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Browse - Most popular crime shows
The Client
This series was based on the book by John Grisham about Reggie Love, a lawyer, who just started her practice and is also a recovering alcoholic which was made into a movie starring Susan Sarandon. Now Jobeth Williams is playing the part of Reggie. Her adversary in the movie, Roy Foltrig is also there. Only their relationship is not as adversarial as it was in the movie. Reggie occasionally calls on Roy for help, and at other times drives him crazy with high standards of ethics. Also Reggie is trying to convince her ex-husband to allow her access to her children.
The Killing of Father Niall Molloy
This two-part documentary re-examines what happened that night, going behind the scenes to show who Fr. Niall, Richard and Teresa were, and uncovers new information that points towards a motive, and possibly the involvement of a third party in his death.
Blood Oath
The life of Salim Fayad, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, changes after surviving an accident that kills the daughter of a ruthless drug dealer.
Nothing Personal
The motive in murder-for-hire plots may vary from case to case, but for the hired hit man it's always business as usual. Plunge into the sinister undertaking of contract killings in NOTHING PERSONAL, Investigation Discovery's new series about mafia disloyalties, romantic infidelities, stale friendships and the trio of characters at their center: the conniving "client," the professional murderer, and the victim who never saw it coming.
Boney
Crime drama series. The cases of detective inspector Napoleon Bonaparte - part aboriginal, part white - carrying out his investigations throughout Australia. The show created a bit of a stir through its use of blacking up the lead actor to play the half-caste Boney.
Eischied
Earl Eischied was the very tough and very "hands-on" Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department. Although he was a firm believer in law and order, Eischied wasn't above bending the law here and there if it got results, much to the chagrin of the fussy Deputy Commissioner Kimbrough. Eischied's occupation was mainly a desk job, but he's much rather be on the streets busting heads than pushing pencils in an office.
Travelling Man
After finishing a 2 year prison sentence for a bribe he never took Ex detective inspector Alan Lomax wants answers. Lomax has at least one luxury left - a narrowboat. And it's on the canals, among the day trippers and travelers, that he means to find revenge. Not an easy task for an ex-detective isolated on the wrong side of the law.
Empreintes Criminelles
In Paris, in the 1920s, inside a dusty attic of the Parisian PJ, a police laboratory unique in the world took shape. Julien Valor, a tortured but visionary police officer, is in command of this very special unit. He is accompanied by Léa Perlova, an independent and feminist scientific expert, Pierre Cassini, an old-fashioned field cop, Marius Delcourt, a police officer gifted for inventions of all kinds, Martello, a young idealistic cop, and Pauline Kernel, a young bourgeois woman who is taking her first steps as a forensic doctor. With the will of the pioneers, these men and women fight tirelessly to impose their new methods... They try to perpetuate this unity whose existence is regularly called into question by the traditional police...
La loi de ...
A leading French actor puts on the dress of a lawyer to defend a case, at first glance indefensible.
Backup
The lives and action packed adventures of the nine men and women aboard a police Operational Support Unit (OSU) van that is responsible for going anywhere and doing anything in support of operations carried out by other branches of the West Midlands Police.
Rechercheur Ria
The show is about a female police detective who has a own way of solving cases. She has twins and her ex husband becomes her boss.
Seven Hours Difference
The action takes place simultaneously in two cities - Sofia and New York. There are living members of the two Bulgarian families whose professional life is inextricably linked to crime and punishment. Divisions and personal conflicts between them are caused not only by time difference, but the difference in generations, love and hatred, political and economic gap between rich and poor. In dramatic series viewers will see authentic footage from New York, action scenes, shattering love, complex relationships and turns.
Watzmann ermittelt
Chief Commissioner Benedikt Beissl (Andreas Giebel) has been ensuring law and order in Berchtesgaden for decades. To his displeasure, one day he gets assigned a new partner. So far, the solitary Commissioner liked to do things on his own. His new colleague Jerry Paulsen (Peter Marton) is the son of a black GI and an innkeeper's daughter from Bad Aibling. He is quite daring and a team player, and moved from Hamburg to Bavaria for reasons of love. But Jerry's chosen one is, of all people, Beissl's oldest daughter...
Hermanos & Detectives
"Hermanos & Detectives" (Brothers & Detectives) is an acclaimed argentine TV show created by the director of "Los Simuladores" (The Pretenders), another very popular argentine TV show. "Hermanos & Detectives" tells the story of Franco Montero who works in the police force. After the death of his father he finds out he has a half sibling, Lorenzo. The boy is only eleven years old and has no other alive relatives, so a judge determines he must live with Franco. But Lorenzo is a very particular boy: he has a very high IQ rate, so in a way, he is like a little Sherlock Holmes and will help Franco solve ver complicated murder cases. The TV show is done in a retro style, very much like the old series that people used to watch in the 60's and 70's, with some reminiscence of series like "Starsky & Hutch".
Interpol Investigates
Interpol Investigates is an American docudrama television series that premiered on the National Geographic Channel. The program follows Interpol as its members search for clues left behind by culprits.
Entrance to the Labyrinth
Main storyline occurs in the USSR in the 1980s - a detective story about scammers who, using a police identification card, break into the apartments of dishonest people and rob them under the guise of a search. When studying this case, investigator Muromtsev discovers a conflict between two inventors of miracle drug metaproptozole, called abroad as "medicine against fear". The professor does not believe in the existence of this drug because he did not succeed in inventing it himself. Therefore, he denies that his opponent Lyzhin, who is considered a kooky eccentric could invent such a drug. However, the criminals manage to poison the district plenipotentiary with this particular drug, after which they abduct the identity card and the government-issue weapons of the district police officer Pozdnyakov.
A parallel story tells about the life and tragic fate of the great physician and philosopher Paracelsus in the 16th century in Europe. In search of a mythical cure for all diseases, he makes discoveries, which form the basis of modern pharmacology. The life of Paracelsus is spent in constant wanderings.
Flying Tiger
The drama is following the Special Duties Unit, nicknamed Flying Tiger, as they're facing a number of serious crimes in Hong Kong and across the border, fighting dangerous criminals, and at the same time, integrating the relationship dynamic between two brothers in the police force.
Stockinger
A Spin-Off of "Kommissar Rex", this show is about Rex' former colleague Stockinger investigating strange murders in the Salzburger Land.
Il commissario Zagaria
A malevolent clan, probably from Calabria, has arrived in Salento to conquer the territory. Commissioner Pasquale Zagaria (Lino Banfi) is a policeman who grew up in the field, all intuition and little science. Close to retirement, he finds himself having to collaborate with the young assistant chief, Stefano Amato (Marco Cocci), a Florentine who has specialized abroad and, of course, is all about his faith in science.
Lady Killers
Dramatic reconstructions of seven historic murder trials.
De Handhavers
In De Handhavers, various enforcement officers are followed in their daily work. We see how they deal with people who are agitated on a daily basis or react very amicably when they are called to account for infringements.
In De Handhavers various pairs of enforcers are followed, who are confronted with all kinds of situations in their work. For example, the programme follows enforcers on the street and in public transport.
Schimanski
Six years after his departure as crime scene commissioner at the Duisburg Criminal Investigation Department, the police are asking private citizen Horst Schimanski (Götz George) for help. So he leaves his houseboat in Belgium and his steady girlfriend (yes, the man has just grown old) Marie-Claire (Denise Virieux) repeatedly leaves temporarily to catch the bad guys. Sometimes he does so against the will of the police or just gets hired as a private detective or bodyguard. After the death of his partner Thanner, Schimanski is now supported in his investigations by the young policeman Tobias Schrader (Steffen Wink). However, he leaves Schimi alone at the end of 1999 after episode 6, and in the next episode, almost a year later, Hänschen (Chiem van Houweninge) is back, Schimanski's old colleague from crime scene times; Thomas Hunger (Julian Weigend) becomes Schimi's new ace.
Sweet Spy
Lee Soon-ae is a recently widowed traffic cop who finds herself in over her head after she stops a man for committing a routine traffic violation. Han Yoo-il, the mysterious and charming stranger who was stopped by the ever-diligent Soon-ae, is in fact an international spy, who has come to Korea on a top-secret mission. When Soon-ae accidentally forgets to return Yoo-il's super high-tech spy pen to him, she sets in motion a chain of events that pulls her into the shady world of international espionage. Soon, the Special Operations Unit also becomes involved, including its new chief Kang Joon, who happens to be an old friend of Soon-ae's late husband. Kang Joon, who secretly harbors feelings for Soon-ae, opens an old case surrounding the death of her husband. They uncover secrets involving powerful political and economic figures, which leads to Han Yoo-il.
American Vice
Get an inside look at the world of illegal gambling. Follow those who walk the line between big risk and big reward every day.
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