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Plot Summary:
National Intelligence Organization members are always ready to serve to destroy the enemies of Turkey.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Mercury (2017)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Action
Country: Egypt
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Man to Man (2017)
Plot Summary:
From Kim Won Seok, the writer of Descendants of the Sun, a drama about a special bodyguard with a background in special investigations and the Hallyu star he is supposed to protect.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Operación Pacífico (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of Captain Amalia Ortega, leader of a secret unit, whose mission is to capture the most wanted Mexican drug trafficker, putting both her profession and family's life at risk.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Iskandalo (2022)
Plot Summary:
A celebrity vlogger involved in a sex scandal and a tough female agent chasing an elusive killer. Two women. Two worlds connected by one scandalous crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Military Prosecutor Doberman (2022)
Plot Summary:
Do Bae-man became military prosecutor only to make more money and be successful. On the other hand, Cha Woo-in, recently joining Bae-man’s team, became one for her revenge. As these two different purposes shows, the two have very different backgrounds and personalities. However, as they work on the same case, Bae-man and Woo-on help each other and even grow together as fine military prosecutors.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Ailiseu (2009)
Plot Summary:
IRIS revolves around two friends from the 707th Special Mission Battalion recruited into a secret South Korean black ops agency known as the National Security Service. Of the pair, recruit Kim Hyun-jun begins to uncover evidence that his foggy past may not be so irrelevant to his joining of the secret organization after all. As the two friends find their loyalties tested and forge new, unlikely alliances, the journey takes them from their home country to Hungary, Japan, and China where they find themselves at the center of an international conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, dorama
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Codename Hunter (2007)
Plot Summary:
Norwegian Mini series (2007) starring Mads Ousdal.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Queen Sono (2020)
Plot Summary:
A highly trained South African spy must face changing relationships in her personal life while taking on her most dangerous mission yet.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Officer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Polish crime / drama TV series portraying Warsaw police officers from Central Bureau of Investigations who got on the trail of counterfeit Euro banknotes which involves local gangsters and French crime syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Action
Country: Poland
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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El Final del Paraíso (2019)
Plot Summary:
In this new era, Catalina, now head of the DEA in Colombia, has a new challenge: to track down a criminal organization that is trafficking a new synthetic drug. What she ignores is that her daughter is part of the Cartel that traffics them and that Yésica, her worst enemy, is infiltrated in the DEA.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, entertaining, telenovela
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Agent X (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hidden from the view of the public - and even from the President - there is a top secret agent who is trained and ready to serve, deployed only at the careful discretion of the Vice President.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, political, action adventure
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UC: Undercover (2001)
Plot Summary:
UC: Undercover is an action-thriller television series that focuses on the secret lives and private demons of an elite Justice Department crime-fighting unit that confronts the country’s deadliest, most untouchable lawbreakers by going undercover to bust them. The series was broadcast from 2001 to 2002. The stories were written by Shane Salerno. James Bond composer David Arnold wrote the main title theme and scored the pilot episode. Salerno said the show would be a "very music driven series." UC: Undercover was a production of NBC Studios in association with Jersey Films, Chasing Time Pictures, Regency Television, and 20th Century Fox Television. Its short but popular run ended when it was canceled by the network. The show developed a passionate following overseas and continues to run on FX International.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective, realistic, fast, suspense
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Crisis (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Washington's most powerful players are pulled into an international conspiracy, an unlikely puppeteer will bring everyone from CEOs to The President of the United States to their knees by threatening the things they hold most dear.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, political, entertaining, detective, action adventure, realistic
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Spy City (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling
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Treadstone (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Treadstone project, having created super spy Jason Bourne, turns its attention on a new protocol to develop unstoppable superhuman assassins.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, intense, action adventure
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Shadow hunters (2017)
Plot Summary:
Adventures of an anti-terrorism special forces team.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Sea Patrol (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sea Patrol is an Australian television drama that ran from 2007 to 2011, set on board HMAS Hammersley, a fictional patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy. The series focuses on the ship and the lives of its crew members. Despite similarities in setting and content, this series is not a follow-on to the 1979 series, Patrol Boat. At the start of the second season, Sea Patrol saw an upgrade from the Fremantle class to a newer Armidale class boat. The first season debuted on 5 July 2007 on the Nine Network, who invested $15 million into the programme. The second season of Sea Patrol, titled Sea Patrol II: The Coup, aired in 2008, while the third season, Sea Patrol: Red Gold, aired in 2009. The fourth season aired in 2010 in a new 16-episode format, with no main theme or continuous storyline running throughout, unlike the first three seasons. The fifth season of Sea Patrol, "Damage Control", began airing in 2011 and consisted of 13 episodes. The Nine Network has confirmed that this was to be the final season, due to reliance on government rebates that expire after 65 episodes. Completion of series five brings the total episode count to 68 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, colorful, tense, detective, captivating, serious, colourful
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Berlin Station (2016)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary spy series that follows Daniel Miller, an undercover agent at the CIA station in Berlin, Germany.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, action adventure, mind blowing, interesting
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Agent Hamilton (2020)
Plot Summary:
Carl Hamilton has just returned to Sweden after many years of secret education in the US when Stockholm is shaken by a series of terrorist attacks. Hamilton is assigned to assist the Swedish intelligence service in their pursuit of the guilty, but at the same time works as a double agent.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, action thriller
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Life Fractures (2018)
Plot Summary:
The series tells the story of two women police drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Circle (2017)
Plot Summary:
A special team of four is established by the Istanbul Police Department. The team has all kinds of different talents. These four people, who have experienced many things in their past, start working together to solve grisly murders.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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Rush (2008)
Plot Summary:
Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Knox of TV Tonight has announced that Rush would not return after 4 years, as the next episode would be its last.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Little Giants (2017)
Plot Summary:
Shinichiro Kosaka is a detective of the major cases unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and on the path to become captain of the unit when he makes a mistake during an investigation. Kosaka was subsequently demoted to precinct duty, where he finds his new colleagues taking on small cases tirelessly with a sense of justice untinged by workplace politics and internal disputes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Negotiator (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a modern society in which violent crimes are on the rise, there is a team that tries to resolve cases without bloodshed. It is the metropolitan police's special team, known by the abbreviation SIT (Special Investigation Team). The SIT doesn't get into action after a case but heads to the site just as a crime is being committed. They are on the front-line of risky missions, facing off against criminals; tenaciously conducting negotiations with criminals. As a result of the rigid police hierarchy that can curb the conduct of negotiators, the SIT is also a male-dominated society controlled with strict discipline. There is one female negotiator, Usagi Reiko, who bravely fights at the frontline. She is isolated in the male world of the SIT but courageously fights against crime as well as her organisation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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FBI: Most Wanted (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Fugitive Task Force relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. Seasoned agent Jess LaCroix oversees the highly skilled team that functions as a mobile undercover unit that is always out in the field, pursuing those who are most desperate to elude justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, detective, psychological thriller, psycho film
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The Veil (2021)
Plot Summary:
Han Ji-hyuk, an NIS agent gone MIA, returns after one year to join a new team as he searches for his lost past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Chicago Fire (2012)
Plot Summary:
An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so rewarding and exhilarating. These courageous men and women are among the elite who forge headfirst into danger when everyone else is running the other way and whose actions make the difference between life and death.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, sincere, suspenseful, heroic, gloomy, telenovela
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Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, detective, realistic, cliffhanger, action packed, stylized, serious, suspenseful, telenovela
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FBI (2018)
Plot Summary:
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, disturbing, captivating, detective, psychological thriller, psycho film
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NCIS (2003)
Plot Summary:
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 159000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, serious, detective, crime drama, suspense, semi serious, tense, cliffhanger, thrilling