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Plot Summary:
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior - Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, light, humorous, entertaining
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Murders at BarLume (2013)
Plot Summary:
Massimo is a graduate in mathematics who, after winning a Totocalcio board, buys the BarLume and becomes the surly barman. Invariably Massimo finds himself investigating, in every episode, some crimes that take place in his town on the Tuscan Riviera, Pineta, collaborating with the Police commissioner Vittoria Fusco. His instinct as a detective always finds inspiration in some conversations, which is forced to sit in his bar, by four old-fashioned old men: his uncle Ampelio (later replaced by his former father-in-law Emo), Pilade, Gino and Aldo. Massimo is also the boss of Tiziana, the handsome and prosperous waitress of BarLume, the erotic dream of everyone.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, detective
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The Coroner (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alexandra Ehle is a coroner at the Bordeaux forensic institute. Fanciful and free-thinking, she devotes herself completely to what she considers her mission: restoring to the dead their dignity and human appearance, and giving them justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, realistic, suspenseful
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Keen Eddie (2003)
Plot Summary:
Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard. The basic premise of the show bears a close resemblance to the popular 1980s British series Dempsey & Makepeace, the only notable difference being that the female partner has been replaced by a female housemate. Stylistically, the series derived inspiration from British feature films by Guy Ritchie, such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. The soundtrack and incidental music for the first episode was provided by British techno duo Orbital. Daniel Ash of Love and Rockets scored the rest of the series. The series was scheduled to premiere during the 2002–2003 television season, but was postponed and premiered in summer 2003. The series was then moved to Thursdays with its seventh episode to help improve its ratings, but Fox canceled the series due to its low ratings of 5.1 million viewers. The American cable network Bravo picked up the series to begin airing in January 2004, including the six episodes never aired on Fox. All thirteen episodes of the series were released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment on September 7, 2004. Unfortunately, the original score was replaced due to music licensing issues.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, detective
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No Offence (2015)
Plot Summary:
Keeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie – but there’s a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town. Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious murderers are all in a day’s work for this close-knit team, led by the dizzyingly capable but unquestionably unhinged DI Vivienne Deering. But when a particularly twisted serial killer emerges it leaves even the most hardened of these seasoned coppers reeling.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, detective, dark comedy, crime drama, black comedy
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Last Cop (2015)
Plot Summary:
Police Captain opens his eyes on the hospital bed and finds out that the wound he received on the job put him in a coma - for 20 years. Since 1995, the world has changed.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 39 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, funny, light, detective
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The Commish (1991)
Plot Summary:
Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, realistic, semi serious, detective, offbeat
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The Indian Detective (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Toronto police officer gets involved in a homicide investigation while visiting his father in Mumbai.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, feel good, humorous, captivating, detective
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Kamenskaya - 3 (2003)
Plot Summary:
Continuation of the detective TV series based on the novels of Alexandra Marinina. Filmed under the novels "The Illusion of Sin", "When the Gods Laugh", "The Stylist" and "The Seventh Sacrifice". It consists of 16 series, 4 series for each novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, entertaining, feel good
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HPI Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (2021)
Plot Summary:
Morgane is 38 years old. She raises her 3 children alone. She manages (or not) her 2 exes and her various credits. Her 160 IQ scores spoil her life a bit until the day when Morgane sees her destiny as a cleaning lady turned upside down. Her extraordinary abilities are spotted by the police who offer her a job as a consultant... Problem: Morgane hates cops.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: intellectual, tense, humorous, captivating, entertaining, detective
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Candice Renoir (2013)
Plot Summary:
Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, semi serious, detective, feel good, witty, suspenseful, serious
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MIU404 (2020)
Plot Summary:
The Mobile Investigative Unit (MIU) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department attempts to solve cases within 24 hours.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Homicide Hills (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mord mit Aussicht is a German satirical crime comedy television series, produced by ARD, following the adventures of Sophie Haas, a detective from the city that takes a job in the fictional country village of Hengasch. Much of the humour of the series derives from the clichés of both city and provincial lives, in a similar manner to the English comedy crime series Midsomer Murders.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, fun
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Los hombres de Paco (2005)
Plot Summary:
Los hombres de Paco is a Spanish comedy television series, originally aired from 9 October 2005 to 19 May 2010 on the Antena 3. The series has also been broadcast in Argentina, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Morocco, Romania, Serbia, Italy, Slovakia and Turkey. It was created by Daniel Écija and Álex Pina, and starred numerous actors; primarily Paco Tous and Pepón Nieto.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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The Bay (2019)
Plot Summary:
Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, tense, clever, bleak, serious, realistic
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Makarov and The Girls (2021)
Plot Summary:
The head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Butovo region, Makarov, is completely replaced by the personnel as a result of a conflict with the leadership. Instead of experienced male cops, four young students are singled out.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, light, humorous, feel good, entertaining
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My Life Is Murder (2019)
Plot Summary:
Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of everyday life. Fearless and unapologetic, Alexa's unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human nature, allows her to provoke, comfort and push the right buttons as she unravels the truth behind the most baffling of crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: confusing, captivating, non-linear, light, detective, colorful, dramatic, humorous, colourful
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The Mysteries of Laura (2014)
Plot Summary:
Laura Diamond, a brilliant NYPD homicide detective balances her “Columbo” day job with a crazy family life that includes two unruly twin boys and a soon-to-be ex-husband — also a cop — who just can't seem to sign the divorce papers. Between cleaning up after her boys and cleaning up the streets, she’d be the first to admit she has her “hot mess” moments in this hilariously authentic look at what it really means to be a “working mom” today. Somehow, she makes it all work with the help of her sexy and understanding partner, and things becomes even more complicated when her husband, ironically, becomes her boss at the precinct. For Laura, every day is a high-wire balancing act.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, captivating, hilarious
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Pretty Hard Cases (2021)
Plot Summary:
A fun and honest portrayal of two radically different female detectives in their early 40s following Guns and Gangs detective Sam and Narcotics detective Kelly, who by day are true action heroes in their own particular way: skilled, tough, determined, and ruthless. But by night, they’re both grappling with loneliness, dysfunctional families, screwed-up love lives, and a sense that their professional ambitions may not be totally in line with their personal needs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, funny, detective, sincere
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Death in Paradise (2011)
Plot Summary:
Detective Inspector Richard Poole is transferred to Sainte Marie, an island in the Caribbean. Totally unsuited to the Caribbean way of life, Richard hates the sun, sea and sand and isn't used to the Sainte Marie style of policing. Working with the exotic Camille each week Richard investigates intricate and intriguing murders.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, stylized, semi serious, detective, crime drama, light, exciting, funny, dark
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Scott & Bailey (2011)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective, crime drama
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Agathe Koltès (2016)
Plot Summary:
French detective story, with English subtitles, with very successful detective but neglectful mother coming to work for her successful detective daughter in a small town in coastal France. The fact that they are related remains a secret and a point of issue for the resentful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Kamenskaya - 2 (2002)
Plot Summary:
The second adaptation of Alexandra Marinina's novels - "I died yesterday", "The stolen dream", "Men's games", "Everything must be paid for." Criminal investigation officer Anastasia Kamenskaya is able to calculate the criminal by the most insignificant details of his actions, character, psychology.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, feel good, captivating, suspense, detective
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The Coroner (2015)
Plot Summary:
High-flying solicitor Jane Kennedy returns to the seaside town she left as a teenager to take up the post of coroner, becoming an advocate for the dead as she investigates sudden, violent or unexplained deaths.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, psychological, realistic, crime drama, intellectual
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The Unusuals (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Unusuals is a comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from April 8 to June 17, 2009 in the U.S. and Global in Canada. The pilot and first episode were written by Noah Hawley, a former writer and producer for Fox's Bones. An ABC press release described The Unusuals as "like a modern-day M*A*S*H" that "explores both the grounded drama and comic insanity of the world of New York City police detectives, where every cop has a secret". Its premise elaborated: The initial series order was for 10 episodes. Show creator Noah Hawley announced via his Twitter account in mid-May 2009 that ABC would not be bringing the show back for a second season.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, detective, anime, psychological thriller, realistic, psycho film
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Major Crimes (2012)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, detective, tense
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The Closer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Jean Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, sincere, tense, serious, detective, suspense, inspirational, bloody, thrilling
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Unforgettable (2011)
Plot Summary:
Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember everything. She reluctantly joins the New York City Police Department's Queens homicide unit after her former boyfriend and partner asks for help with solving a case. The move allows her to try to find out the one thing she has been unable to remember, which is what happened the day her sister was murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, detective, thrilling, tense, realistic, exciting
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Rizzoli & Isles (2010)
Plot Summary:
Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets her guard down, while the impeccably dressed Maura displays a sometimes icy temperament — she is, after all, more comfortable among the dead than the living. Together, the best friends have forged a quirky and supportive relationship; they drop the protective shield in each other's company, and combine their expertise to solve Boston's most complex cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, realistic, detective, serious, crime drama, suspenseful
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Body of Proof (2011)
Plot Summary:
Body of Proof is an American medical drama television series that ran on ABC from March 29, 2011 to May 28, 2013 and starred Dana Delany as medical examiner Dr. Megan Hunt. The series was created by Chris Murphey and produced by ABC Studios. The show was canceled by ABC after three seasons.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, detective, medical drama, witty, motivational
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Castle (2009)
Plot Summary:
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 172000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: witty, realistic, detective, entertaining, crime drama, sensitive, thrilling, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous