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Plot Summary:
This action packed thriller follows a covert Marines unit that once trailed Choi Hee Gon, maritime kingpin of a notorious crime syndicate. Team leader Kwon Jung Ryool was forced to abort his mission after Hee Gon slayed his wife and all the loved ones of the team’s original members. Stranded, Kim Sun Woo, Jung Ryool’s trusted young agent, has remained undercover. Years later, with Poseidon’s reputation and credibility wrecked, Jung Ryool summons Sun Woo from the underworld and together, they set out to take down Hee Gon once and for all. More than a pretty face, Lee Soo Yoon joins the new team as a corporal who is not to be tampered with.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Ocean Ave. (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ocean Ave. was a Swedish-American low budget daytime soap opera, produced by the Swedish production company, Kajak, and filmed at the Florida based, Dolphin Entertainment. It was set and filmed in Miami, Florida between 2002 and 2003. The series was made for Swedish TV4 where it was moved from early prime time to middays due to bad ratings. No American or international network or channel picked up the series. The main cast included only five Swedish actors, two other Swedish actors were seen in minor roles. Dialogues were shot in both Swedish and English with hopes to sell the series internationally. One hundred thirty episodes were filmed but Swedish Television cut it into 260 episodes. Ocean Ave. received bad reviews from the start.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Pogo 1104 (1984)
Plot Summary:
Three young men somehow get together and start a pirate broadcaster.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music
Country: West Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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Bad Guys: Vile City (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ordered to take down a villainous business leader who controls the city, a prosecutor gathers a team of men who may not be so clean themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Dangerous Curves (1992)
Plot Summary:
Dangerous Curves is a crime series that aired on CBS in 1992-1993. It centers on Lise Cutter and Michael Michele, two female security guards working for a private security agency, Personal Touch, in Dallas.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Tumultuous Adventures of Jack Carter (2003)
Plot Summary:
Private detective Jack Carter is nothing if not eccentric: penniless, he lives, eats and sleeps at the office. When it comes to work, he accepts only those rare cases that intrigue him and leave other detectives mystified. No investigation is too strange or unusual to dishearten Carter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Action, Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective
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Coast Guard (1997)
Plot Summary:
The cases of the crew of the Albatros, a patrol boat of the German Coast Guard operating in the Baltic Sea area.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective
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Rondo (2006)
Plot Summary:
Japan and Korea's biggest names star in this big-scale drama. Nishijima Sho is a Japanese detective whose father was murdered in Korea when he was still a boy. In hopes of discovering the truth behind his father's death, Sho is working undercover in a huge secret organization. Choi Yuna is a Korean woman who visits Japan in search of her missing father. She opens a Korean restaurant with her younger sister, but soon faces the mercy of fate. The couple meets in a corner of Tokyo and fall in love. But what waits ahead of them. A "rondo" of fate, love, and history is about to begin.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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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Inspector Zenigata (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Tokyo police receives a bomb threat from what appears to be Lupin III. This proves to be a distraction and a priceless painting was stolen from the nearby Tokyo Empire Museum, leaving a guard dead. Enter Inspector Zenigata who is convinced this wasn't Lupin III at all. In his own unique way he goes about proving this only to attract the attention of a real bomber calling himself Mr. Question. Will his riddles defeat Zenigata and his team or will they persevere and save Tokyo?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective, anime
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Longstreet (1971)
Plot Summary:
Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired prior to the debut of the series as an ABC Movie of the Week.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, vintage
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Police University (2021)
Plot Summary:
A genius hacker and a detective, both from Police University, struggle to overcome a crisis together.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious, detective
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Ruse of Engagement (2014)
Plot Summary:
Widow Tong Suk-fan is saddled with hardship alone, struggling to bring up her two sons Chong Yau-ching and Chong Yau-kit. The brothers join the Intelligence Unit and the Operations Unit of Anti-Terrorist Force respectively, and both gain recognition from their superior Shum Chi-ngo, which is supposed to be a comfort to their mother. But unexpectedly, due to a mysterious piece of intelligence, their brotherhood turns to enmity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
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Houston Knights (1987)
Plot Summary:
Houston Knights is an American crime drama set in Houston, Texas. The show ran on CBS from 1987 to 1988 and had 31 episodes. The core of the show was the partnership between two very different cops from two different cultures. Chicago cop Joey LaFiamma, played by Michael Paré, is transferred to Houston after he kills a mobster from a powerful Mafia family and a contract is put out on him. Once there, he is partnered with Levon Lundy, played by Michael Beck, the grandson of a Texas Ranger. Although as different as night and day, and after a rocky beginning they form a successful partnership and become friends. This is aided to a certain extent by an event where a hitman from Chicago who holds the contract to shoot La Fiamma arrives in Houston and is ultimately killed by Lundy. During the series, it is revealed that both La Fiamma and Lundy have their own personal demons; La Fiamma's Chicago police partner had been killed when he went ahead while La Fiamma had waited for backup to arrive. Lundy's wife had been killed by an explosion that was intended to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Burke's Law (1963)
Plot Summary:
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: retro, detective, campy
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Santo (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two cops must learn to work together to catch the world's most-wanted drug dealer, whose face has never been revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective
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Anti-Terrorism Investigators (2009)
Plot Summary:
Gaiji Keisatsu is a Japanese television drama mini-series that aired on NHK from 14 November 2009 to 19 December 2009. It is based on the novel of the same name written and released in Japan by Aso Iku. The TV show follow a female police officer who was recruited into the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist black ops unit known "publicly" as the Fourth Foreign Affairs Section, created after the 9/11 events in the United States. Its purpose is to tackle espionage and terrorism cases happening in Japan. The franchise consists of the novel, the TV series and an upcoming 2012 movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags:
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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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Investigation Held by ZnaToKi (1971)
Plot Summary:
Soviet detective television series.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, detective series
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Fox Grønland (2001)
Plot Summary:
The series is about police investigators in Greenland police and the assignments they receive. Every day they face new challenges that affect them differently. These consist of inspector Jan Erik Holm, Hassan Mohammed Arif Osman, Trond Olsen and Holms ex-wife Cecilie Melvold. The series paints a somewhat grim picture of Oslo, it is a place where no one is safe, where nobody is above threats and blackmail. Even policemen are subjected to harassment.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective
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Cold Shores (2019)
Plot Summary:
A rich heiress, Maria Sorokina, goes missing after a quarrel with her husband. Boris Novinsky, head of the police station, entrusts this case to a young detective, yesterday's intern, Alina Novinskaya, his daughter. It turns out that a maniac who strangles and disfigures young women who look like Maria Sorokina operates in the town. The search for Maria brings her husband, Mark, and Alina together. Seven years later, Alina and Mark have a strong family. But one day, Mark goes on a business trip and meets there a woman who looks like his missing wife, Maria, like two peas in a pod. Mark is unable to master the feelings that have overwhelmed him again and leaves Alina for a woman who so frighteningly resembles his late first wife. Meanwhile murders of young women are renewed in the town - a mysterious maniac, already forgotten by everyone, goes hunting again. Alina, abandoned by her husband, returns to the police work and the search for a maniac, which leads her to a shocking discovery.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Shadow Detective (2022)
Plot Summary:
A veteran detective who is about to retire unfolds a breathtaking psychological warfare with a mysterious man who follows his path while hiding his identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Damo (2003)
Plot Summary:
Damo is a 2003 South Korean fusion historical drama, starring Ha Ji-won, Lee Seo-jin, and Kim Min-joon. Set in the Joseon Dynasty, it tells the story of Chae-ok, a damo relegated to the low-status job of a female police detective who investigates crimes involving women of the upper class. Chae-ok shares a forbidden love with her mentor and superior Hwangbo Yoon, but while working undercover on a counterfeit ring case, she finds herself drawn to Jang Sung-baek, the mysterious leader of the rebel army she has infiltrated. It aired on MBC from July 28 to September 9, 2003 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 14 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 840 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, period drama
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Goodbye to Goodbye (2018)
Plot Summary:
Young-Hee lives alone at an apartment. She has separated from her pilot husband Sang-Jin, because he had an affair. Meanwhile, Jung-Hyo is pregnant, but her boyfriend wants her to have an abortion. Jung-Hyo goes to Young-Hee’s apartment and tells her she will stay there until she gives birth. Young-Hee is her boyfriend's mother. Living together, Young-Hee and Jung-Hyo fight with each other, but also come to understand each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, gloomy
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The First Responders (2022)
Plot Summary:
A police station and a fire station adjoining each other cooperate in combating crime and fire in the most brutal and tragic cases.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Police Story (1973)
Plot Summary:
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, detective, vintage
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Harry O (1973)
Plot Summary:
Harry O, sometimes spelled Harry-O, is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons on ABC from 1974 to 1976. The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe. Harry O followed the broadcast of two pilot films: Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On and then the second, Smile Jenny, You're Dead, both starring Janssen.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, vintage
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The King's Face (2014)
Plot Summary:
Since Kwanghae was born from a concubine and only appointed as Crown Prince in a desperate measure, many dissatisfied officials from Northerner faction often plotted for his assassination and dethronement for 16 years. He also often quarreled with his father, King Seonjo, especially regarding Kim Ga Hee. Both son and father will fight against each other in favor of her. However, he eventually managed to overcome the obstacles by the help of Physiognomist, Kim Do Chi and become the next king. Meanwhile, Gwiin Kim is King Seonjo’s royal concubine.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Risky Romance (2018)
Plot Summary:
A neurosurgeon with anger management issues becomes the perfect test subject and love interest for an endocrinologist obsessed with the study of hormones.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sweet, sincere, captivating, disturbing, medical drama
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Heartless City (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nam Gyu Ri sizzles and sways in this noir thriller about getting in too deep. When her best friend suffers a brutal fate while undercover in the crime underworld, Han Soo Min is driven to pick up where her friend left off. But in the shadows, there are no rules and no reason: Soo Min falls for the organization’s king pin, who also happens to be the prime suspect of her friend’s murder. With a betrayal at every corner, can Soo Min afford to trust the unjust? As with all things noir, expect seduction, femme fatales and mystery!.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, intellectual, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, neo noir