feat. Suranne Jones, Bertie Carvel, Jodie Comer
- Top quality BBC melodrama with Suranne Jones superb as a general practitioner who becomes obessed with the notion that her doting husband may be…
- Fargo - Season 2 (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons…
- Much acclaimed second season is set in the late seventies and features more deception, intrigue and murder in and around the town of Fargo, North…
- Fortitude (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Sofie Grabol, Richard Dormer, Stanley Tucci…
- Addictive murder mystery set on the edge of the Arctic Circle, in the town of Fortitude, a town whose peaceful reputation is under threat.
- Frankenstein Chronicles, The (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Sean Bean, Anna Maxwell Martin, Charlie Creed-Miles…
- Sean Bean stars in this Victorian–set thriller as an inspector investigating a number of mysterious deaths that may be linked to a scientist…
- Glitch (TV Series) (2015)
- Dir. Emma Freeman
Feat. Patrick Brammall, Emma Booth, Emily Barclay
- Paranormal series set in small–town Australia with a cop investigating the case of seven people apparently rising from the dead.
- Homeland - Season 5 (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Rupert Friend, Mandy Patinkin
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- Mr. Robot (TV Series) (2015-2020)
- Feat. Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Portia Doubleday
- The excellent Rami Malek stars as an expert hacker recruited by a mysterious anarchist, who calls himself Mr. Robot.
44 episodes across 4 seasons.
- Narcos (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal
- Vivid, unflinching HBO drama chronicles the exploits of the notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
- Norskov (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Thomas Levin, Claus Riis Ostergaard, Jacob Lohmann
- CONTRABAND TITLE. Season 1 is not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film &…
- Occupied (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Ane Dahl Torp, Henrik Mestad
- Exciting Norwegian political thriller from the pen of Jo Nesbo that posits a future Norway taken over by Russia in a bid to increase oil production.
- Professor T. (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Koen De Bouw
- CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
- Safe House (TV Series) (2015-2017)
- Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Marsha Thomason, Paterson Joseph…
- ITV crime series about a married couple who are asked by a police officer and their close friend to turn their remote Guest House into a Safe…
- Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2015)
- Dir. Douglas Mackinnon
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs…
- One–off holiday special with the modern Sherlock and Watson finding themselves back in 1890's London.
- Trapped (TV Series) (2015)
- Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir
- Icelandic television mystery series created by Baltasar Kormákur (JAR CITY, EVEREST) that follows a chief of police in a remote town who tries to…
- True Detective - Season 2 (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams…
- Widely regarded as a disappointing second season of the HBO policier with a streak of "strained seriousness" running through its tale of a bizarre…
- True New Zealand Crime Stories (How to Murder Your Wife; Monster of Mangatiti; Venus and Mars; Bloodlines; Siege) (2015)
- Dir. Riccardo Pellizzeri, John Laing, Peter Burger
Feat. Mark Mitchinson, Craig Hall, Sara Wiseman…
- How to Murder Your Wife: A black comedy based on the true story of Alfred Benning's outlandish attempts to murder his overbearing wife in 1977.…
- Unforgotten (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Nicola Walker, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Bernard Hill…
- Haunting crime drama about a delicate investigation that begins when the bones of a young man are found under the footings of a demolished house 39…
- Wayward Pines (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Matt Dillon, Carla Gugino, Shannyn Sossamon…
- Matt Dillon stars as a Secret Service agent who journeys to the small town of Wayward Pines in search of two federal agents who have disappeared.
- Agatha Raisin (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Ashley Jensen, Katy Wix, Mathew Horne…
- The Cotswolds–based PR guru turned amateur sleuth returns for a series of comedic murder–mysteries based on the books by M.C. Beaton.…
- Bosch (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Titus Welliver
- Titus Welliver stars as Michael Connelly's famed detective in this acclaimed series in which Bosch pursues a murderer while standing trial for the…
- Brokenwood Mysteries, The (TV Series) (2014-2017)
- Feat. Neill Rea, Fern Sutherland
- A local stab at the ever popular murder mystery genre with this Kiwiana policier featuring two mismatched detectives investigating a series of…
- Chasing Shadows (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
- Dir. Christopher Menaul, Jim O’Hanlon
Feat. Reece Shearsmith, Alex Kingston, Noel Clarke
- British crime series following the work of a missing persons unit, with Reece Shearsmith as a brilliant yet socially awkward detective Sergeant who…
- Code, The (TV Series) (2014)
- Dir. Shawn Seet
Feat. Dan Spielman, Ashley Zukerman, Adam Garcia…
- Six–part Australian thriller interweaving several plot lines connected to a mysterious outback accident, which effects the lives of many…
- Fall, The - Series 2 (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, John Lynch
- Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan reprise their roles, and continue their gripping game of cat and mouse through the streets of Belfast.
- Fargo - Season 1 (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks…
- This splendid reworking of the Coen Brothers' cult midwestern noir expands on the film's frosty Minnesota murder mystery with more eccentric…
- Game, The (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
- Feat. Brian Cox, Tom Hughes, Jonathan Aris…
- Brian Cox leads the cast in this Cold War spy thriller set in the world of 1970's espionage. It tells the story of the invisible war fought by MI5…
- Gomorrah (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Marco DAmore, Salvatore Esposito, Maria Pia Calzone…
- Euro–crime TV series set in the Scampia neighbourhood of Naples, where a brutal war breaks out between rival gangs in the criminal underworld.…
- Gracepoint (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. David Tennant, Anna Gunn, Jackie Weaver…
- The US remake of BROADCHURCH is largely a shot–for–shot remake with some minor plot tweaking. A young boy is found dead on the shores of…
- Hannibal - Season 2 (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas…
- Further episodes in the grisly, ultra stylised thriller based on Thomas Harris' ubiquitous crime novels, with the grimly compelling relationship…
- Happy Valley (TV Series) (2014-2023)
- Feat. Sarah Lancashire, Steve Pemberton, Siobhan Finneran
- Another riveting top–shelf British police drama hot on the heels of BROADCHURCH. Sarah Lancashire stars as a Yorkshire sergeant who suspects a…
- Homeland - Season 4 (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- House of Cards - Season 2 (TV Series, US) (2014)
- Feat. Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate Mara…
- Further episodes in the shadowy revival of the classic BBC political series, with Kevin Spacey (perfectly cast) as a machiavellian congressman…
- How to Get Away with Murder (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Viola Davis
- Legal drama centred around a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant criminal defense professor who become involved in a twisted murder…
- Last Ship, The (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Adam Baldwin, Rhona Mitra, Eric Dane…
- A global pandemic kills off 80 percent of the earth's population, leaving the crew of a lone naval destroyer to stop the virus before humanity…
- Missing, The (TV Series) (2014-2016)
- Feat. James Nesbitt, Frances O’Connor, Tcheky Karyo…
- Gripping BBC drama with James Nesbitt as a man devastated by the abduction of his young son during a family vacation in France.
- Penny Dreadful (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green…
- Familiar Gothic literary characters like Dr. Frankenstein and Dorian Gray are brought together with others to explore their origin stories in this…
- Prey (TV Mini-series) (2014)
- Dir. Nick Murphy
Feat. John Simm, Philip Glenister, Benedict Wong…
- John Simm stars as a Mancunian detective whose life falls apart when he finds his ex–wife and one of his sons murdered and himself as the chief…
- Quirke (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Michael Gambon, Brian Gleeson
- An unhurried Dublin period noir with Gabriel Byrne as the eponymous Irish pathologist–cum–sleuth. Three episodes: 'Christine Falls', 'The…
- Secrets and Lies (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Martin Henderson, Anthony Hayes, Diana Glenn
- A slick addition to the murder mystery genre, with Kiwi Martin Henderson attempting to clear his name after he unwittingly becomes the prime suspect…
- True Detective - Season 1 (TV Series) (2014)
- Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan…
- This superlative HBO policier – a marquee television event in 2014, and the first in an anthology of bespoke detective stories – pairs…
- Undeniable (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
- Dir. John Strickland
Feat. Claire Goose, Peter Firth, Christine Bottomley…
- Two–part TV thriller about the effort of a determined women to bring her mother's murderer to justice decades after the tragedy.
Convinced…
- Widower, The (2014)
- Dir. Paul Whittington
Feat. John Hannah, Sheridan Smith, Reece Shearsmith…
- Unnerving true crime drama depicting the life of criminal Malcolm Webster, who was convicted of murder, attempted murder and vast amounts of…
- Almost Human (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Karl Urban, Michael Ealy, Minka Kelly…
- Futuristic sci–fi series set in the year 2048, where a human cop (Karl Urban) partners up with an android to fight crime as part of a new…
- Americans, The (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Noah Emmerich
- A smart, atmosphere rich spy thriller shot with impeccable period detail, centred on a pair of Soviet KGB officers posing as a married couple in the…
- Banshee (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Antony Starr, Ivana Miličević, Ulrich Thomsen
- Kiwi Antony Starr plays the charismatic rogue at the centre of this luridly entertaining crime series, about an ex–con who poses as the…
- Bates Motel (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot…
- A creepy, character–rich exploration of Norman Bates' formative years and the relationship with his overbearing mother, played deliciously by…
- Blacklist, The (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff
- This addictive, labyrinthine thriller stars James Spader as a former government agent who engages in a game of cat and mouse with a young profiler…
- Blue Rose, The (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Antonia Prebble, Siobhan Marshall, Jennifer Ludlam
- An inquisitive office temp (Prebble) learns that the woman she is replacing in a law firm has been murdered, and becomes obsessed with solving the…
- Breaking Bad - The Final Season (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn…
- Final episodes in the addictive series chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to…
- Broadchurch - Series 1 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker…
- Superb addition to the euro crime craze, with Tennant and Colman bringing a surprisingly fresh take on the mismatched partner scenario, as detectives…
- By Any Means (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Warren Brown, Shelley Conn, Elliot Knight…
- Hokey, though solidly entertaining crime serial follows a clandestine unit who operate outside of the law to bring down mastermind criminals. Six…
- Crimes of Passion (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Linus Wahlgren, Ola Rapace, Tuva Novotny
- Scandi–crime goes period! Post–war Sweden is the backdrop for this immaculately dressed series of mysteries and whodunnits, based on the…
- Escape Artist, The (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
- Dir. Brian Welsh
Feat. David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo…
- A brilliant junior barrister (David Tennant) with a reputation for wriggling clients out of sticky situations begins to rue his acquittal of a…
- Fall, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Laura Donnelly
- A dark exemplar of the current wave of female–driven crime dramas, with former X–FILES stalwart Gillian Anderson bringing a steely edge…
- Following, The (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Kevin Bacon, Natalie Zea, Annie Parisse…
- Relentlessly grisly crime series concerns the dogged pursuit of an escaped serial killer by a weathered FBI agent (Bacon), whose job becomes more…
- Great Train Robbery, The (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold, James Strong
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Luke Evans, Robert Glenister…
- Excellent, authentic recreation of 1963's "Great Train Robbery", told from both sides of the law.
- Guilty, The (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
- Feat. Tamsin Greig
- Tamsin Greig (BLACK BOOKS) lends an air of intrigue to this otherwise workmanlike missing child drama. She plays a detective determined to get to the…
- Hannibal - Season 1 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas…
- A grisly, ultra stylised thriller based on Thomas Harris' ubiquitous crime novels, with the grimly compelling relationship between FBI agent Will…
- Harry (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Oscar Kightley, Sam Neill, Hunter Kamuhemu…
- Oscar Kightley plays a grieving South Auckland detective swamped by a series of armed robberies in this dark, authentic local policier, a welcome…
- Homeland - Season 3 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin…
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- Hostages (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Dylan McDermott, Toni Collette, Tate Donovan…
- A surgeon is thrust into a chilling political conspiracy when her family is taken hostage by a rogue FBI agent who orders her to assassinate the…
- House of Cards - Season 1 (TV Series, US) (2013)
- Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate Mara…
- A deep, shadowy revival of the classic BBC political series, with Kevin Spacey (perfectly cast) as a machiavellian congressman manipulating his way…
- Justified - Season 4 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Joelle Carter…
- Further episodes from the slick urban western about an old–school U.S. Marshal reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural…
- Kill Point, The (TV Series) (2013)
- Dir. Steve Shill
Feat. Donnie Wahlberg, John Leguizamo, Tobin Bell…
- High octane television series that follows a group of U.S. Marines recently returned from serving in Iraq as they come together to pull off a major…
- Last Resort (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman, Autumn Reeser…
- Tense military drama set on board a U.S. submarine which refuses to carry out an order to fire launch nuclear ballistic missiles at Pakistan. 13…
- Mayday (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Sophie Okonedo, Aidan Gillen, Lesley Manville
- Off–beat thriller set in a small town steeped in pagan traditions where the crowning of the May Queen is the highlight of the day until…
- Ray Donovan (TV Series) (2013)
- Dir. John Dahl
Feat. Liev Schreiber, Paula Malcomson , Eddie Marsan…
- Echoing THE LONG GOODBYE and Chander's Philip Marlowe, this Californian noir stars Liev Schreiber as corporate 'fixer' whose work involves cleaning…
- Sherlock - Series 3 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman
- Further episodes from this ingenious update of the master detective, with Benedict Cumberbatch's idiosyncratic take on the character nicely…
- Top of the Lake (TV Series) (2013)
- Dir. Jane Campion, Gerard Lee
Feat. Elisabeth Moss, Peter Mullan, David Wenham…
- An unnerving, atmosphere–rich 'feminist' policier from Australasian auteur Jane Campion, centred on the mystery of a 12–year–old…
- Tunnel, The (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Stephen Dillane, Clemence Poesy, Mia Goth
- An Anglo/French remake of Scandinavian crime hit THE BRIDGE, centred alternatively on a British and French detective who find themselves working…
- Underbelly - Season 7 (TV Mini-series) (Squizzy) (2013)
- Feat. Jared Daperis, Camille Keenan
- Further tales from Australia's underworld, this time centred on the life and times of notorious Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor, whose blend of…
- Wentworth (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Danielle Cormack, Leeanna Walsman, Robbie Magasiva…
- Glossy, menacing re–imagining of 80's series PRISONER, centers around a suburban housewife forced to come to terms with life inside one of…
- What Remains (TV Mini-series) (2013)
- Feat. David Threlfall, Alex Arnold, David Bamber
- Riveting murder mystery following a young couple who find a heavily decomposed body in their new apartment, and a detective comes out of…
- Wrong Mans, The (TV Series) (2013-2014)
- Feat. James Corden, Sarah Solemani, Tom Basden…
- An ambitious BBC comedy–drama series co–created and written by GAVIN & STACEY alumni James Corden and Mathew Baynton that combines the…
- A Mother's Son (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
- Feat. Hermione Norris, Martin Clunes, Paul McGann…
- Taut two–part psychological thriller set in the sleepy Suffolk market town of Eastlee, where the disappearance of a young girl sends the…
- Alcatraz (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia, Sam Neill…
- A short–lived but engrossing policier with a mystery hook – a la LOST – which re–imagines San Francisco's Alcatraz prison as…
- Blackout (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
- Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Ewen Bremner, Dervla Kirwan…
- Christopher Eccleston is suitably shady as an alcoholic counselor who suffers a blackout, during which he realises he may have committed a murder. As…
- Bletchley Circle, The (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Anna Maxwell Martin, Rachael Stirling, Julie Graham…
- A smart, suspenseful period thriller set around a series of unsolved murders surreptitiously investigated by four former female codebreakers at…
- Breaking Bad - Season 5 (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn…
- Further episodes chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
- Elementary (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Aidan Quinn…
- This modern American update of Sherlock Holmes nicely complements its exceptional BBC counterpart with subtle distinctions, namely the casting of…
- Homeland - Season 2 (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin…
- Further episodes from this outstanding counter–terrorist thriller of post–9/11 paranoia, with Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile…
- Hunted (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Melissa George, Morven Christie, Stephen Dillane…
- Melissa George plays a private espionage operative who goes in hiding when after surviving an assassination attempt orchestrated by her allies. A…
- Killing, The - Series 3 (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2012)
- Feat. Sofie Grabol, Søren Malling
- Final episodes in the ripping, immensely popular Danish homicide serial weaves a third plot exploring a death linked to the global financial crisis…
- Lilyhammer (2012)
- Feat. Steven Van Zandt, Trond Fausa Aurvaag
- Norwegian–American crime drama about a former New York mobster who goes into hiding in the remote Norwegian town of Lillehammer after testifying…
- Line of Duty (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Lennie James, Martin Compston, Vicky McClure…
- Outstanding new British policier deals with corruption and department politics within a special unit whose record crime figures don't quite add up.…
- Luck (TV Series) (2012)
- Dir. Michael Mann, Phillip Noyce, Mimi Leder
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, John Ortiz…
- Heavy–hitting HBO crime drama centred on the deal–makers who frequent a popular Los Angeles racetrack – principally, an aging…
- Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Essie Davis, Ashleigh Cummings
- An elegant Melbourne socialite sleuths murder mysteries in between sipping martinis and bedding lovers in this spiffy crime series set during the…
- Missing (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Ashley Judd, Sean Bean, Cliff Curtis…
- Ashley Judd brings it as an ex–CIA operative turned homemaker who takes on an international conspiracy when her son goes missing in Rome.…
- Morden: The Fjallbacka Murders (TV Series) (Fjällbackamorden) (2012)
- Feat. Claudia Galli, Richard Ulfsäter
- In the wake of a brutal murder, secrets and lies are unearthed by a mystery writer with a nose for the suspicious in this moody Scandi–crime…
- Ripper Street (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Jerome Flynn, MyAnna Buring
- A gritty and gripping period policier which revisits the manhunt for Jack the Ripper in Victorian London.
Series One: eight episodes across three…
- Scandal (TV Series) (2012-2016)
- Feat. Kerry Washington, Columbus Short, Tony Goldwyn
- Kerry Washington plays a 'professional fixer' whose former life as a White House staffer draws her back into the world of political…
- Secret of Crickley Hall, The (TV Mini-series) (2012)
- Dir. Joe Ahearne
Feat. Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall…
- Atmospheric 3–part BBC adaptation of the novel by prolific British horror writer James Herbert that connects a supernatural mystery between two…
- Secret State (TV Mini-series) (2012)
- Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Charles Dance, Rupert Graves…
- Gabriel Byrne stars in this political thriller that explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.
- Shadow Men, The (Spin; Les Hommes De L'Ombre) (2012)
- Feat. Nathalie Baye, Philippe Magnan, Bruno Wolkowitch…
- Political drama series follows the actions of a group of spin doctors who each advance their own cause after the assassination of the French…
- Sherlock - Series 2 (TV Series) (2012)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss…
- Further episodes from this ingenious update of the master detective, with Benedict Cumberbatch's idiosyncratic take on the character nicely…
- Town, The (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
- Feat. Andrew Scott, Martin Clunes, Kelly Adams…
- A Londoner returns home following his parents' double–suicide, where he begins to suspect foul play in a town full of secrets in this…
- Underbelly - Season 6 (TV Mini-series) (Badness) (2012)
- Feat. Jonathan LaPaglia, Matt Nable
- Further tales from Australia's underworld, this time centred on the decade–long case built against one Anthony "Rooster" Perish, an elusive…
- Young Doctor's Notebook, A (TV Series) (2012)
- Dir. Alex Hardcastle
Feat. Jon Hamm, Daniel Radcliffe
- Tragi–comic TV series set in the early 20th century, with actors Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe playing a troubled and incompetent medic at a…
- Young Montalbano (TV Series) (Il giovane Montalbano) (2012)
- Feat. Michele Riondino
- The popular Inspector Montalbano lives on in this prequel which employs Andrea Camilleri's earlier books to paint a picture of Montalbano in his…
- Aim High (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Jackson Rathbone
- A six episode web series centered around a dashing high school student who just so happens to be a top government agent.
- Appropriate Adult (TV Mini-series) (2011)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Emily Watson, Dominic West
- Utterly riveting, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning mini–series that details the crucial part played by a trainee social worker in uncovering the…
- Breaking Bad - Season 4 (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn…
- Further episodes chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
- Bridge, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (Bron/Broen) (2011)
- Feat. Sofia Helin, Kim Bodnia, Dag Malmberg
- The Scandi–crime wave continues with this steely Danish–Swedish murder mystery, centred on the discovery of a body straddling the…
- Case Histories (TV Series) (2011-2013)
- Feat. Jason Isaacs, Amanda Abbington, Paul McCole…
- Richly character driven British crime TV series based on the popular Jackson Brodie series by English novelist Kate Atkinson.
Both set and filmed…
- Case Sensitive (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Olivia Williams, Darren Boyd, Peter Wight…
- Serviceable British policier centred on the case–solving acumen of a male–female detective team whose work regularly descends into…
- Exile (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
- Dir. John Alexander
Feat. John Simm, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman
- John Simm comes to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease while unknowingly uncovering dark secrets from the past in this sometimes shaky, but…
- Field of Blood, The (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
- Dir. David Kane
Feat. Jayd Johnson, David Morrissey, Peter Capaldi…
- Grim, girl–powered crime drama shot through with impeccable period detail. Set in the male–dominated world of British journalism in the…
- Grimm (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby, Bitsie Tulloch…
- A supernaturally gifted homicide detective begins to take on cases linked to creature mythology and fairytale archetypes in this police procedural…
- Homeland - Season 1 (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin…
- Anchored by Claire Danes's riveting, high–tensile performance, this outstanding surveillance thriller centres on the return of an Iraq war hero…
- Hour, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Dominic West, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw…
- A team of journalists (lead by THE WIRE's Dominic West) front a groundbreaking news hour for the BBC, only to chance upon a high–level…
- Injustice (TV Mini-series) (2011)
- Dir. Colm McCarthy
Feat. James Purefoy, Robert Whitelock, Dervla Kirwan…
- 5–part British crime drama set in the Suffolk countryside, with James Purefoy (THE FOLLOWING) playing a disillusioned criminal defence…
- Kidnap and Ransom (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Trevor Eve, John Hannah, Helen Baxendale
- Muscular ITV hostage thriller, centred on an expert negotiator whose latest assignment comes unstuck in volatile South Africa. Carefully balances…
- Killing Time (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
- Feat. David Wenham, Diana Glenn, Colin Friels
- Another hard–hitting crime story ripped from Australian headlines, starring David Wenham as a favourite defense lawyer of Melbourne's gangland…
- Killing, The (TV Series, US) (2011)
- Feat. Mireille Enos, Billy Campbell, Michelle Forbes
- Absorbing US remake of the hit Danish homicide serial remains faithful to the long–form, deep–focus procedural format of the original…
- Mad Dogs (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. John Simm, Marc Warren, Max Beesley…
- Oddly unsettling and engaging in equal measure, this mid–life black comedy centres on four middle–aged blokes who reunite to celebrate…
- Marchlands (TV Series) (2011)
- Dir. James Kent
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Denis Lawson, Alex Kingston…
- Time–switching supernatural drama where three separate families who have lived in the same Yorkshire house in 1968, 1987 and the present day,…
- Person of Interest (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson
- A rogue CIA agent is recruited by a reclusive computer genius to help run an unwanted crime prediction system he developed for the government. Strong…
- Revenge (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Emily VanCamp, Madeleine Stowe
- A high society soap opera served cold, this juicy page turner outlays the elaborate revenge plot of a blonde femme fatale (VanCamp) determined to…
- 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…
- Spooks - Season 10 (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Peter Firth, Rupert Penry-Jones, Hermione Norris…
- Concluding episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Series Ten: six…
- Suspicions of Mr Whicher, The (TV Mini-Series) (The Murder at Road Hill House) (2011)
- Dir. James Hawes
Feat. Paddy Considine, Peter Capaldi
- Paddy Considine plays famed Scotland Yard inspector Jack Whicher in this fine Victoria era murder mystery; the series' first installment based on the…
- Underbelly - Season 5 (TV Mini-series) (Razor) (2011)
- Feat. Danielle Cormack, Chelsie Preston-Crayford, Felix Williamson
- The latest in the Underbelly franchise again features a strong Kiwi (and female) flavour, with Danielle Cormack and Chelsie Preston–Crayford…
- Unforgettable (TV Series) (2011-2016)
- Feat. Poppy Montgomery, Dylan Walsh
- A police detective with hyperthymesia (the ability to remember everything she's ever experienced) uses her rare condition to solve crime on the…
- Vera (TV Series) (2011-2022)
- Dir. Louise Hooper
Feat. Brenda Blethyn, David Leon
- A combative female detective sleuthes murder cases through a blend of unconventional investigative methods and an obsession with detail. Formulaic…
- 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…
- 24 - Season 8 (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Final season of the high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Accused (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Naomie Harris, Warren Brown…
- Acclaimed British anthology series centres each episode on the back story of a new character as they make their way to the dock in court to await the…
- 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…
- Breaking Bad - Season 3 (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn…
- Further episodes chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
- 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.
Series…
- 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…
- 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…
- Lost (TV Series) - Season 6 (2010)
- Feat. Matthew Fox, Terry O'Quinn, Evangeline Lilly…
- The mysterious and seemingly never–ending consequences of the downing of Oceanic Flight 815 are resolved (sort of) in the cult show's final…
- Love / Hate (TV Series) (2010-2014)
- Feat. Aidan Gillen, Robert Sheehan, Peter Coonan…
- TV series set in Ireland's criminal underworld, where a kingpin (Aidan Gillen) and four members of his small–time drug gang navigate rivalries…
- Luther (TV Series) (2010-2019)
- Feat. Idris Elba, Saskia Reeves, Indira Varma…
- Stylish, swaggering BBC cop show created by SPOOKS–scriptwriter (and currently Wellington resident) Neil Cross stars THE WIRE's Idris Elba as a…
- Rizzoli & Isles (TV Series) (2010-2016)
- Feat. Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Bruce McGill…
- Girl–powered police procedural series that teams up Angie Harmon as police detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as medical examiner Dr.…
- Sherlock - Series 1 (TV Series) (2010)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs…
- Ingenious updating of the master detective finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Benedict…
- Spooks - Season 9 (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Richard Armitage, Sophia Myles, Peter Firth
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Series Nine: eight…
- This is Not My Life (TV Series) (2010)
- Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Charles Mesure, Tania Nolan, Ariana Brunet…
- Set in a fictional New Zealand town in the 2020s, this high–end Kiwi production runs with a number of well–worn science–fiction…
- Thorne (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. David Morrissey, Eddie Marsan, Aidan Gillen…
- Another top–draw British policier loaded with all the usual suspects: atmosphere, plot twists, and a hard–bitten hero, with David…
- 39 Steps, The (2009)
- Dir. James Hawes
Feat. Rupert Penry-Jones, Eddie Marsan, Lydia Leonard
- This BBC adaptation of Buchan’s spy novel struggles with a scriptwriter who can't seem to drag himself away from hip, self–aware 2009…
- Above Suspicion (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Kelly Reilly, Ciaran Hinds, Shaun Dingwall
- British crime series based on the novels written by Lynda La Plante (PRIME SUSPECT). A rookie female detective, determined to prove herself amidst…
- Breaking Bad - Season 2 (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn…
- Further episodes chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
- Cult, The (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Renato Bartolomei, Latham Gaines, Danielle Cormack…
- A group of brainwashed cult members are desperate to escape the mysterious compound and its deranged leader they're imprisoned by in this ambitious…
- Father and Son (TV Mini-Series) (2009)
- Dir. Brian Kirk
Feat. Dougray Scott, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea…
- Gritty, tough–minded BBC serial examines the reverberations of crime across two parallel storylines: a father (Scott), whose wife was murdered…
- Good Wife, The (TV Series) (2009-2016)
- Feat. Julianne Margulies, Chris Noth, Josh Charles…
- First–rate, Golden Globe–winning series about a politician's wife who must return to the workforce after a sex and corruption scandal…
- Killing, The - Series 2 (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2009)
- Feat. Sofie Grabol, Søren Malling
- Further episodes from the ripping, immensely popular Danish homicide serial weaves a secondary plot of intrigue, corruption, and bureaucracy…
- Lie To Me (TV Series) (2009-2011)
- Feat. Tim Roth, Kelli Williams, Brendan Hines
- Engaging crime drama that sees an unlikely Tim Roth play Cal Lightman, a doctor who has such an uncanny ability to read facial expressions and body…
- Lost (TV Series) - Season 5 (2009)
- Feat. Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly…
- The mysterious consequences of the downing of Oceanic Flight 815 continue, this season finally answering some long–standing questions.
17…
- Lulu and the Bank Robber (TV Mini-Series) (2009)
- Feat. Lene Maria Christensen, Lars Brygmann, Nicole Johansen
- An independent mother and small business owner is drawn into the dodging dealings of her habitual criminal husband in this pulpy Danish crime…
- Marple (TV Series) [Julia McKenzie] (2009-2011)
- Dir. John Strickland, Nicholas Renton, Charles Palmer
Feat. Julia McKenzie, Prunella Scales, Rik Mayall…
- Yet another regeneration of British TV's long–running Agatha Christie serial, with Julia McKenzie taking the reins from Geraldine McEwan, who…
- Moses Jones (TV Mini-Series) (2009)
- Dir. Michael Offer
Feat. Shaun Parkes, Matt Smith
- Grimy, downtrodden policier finds the titular Moses Jones (Parkes) re–assigned to investigate a brutal murder amid London’s Ugandan exile…
- Red Riding Trilogy (1974, 1980, 1983) (2009)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker
Feat. Sean Bean, Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey…
- David Peace’s gritty quartet of crime novels receive a stunning translation to the screen with this threesome of British detective thrillers, based…
- Spooks - Season 8 (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Peter Firth, Hermione Norris, Richard Armitage
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
- Unforgiven (2009)
- Dir. David Evans
Feat. Suranne Jones, Matthew McNulty, Emily Beecham…
- 3–part crime drama about a woman in Yorkshire who was found guilty of murdering two police officers when she was a teenager. After spending 15…
- White Collar (TV Series) (2009-2014)
- Feat. Matt Bomer, Marsha Thomason, Tim DeKay…
- Police procedural series following a hard working and honest FBI agent (Tim DeKay) who makes a work–release deal with a captured con artist…
- 24 - Redemption (2008)
- Dir. Jon Cassar
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Carlyle, Gil Bellows…
- Solid feature–length primer for 24's seventh season finds the ever–durable Jack Bauer on the lam from American authorities, hiding out in…
- 24 - Season 7 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Breaking Bad - Season 1 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn…
- Cynical drama series that gives us a new anti–hero in Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
- Fixer, The (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Andrew Buchan, Tamzin Outhwaite, Peter Mullan
- Punchy, well executed thriller in the tradition of SPOOKS sees a team of misfits, all with shady pasts, collaborate to bring down Britain's most…
- Flashpoint (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Hugh Dillon, Enrico Colantoni, Sergio Di Zio
- High–octane cop show from Canada following the 'Strategic Response Unit', a team of elite police who take on the riskier jobs the rest won't…
- Fred Vargas Collection (TV Series) (2008-2010)
- Dir. Josee Dayan
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Helene Fillieres, Charlotte Rampling
- Four excellent French TV adaptations of crime fiction novelist Fred Vargas' popular policiers, with her famous protagonist, Detective Adamsberg, a…
- Generation Kill (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Feat. Alexander Skarsgard, James Ransone, Lee Tergesen…
- Superlative HBO series from the makers of THE WIRE following the U.S. Marine reconnaissance battalion in the first year of the Iraq invasion.…
- Guns (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Dir. David Sutherland
Feat. Elisha Cuthbert, Lyriq Bent, Colm Feore
- Mini–series exploring the issue of gun violence in Canada through the story of four families caught up in illegal trafficking in Toronto.…
- Knight Rider (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo, Paul Campbell…
- Slick re–boot of the '80's 'classic' with Michael Knight's son teaming up with smart car K.I.T.T. to fight baddies and rack up speeding tickets…
- Life on Mars (US TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Harvey Keitel, Jason O'Mara, Michael Imperioli…
- Polarizing remake of the British sci–fi success shares an identical premise – namely cop hit by car in present wakes up in 1973 –…
- Mentalist, The (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang
- Superior crime series sees Simon Baker play an ex–'psychic' who now uses his remarkable powers of scrupulous observation in the name of the…
- Murdoch Mysteries (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris…
- An under–appreciated, unique historical crime series set in Victorian Toronto in which an unorthodox young detective, William Murdoch, uses…
- No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, The (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Jill Scott, Anika Noni Rose, Lucian Msamati
- Filmed on location in Botswana – a major first for the country, this vibrant, award winning series comes with a hefty line–up of…
- Place Of Execution (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Dir. Daniel Percival
Feat. Juliet Stevenson, Lee Ingleby, Greg Wise
- Complex and morally ambiguous three part thriller based on the award–winning novel by Val McDermid. Told in parallel storylines, Juliet…
- Prison Break - Season 4 (TV Series) (2008-2009)
- Feat. Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Robin Tunney…
- Further episodes in this riveting series of two escaped convicts' flight to freedom, and the high level political conspiracy they must expose in…
- Protectors, The (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Cecilie Stenspil, Søren Vejby, André Babikian
- Stellar Danish production centred on a group of professional bodyguards assigned to protect VIPs, politicians, and heads of state out of Copenhagen.…
- Spooks - Season 7 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Peter Firth, Gemma Jones, Richard Armitage
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Series Seven: 8…
- Wallander (TV Series, UK) (2008)
- Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Sarah Smart, Sadie Shimmin
- UK adaptation of Henning Mankell’s crime novels sees Branagh take on the titular role of the grizzled Nordic detective, solving gristly crimes in…
- Whitechapel (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Feat. Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton
- Atmospheric detective show focused on a group of detectives who are trying to track down a Jack The Ripper copycat.
Filmed entirely in the East…
- Wire, The - Season 5 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Dominic West, John Doman, Frankie Faison…
- Fifth and final season of the celebrated Baltimore crime drama shifts focus to its creator David Simon's 'bread and butter' – crime…
- Wired (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Feat. Riz Ahmed, Jodie Whittaker, Toby Stephens…
- Three–part television miniseries from the director of SPOOKS, in which a single mother working as a bank employee gets caught up in the corrupt…
- XIII: The Conspiracy (TV Mini-Series) (2008)
- Feat. Val Kilmer, Stephen Dorff
- Intriguing mini–series set around the premise that the first female President of the United States has been assassinated by an unknown sniper…
- 24 - Season 6 (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Bionic Woman, The (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Michelle Ryan, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price…
- Updated version of the 70's TV series about a female athlete who is gifted with bionic strength after a serious accident.
- Black Donnellys, The (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Michael Stahl-David, Jonathan Tucker, Tom Guiry…
- Haphazard but engrossing antidote to the status quo of gangster TV series (i.e. THE SOPRANOS) centres on four Hell's Kitchen brothers whose…
- Cold Blood (TV Mini-series) (2007)
- Feat. John Hannah, Jemma Redgrave
- Standard psychological thriller centered around a jailed serial killer, who's last victim was never found. Announcing suddenly that he's ready to…
- Durham County (TV Series) (2007-2008)
- Feat. Hugh Dillon
- An emotionally powerful series centered around Detective Mike Sweeney and his family as he hunts a serial killer he's certain is the guy across the…
- Fallen Angel (TV Series) (2007)
- Dir. David Drury
Feat. Emilia Fox, Charles Dance, Clare Holman
- Disquieting Brit crime thriller fixed on the story of a murderess, starting at her most recent crime then winding back through time to reveal her…
- George Gently (TV Series) (Inspector George Gently) (2007)
- Feat. Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby
- Retro policier with a superb attention to detail, starring Martin Shaw as the eponymous inspector whose old–school detective methods are caught…
- Killing, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2007)
- Dir. Birger Larsen
Feat. Sofie Grabol, Søren Malling
- A ripping Danish homicide serial in the long–form tradition of THE WIRE, which weaves a plot of intrigue, corruption, and bureaucracy around a…
- Kingdom (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Stephen Fry, Phyllida Law, Celia Imrie…
- Agreeable BBC series stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a country solicitor who helps the eccentric populace of Market Shipborough with their…
- Life (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Damian Lewis, Adam Arkin
- Damian Lewis riffs Hugh Laurie’s ‘House’ as an incongruous detective returning to the force to uncover the person who got him locked up for 12…
- Moonlight (TV Series) (2007-2008)
- Feat. Alex O'Loughlin, Sophia Myles, Shannyn Sossamon
- Underrated crime series featuring a private investigator that just happens to be a vampire and treads the fine line between his daytime duties and…
- Prison Break - Season 3 (TV Series) (2007-2008)
- Feat. Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Robin Tunney…
- Further episodes in this riveting series of two escaped convicts' flight to freedom, and the high level political conspiracy they must expose in…
- Spooks - Season 6 (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Rupert Penry-Jones, Peter Firth, Hermione Norris…
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Series Six: 10…
- 24 - Season 5 (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Anna Pihl (TV Series) (2006-2008)
- Feat. Charlotte Munck, Iben Hjejle
- Praised for its realism, this Danish police drama centres around a Copenhagen policewoman also having to deal with solo parenthood.
- Brotherhood (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Jason Isaacs, Jason Clarke
- Tough, multistoried drama from HBO competitor Showtime builds a crime legacy on par with THE SOPRANOS in focusing on the Irish neighborhood of…
- Death Note (TV Series) (Deathnote) (2006)
- Anime serial of the cultish good vs. evil parable follows on from the manga and live–action versions in retelling the battle between a cocky…
- Dexter (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter…
- Deliciously twisted crime drama series following a forensics investigator encouraged by his adopted father to knock off the dregs of the criminal…
- Eureka (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Colin Ferguson, Greg Germann, Joe Morton…
- Novel sci–fi series focused on a stranded U.S. Marshall who uncovers a remote hamlet populated by a community of hand–picked scientists…
- Lost (TV Series) - Season 3 (2006)
- Feat. Dominic Monaghan, Naveen Andrews, Harold Perrineau, Jr.…
- The mysterious consequences of the downing of Oceanic Flight 815 continue, complete with the trademark flashbacks, and further twists and turns,…
- New Street Law (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. John Hannah, Paul Freeman, John Thomson…
- Engrossing legal drama with Hannah and Freeman as heads of two law firms sharing the same premises. Plenty of ethical conundrums populate a tightly…
- Prison Break - Season 2 (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Stacy Keach…
- Further episodes in this riveting series of two escaped convicts' flight to freedom, and the high level political conspiracy they must expose in…
- Sally Lockhart Mysteries, The (TV Mini-series) (The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North ) (2006-2007)
- Dir. Brian Percival
Feat. Billie Piper, Julie Walters
- Billy Piper stars as Sally Lockhart – the gutsy mystery–solving heroine of this Victorian England mystery series adapted straight from…
- Spooks - Season 4 (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. David Oyelowo, Anna Chancellor
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Series Four: 10…
- Spooks - Season 5 (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Peter Firth…
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Season 5: 10 episodes…
- State Within, The (TV Series) (2006)
- Dir. Daniel Percival
Feat. Jason Isaacs, Ben Daniels, Sharon Gless
- Gripping political series centred on the British Ambassador to Washington who finds himself entangled in the midst of political scandal after a plane…
- Unit, The (TV Series) (2006)
- Dir. David Mamet, various
Feat. Dennis Haysbert, Scott Foley, Robert Patrick…
- The brainchild of David Mamet, this riveting black–ops suspenser serialises the daring assignments of a covert special forces team who, under…
- Wire, The - Season 4 (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Dominic West, John Doman, Frankie Faison…
- Fourth season of the celebrated crime drama set on the mean back streets of Baltimore.
This time around the focus is on a group of teenage…
- 24 - Season 4 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Bleak House (Mini-series) (2005)
- Dir. Justin Chadwick
Feat. Gillian Anderson, Alun Armstrong, Warren Clarke…
- From the pen of Charles Dickens comes this pacy, razor sharp BBC adaptation dabbling in murder, lineage, and the 19th century legal…
- Bones (TV Series) (2005-2014)
- Feat. David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel
- A curious forensic policier positing a new angle on the genre, this partners a brilliant anthropologist (Deschanel) and a cocky FBI agent (Boreanaz)…
- Closer, The (TV Series) (2005-2006)
- Feat. Kyra Sedgwick
- Capable and assured detective drama dodges most of the worst cliches of the genre, with Kyra Sedwick playing a talented 'Southern Belle' investigator…
- Criminal Minds (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Lola Glaudini
- An elite team of FBI profilers attempt to get under the skin of America's most wanted in this tough, if routine procedural drama. Lead by a…
- CSI: Grave Danger (TV Series) (2005)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. William Petersen
- Commissioned by producers to write and direct this fifth season cliffhanger of the forensic crime series, Quentin Tarantino exhumes the "buried…
- Eleventh Hour (2005)
- Feat. Patrick Stewart, Ashley Jensen
- Well–spun, rapidly paced drama turns pertinent science issues (global warming, human cloning, disease hysteria) into an engaging and eventful…
- Invasion (TV Series) (2005-2006)
- Feat. William Fichtner, Eddie Cibrian
- Creeping sci–fi series concerning a small–town family who find their town bizarrely quarantined after a mysterious hurricane. Like a…
- Jesse Stone [Movie Series] (2005-2015)
- Feat. Tom Selleck, Jane Adams, Saul Rubinek…
- Based on the detective novels by Robert B. Parker, Tom Selleck plays his eponymous law enforcement officer from Massachusetts in this series of…
- Malice Aforethought (TV Mini-series) (2005)
- Dir. David Blair
Feat. Ben Miller, Barbara Flynn, Megan Dods
- Ironically fashioned PBS tele–mystery has a frustrated doctor (Miller) driven to dose his overbearing wife (Flynn) with poisons, but having to…
- Numbers (TV Series) (Numb3rs) (2005)
- Feat. Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch
- An original and enjoyably intellectual take on the crime–solving TV genre, which entertains the concept of an FBI agent (Morrow) employing his…
- Prison Break - Season 1 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Stacy Keach…
- Making a masterfully gripping series out of its preposterous premise, this finds a wealthy architect (Miller) enfurl an elaborate plan to rescue his…
- Silence, The (2005)
- Dir. Cate Shortland
Feat. Richard Roxburgh, Emily Barclay
- Above–average teledrama based around the investigations of an emotionally–wounded police detective (Roxburgh) whose curiosity into…
- Spiral (TV Series) (Engrenages) (2005)
- Feat. Audrey Fleurot, Philippe Duclos, Caroline Proust
- Euro–crime TV series set in Paris and following the police officers, lawyers and judges surrounding various criminal investigations.
- State of Play (TV Mini-series) (2005)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. David Morrissey, John Simm, Bill Nighy…
- Politics, journalism and murder collide in this dynamic British thriller, which snowballs from two seemingly unrelated deaths into a riveting,…
- Supernatural (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles
- Two brothers scour the countryside for urban myths and legends, stumbling upon various paranorma, horror movie moments and other unexplained events…
- Vincent (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Ray Winstone, Joe Absolom, Angel Coulby
- Solid British drama has Ray Winstone play an ex–cop who runs a private investigation firm, finding himself and his staff embroiled in a series…
- Wallander (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Krister Henriksson, Johanna Sällström
- Suspenseful Scandinavian procedural finds drama within the inner–workings of a police force in southern Sweden, chiefly between the series’…
- 24 - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Brush Off, The (2004)
- Dir. Sam Neill
Feat. David Wenham, Mick Molloy, John Clarke…
- David Wenham returns as the untidy Melbourne official from STIFF who in this story becomes an effective, if bruised detective tracking a case of a…
- Eagle, The (TV Series) (A Crime Odyssey) (2004)
- Feat. Jens Albinus
- An expert Danish thriller dealing in international terrorism and cross–border crime, this involves the usual task force machinations of special…
- Grid, The (Mini-series) (2004)
- Dir. Mikael Salomon
Feat. Dylan McDermott, Julianne Margulies, Bernard Hill…
- Solid and swiftly moving mini–series in which members of multiple security and intelligence agencies (CIA, FBI, M16, M15, NSC...) attempt to…
- Hex (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Jemima Rooper, Christina Cole, Michael Fassbender
- Bewitching, BUFFY–comparable series in which a feisty English schoolgirl is bestowed with supernatural powers amidst a looming demonic threat.…
- Hustle (TV Series) (Hu$tle) (2004)
- Feat. Robert Vaughn, Rob Jarvis, Adrian Lester…
- Popular Brit TV drama about the so–called 'pros of con': five slick yet human ripoff artists who earn their bread by staging elaborate stings…
- Marple (TV Series) [Geraldine McEwan] (2004-2005)
- Dir. Andy Wilson, John Strickland, Charles Palmer
Feat. Geraldine McEwan, Derek Jacobi, John Hannah…
- Four episodes from the most recent adaptation of Agatha Christie's novels set around her indefatiguable elderly heroine and amateur detective Miss…
- Murder in Suburbia (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Lisa Faulkner, Caroline Catz
- Another variation on Britain’s fetish for sleuthing duos, this is a spunkier, sexier alternative to most under the female eye two abrasively…
- Sex Traffic (Mini-Series) (2004)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. John Simm, Wendy Crewson, Maury Chaykin
- Harrowing drama of Britain’s illegal sex trade, with John Simm leading the good fight against an international prostitution ring. The compelling…
- Spooks - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Peter Firth…
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Season Three: 10…
- Stiff (2004)
- Dir. John Clarke
Feat. David Wenham, Mick Molloy, Sam Neill
- Superior telemovie adaptation from the popular crime novel series by Shane Maloney, based around a shambling but effective government advisor…
- Veronica Mars (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni…
- Addictive, dark–hued mystery noir masquerading as a high school drama, centred on the socially ostracised teen daughter of a private eye whose…
- Wire, The - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Dominic West, Frankie Faison, Idris Elba…
- Third season of this cracking HBO crime drama set in the seedy underbelly of the Baltimore crime scene.
This season the Baltimore mayor is…
- 24 - Season 2 (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
- Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
- Blackjack (TV Series) (2003-2007)
- Dir. Peter Andrikidis
Feat. Colin Friels, Vince Colosimo, Kate Beahan…
- Tenacious Aussie crime series centred on a detective banished to work in the police archives section, who uses his new surrounds to solve long…
- Blue Murder (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Caroline Quentin
- Pragmatic crime series featuring British comedian Caroline Quentin as a detective at the top of her game, trying to juggle her demanding career and…
- NCIS (TV Series) (2003-2007)
- Feat. Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander
- Globe–trotting TV crime series focused on a group of detectives investigating curly crimes connected to the Navy and Marine corps. A riveting…
- Planman, The (2003)
- Dir. John Strickland
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Graham Crowden
- Ingenious two–part thriller in which Robbie Coltrane, in a near–reprise of his CRACKER role, plays a clever Scottish lawyer who in his…
- Rosemary & Thyme (TV Series) (2003)
- Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Pam Ferris, Felicity Kendal
- Utterly peculiar crime series follows two disenchanted botanists – Rosemary, a sacked horticulture lecturer, and Laura, a police officer separated…
- Spooks - Season 2 (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Peter Firth…
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Season Two: 6…
- Wire, The - Season 2 (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wood Harris…
- Much of the cast of the first season of this phenomenal HBO crime drama return for another complex delve into the Baltimore crime scene.
This time…
- 24 - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Dennis Haysbert…
- High–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode), with Kiefer Sutherland as lead special agent of a…
- Crime and Punishment (TV Mini-series) (2002)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. John Simm, Kate Ashfield, Lara Belmont…
- Lyrical TV adaptation of the great Dostoevsky novel focused on a young murderer struggling to escape his feelings of guilt and paranoia before they…
- CSI Miami (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. David Caruso, Rory Cochrane
- Episodes from the first series of the Florida–based spinoff from the successful forensic procedural series. David Caruso follows William…
- Foyle's War (TV Series) (2002-2015)
- Feat. Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell
- A distinguished drama series of mysteries set at the dawn of World War II, from the makers of Midsomer Murders. Michael Kitchen stars as charismatic…
- Mary Higgins Clark - Collection Two (Lucky Day, Pretend You Don't See Her, You Belong to Me) (2002)
- Feat. Amanda Donohoe, Emma Samms, Lesley-Anne Down
- Three telemovie thrillers from the prolific pen of "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark, which generally revolve around a female protagonist who…
- Mataku (TV Series) (2002-2005)
- Dir. Michael Bennett, Peter Berger
Feat. Temuera Morrison
- A well–mounted anthology of contemporary one–off dramas, adapted from the unique and mystical world of Maori supernatural legends. The…
- 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…
- Murphy's Law (TV Series) (2001-2007)
- Feat. James Nesbitt, Mark Benton, Claudia Harrison…
- BBC TV drama starring James Nesbitt as a tough talking, maverick Irish cop who moves to London and takes on the criminal underworld after his…
- Burnside (TV Series) (2000)
- Feat. Christopher Ellison
- Bearable Detective spin–off series of THE BILL, with Christopher Ellison reprising the riveting character of Detective Frank Burnside, who…
- CSI (TV Series) (Crime Scene Investigation) (2000-2001)
- Feat. William Petersen
- Highly watchable forensic TV drama that follows the fortunes of a police unit in Las Vegas who use tiny clues and the latest scientific methods to…
- Don Matteo (TV Series) (2000)
- Feat. Terence Hill
- A uniquely comedic riff on the detective genre, with the series' titular Father Matteo spreading God’s message by day, while moonlighting as a…
- Lock Stock and Four Stolen Hooves (TV Series) (2000)
- Dir. Sheree Folkson
- Tele–sequel to the hit movie LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, gives a reasonably funny riff on the bumbling quartet of lads on the make,…
- Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (2000)
- Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson, Robin Laing, Charles Dance
- A rather fascinating speculation which dramatises the real–life relationship between "Sherlock Homes"–author Arthur Conan Doyle (Laing)…
- Secret Agent Man (TV Series) (2000)
- Feat. Costas Mandylor, Dondre Whitfield, Dina Meyer…
- Short lived quasi–remake of DANGER MAN, this has three agents working for the mysterious 'Agency' in order to quell evildoers and their plans.…
- Sins, The (TV Mini-series) (2000)
- Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine James, Frank Finlay…
- BBC miniseries with Pete Postlethwaite playing an aging getaway driver who decides to go straight – after one last robbery.
A light hearted…
- Turbo (TV Series) (2000-2001)
- Feat. Roberto Farnesi
- Addictive mystery series with the canine detective Turbo tracking villains against the sun–drenched vistas of Tuscany.
- Waking The Dead (TV Series) (2000)
- Feat. Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson
- Flash and cerebral British series has a 'cold case' police squad of professional but complex investigators assigned to research unsolved crimes. With…
- Extremely Dangerous (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Sean Bean
- British thriller miniseries finds Sean Bean a man escaped, pursued by authorities as he fights to prove his innocence upon discovering wife and…
- Inspector Montalbano (TV Series) (Commissario Montalbano) (1999-2018)
- Feat. Luca Zingaretti, Katharina Böhm, Cesare Bocci
- Based on the global bestsellers by Andrea Camilleri, this series of telemovies is set around a world–weary, though not cynical, Sicilian…
- Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) (SVU) (1999-2004)
- Feat. Richard Belzer, Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay…
- Another batch of law–enforcers plie their grim vocation, in this LAW AND ORDER satellite series, wherein a special team investigate…
- Roswell (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Brendan Fehr, Katherine Heigl, Colin Hanks
- A unique melding of science fiction, rites–of–passage drama and teen comedy, this television series, like BUFFY, developed a similiar…
- Sopranos, The (TV Series) - Season 1 (1999)
- Dir. Nick Gomez, John Patterson, David Chase
Feat. James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco…
- Groundbreaking TV–series that ironically portrays the life of a New Jersey Mafia clan as a parade of suburban neurosis, pop–culture…
- Vice, The (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Caroline Catz, Marc Warren, Ken Scott
- Edgy Bafta Award Winning TV detective drama series focusing on the London Metro Squad examining crime and unsolved murder in the sex industry.
- Waiting Time, The (1999)
- Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. John Thaw, Zara Turner
- Cracking cat–and–mouse telemovie, in which a solicitor's clerk investigating why an otherwise levelheaded intelligence officer has…
- Heat of the Sun (TV Mini-Series) (1998)
- Feat. Trevor Eve
- The seedier side of Kenya's expatriate community is laid bare in this classic British police procedural set in 1930s Nairobi.
- Stalker's Apprentice, The (1998)
- Dir. Marcus D.F. White
Feat. Peter Davison, James Bolam, Kathleen Turner
- A book editor uses a writer's manuscript about a serial killer as a template for his own homicidal fantasies in this punchy, at times lurid British…
- Ultraviolet (Mini Series) (1998)
- Dir. Joe Ahearne
Feat. Jack Davenport, Philip Quast
- Set in the drab, menacing atmosphere of South London, a detective quests for his missing partner and turns up a frightening cabal of powerful…
- Advocates, The (1997)
- Feat. Ewan Stewart, Isla Blair, Rachel Weisz…
- Obscure Scottish legal drama contrasting high powered lawyers with the sleazy underbelly of Edinburgh's streets, and the inevitable merging of the…
- Jonathan Creek (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin
- Odd coupling Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin play nerdy magician and blunt–edged journalist respectively in this British series of…
- Lakes, The (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. John Simm, Emma Cunniffe, Kaye Wragg…
- Gritty British drama following a compulsive gambler from Liverpool who moves to the Lake District and encounters the secrets, lies and crimes that…
- Melissa (TV Mini-series) (1997)
- Feat. Tim Dutton, Julie Walters, Adrian Dunbar…
- Alan Bleasdale cleverly reworks Francis Durbridge's famous novel, relocating its thriller premise of a man who falls in love with a mysterious,…
- Midsomer Murders (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark…
- A worthwhile British police drama in the tradition of Agatha Christie's MISS MARPLE, in which a veteran detective Inspector Barnaby (Nettles) and his…
- Touching Evil (TV Series) (1997-1999)
- Feat. Robson Green, Nicola Walker
- Crime TV drama following an Organised & Serial Crime Unit, created by Paul Abbott (CRACKER) and Russell T. Davies (QUEER AS FOLK).
Disc 1 –…
- Dalziel and Pascoe (TV Series) (1996)
- Feat. Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan
- Adapted from a series of novels by Reginald Hill, Clarke and Buchanan play a pair of mismatched Yorkshire detectives whose clash in personal and…
- Inspector Wexford Collection, The (TV Mini-series) (1996-2000)
- Feat. George Baker, Sadie Frost
- Collection of commended adaptations based on the Ruth Rendell novels and centred on the recurring Rendell character of Inspector Wexford – an…
- Millennium (TV Series) (1996-1999)
- Feat. Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Klea Scott
- Occult sci–fi series from the creator of The X–Files) following the investigations of ex–FBI agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen),…
- Silent Witness (TV Series) (1996)
- Feat. Amanda Burton, Emilia Fox, William Gaminara
- Acclaimed, long–running BBC forensic series, originally focused around expert pathologist Dr Sam Ryan (Burton). This is darker and more complex…
- Kavanagh QC (TV Series) (1995-2001)
- Feat. John Thaw, Ray Winstone, Ewan McGregor
- Clever Brit crime series, with INSPECTOR MORSE's John Thaw stepping easily back into the role of criminal investigator, this time as a London law…
- McCallum (TV Series) (1995-1998)
- Feat. John Hannah
- Above–par crime series trails the private and professional life of the titular forensic pathologist as he becomes entangled in various murder…
- Murder One (TV Series) (1995-1997)
- Feat. Daniel Benzali, Stanley Tucci, Mary McCormack…
- A compelling crime drama whose chief novelty was basing each season around a single courtroom case, from indictment and jury selection, through to…
- Oliver's Travels (TV Mini-series) (1995)
- Feat. Alan Bates, Sinead Cusack, Bill Paterson
- BBC oddity centered around Oliver (Bates), an ex–university lecturer with a passion for puzzles, who goes on a search to find legendary…
- She's Out (TV Mini-series) (1995)
- Dir. Ian Toynton
Feat. Ann Mitchell, Linda Marlowe, Maureen Sweeney…
- Six–part crime drama written by Lynda La Plante (PRIME SUSPECT) as a sequel to her 1980's series, Widows. Ann Mitchell is superb as Dolly…
- Dandelion Dead (TV Mini-Series) (1994)
- Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Michael Kitchen, Sarah Miles, David Thewlis…
- A respected solicitor in a small country town poisons his wife – and expects to get away with it – in this riveting murder–mystery,…
- Inspector Rex (TV Series) (1994-2004)
- Feat. Tobias Moretti
- Austrian TV series, with a sizable cult following around the world (especially in Australia), in which a lone policeman and his German Shepherd…
- Wycliffe (TV Series) (1994)
- Dir. Jack Shepherd
Feat. Bill Nighy, Jack Shepherd
- Edgy novel based detective drama following the feats of a conventional trench coat clad superintendent investigating small town crime. Effectively…
- Cracker (TV Series) (1993-1994)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom, Andy Wilson, Julian Jarrold
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Christopher Eccleston, Adrian Dunbar…
- Justifiably acclaimed, often grim television drama centred round the forensic exploits of troubled, gambling–addict psychologist Robbie…
- Diagnosis Murder (TV Series) (1993)
- Feat. Dick Van Dyke, Scott Baio, Charlie Schlatter…
- Dick Van Dyke is on duty as Dr. Mark Sloan, a good–natured, unconventional and sometimes zany physician with a nose for murder. A…
- Joh's Jury (1993)
- Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Simon Bossell, Noah Taylor, Gerry Connolly
- Intensively researched teledrama about the sensational trial of Queensland state premier Joh Bjelke–Petersen (Connolly) for perjury in…
- NYPD Blue (TV Series) (1993)
- Feat. David Caruso, Dennis Franz, Amy Brenneman…
- "Groundbreaking" TV cop show that wasn't so much groundbreaking as a slick 90s rehash of the likes of 'Hill Street Blues'. But despite all the fast…
- A Touch of Frost (TV Series) (1992-1995)
- Feat. David Jason
- An old–fashioned but thoroughly reliable British detective series set around a Detective Inspector with the 'common touch'. David Jason's…
- Prime Suspect (TV Series) (1991-2003)
- Dir. Christopher Menaul
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Tom Wilkinson…
- Helen Mirren stars as DCI Tennison in seven award–winning (Emmy and BAFTA) mini–series from the pen of Lynda La Plante.
- Chancer (TV Series) (1990)
- Feat. Clive Owen, Leslie Phillips
- Clive Owen is all boyish charm as a suave, swindling con artist infiltrating a dodgy sports car business. Firmly established Clive as one to…
- Cluedo (1990)
- Dir. Terry McDonough
Feat. James Bellini, Richard Madeley
- Unique British game show based on the board game, where celebrity guests watch a re–enactment of a murder, then try to identify the murderer…
- Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, The (TV Series) (1990)
- Feat. Patrick Malahide
- Detective series plucked from the novels of famed crime writer Ngaio Marsh follows Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn as he suavely solves crime in…
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) (1989-2002)
- Feat. David Suchet
- Solid TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's series of detective novels featuring the fussily eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as he goes about…
- Campion (TV Series) (1989-1990)
- Feat. Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt
- Eccentric detective series sees Peter Davison play the titular Albert Campion, who, along with his melancholy sidekick Lugg, solve mind–bending…
- Peter Gunn (1989)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Peter Strauss, Barbara Williams
- A telemovie reprise of the iconic 'Private Investigator' series of the late 50s and 60s, with original director Edwards and that famous Mancini tune…
- Summer's Lease (TV Mini-series) (1989)
- Feat. Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, Michael Pennington
- BBC "masterpiece theatre" drama–mystery series set in Tuscany, based on the novel by John Mortimer (RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY) and adapted by the…
- Bourne Identity, The (Mini-series) (1988)
- Dir. Roger Young
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Anthony Quayle…
- Mini–series based on Robert Ludlam's best–seller about an injured, unconscious man who washes ashore in a small French town and discovers…
- Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-series) (1988)
- Dir. David Wickes
Feat. Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Jane Seymour
- This British television series adds a new solution to the ever–intriguing and grisly case of Jack the Ripper, who preyed on women in Victorian…
- Windmills of the Gods (1988)
- Dir. Lee Phillips
Feat. Jaclyn Smith, Robert Wagner, Ian McKellen…
- As the Cold War rages, the president names Professor Mary Ashley as the new Ambassador to Romania. Mike Slade is appointed to be her assistant. As…
- 21 Jump Street (TV Series) (1987-1991)
- Feat. Johnny Depp, Frederic Forrest, Peter DeLuise…
- Iconic, lightly–rendered youth thriller series, in which four young–looking undercover cops infiltrate high schools to expose various…
- Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries (TV Series) (Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, Gaudy Night) (1987)
- Feat. Harriet Walter, Edward Petherbridge, Richard Morant
- A series of BBC TV adaptations of three novels by Dorothy L. Sayers that follow the aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey's romance with the crime…
- Father Dowling Mysteries (TV Series) (Father Dowling Investigates) (1987)
- Feat. Tom Bosley, Mary Wickes, Tracy Nelson
- Soul food for the mystery buff. Steadily paced and written series concerns the crime solving feats of a Chicago Catholic Priest (HAPPY DAYS' Tom…
- Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Mini-series) (1987-2000)
- Feat. Colin Firth, Robert Urquhart, Leslie Phillips…
- Well–loved British mystery series consisting of adapted stories from celebrated crime writer Ruth Rendell, brought to life by an impressive…
- Wiseguy (TV Series) (1987-1990)
- Feat. Ken Wahl, Kevin Spacey, Tim Curry…
- Influential 80's crime series featuring the appealing Ken Wahl as an undercover FBI agent attempting to infiltrate the Mafia and destroy them from…
- Edge of Darkness (TV Mini-series) (1986)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker, Joanne Whalley…
- Multi award–winning suspense drama journeys into the secret, high–stakes world of the nuclear state. This is television at its most…
- Matlock (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Andy Griffith, Linda Purl
- Updating the "Perry Mason" blueprint with rumpled Southern charm, the ultra laid–back Andy Griffith plays Ben Matlock, an Atlanta defense…
- Beiderbecke Affair, The (TV Series) (1985)
- Feat. James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton
- Character–centric Brit TV series that was the first in the 'Beiderbecke Trilogy' following a couple of Leed's teachers ensconced in a…
- MacGyver (TV Series) (1985-1992)
- Feat. Richard Dean Anderson
- One of the 1980s most enduring TV success stories, in which Anderson played a wiry secret agent armed only with his bottomless ingenuity and…
- P.D. James Collection, The (TV Series) (1985-1998)
- Feat. Roy Marsden
- Award winning drama collections written by P.D. James detailing the challenges of a disciplined detective commander solving a series of scandalous…
- Price, The (TV Mini-series) (1985)
- Feat. Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, Aingeal Grehan
- UK miniseries building a chilling web of intrigue around a priviledged dilettante wife (Harriet Walter) who finds herself caught between IRA thugs…
- Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (1985-1993)
- Feat. Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke
- The long–running British TV Series which comprehensively stages the various cases of proto–detective Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan…
- Time for Murder (1985)
- Feat. Claire Bloom, Charles Dance, Sylvia Syms…
- This unheralded, one–off British crime series commissioned six authors to conceive a series of murder mysteries for the small screen. A superb…
- Bill, The (TV Series) (1984-2006)
- One of the longest–running TV series in history, this surprisingly realistic drama is set around the comings and goings of the Sun Hill Police…
- Miss Marple (TV Series) [Joan Hickson] (1984-2002)
- Dir. Julian Amyes
Feat. Joan Hickson, Paul Eddington, Kevin Whatley…
- Best–loved BBC series featuring Agatha Christie's 'Miss Marple', played definitively by the great Joan Hickson. Set in the sleepy, yet…
- Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) (1984-1990)
- Feat. Angela Lansbury
- The archetypal amateur sleuth series, this long–running show starred the indomitable Angela Lansbury as a mystery…
- Widows (TV Series) (1984)
- Feat. Ann Mitchell, Ann Mitchell
- Gritty crime TV from the writer of PRIME SUSPECT, Lynda La Plante, about the widows of three armed robbers who take over their husbands' crime busines
- Agatha Christie: Partners in Crime (TV Series) (1983)
- Feat. Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Reece Dinsdale
- Crisp adaptation of some of Dame Agatha's lesser known short mysteries. The protagonists here are husband and wife sleuths Tommy and Prudence…
- Hitchhiker, The (TV Series) (1983)
- Feat. Page Fletcher, Gary Busey, Peter Coyote…
- An early HBO series of mystery–thriller stories, related only by the character of The Hitchhiker (Page Fletcher), who introduces and closes…
- Jamaica Inn (Mini Series) (1983)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Eve
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- Reilly Ace Of Spies (TV Mini-series) (1983)
- Dir. Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard
Feat. Sam Neill, Peter Egan, Ian Charleson…
- Quintessential 1980s mini–series follows the adventures of a real life British superspy Sidney Reilly in the turbulent Russia, Europe and Asia…
- Scales of Justice (TV Mini-series) (1983)
- Dir. Michael Jenkins
Feat. John Hargreaves, Bill Hunter, Isabelle Anderson…
- A three–part crime drama which links tales of drug–dealing, organised crime, police corruption and political conspiracy in 1980s…
- Taggart (TV Series) (1983-2010)
- Feat. Mark McManus, John Hannah, Alan Cumming
- The rugged and tenacious Scottish detective (McManus) investigates the grim underside of Glasgow in a long–running series of murder cases for…
- Cagney and Lacey (TV Series) (1982)
- Feat. Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly
- Women’s Lib. makes headway into New York’s crime fighting ranks in this sturdy eighties policier propelled by two staunch female detectives in a…
- Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1982)
- Dir. Peter Duguid
Feat. Tom Baker
- Former Doctor Who Tom Baker plays Inspector Holmes in this serviceable adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan's most famous Sherlock mystery.
- Remington Steele (TV Series) (1982)
- Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Stephanie Zimbalist
- A pre–Bond Pierce Brosnan oozes smarm and charm as Remington Steele, the fictitious head of a struggling private eye firm run by the sultry…
- Bergerac (TV Series) (1981)
- Feat. John Nettles, Terence Alexander
- Classic of its kind. Roguish Bergerac races around Jersey trying to thwart jewel thieves, terrorists, murderers and general no gooders. Great fun,…
- Juliet Bravo (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Stephanie Turner, David Ellison, Noel Collins
- Massively popular – although rather dated – UK police series focused on a female police officer who takes charge of a fictional…
- Oppenheimer (TV Mini-series) (1980)
- Dir. Barry Davis
Feat. Sam Waterston, Shane Rimmer, David Suchet
- Excellent mini–series starring Waterson as nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped build the atomic bomb for the 'Manhattan…
- Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Ben Vereen, Jeff Goldblum
- Comedic detective show from the 80's following the unlikely crime–fighting partnership between a con–man and an accountant who dreams of…
- Armchair Thriller Collection (1979-1981)
- Feat. Ian McKellen, James Bolam, Alun Armstrong
- With memorably unsettling opening credits and exceptional performances and direction, this anthology series became a significant hit for Thames…
- Cribb (TV Series) (1979-1980)
- Feat. Alan Dobie
- Superior crime series set in Victorian London, following the wry Detective Sergeant Cribb, a member of Scotland Yard's newly formed CID unit, as he…
- Hazell (TV Series) (1978)
- Feat. Nicholas Ball
- Paying homage to classic film noir this ITV crime series centres around a charismatic private detective who tackles blackmail, missing persons cases,…
- Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Sue Martin
- Teen dreamboats Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson teamed up as the dogged Hardy Boys in this popular seventies serialization of the paperback…
- Murder Most English (TV Series) (The Flaxborough Chronicles) (1977)
- Feat. Anton Rodgers, Christopher Timothy
- Based on the Colin Watson mysteries, this Ever–so–English detective series follows two English detectives as they solve particularly…
- Rhinemann Exchange, The (TV Mini-Series) (1977)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Stephen Collins, Larry Hagman, Roddy McDowall…
- Vintage spy thriller follows a US intelligence agent (Collins) on a mission to oversee the exchange of high–altitude gyroscope plans. A little…
- Helter Skelter (1976)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Steve Railsback, George DiCenzo
- Frightening television dramatisation of the Manson Family murders in Los Angeles, that in Steve Railsback (THE STUNTMAN) finds an actor capable of…
- Hanged Man, The (TV Series) (1975)
- Feat. Colin Blakely, Michael Williams
- Colin Blakely plays a rich industrialist whose success has made him the death target of his shady competitors. Series follows Blakely pretending to…
- SWAT (TV Series) (S.W.A.T.) (1975)
- Feat. Steve Forrest, Robert Urich
- One of the tough cop shows of the seventies that follows the covert missions of the LAPD's elite force.
Season 1 (13 episodes) available over 3…
- Father Brown (TV Series) (Father Brown, Detective; Sanctuary of Fear) (1974)
- Feat. Kenneth More
- Popular ITV mystery series centred on a crime–solving Catholic priest in provincial 1950s England. The decent storylines and witty dialogue…
- Melissa (TV Mini-series) (1974)
- Dir. Peter Moffatt
Feat. Peter Barkworth, Moira Redmond
- Riveting BBC mystery thriller series adapted from the Francis Durbridge novel that tells the tale of a husband who begins to uncover the mysterious…
- Rockford Files, The (TV Series) (1974-1975)
- Feat. James Garner, Noah Jr. Beery, Joe Santos…
- In the spirit of 'Cold Case' this detective thriller series stars James Garner as an easy going plaid jacket attired investigator pursuing unsolved…
- Barnaby Jones (TV Series) (1973)
- Feat. Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether
- Forced out of retirement to solve the murder of his son, lanky, milk–drinking Detective Jones is back doing what he does best – catching…
- Callan - The Movie (1973)
- Dir. Voytek
Feat. Edward Woodward, Eric Porter, Peter Egan
- Expanded from the first episode of the hit British TV Series, this feature film depicts secret agent Callan (Edward Woodard) at his wordly…
- Harry O (TV Series) (1973-1976)
- Feat. David Janssen, Henry Darrow, Anthony Zerbe
- TV series set in San Diego and Los Angeles following a cop who turns to private detective work after a bullet in the back forces him to retire from…
- Kojak (TV Series) (1973-1978)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Telly Savalas, Ned Beatty
- Popular 70s cop show that turned Telly Savalas's funky, lollipop sucking, glow–domed police lieutenant into a cultural icon. Highly quotable,…
- Kojak Collection, The (The Marcus-Nelson Murders, The Belarus File, The Price of Justice) (1973-1987)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent, Robert Markowitz, Alan Metzger
Feat. Telly Savalas, Marjoe Gortner, Jose Ferrer…
- Telly Savalas stars as the tough but witty sleuth who became a small screen icon in the 1970's. This set features the three feature–length TV…
- Emergency! (TV Series) (1972)
- Feat. Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Julie London
- Thrilling medical drama concerning firefighting paramedics weaves nonsensical medical jargon and elaborate novelty accidents with the one–two…
- Lord Peter Wimsey (TV Series) (1972)
- Feat. Ian Carmichael
- Dorothy L. Sayers's archetypal British gentleman detective sleuths murders and crimes of passions in this sophisticated and subtly satirical BBC…
- Moonstone, The (1972)
- Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Kathleen Byron, Robin Ellis, Basil Dignam…
- Atmospheric whodunit drama, based on the Wilkie Collins novel, which tells the tale of an investigation into the theft of a precious Indian jewel…
- Night Stalker, The / Night Strangler, The (1972-1973)
- Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey, Dan Curtis
Feat. Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland…
- Two excellent and groundbreaking tele–movies from the early 70s starring Darren McGavin as wise–cracking 'regular guy' reporter Carl…
- Snoop Sisters, The (TV Series) (1972)
- Feat. Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick
- Two elderly spinsters put down their mystery writing pens to catch perps for real in this dotty, genteel crime series. Starring former Miss Marple,…
- Van Der Valk (TV Series) (1972-1992)
- Feat. Barry Foster, Joanna Dunham, Michael Latimer…
- A hugely popular police procedural series starring Barry Foster as Van der Valk, a no–nonsense Dutch detective and head of the Amsterdam CID…
- Whodunnit? (TV Series) (1972-1974)
- This fondly–remembered primetime panel game from the 1970's invited viewers to play detective by pitting their wits against a panel of…
- Ellery Queen (TV Series) (Don't Look Behind You) (1971-1975)
- Feat. Jim Hutton, Peter Lawford
- Whodunnit series stars Jim Hutton as a mystery writer whose sleuthing know–how is regularly called upon by his Police Inspector…
- Persuaders, The (TV Series) (Persuaders!, The) (1971)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Roger Moore, Tony Curtis
- Roger Moore and Tony Curtis play a debonair duo who lend their status and charm to dissuade the criminal fraternity. Wonderfully corny.
DVD 'Box…
- Callan (TV Series) (1970)
- Dir. James Goddard, Voytek
Feat. Edward Woodward
- The bold British TV spy series with Edward Woodward as the cold–blooded but very human secret agent.
- McCloud (TV Series) (1970-1977)
- Feat. Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Ken Lynch…
- Nicely executed crime series following an ex–sheriff from "out west" that joins up with a New York City police squadron to nab the baddies by…
- Night Gallery (TV Series) (1970-1973)
- Feat. Rod Serling
- Spooky suspense series, hosted by Rod Serling, with each episode adapted from a sci–fi and horror short story. While not up to Serling's…
- Shadows of Fear (TV Series) (1970)
- Feat. Sheila Hancock, Ronald Hines, Edward Fox…
- Featuring some of Britain's most renowned stage and TV performers, this anthology series brings together eight plays with a 'chilling Hitchcockian…
- Strange Report (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, Anneke Wills
- Wily Anthony Quayle is Adam Strange, ex–police officer turned criminologist charged with cleaning up murder sprees and other unsolvable cases…
- Champions, The (TV Series) (1968-1969)
- Feat. Anthony Nicholls
- A superior, if earnest, sci–fi thriller series with an Anglo–American cast, created by spy–genre guru Monty Berman (The Baron,…
- It Takes a Thief (TV Series) (1968)
- Feat. Robert Wagner
- A super–cool product of sixties spy style, with Robert Wagner globe–trotting as a world–class cat burglar recruited by the U.S…
- Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (A Study In Scarlet, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of Four, The Blue Carbuncle) (1968)
- Feat. Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock
- One of the best to ever play Sherlock Holmes (formerly, in Hammer's HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES), Peter Cushing steps back into the shoes of the famed…
- Dragnet (TV Series) (1967)
- Feat. Jack Webb, Harry Morgan
- The classic hard–case, ultra–realistic sixties police procedural, with officers Friday and Gannon cleaning up the mean streets of…
- Baron, The (TV Series) (1966-1967)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker, Robert Asher
Feat. Steve Forrest, Sue Lloyd, Colin Gordon
- The escapades of John Mannering, aka "The Baron", a Texan–born ranch owner based in London, once a thief, but now reformed as an operative for…
- Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) (1966)
- Feat. Richard Bradford, Donald Sutherland, Felicity Kendall…
- Perhaps lesser known (and less innovative) than other suspense series of the 1960s, this ITC production still packs a gritty punch.
Bradford plays…
- Gideon's Way (TV Series) (1964-1965)
- Feat. John Gregson
- Superior mid–60s documentary–style police series that centres around the criminal investigations of Commander George Gideon of Scotland…
- Francis Durbridge Presents... (1963)
- Feat. Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Quilley, Gerald Harper…
- A collection of mystery writer Francis Durbridge's works for BBC television. Billed as 'event' thrillers they featured an enjoyable mix of…
- Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The (TV Series) (1962-1965)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, various
- Picking up directly from where 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' left off, this three season series expands Hitch's iconic mystery anthology to 50 minute…
- One Step Beyond (TV Series) (1959)
- Feat. John Newland
- Classic television series billed as 'your guide to the supernatural' serves half–hour docudramas of unexplained, paranormal 'true events'.…
- Untouchables, The (TV Series) (1959-1963)
- Feat. Robert Stack, Paul Picerni
- An iconic crime series that once baited controversy for its escalation of television violence, this pulled out the stops to authentically…
- Perry Mason (TV Series) (1957-1966)
- Feat. Raymond Burr, William Hopper, William Talman…
- Benchmark legal drama series which turned star Raymond Burr into a television institution as the near–invincible criminal lawyer, Perry…
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, various
Feat. Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, John Forsythe…
- Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…