Movies and TV shows like L.A. Dragnet

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L.A. Dragnet (2003)
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L.A. Dragnet (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith methodically investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, police investigation, partners against crime, fighting crime, society, law enforcement, police, investigation, car chase, crime investigation, nypd, die hard, urban, tough law enforcer, caucasian, propaganda, lapd, police car, latex gloves, crime, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: los angeles, usa

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Most similar movies to L.A. Dragnet

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, detective and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about law enforcement, police, police detective, police investigation, fighting crime, partners against crime and nypd mostly in Crime, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like L.A. Dragnet: Bosch (2014), Thirteen (2016), Burke's Law (1994), L.A. Heat (1996), Killer Instinct (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bosch (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, detective, neo noir ...
Plot: police, determination, police detective, law enforcement, murder investigation, police investigation, suspicion, murder, coworker, homicide detective, father daughter relationship, lapd ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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Thirteen (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: This Five-part BBC psychological drama follows Ivy Moxam, a 26-year-old woman who was abducted when she was 13 and held captive for the next 13 years. The story begins as she escapes the cellar she was being held in and goes to the police station to ...
Style: detective, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot: kidnapping, police investigation, child, family relations, woman, police, law enforcement, police detective, trauma, nypd, parents, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Burke's Law (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his ...
Style: detective, thrilling, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: police detective, police, police investigation, lapd, parent child relationship, law enforcement, multiple suspects, murder, whodunit, murder investigation, chief of police, murder mystery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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L.A. Heat (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: L.A. Heat is an American action series starring Wolf Larson and Steven Williams as Los Angeles police detectives, in the tradition of films like Lethal Weapon. The series aired on TNT from March 15, 1999.
Style: detective, suspenseful, exciting, fast, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, nypd, police, murder, police investigation, partner, chase, partners against crime, violent content, chases and races, honest law enforcer, ex athlete ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Killer Instinct (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Killer Instinct is an American crime drama television series filmed in Vancouver that originally aired on the Fox Network. The pilot episode aired on September 23, 2005, and the final episode aired on December 2, 2005. Fox ordered 13 episodes, only ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Plot: police detective, police investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, partner, policewoman, true crime, woman with a gun, murder mystery, crime investigation, buddy cop, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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67%
Robbery Homicide Division (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Robbery Homicide Division was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with executive producer Michael Mann. Schindel has been nominated for three Emmy Awards.
Style: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: police detective, police, police investigation, fighting crime, society, workplace situations, law enforcement, murder, workplace, partner, police station, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Dragnet (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The classic police drama is updated for the 1960s. No-nonsense Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner, Officer Bill Gannon, tackle traditional police cases and face new challenges such as LSD, race riots, and public service TV shows.
Style: detective, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: police, police detective, police officer, cop, car chase, woman with a gun, team, lapd, police investigation, criminal heroes, fighting crime, partners against crime ...
Time: future, 60s
Place: los angeles, usa
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50%
10-8: Officers on Duty (2003)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 10-8: Officers on Duty is an American police drama television series. The series aired on ABC from September 28, 2003 to January 11, 2004. The title is in reference to the ten-code for "officer in service and available for calls."
Style: serious, captivating, exciting, rough, detective ...
Plot: law enforcement, partners against crime, police detective, fighting crime, workplace situations, workplace, deputy sheriff, police station, nypd, die hard, rookie, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Adam-12 (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12. Created by R. A. Cinader and Jack ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, sincere, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, lapd, police protagonist, police officer, car, workplace intrigue, police investigation, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, working undercover, price of justice, police detective ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Brooklyn South (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Brooklyn South is an American ensemble police drama series that aired on CBS for only one season during the 1997–98 television season. The series was co-created by Steven Bochco, Bill Clark, David Milch and William M. Finkelstein. Bochco is the ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: police, swat team, nypd, legal, die hard, police officer, partner, tough heroes, police detective, partners against crime, criminal heroes, fighting crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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43%
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NYC 22 (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: NYC 22 is an American police procedural drama which ran on CBS from April 15 to August 11, 2012. The series was a mid-season replacement for CSI: Miami. On May 13, 2012, both series were canceled by CBS.
Style: realistic, serious, detective, tense, suspense ...
Plot: rookie, police, fighting crime, partner, law enforcement, police officer, state trooper, streetwise, ex athlete, partners against crime, supportive coworker, honest law enforcer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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43%
 6.3
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Shattered (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Shattered is a Canadian police procedural series created by Rick Drew. The main character is a tough, smart homicide detective in Vancouver who suffers from dissociative identity disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder. His wife Ella ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: police detective, homicide detective, police investigation, partners against crime, fighting crime, mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, exodus, criminal, mental disorder, murder investigation, split personality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, vancouver, canada
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41%
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Golden Boy (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Golden Boy is an American crime drama series created by Nicholas Wootton, which is produced by Berlanti Television and Warner Bros. Television. CBS placed a series order on May 13, 2012. The series ran on CBS from February 26 to May 14, 2013 and ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: police detective, talented, homicide detective, partners against crime, murder investigation, law enforcement, rise to the top, police, ambition, success, workplace, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Chicago Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows officers of the Chicago Police Department as they fight crime on the streets and try to expose political corruption within the city.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, tough law enforcer, corruption, politician, female police officer, police, law enforcement, fighting crime, political corruption, chief of police, partner, partners against crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Aspe (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: In each episode of this Flemish whodunit based on the books of Pieter Aspe, a serious crime - usually one or more murders in the author's home town Bruges - gets investigated by the grumpy but brilliant chief inspector Pieter Van In and his ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police investigation, police detective, fighting crime, partner, who done it, law enforcement, partners against crime, whodunit, unfaithfulness, murder investigation, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe, bruges
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Baretta (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. ...
Style: detective, retro, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: police detective, police, investigation, car chase, police officer, cop, agent, undercover, police protagonist, working undercover, police station, police investigation ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa
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40%
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Ironside (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Ironside is an upcoming American drama television series that is scheduled to premiere in the 2013–14 television season on NBC. It will air on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern/9 p.m. Central, after Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It is a ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, fighting crime, law enforcement, wheelchair bound, police, investigation, black cast, disabled, power relations, disability, tough law enforcer, urban ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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39%
New York Undercover (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: New York Undercover is an American police drama that aired on the Fox television network from 1994 to 1998. The series stars Malik Yoba as Detective J.C. Williams and Michael DeLorenzo as Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: police, law enforcement, police detective, gang, working undercover, criminal heroes, city life, society, black, violence, police officer, woman with a gun ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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R.I.S. Police scientifique (2006)
Genre: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: R.I.S, police scientifique is a French television series, created by Stéphane Kaminka in 2005, broadcast by TF1 since 2006. The R.I.S. in the title is an acronym for Recherches et Investigations Scientifiques, referring to the fictional police ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime investigation, police detective, fighting crime, police investigation, crime scene, law enforcement, society, forensic, forensic evidence, investigation, violent content, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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39%
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K-Ville (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: K-Ville is an American television drama created and executive produced by Jonathan Lisco, centering on policing New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Deran Sarafian directed the pilot. On May 15, 2008, the series was officially canceled.
Style: serious, rough, sincere, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: partner, unlikely partners, police investigation, law enforcement, demolished city, chief of police, partners against crime, against the rules, political corruption, police detective, fighting crime, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, louisiana
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38%
Public Morals (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the early 1960's in New York City's Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, moral dilemma, temptation, partner, law enforcement, partners against crime, gangster, investigation, mafia, nypd, post war, courtroom drama ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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High Incident (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: High Incident is a police drama series produced by DreamWorks Television for the ABC network. The show was created by Steven Spielberg, Michael Pavone, Eric Bogosian and Dave Alan Johnson. It first aired on March 4, 1996, running a total of 32 ...
Style: detective, rough, bleak, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: law enforcement, nypd, society, fighting crime, suburbs, suburban life, police officer, police, sergeant, female police officer
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
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38%
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Dark Blue (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dark Blue was an action/drama television series which premiered on TNT on July 15, 2009, at 10 pm. It ended its run on September 15, 2010. The series is set in Los Angeles, California. It revolves around Carter Shaw, the leader of an undercover ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover agent, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, fighting crime, right and wrong, team, workplace, police procedural, investigation, police, arrest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Life of Crime (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
TV show
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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38%
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 2K
Jo (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK
Duration: 366 min.
TV show
Story: Jo is an English-language French police procedural television series created by Canadian/USA screenwriter René Balcer of Law & Order fame with French writing team Franck Ollivier & Malina Detcheva, known for the mini-series Lost Signs. It ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Plot: police detective, police investigation, riddles and clues, fighting crime, law enforcement, murder, danger, investigation, nypd, murder mystery, criminal, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.3
 179
The Hat Squad (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Hat Squad is a crime drama television series that ran for only one season on CBS, during the 1992–1993 season. 13 episodes were made, but only 11 of them aired.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, detective
Plot: police investigation, police, adoption, family relations, vengeance, partners against crime, sibling relationship, chases and races, orphan, brother brother relationship, interracial adoption, avenge ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 118K
Justified (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 3400 min.
TV show
Story: A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, neo noir, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: u.s. marshal, fighting crime, officer, drug lord, lone wolves, justice, gunfight, shooting, white trash, small town, tough law enforcer, ex convict ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa
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100%
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Third Watch (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.
Style: medical drama, detective, action adventure, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: medical, firefighter, paramedic, police officer, police, nypd, rescue, law enforcement, die hard, police corruption, danger, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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100%
Law & Order  Los Angeles (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Law & Order: LA, originally titled Law & Order: Los Angeles, is an American police procedural and legal drama television series set in Los Angeles, where it was produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and developed by Blake Masters, it ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective ...
Plot: legal, investigation, murder, police investigation, legal action, district attorney, law enforcement, power relations, legal investigation, workplace, courtroom, partners against crime ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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37%
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Battle Creek (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: In this mismatched buddy cop dramedy, an amazingly handsome, happy-go-lucky FBI agent is paired with a local, hard scrabble Michigan homicide detective. As they solve crimes together, their polar opposite methods only slightly outweigh their disdain ...
Style: detective, realistic, cynical, witty, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, partners against crime, police partner, police station, murder investigation, police investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, female boss, initially antagonists, friendship, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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