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Life on Mars (2006)
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Life on Mars (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 959 min.
TV show
Story: Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between January 2006 and April 2007. The series combines elements of science fiction and police procedural, featuring an officer from the Greater Manchester Police who travels back in time after being involved in a road accident. The title is a reference to David Bowie's 1973 single "Life on Mars?" An American adaptation of the series was produced by ABC and ran for one season from October 2008 to April 2009. A Spanish adaptation of the series was broadcast from April to June 2009. A Russian adaptation of the series The Dark Side of the Moon was broadcast in November 2012. A sequel to the series, Ashes to Ashes, also referencing another David Bowie song, began airing on BBC One in February 2008, followed by a second series in 2009 and a third and final series in 2010.
Style: detective, surreal, tense, rough, captivating, stylized, enigmatic, futuristic, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, police detective, police investigation, investigation, time travel, culture clash, partner, disorder, twists and turns, rivalry, fighting crime, time loop, time traveler, murder investigation, sent to the past, crime investigation, homicide detective, crime solving, partners against crime, riddles and clues, cop, whodunit, police partner, time jump, secret revealed ...
Time: future, 20th century, 2000s, 70s, contemporary
Place: manchester, northern england, england, europe, manchester england
Keyword: partners, dreams, reluctant, british tv

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Ashes to Ashes (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.
Style: detective, surreal, serious, tense, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, time travel, police detective, reluctant partners, female detective, power relations, fighting crime, uncover truth, female protagonist, confined, tough law enforcer, coma ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, europe, east end london
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Life on Mars (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: While investigating a serial murder case, Han Tae Joo gets into an incident. When he wakes up, he finds himself back in 1987. To get back to his present world, he must solve the murder case.
Style: tense, captivating, detective
Plot: friendship, murder, police procedural, fighting crime, homicide detective, sent to the past, time jump, police detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, investigation, police investigation ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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Life on Mars (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Life on Mars is a science fiction crime drama television series which originally aired on ABC from October 9, 2008 to April 1, 2009. It is an adaptation of the BAFTA-winning original UK series of the same name produced by the BBC. The series was ...
Style: serious, surreal, tense, captivating, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, police investigation, police, disorder, power relations, fish out of water, law enforcement, fighting crime, uncover truth, time travel, police brutality, police station ...
Time: 70s, future, 20th century, 2000s
Place: usa
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River (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: John River, a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault-line is the fragility of his mind - a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, crime drama, surprise ending ...
Plot: police detective, police, police investigation, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, murder investigation, loneliness, police procedural, able to see the dead, nordic, partner ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, britain
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Endeavour (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
Style: serious, detective, intellectual, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: police, police detective, investigator, murderer, police investigation, talented, coworker, british, oxford, murder, intelligence, bodies ...
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Place: england
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The City and The City (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 235 min.
TV show
Story: When the body of a foreign student is discovered in the streets of the down-at-heel city of Besźel, it’s just another day’s work for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But he uncovers evidence that the murdered girl came from ...
Style: mind bending, detective, neo noir, tense, suspense ...
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Time: future
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Grace (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Story: Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries ...
Style: detective, captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing
Plot: detective inspector, police partner, police, british police, police detective, unsolved crime, forensics, sleuth, crime solving, fighting crime, partners against crime, investigation ...
Time: future
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Unforgotten (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: 'Unforgotten' follows modern police team DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan, who gradually unravel long-forgotten secrets which have a dramatic impact on their investigation and the four potential suspects. The slow revelation of the ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, crime drama, tense ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder mystery, murder, police investigation, investigation, police, cold case, missing person, female police detective, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, haunted by the past ...
Time: future, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place: england, london
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Inspector George Gently (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
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Story: Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
Style: detective, suspenseful, serious, crime drama, clever ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
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Story: A British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent ...
Style: serious, detective, tense, realistic, witty ...
Plot: murder, police detective, police investigation, riddles and clues, police, investigation, buddy cop, partners against crime, nypd, investigator, shrewd, partner ...
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Place: england, yorkshire, northern england
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Lewis (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Story: Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Style: realistic, clever, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, sergeant, murder, investigator, multiple suspects, police investigation, detective inspector, law enforcement, suspicion, criminal ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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The Closer (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
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Story: Deputy Police Chief Brenda Jean 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 ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, tense ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 60 min.
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Hill Street Blues (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 45 min.
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Steppe (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: Experienced chief of police Seyfi and newbie officer Nuri Pamir start to investigate the case of a child murder taking place in the city. The case brings them to Mr. Abbas and his daughter Dilara, who are well-known individuals in their circles.
Style: captivating, tense, detective
Plot: murder, murderer, police, murder investigation, fighting crime, partner, police detective, homicide detective, investigation, murder mystery, police partner, police investigation ...
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The Bill (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Bill is a police procedural television series that was broadcast on the ITV network from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, entitled Woodentop, which was broadcast in August 1983. In its final ...
Style: captivating, serious, sincere, detective, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: police detective, inspector, police investigation, law enforcement, fighting crime, society, workplace situations, police, partner, investigation, legal, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place: england, london, europe, east end london
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Chasing Shadows (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Chasing Shadows' follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, crime investigation, homicide detective, missing person, murder, crime solving, investigation, murder mystery, police investigation, law enforcement, partner, partners against crime ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england
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Life of Crime (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
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Story: A female cop becomes obsessed with tracking down the killer of a 15-year-old girl, and hunts him over the course of her 28 year career in the force.
Style: tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: murder mystery, murder, police detective, police investigation, homicide detective, obsession, law enforcement, lie, murder investigation, investigation, crime investigation, fighting crime ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england
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Unforgettable (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember everything. She reluctantly joins the New York City Police Department's Queens homicide unit ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, thrilling, tense ...
Plot: police, photographic memory, female detective, police detective, partners against crime, policewoman, prodigy, murder investigation, police investigation, fighting crime, haunted by the past, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial ...
Style: detective, crime drama, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Foyle's War (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Story: As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an ...
Style: clever, serious, captivating, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
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Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, new mexico, london
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Crime Traveller (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Jeff Slade and his beautiful colleague Holly are armed with something very special in the ongoing fight against crime their very own time machine. Invented by Holly's father, Professor Frederick Turner, the time machine may be a ...
Style: detective, exciting, serious, bleak, rough ...
Plot: time travel, paradox, time machine, race against time, uncover truth, chases and races, danger, misfit partners, society, law enforcement, life is a bitch, fighting crime ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Identity is a British police procedural drama television series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, airing in the UK during July–August 2010. Concerning identity theft, the series was created and written by Ed Whitmore, a writer most noted for ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: police investigation, identity theft, fighting crime, law enforcement, police detective, police, hidden identity, danger, murder, murder mystery, cons and scams, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Cracker (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
Style: clever, detective, crime drama, rough, witty ...
Plot: police detective, policewoman, police investigation, profiler, british police, investigation, police procedural, psychologist, law enforcement, criminal psychologist, police officer, nypd ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s
Place: england, manchester, northern england, europe
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The Last Detective (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: The Last Detective is an ITV drama starring Peter Davison as Dangerous Davies. The first series aired in 2003 with three more seasons succeeding this. The first consisted of a pilot and three episodes, the second and the third series both consisted ...
Style: detective, clever, suspenseful, realistic, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: future
Place: london, europe, england
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Suspects (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Set in London, each episode is a self-contained story, starting with a news report, then following the team of three detectives as they investigate the circumstances the crime. The cases themselves are hard-hitting with contemporary themes, such as ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: investigation, police, murder mystery, crime investigation, investigator, partner, who done it, murder investigation, interrogation, heroes, friendship, murder ...
Time: 21st century
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The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: In a seemingly quiet country town the newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective, witty ...
Plot: detective inspector, police detective, partners against crime, unlikely partners, small town life, sleuth, riddles and clues, under the surface, investigation, whodunit, uncover truth, police investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new zealand
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30%
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DI Ray (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: DI Ray is set in Birmingham and follows Leicester-born Rachita Ray, a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to confront a lifelong personal conflict between her British identity and her South Asian heritage.
Style: psychological, detective, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: police investigation, homicide detective, police detective, murder investigation, fighting crime, investigation, policewoman, female detective, forensics, police, crime investigation, uncover truth ...
Place: britain, united kingdom, england
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