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Best 1 The Wire

Despite its age, The Wire remains a landmark achievement in crime drama. Set in Baltimore, the series offers a sprawling, realistic depiction of the drug trade and its impact on the city's institution...

2 The Departed

Martin Scorsese's 'The Departed' is a gripping remake of the Hong Kong film 'Infernal Affairs,' set in Boston's criminal underworld. The film follows a state trooper infiltrating the mob and a mole wi...

3 Line of Duty

Line of Duty, a British police procedural, distinguishes itself through its intricate plots and relentless focus on police corruption. The series follows AC-12, a unit tasked with investigating suspec...

4 Se7en

David Finchers *Se7en* is a chilling and unforgettable crime thriller that redefined the genre with its dark, unsettling atmosphere and exploration of human depravity. The film follows two detectives...

5 Infernal Affairs

Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime drama centered around two officers operating under false identities. One infiltrates a triad organization while the other secretly works for it, creating a c...

6 Classe tous risques

Classe tous risques is a 1960 French-Italian crime film directed by Claude Sautet. The narrative centers around a French mobster and his family fleeing across Europe, returning to Paris to confront fo...

7 Endeavour

Endeavour is a British detective drama set in Oxford, focusing on the early career of young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse within the City Police CID. The series serves as a prequel to Inspector...

8 Police Story

Police Story, released in 1985, stars Jackie Chan as Detective Kevin Chan Ka-Kui investigating accusations of murder following an attempt to apprehend a drug trafficker. The film’s plot involves Chan...

9 Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues followed the daily operations of the Metropolitan Police Department’s personnel stationed at a single precinct within a major American city. The series ran for sixteen years, airing...

10 Ripper Street

Ripper Street is a British drama set in Whitechapel, London, following police detectives investigating crimes in 1889. The show began six months after the Jack the Ripper murders and premiered on BBC...

11 Shetland

Shetland is a British crime drama series created for BBC Scotland, stemming from Ann Cleeves’ novels. The show was initially broadcast beginning in March 2013 and features detectives investigating cri...

12 Waking the Dead

Waking the Dead was a British crime drama produced by the BBC, featuring a London cold-case unit with CID officers, a profiler, and a forensic scientist. Nine series of sixty-two episodes were broadca...

13 The Rookie

The Rookie is an ABC television series centered around John Nolan, a man entering the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as one of its oldest rookies. The show’s premise is based on the real-life ex...

14 CID
CID

CID is an Indian television series following the investigations of a police unit. Premiering in 1998, it centers around ACP Pradyuman and his team—Abhijeet, Daya, Fredricks, and Salunkhe—as they solve...

15 The Brokenwood Mysteries

The Brokenwood Mysteries is a New Zealand television series centered around detective Nick Pollard’s investigations in the fictional town of Brokenwood, North Island. The initial six seasons consist o...

16 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a 2022 mystery film directed by Rian Johnson. It serves as a standalone sequel to *Knives Out*, featuring Benoit Blanc investigating the death of Miles Bron, a tec...

17 The Guilty

A remake of the Danish film of the same name, 'The Guilty' is a relentlessly tense and gripping thriller set almost entirely within a 911 dispatch center. Jake Gyllenhaal delivers a powerhouse perform...

18 New Tricks

New Tricks is a long-running British television drama focusing on a team of retired detectives who investigate previously unsolved cases. The show’s notable appeal lies in its intricate plots and char...

19 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is a crime drama focusing on the investigations and prosecutions of sexually violent offenses by the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit. The series, a spin-off of Law & Orde...

20 Law & Order: UK

Law & Order: UK was a British police procedural television program adapting the American “Law & Order” format. It ran from 2009 to 2014 on ITV, featuring an initial cast including Bradley Walsh and Fr...

21 Taggart

Taggart was a long-running British crime drama produced by STV Studios for ITV. The series followed detectives within Strathclyde Police, primarily operating from John Street police station and explor...

22 Detective Story

Detective Story is a 1951 American crime movie exploring a day in the life of a police detective and his team. The film’s significance lies in its early performances by actors like Eleanor Parker and...

23 Los hombres de Paco

Los hombres de Paco is a Spanish television series focusing on a specialized police unit in Madrid. The show’s notable element involves officers investigating both conventional crimes and paranormal p...

24 El Príncipe

El Príncipe is a Spanish drama series created for Telecinco focusing on the relationship between a Spanish police officer and a Moroccan-Muslim woman. The narrative primarily unfolds within the El Prí...

25 DCI Banks

DCI Banks is a British crime drama series adapted from Peter Robinson’s Inspector Alan Banks novels. Stephen Tompkinson portrays the detective chief inspector in the ITV production, which ran for five...

26 Rookie Blue

Rookie Blue is a television series depicting the lives of newly appointed officers within the Toronto Police Service. The show’s significance lies in its realistic portrayal of police work and its foc...

27 No Sudden Move

No Sudden Move is a 2021 crime thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film stars an ensemble cast including several well-known actors in a story set within the automotive industry. It explores a...

28 Chicago P.D.

Chicago P.D. is an NBC television series created by Dick Wolf that centers on the activities of the Chicago Police Department’s 21st District. The show depicts uniformed patrol officers and the Intell...

29 Kojak

Kojak is an American crime drama television series that aired from 1973 to 1978. Lieutenant Theophilus “Theo” Kojak, portrayed by Telly Savalas, investigated complex federal cases through a series of...

30 Battle Creek

Battle Creek was an American comedy-drama television series centered around the partnership of a police detective and FBI agent in Battle Creek, Michigan. The show premiered on CBS in 2015 but was can...

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