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Beauty and the Beast (2012) TV Show

7.4 467 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 70

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Detective Catherine Chandler is a smart, no-nonsense homicide detective. When she was a teenager, she witnessed the murder of her mother at the hands of two gunmen and herself was saved by someone – or something. Years have passed and while investigating a murder, Catherine discovers a clue that leads her to Vincent Keller, who was reportedly killed in 2002. Catherine learns that Vincent is actually still alive and that it was he who saved her many years before. For mysterious reasons that have forced him to live outside of traditional society, Vincent has been in hiding for the past 10 years to guard his secret – when he is enraged, he becomes a terrifying beast, unable to control his super-strength and heightened senses.

Plot: new york city, experiment, police, super soldier, female detective, beast, ex soldier, based on tv series

Cast

Karl Urban

Michael Ealy

Minka Kelly

Mackenzie Crook

Almost Human (2013) TV Show

7.4 561 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: The year is 2048. By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. Detective John Kennex returns to work after waking up from a 17-month coma. As he adjusts to working with his new partner, Dorian, a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses, John also must learn to get along with his new colleagues.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), android, police, robot, buddy cop, grand

Time: future, 2040s

Cast

Elliott Gould

Nina van Pallandt

Sterling Hayden

Mark Rydell

The Long Goodbye (1973)

7.4 777 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Plot: infidelity, suicide, corruption, police, cat, detective, greed, mission of murder, ...

Wallander (2008) TV Show

7.4 154 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Sweden, United Kingdom

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 12

Story: This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.

Plot: based on novel or book, police, police detective, murder investigation

Place: sweden, scandinavia

Cast

Nivin Pauly

Joju George

Saiju Kurup

Major Ravi

Action Hero Biju (2016)

7.4 45 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: India

Duration: 144 min.

Story: Biju is an honest policeman who fights the injustice head-on. In his pursuit to keep things under control and clean, he encounters a series of events and cases which test his authority, honesty and integrity. With a week to his wedding, what ensues is a heartfelt story of a cop sans the cinematic hype.

Plot: police, suicide attempt, robber, illegal drugs, dog attack, real life

Cast

Gizem Erdogan

Amed Bozan

Aliette Opheim

Arvin Kananian

Caliphate (2020) TV Show

7.4 156 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Sweden

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistant who opens doors to a new and fascinating world - the true path. Kalifat is a thriller about the intermingled fates of five young women who get caught up in the seducing and destroying force of religious fundamentalism.

Plot: police, teenage girl, terrorism, isis (daesh)

Place: sweden

Cast

Kwak Do-won

Hwang Jung-min

Chun Woo-hee

Jun Kunimura

The Wailing (2016)

7.4 2.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: South Korea, United States of America

Duration: 156 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

Plot: daughter, small town, police, investigation, exorcism, possession, murder, priest, ...

Major Crimes (2012) TV Show

7.4 211 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 105

Audience: TV-14

Story: Major Crimes explores how the American justice system approaches the art of the deals as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction. Los Angeles Police Captain Sharon Raydor heads up a special squad within the LAPD that deals with high-profile or particularly sensitive crimes.

Plot: police, los angeles, california, police investigation, lapd, major crime unit

Cast

Gilles Lellouche

Franu00e7ois Civil

Karim Leklou

Adu00e8le Exarchopoulos

The Stronghold (2021)

7.4 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: France

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Tired of the small-time grind, three Marseille cops get a chance to bust a major drug network. But lines blur when a key informant makes a big ask.

Plot: police, marseille, france

Cast

Michael B. Jordan

Melonie Du00edaz

Octavia Spencer

Kevin Durand

Fruitvale Station (2013)

7.4 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 82 min.

Audience: R

Story: Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.

Plot: new year's eve, police brutality, based on true story, oakland, california, racism, subway station, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ...

Time: 2000s

Cast

Pam Grier

Samuel L. Jackson

Robert De Niro

Bridget Fonda

Jackie Brown (1997)

7.4 7.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 154 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

Plot: airport, based on novel or book, police, arms deal, stewardess, heist, money, los angeles, ...

Cast

Ha Jung-woo

Kim Yun-seok

Cho Seong-ha

Lee Cheol-min

The Yellow Sea (2010)

7.4 589 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 156 min.

Audience: R

Story: A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

Style: shocking

Plot: immigrant, police, taxi driver, gang war, beaten to death, murder, knife fight, mahjong, ...

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal

Michael Peu00f1a

Natalie Martinez

Anna Kendrick

End of Watch (2012)

7.4 3.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.

Plot: friendship, street gang, human trafficking, shootout, los angeles, california, brutality, gang member, ...

Shantaram (2022) TV Show

7.4 190 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Escaped convict Lin Ford flees to the teeming streets of 1980s Bombay, looking to disappear. Working as a medic for the city's poor and neglected, Lin finds unexpected love, connection, and courage on the long road to redemption.

Plot: slum, corruption, based on novel or book, police, love, prison escape, doctor, felon, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: india

Cast

Antony Varghese

Sarath Kumar

Tito Wilson

Bitto Davis

Angamaly Diaries (2017)

7.3 61 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 132 min.

Story: Six young friends in the small town of Angamaly tries their luck by starting a pork business lead by Vincent Pepe. They initially strike a business deal with Rajan and Ravi despite the duo having killed a close friend of theirs in a gang fight. Vincent is in love with Sakhi and plan to immigrate abroad with her. But their plans hit a road bump as the deal with the gangsters hits some road bumps.

Plot: police, bomb, gambling, gang war, romance, revenge, murder, pig farme

Cast

Audrey Hepburn

Alan Arkin

Richard Crenna

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Wait Until Dark (1967)

7.3 602 votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

Plot: police, photographer, heroin, search, murder, neighbor, doll, blindness, ...

Cast

Isabelle Adjani

Sam Neill

Margit Carstensen

Heinz Bennent

Possession (1981)

7.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

Plot: adultery, berlin, germany, monster, police, marriage crisis, berlin wall, obsession, ...

Place: germany

Cast

Tang Wei

Park Hae-il

Lee Jung-hyun

Go Kyung-pyo

Decision to Leave (2022)

7.3 1.5K votes

Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: NR

Story: From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.

Plot: sea, secret love, police, widow, detective, mountain, investigation, language barrier, ...

Place: south korea

Flashpoint (2008) TV Show

7.3 152 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: Canada

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 75

Audience: TV-14

Story: The Strategic Response Unit (SRU) is an elite team of cops who specialize in high-risk critical incidents. Trained in tactics and psychology, they deal with extreme situations, where split-second decisions could save a life...or cost one.

Plot: toronto, canada, police, task force, hostage situation

Place: canada

Scott & Bailey (2011) TV Show

7.3 81 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 33

Audience: TV-14

Story: D.C. Rachel Bailey and D.C. Janet Scott have a robust and engaging friendship which enables them to draw upon each other’s strengths and investigate murders for the Manchester Metropolitan Police.

Plot: police, female cop, police detective, female detective, buddy cop, police procedural

Place: england, united kingdom, manchester

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