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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…
Bodyguard (TV Series) (2018): Dir. John Strickland, Thomas Vincent
Feat. Richard Madden, Keeley Hawes, Gina McKee…; CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
Castle Rock (TV Series) (2018): Feat. André Holland, Melanie Lynskey, Bill Skarsgård…
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…
McMafia (TV Series) (2018): Feat. James Norton, David Strathairn, Juliet Rylance; Slow–burning crime TV series following the son of a Russian mafia boss who lives in London with his dad, and becomes pulled into the criminal…
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).
Trauma (TV Mini-series) (2018): Dir. Marc Evans
Feat. Adrian Lester, John Simm; CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
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…
Absentia (TV Series) (2017): Feat. Stana Katic, Patrick Heusinger; Thriller about an FBI agent who is declared dead after disappearing while on the search for one of Boston's most notorious serial killers, but is…
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
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…
Loch Ness (TV Mini-series) (The Loch) (2017): Feat. Laura Fraser, Jim McMeekin; Gripping murder mystery set on the beautiful, haunting shores of Scotland's iconic Loch Ness, where an inexperienced local detective takes on a…
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…
Valkyrien (TV Series) (2017): Feat. Sven Nordin, Pål Sverre Hagen; CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
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.
Five, The (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Tom Cullen, Hannah Arterton, O.T. Fagbenle…; Glossy British TV thriller from the pen of Harlan Coben in which a five–year–old boy goes missing, but twenty years later his DNA shows…
Follow the Money (TV Series) (Bedrag) (2016): Feat. Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Thomas Bo Larsen; Financial crime thriller set in the renewable energy business in Denmark, where a company is enjoying an enormous and suspicious growth, until an…
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…
Lucky Man (TV Series) (Stan Lee's Lucky Man) (2016): Feat. James Nesbitt, Amara Karan, Sienna Guillory…; CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
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…
Midnight Sun (TV Series) (Midnattssol) (2016): Feat. Leïla Bekhti, Gustaf Hammarsten, Göran Forsmark; TV thriller following a French police officer (Leïla Bekhti, THE PROPHET) who takes a job investigating the murder of a French citizen in a remote…
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…
Undercover (TV Mini-series) (2016): Feat. Sophie Okonedo, Adrian Lester, Dennis Haysbert; A lawyer from London is on the cusp of becoming the first black Director of Public Prosecutions, when she begins to realise that her husband of 20…
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…
Bureau, The (TV Series) (Le Bureau des Legendes) (2015): Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz; CONTRABAND TITLE. Seasons 1 to 3 are not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of…
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…
Jordskott (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Moa Gammel, Goran Ragnerstam; CONTRABAND TITLE. Seasons 1 and 2 are not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of…
London Spy (TV Mini-series) (2015): Dir. Jakob Verbruggen
Feat. Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Edward Holcroft…; CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
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.
No Second Chance (TV Series) (Une chance de trop) (2015): Feat. Alexandra Lamy, Pascal Elbé; CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
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.
Team, The (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Lars Mikkelsen, Veerle Baetens, Jasmin Gerat; CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
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.…
Blue Eyes (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Linus Wahlgren, Sven Nordin, Louise Peterhoff; A chief of staff at the Swedish justice department goes missing in the weeks leading up to the national election, and her replacement uncovers a…
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…
Thicker Than Water (TV Series) (Tjockare än vatten) (2014): Feat. Björn Bengtsson, Joel Spira, Aliette Opheim; CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
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…
Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms (TV Series) (2012): Feat. Maurizio Scaparro, Matt Nable; Ropey UNDERBELLY spin–off recounts the infamous 'Milperra massacre' of 1984, where two fierce rivalry between two notorious Australian…
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…
Arne Dahl (TV Series) (2011): CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
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) (2011-2018): 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.…
Sebastian Bergman (TV Series) (Den fördömde) (2010): Feat. Rolf Lassgard; CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
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…
Murderland (TV Mini-series) (2009): Dir. Catherine Morshead
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Amanda Hale, Bel Powley…; CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
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.
Turn of the Screw (2009): Dir. Tim Fywell
Feat. Michelle Dockery, Sue Johnston, Eva Sayer…; Solid adaptation of the Henry James classic substitutes subtle scares for jolts in this classic tale of a governess under paranormal…
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 - Complete Boxset (TV Series) (2008-2013): Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn…; Boxed set edition of AMC's heavy–hitting TV series, about a high school chemistry teacher (Cranston) who turns to a life of drug–dealing…
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…
Detective De Luca (TV Series) (2008): Feat. Alessandro Prezioni; Another good looking entry into the Italian crime fiction genre, only this time set during the country's fascist era and along the war torn Bologna…
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…
Jekyll (TV Series) (2007): Dir. Douglas Mackinnon
Feat. James Nesbitt, Gina Bellman; A modern adaptation of the 'Jekyll and Hyde' tale, this twisted comedy series focuses on an everyday guy who morphs into his violent alter ego 'Hyde'…
Killing, The - Complete Series Boxset (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2007-2012): Feat. Sofie Grabol; The entire 40–episode story arc of the gripping Danish crime thriller – an immensely popular series synonymous with the 'Nordic Noir'…
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.
Unit One (TV Series) (Rejseholdet) (2000-2004): Feat. Mads Mikkelsen; CONTRABAND TITLE. Series 1 to 4 are not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of…
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…
Duggan (TV Series) (Death in Paradise, Sins of the Fathers) (1997-1998): Dir. Yvonne MacKay
Feat. John Bach; Detective inspector John Bach heads up these made–for–TV policiers as a recluse drawn into a murder cases near his Marlborough Sounds…
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…
Between the Lines (TV Series) (1992): Feat. Neil Pearson, Tom Georgeson, Siobhan Redmond…; CONTRABAND TITLE. Not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of Film & Literature…
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…
Jake and the Fatman (TV Series) (1987): Feat. William Conrad, Joe Penny; Eighties primetime crime show starring William Conrad (CANNON) as a generously plump former cop turned maverick district attorney who teams with a…
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…
Alfred Hitchcock Presents… (1985): Dir. Various
Feat. Ned Beatty, John Huston, Steven Bauer…; Four episodes from the TV–series, posthumously endorsed by Hitch, which replicate his blend of suspense, macabre humour and brutal…
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…
Mitch (TV Series) (1984): Feat. John Thaw; John Thaw plays a crime reporter whose hard–nosed attitude sees him get dangerously close to the criminals he's investigating. Ten episodes.
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
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) (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…

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