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Plot Summary:
The Line is a Canadian television drama series, which debuted on Movie Central and The Movie Network on March 16, 2009. Created by George F. Walker and Dani Romain, the series is being produced by The Nightingale Company, and shot by Richmond Street Films. The program was originally announced under the working title The Weight.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags:
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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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Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan (2009)
Plot Summary:
Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan is a drama serial made in Pakistan based on a novel written by Umera Ahmad. It is an emotional story of a girl named Saba and her daughter Sara. The drama became very popular upon its release. The serial featured a huge ensemble cast consisting of Samia Mumtaz, Samina Peerzada, Sarwat Gillani, Mehreen Raheel, Ismat Zaidi, Faisal Qureshi, Adnan Siddiqui, Khayam Sarhadi, Shakeel, Imran Abbas, Rashid Farooqui, Humayun Saeed, Shehryar Zaidi, Zeba Ali and Lubna Aslam.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, exciting, contemplative
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Diamant (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this filmed version of Flemish author Jef Gheeraerts' novel, Robert 'Robbe' Parain, an arrogant Antwerp police detective who operates at the limits of illegality and is in personal debt, tenaciously traces but also gets personally entangled in the dark, ruthless, criminal sides of the publicly so glamorous trade in diamonds, notably in his native Antwerp, Hong Kong, Brussels and Congo.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: Belgium
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Paradise Falls (2001)
Plot Summary:
Paradise Falls was a weekly soap opera shown nationally on the Showcase channel in Canada, starting in 2001. It is set in a summer cottage community in Central Ontario. Like many major US soaps, sex is a dominant part of the storylines. However, it shows much more of this than would be allowed by censors on mainstream broadcast networks. The show's open approach to sexual and homosexual themes caused reruns of the show to be carried on the American Here! channel, which targets gay and lesbian viewers. Like the soap Passions, murder and a little witchcraft are included in the mix of themes. Unlike the typical soap opera, the series was shot entirely on location on Sparrow Lake in Muskoka and Whitevale, Ontario, to give the show an authentic looking background. It was produced entirely in digital format, to reduce production costs, and allow for easier editing when adapted for foreign markets. The show's production company is Breakthrough Entertainment. The production schedule has been somewhat unorthodox and unpredictable for viewers. Originally 52 episodes were shot in a batch in 2001, then aired on Showcase. Then, new shows stopped appearing until 2004, leaving many to think the show was cancelled. A new batch of 26 episodes began to be aired in the fall of 2004. The show was recently renewed and shooting began on July 9, 2007 and ended on October 11, 2007. The 26 episodes started airing on April 11, 2008 on Here! and aired from September 2, 2009 on Showcase. The third season seems to be its last.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Strip Search (1997)
Plot Summary:
Robby Durrell is the prince of the vice squad. A man who's seen it all and done a little of it too. But when the enchanting Sela hires him to help track down her stripper-stepdaughter, Robby learns there's more to Sela than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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The Adulterer (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a photographer and a lawyer start a steamy affair, their lives and those around them get entangled in dirty business and family secrets.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, intense
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American Rampage (1989)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
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The Cliff (2012)
Plot Summary:
The young Doctor Eva leaves her home Moldova to work in Istanbul, together with her sister Felicia. Due to inadvertency they land in the hands of a gang of prostitution but somehow Eva manages to escape and tries to save her sister. Adam, Pinar, Arif and Ulas who become friends to Eva, help her to save Felicia and thus start a fight against the prostitution ring. The serie's title symbolicaly refers to people's life taking place at a cliff's edge.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Glory of the Special Forces (2022)
Plot Summary:
Yan Poyue, a high school student who comes from a family of soldiers. He forgoes the university entrance examinations and joins the armed police force in order to prove his worth to his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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This Life (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in contemporary Montreal, “This Life” is a family saga focusing on Natalie Lawson, an accomplished columnist and single mother in her early forties whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends her on a quest to prepare her teenage children for life without her. Her tight-knit family – sister, two brothers and parents – do the best they can to help her, while coping with their own responses to this revelation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Ramo (2020)
Plot Summary:
The series will focus on the conflict between the two families and a great love that will flourish between this struggle.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, heartbreaking, colorful, romantic, breathtaking, compassionate, captivating, colourful
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Black Sash (2003)
Plot Summary:
Black Sash is an American action adventure drama television series starring Russell Wong. It ran from March 30, 2003, to June 1, 2003. Including pilots, a total of eight episodes were made, however only six episodes were aired on The WB.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Water Rats (1996)
Plot Summary:
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney Harbour. Water Rats premiered on 12 February 1996, and ran for six seasons and 177 episodes. Colin Friels and Catherine McClements were the original stars of the series and were instrumental in the show's early success. They both departed the show in 1999. In later seasons, Steve Bisley, Aaron Pedersen and Dee Smart became the show's main stars. For the sixth and final season in 2001, the show concentrated more on the cops' personal lives rather than just focusing on the crimes committed. The Nine Network cancelled the show after six seasons. Executive Producer Kris Noble blamed escalating costs for the cancellation. However, Bisley and Smart had also just quit the show, and the series had already been suffering a ratings battle following the departure of Friels and McClements in 1999. The final episode was broadcast in Australia on 7 August 2001.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, realistic, fast
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Copper (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City while searching for information on the disappearance of his wife and death of his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, stylized, tense, realistic, detective, dark, dramatic
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Stiletto Dance (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two undercover police officers must try to prevent a multi-million dollar nuclear arms deal among several mob factions.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Drama, Action, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, realistic, fast, neo noir, detective
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Cuffs (2015)
Plot Summary:
Cuffs is a fresh, authentic and visceral drama that will take the audience on an exhilarating ride through the challenges of front-line policing. Adrenalized and vibrant, the show is packed full of dramatic incidents and colourful characters. From a booby trapped cannabis farm in a suburban semi to an elderly farmer's wife with a shotgun, the stories are surprising and exciting. There will be more absurd altercations - such as a middle-class dog-napping or fisticuffs between pensioners - as well as the daily grind of speeding drivers, city-centre shoplifters and Saturday night drinkers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, crime drama, queer cinema
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Undercover Law (2018)
Plot Summary:
An action-packed series about several Colombian women who work as intelligence agents. They investigate the perilous criminal activities of drug lords while maintaining their lives outside of work. Undercover Law is based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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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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Played (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Covert Investigations Unit (CIU) risks going undercover to infiltrate and bring down criminal organizations. In this new style of short-term, high-intensity undercover work, each covert “play” is crafted quickly and executed at an even faster pace. Placed into various worlds of crime without a safety net, the cops are in constant danger, as they repeatedly go off the grid. Wearing wires, coaxing confessions, and setting up stings, the cops of the CIU must think quickly, talk smoothly, and rely on pure instinct. They slip in and out of characters so often that, sometimes, they lose track of who they really are.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Absolute Zero (2010)
Plot Summary:
Zettai Reido is a Japanese police procedural television drama. The first season, subtitled Mikaiketsu Jiken Tokumei Sōsa, was set in a fictional version of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department division that specializes in investigating cold cases, which is based on an actual division established in Japan in 2009. The first season aired from April 13 to June 22, 2010 on Fuji TV's Kakku time-slot. It premiered to a 18% rating. A special two-hour long episode which served as conclusion to the first series was aired on July 8, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, tense, realistic
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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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Third Watch (1999)
Plot Summary:
The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: medical drama, detective, emotional, action adventure, serious, realistic
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Tom Stone (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tom Stone is a crime drama series that ran in Canada on CBC Television for two 13-episode seasons beginning in 2002. In the United States, the series is syndicated by Program Partners and Sony Pictures Television under the title Stone Undercover. It is listed on Hulu as "Stone Undercover.".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
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Niagara Motel (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of struggling individuals cross paths at a low-rent motel in the tourist Mecca of Niagara Falls.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating, humorous, independent film, sexual, sexy
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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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Rogue (2013)
Plot Summary:
"Rogue" revolves around Grace, a morally and emotionally-conflicted undercover detective who is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s death. Grace’s search for the truth is further complicated by her forbidden relationship with Jimmy, the crime boss who may have played a hand in the crime. A smart, complex, character-led thriller, "Rogue" explores loss, grief, identity, family bonds, second chances and redemption. Both Grace and Jimmy not only struggle with who they are, they struggle with who they want to be. Both cross the line – morally, emotionally, sexually – with devastating consequences for their own lives and those around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, erotic, detective, sensual, independent film, hardboiled detective
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Shades of Blue (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sexy New York detective and single mother Harlee Santos fell in with a tight-knit group of dirty cops, taking bribes and protection money that she uses to provide the best life for her honest, talented daughter. But when she's trapped by the FBI and forced to inform on her own "brothers," she'll have to walk the fine line between love, loyalty, honor and betrayal, and try to keep it together for her daughter's future.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, detective, neo noir
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Converts (2007)
Plot Summary:
A convert is a person who agrees to cooperate with an enemy in exchange for some benefits. It can be a criminal who cooperates with the police or a policeman who delivers secrets to mobsters. No matter if the convert is the guardian of public order or the bandit it is always perilous game where a life is at stake. Main characters of Converts are Paul Sikora, an experienced officer of Central Investigation Bureau and Blacha - John Blachowski, a mobster from the most powerful gang in Poland. The axis of the series is complicated high risk game which is played between these two protagonists. The policeman tries to convert the criminal and the criminal attempts to corrupt the officer. These two men live on the opposite sides of the barricade, however, they have many things in common. Their occupation ruin their families. Both of them have wonderful wives and they love their children but their life is far away to be perfect. Each of them alone has to straggle with the aversion of their environment and personal weaknesses. They're both in a dilemma. Blacha is torn between the care of his family and the loyalty to the group which he comes from. Sikora is torn between his work and his family for whom he does not have enough time. He is desperate to be a good husband and father and good policeman at the same time. Sikora and Blacha have their own principles which seems never to be broken. However, life writes its own scenario in which some rules have to broken. Next to tension and continuous fight for dominance a thread of understanding appears between them gradually.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 49 min
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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Blue Murder (2001)
Plot Summary:
Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines. The Blue Murder squad members were an elite group of big-city investigators out to solve some of the city's most complicated and riveting crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating