Police Investigation
"police investigation" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Derrick
Synopsis:
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Starring:
Fritz Wepper,
Horst Tappert,
Willy Schäfer
#2
The Closer
Synopsis:
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
Starring:
J.K. Simmons,
Raymond Cruz,
Jon Tenney
#3
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Synopsis:
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
Starring:
Vincent D'Onofrio,
Jay O. Sanders,
Julia Ormond
#4
Death Note
Synopsis:
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into…
Starring:
Nozomu Sasaki,
Mamoru Miyano,
Shido Nakamura
Plot:
police,
secret identity,
detective,
journalism,
supernatural,
battle of wits,
anime,
anti hero,
child prodigy,
moral dilemma
...
#5
Death in Paradise
Synopsis:
Comedy detective series set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie. A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries.
Starring:
Ginny Holder,
Ralf Little,
Don Warrington
#6
To Catch a Killer
Synopsis:
Baltimore. New Year's Eve. A talented but troubled police officer is recruited by the FBI's chief investigator to help profile and track down a mass murderer.
Starring:
Shailene Woodley,
Ben Mendelsohn,
Arthur Holden
#7
Unfaithful
Synopsis:
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.
Starring:
Diane Lane,
Erik Per Sullivan,
Richard Gere
#8
The Woman in the Window
Synopsis:
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Starring:
Edward G. Robinson,
Raymond Massey,
Edmund Breon
Plot:
instructor,
academic,
lecture,
lecturer,
teacher,
tutor,
crisis,
company,
booze,
invitation
...
#9
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Synopsis:
When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Starring:
Leslie Nielsen,
Ricardo Montalban,
George Kennedy
#10
Them!
Synopsis:
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent, and the world.
Starring:
James Whitmore,
Edmund Gwenn,
Fess Parker
Plot:
giant ant,
new mexico,
mutation,
gigantic monster,
post nuclear,
creature feature,
panic,
formic acid,
infestation,
car phone
...
#11
The Maltese Falcon
Synopsis:
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Starring:
Peter Lorre,
Humphrey Bogart,
Sydney Greenstreet
#12
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Synopsis:
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Starring:
Alfred Hitchcock,
Alma Reville,
Reginald Gardiner
#13
The Diamond Arm
Synopsis:
In the southern town, a gang of "currency traders" is operating, led by the Chief and his assistant Kozodoyev. A modest Soviet clerk and an exemplary family man Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov goes on a foreign cruise on a motor ship, on which Kozodoyev also sailed, who must pick up diamonds in one of the eastern cities and transport them in a plaster hand. But due to a misunderstanding, instead of …
Starring:
Yuriy Nikulin,
Nina Grebeshkova,
Nonna Mordyukova
Plot:
smuggler,
plaster cast,
ship,
criminal,
password,
accomplice,
arm injury,
contraband,
plaster,
incompetence
...
#14
The Crimson Rivers
Synopsis:
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
Starring:
Jean Reno,
Dominique Sanda,
Vincent Cassel
Plot:
neo noir,
child,
scene of the crime,
climbing a wall,
france,
murder,
secret,
mountain,
corpse,
detective
...
#15
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Synopsis:
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Starring:
Tony Musante,
Enrico Maria Salerno,
Suzy Kendall
#16
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Synopsis:
Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins exacting his revenge on all those involved.
Starring:
Hugh Griffith,
Vincent Price,
Terry-Thomas
Plot:
revenge,
cult film,
art deco,
tragic villain,
anti hero,
black comedy,
character name in title,
doctor,
mute,
frog
...
#17
Taxi
Synopsis:
In Marseilles (France), skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.
Starring:
Marion Cotillard,
Samy Naceri,
Frédéric Diefenthal
#18
Taking Lives
Synopsis:
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.
Starring:
Tchéky Karyo,
Paul Dano,
Justin Chatwin
#19
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Synopsis:
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. In order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Starring:
Lee Dae-yeon,
Song Kang-ho,
Shin Ha-kyun
Plot:
revenge,
sign language,
torture,
three act structure,
suicide,
kidnapping,
murder,
dead woman in a bathtub,
make love,
petting
...
#20
Sunset Boulevard
Synopsis:
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Starring:
Franklyn Farnum,
Fred Clark,
William Holden