Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Television > Policier: 187 Films to Rent on DVD
- Moses Jones (TV Mini-Series) (2009)
- Dir. Michael Offer
Feat. Shaun Parkes, Matt Smith
- Grimy, downtrodden policier finds the titular Moses Jones (Parkes) re–assigned to investigate a brutal murder amid London’s Ugandan exile…
- Red Riding Trilogy (1974, 1980, 1983) (2009)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker
Feat. Sean Bean, Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey…
- David Peace’s gritty quartet of crime novels receive a stunning translation to the screen with this threesome of British detective thrillers, based…
- White Collar (TV Series) (2009-2014)
- Feat. Matt Bomer, Marsha Thomason, Tim DeKay…
- Police procedural series following a hard working and honest FBI agent (Tim DeKay) who makes a work–release deal with a captured con artist…
- Ashes to Ashes (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes
- Spin–off from BBC drama LIFE ON MARS follows DI Alex Drake (Hawes), a police psychologist from 2008 transported to the 80's after a horrific…
- Flashpoint (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Hugh Dillon, Enrico Colantoni, Sergio Di Zio
- High–octane cop show from Canada following the 'Strategic Response Unit', a team of elite police who take on the riskier jobs the rest won't…
- Fred Vargas Collection (TV Series) (2008-2010)
- Dir. Josee Dayan
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Helene Fillieres, Charlotte Rampling
- Four excellent French TV adaptations of crime fiction novelist Fred Vargas' popular policiers, with her famous protagonist, Detective Adamsberg, a…
- Mentalist, The (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang
- Superior crime series sees Simon Baker play an ex–'psychic' who now uses his remarkable powers of scrupulous observation in the name of the…
- Wallander (TV Series, UK) (2008)
- Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Sarah Smart, Sadie Shimmin
- UK adaptation of Henning Mankell’s crime novels sees Branagh take on the titular role of the grizzled Nordic detective, solving gristly crimes in…
- Whitechapel (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Feat. Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton
- Atmospheric detective show focused on a group of detectives who are trying to track down a Jack The Ripper copycat.
Filmed entirely in the East…
- East West 101 (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Don Hany, William McInnes, Susie Porter
- A contemporary, racially–charged policier by way of blue collar Sydney, observing the volatile working relationship between an old–school…