Subgenre Sampler
Policier: 430 Films to Buy & Rent
Special Branch (TV Series) (1969-1974)
- Feat. Derren Nesbitt, Fulton MacKay
- Brit detective series revolving around England's finest police duo tackling the bad guys of the local district. This series still holds appeal to a…
Strange Report (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, Anneke Wills
- Wily Anthony Quayle is Adam Strange, ex–police officer turned criminologist charged with cleaning up murder sprees and other unsolvable cases…
Adam-12 (TV Series) (1968-1975)
- Feat. Kent McCord, Martin Milner, William Boyett
- Cult cop show following the lives of two LAPD officers shot in a gritty docudrama style, and distinguished by a strict adherence to realism that…
Bullitt (1968)
- Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn…
- A taut, action–packed cop thriller boasting the most spectacular car chase to be committed to screen, through the streets of San Fransisco.
Detective, The (1968)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker…
- Interestingly dark and unsentimental policier has Frank Sinatra play an embattled cop investigating the murder of a wealthy homosexual while trying…
Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (1968)
- Feat. Jack Lord, James MacArthur
- Cult policier set in the sunny underworld of Hawaii with a special task force assigned to combat crime in paradise. While best remembered for its…
Mod Squad, The (TV Series) (1968-1969)
- Feat. Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III
- Love beads, afros and hipster pants abound in this jive–talkin' police series that tapped into the excitement and paranoia of the 60's youth…
Dragnet (TV Series) (1967)
- Feat. Jack Webb, Harry Morgan
- The classic hard–case, ultra–realistic sixties police procedural, with officers Friday and Gannon cleaning up the mean streets of…
Ironside (TV Series) (1967)
- Dir. James Goldstone, Leo Penn
Feat. Raymond Burr
- Raymond Burr followed 'Perry Mason' with this different, but equally classic TV–series, shedding the lawyer role for a stint as a…
Madigan (1967)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda
- Possibly the last film in which cops and crooks dress in snappy fedora hats and dark coats, a craggy Richard Widmark plays the addled NY Inspector…