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Plot Summary:
Midnight Caller is a dramatic NBC television series created by Richard DiLello, which ran from 1988 to 1991. It was one of the first television series to address the dramatic possibilities of the then-growing phenomenon of talk radio. Except for a brief stint on Lifetime in the 1990s, the series has not been rerun or issued on DVD.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Cassie & Co. (1982)
Plot Summary:
Cassie & Co. is an American drama series starring Angie Dickinson that aired on NBC in 1982.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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A Cry for Help (1975)
Plot Summary:
A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. He frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: silent, silent film
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The Madame Blanc Mysteries (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jean White is an antiques dealer who runs a successful business with her husband, Rory. But when he suddenly dies and leaves her nearly penniless, Jean relocates to their one remaining asset - a cottage in French antiques hub Saint Victoire - and begins investigating Rory's mysterious death.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Malta, Ireland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Missing (2009)
Plot Summary:
DS Mary Jane Croft runs the under-resourced Missing Persons Unit.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective
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Control - Hanzai Shinri Sousa (2011)
Plot Summary:
Segawa Rio, a quick-acting detective, gets transferred to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Violent Crimes Division after she got shot during her previous case. She is made to work together with Nagumo Jun, a level-headed but eccentric psychology professor whose skills at behavioral analysis are the key to tracking down the criminals. There's also Teranishi Kei, a shy young detective who's had a crush on Segawa since their days at the academy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Silent Court (2017)
Plot Summary:
In Tokyo, an old person, who lived alone, is found dead. Detectives from the Police Station investigate the case. According to the victim's neighbors, a woman sometimes came in and out of the victim's home. That woman is Miki Yamamoto. She does housework for her customers. The detectives from Police Station visit Miki’s house. What is the truth behind the cases?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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P.S. I Luv U (1991)
Plot Summary:
P.S. I Luv U is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS as a part of its 1991-92 schedule. The title derived from the phone number of fictitious Palm Security and Investigations, which was 774-5888, which can be reached by dialing "PSI-LUVU" on a standard North American telephone.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Bronx Zoo (1987)
Plot Summary:
The Bronx Zoo is a 1987 NBC drama series directed by Allan Arkush and Paul Lynch. It lasted two seasons before cancellation.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Private Eye (1987)
Plot Summary:
Private Eye is an American crime drama that aired from September 13, 1987 until January 8, 1988.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Shoestring (1979)
Plot Summary:
Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 one hour-long episodes. Star Trevor Eve decided not to return to the role after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre roles, so the same production team changed the format to be based in Jersey and created Bergerac, also about a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Harry (1993)
Plot Summary:
Harry is a television drama series that was made by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC One between 1993 and 1995. The programme concerned a journalist called Harry Salter who ran a news agency in the town of Darlington in England.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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Radio Free Roscoe (2003)
Plot Summary:
Radio Free Roscoe was a Canadian television series filmed in Toronto, Ontario. The show was produced by Decode Entertainment, and it first aired on 1 August 2003 on Family, in Canada. It has also been dubbed in French in the province of Quebec and aired on VRAK.TV. The show was later aired on The N in the United States, where the show received funding for a second season. The series ended on 27 May 2005 because The N decided to stop funding the show, and Family, along with Decode Entertainment, could not fill the gap in the production budget. The show was shown on Family until 2007, when it was replaced. In early 2008, The N began rebroadcasting reruns. The pilot was first filmed in New Jersey, with an entirely different cast. Then, the show was going to be based in Nutley, New Jersey and was titled Radio Free Nutley. The show was never picked up until Decode Entertainment decided to move production to Toronto and change the cast and title of the show. However, the show was still set in suburban New Jersey.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, psychological, sincere, teen, offbeat, sitcom, semi serious
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Billboard (2019)
Plot Summary:
Casey devises a plan to help his failing radio station, a billboard sitting contest.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Remember WENN (1996)
Plot Summary:
Remember WENN is a comedy-drama television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on the cable channel American Movie Classics. Created and written by Rupert Holmes and set at the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, it depicted events in the personal and professional lives of the station's staff in the era before and during World War II. It is not related to the real radio station in Alabama known as "WENN" from 1997 to 2008. The series title is a play on the phrase "remember when". The show ran for four seasons totalling 56 episodes, including an hour-long Christmas episode. The series was slated for a fifth season, but was cancelled when new management took over AMC. Holmes says that it was his favorite writing experience in his career.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom
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Booker (1989)
Plot Summary:
Booker is an American crime drama series starring Richard Grieco that aired on the Fox Network from September 24, 1989 to May 6, 1990. The series is a spin-off of 21 Jump Street and the second installment of the 21 Jump Street series. The character of Dennis Booker was originally a recurring character on that police drama during its third season. The theme song for the series, "Hot in the City", was performed by Billy Idol.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir
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Buddy Faro (1998)
Plot Summary:
Buddy Faro was the best private detective in the business, until he disappeared in 1978 after a case went bad. Twenty years later, he's brought back to Los Angeles by private detective Bob Jones and they reopen Buddy Faro Investigations.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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Dirt (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dirt is an American television serial broadcast on the FX network. It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: drrt and Now.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, realistic, sexy, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, cynical, biting, sexual
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Clouds of Witness (1972)
Plot Summary:
Lord Peter's brother, the Duke of Denver is accused of murdering their sister Mary's fiancé. It's up to Lord Peter and his faithful man Bunter to untangle all the clues and the contradicting testimony of a cloud of witnesses to save Denver.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: talky, detective, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, stylized
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Granite Flats (2013)
Plot Summary:
It's the 1960s. The height of the Cold War. The rural town of Granite Flats, Colorado, suddenly becomes a hotbed for mystery and intrigue. Almost a year after Hershel Jenkins was released from jail, mystery is still a permanent resident in Granite Flats, Colorado. From small concerns plaguing the citizens of the small town to ongoing FBI investigations, Arthur, Timmy, and Madeline are eager to put their developing detective skills to the test. Their sleuthing goes further than ever before, and they may be biting off more than they can chew. And as it turns out, sleuthing is a family affair. The parents of all three miniature detectives have dipped their toes in the water. Chief Sanders works side by side with the FBI to find a citizen who is disloyal to the country, Beth is embroiled in the center of experimental work at the hospital, and the Doctors Andrews are the masterminds behind the shady experiments. This season, everyone has got a secret and nobody is ready to admit it.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, stylized, captivating, detective
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Presidio Med (2002)
Plot Summary:
Presidio Med is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from September 2002, to January 2003. The series centers on a San Francisco hospital. It was created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward, who also created ER.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, emotional, realistic, medical drama
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Good Sam (2022)
Plot Summary:
A gifted heart surgeon excels in her new leadership role as Chief of Surgery after her renowned boss falls into a coma. When her former boss wakes up months later demanding to resume his duties, Sam is tasked with supervising this egotistical expert with a scalpel who never acknowledged her stellar talent.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, medical drama
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Breaking News (2002)
Plot Summary:
Breaking News is an American drama television series about the fictional Milwaukee-based 24-hour cable news television network I-24, with the motto 'Around the Clock, Around the World.' The series premiered July 17, 2002, on Bravo.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating
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The Hour (2011)
Plot Summary:
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, historical drama, tense, political thriller, period drama
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Proof (2004)
Plot Summary:
The discovery of a connection between a small-time thief's murder and the death of a crooked accountant, peeks the interest of investigative reporter Terry Corcoran. Further digging leads him into a sordid scandal involving human trafficking, high finance and high stakes politics in this explosive Irish television series.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Tommy (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a former high-ranking NYPD officer becomes the first female Chief of Police for Los Angeles, she uses her unflinching honesty and hardball tactics to navigate the social, political and national security issues that converge with enforcing the law.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, intellectual, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Press (2018)
Plot Summary:
The lives of the editors and journalists working at a left-leaning broadsheet and a populist tabloid.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, political
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Deadline (2000)
Plot Summary:
Deadline is a television series which was shown on NBC in the 2000–2001 season. It starred Oliver Platt as Wallace Benton, who worked for the fictional New York Ledger. This was a daily newspaper which was seen in many episodes of Law & Order.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating
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Hack (2002)
Plot Summary:
Hack is a television series that aired on the American CBS television network from 2002 to 2004. The series centers on the fictional life of a former police officer, Polish-American Mike Olshansky, who left the force after being charged with corruption and now works as a taxi driver in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, detective, crime drama
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The Newsroom (2012)
Plot Summary:
A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: clever, intellectual, political, sincere, realistic, dramatic, exciting, inspirational, thought provoking, controversial
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Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true accounts, this HBO miniseries focuses on a group of fictional characters caught up in the harrowing aftermath of the tsunami that devastated the coast of Thailand two years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, disaster movie