Subgenre Sampler
Television > Policier: 202 Films to Buy & Rent
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) (SVU) (1999-2004)
- Feat. Richard Belzer, Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay…
- Another batch of law–enforcers plie their grim vocation, in this LAW AND ORDER satellite series, wherein a special team investigate…
Vice, The (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Caroline Catz, Marc Warren, Ken Scott
- Edgy Bafta Award Winning TV detective drama series focusing on the London Metro Squad examining crime and unsolved murder in the sex industry.
Martial Law (TV Series) (1998-2000)
- Feat. Sammo Hung, Arsenio Hall
- Action–comedy series starring prolific Hong Kong actor/director/producer Sammo Hung (and frequent Jackie Chan collaborator) as a Chinese law…
Stalker's Apprentice, The (1998)
- Dir. Marcus D.F. White
Feat. Peter Davison, James Bolam, Kathleen Turner
- A book editor uses a writer's manuscript about a serial killer as a template for his own homicidal fantasies in this punchy, at times lurid British…
Advocates, The (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. Ewan Stewart, Isla Blair, Rachel Weisz…
- Obscure Scottish legal drama contrasting high powered lawyers with the sleazy underbelly of Edinburgh's streets, and the inevitable merging of the…
Duggan (TV Series) (Death in Paradise, Sins of the Fathers) (1997-1998)
- Dir. Yvonne MacKay
Feat. John Bach
- Detective inspector John Bach heads up these made–for–TV policiers as a recluse drawn into a murder cases near his Marlborough Sounds…
Midsomer Murders (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark…
- A worthwhile British police drama in the tradition of Agatha Christie's MISS MARPLE, in which a veteran detective Inspector Barnaby (Nettles) and his…
Inspector Wexford Collection, The (TV Mini-series) (1996-2000)
- Feat. George Baker, Sadie Frost
- Collection of commended adaptations based on the Ruth Rendell novels and centred on the recurring Rendell character of Inspector Wexford – an…
Silent Witness (TV Series) (1996)
- Feat. Amanda Burton, Emilia Fox, William Gaminara
- Acclaimed, long–running BBC forensic series, originally focused around expert pathologist Dr Sam Ryan (Burton). This is darker and more complex…
Water Rats (TV Series) (1996)
- Feat. Colin Friels, Catherine McClements, Steve Bisley…
- Classic Aussie sea–going crime–fighting police action show from the 90s, somewhat like an antipodean version of Baywatch. Ran for six…