Movies and TV shows like Adam-12
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Adam-12 (1968)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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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 Webb, who is known for creating Dragnet, the series captured a typical day in the life of a police officer as realistically as possible. The show ran from September 21, 1968 through May 20, 1975, and helped introduce police procedures and jargon to the general public in the United States of America.
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, stylized, detective, captivating, vintage
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, police protagonist, lapd, police officer, car, law enforcement, workplace intrigue, police investigation, tough law enforcer, drug dealing, working undercover, fighting crime, police detective, partners against crime, price of justice, affair, sergeant, squad, car chase, love affair, police procedural, cop, die hard, legal action, police corruption ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, 1960s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Most similar movies to Adam-12
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, realistic, serious and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about police, law enforcement, police officer, fighting crime, police detective, police investigation and partner mostly in Crime, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Adam-12: Dragnet (1967), Southland (2009), Hawaii Five-O (1968), The Rookie (2018), The Bill (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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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.
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detective, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
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police, police detective, police officer, cop, drug abuse, lapd, car chase, woman with a gun, team, criminal heroes, fighting crime, police investigation ...
Time:
future, 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Since premiering in 2009, Southland has redefined the police drama with its raw, authentic look at the lives and work of Los Angeles detectives and beat cops. The show centers on four main characters: Officer John Cooper (Cudlitz), a seasoned cop ...
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captivating, detective, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, southern california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant ...
Style:
captivating, tense, stylized, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, police protagonist, law enforcement, fighting crime, partners against crime, multiple suspects, workplace, investigation, police officer, honor, suspect, cop ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Starting over isn’t easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force’s oldest rookie, he’s met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, crime drama, serious ...
Plot:
lapd, police officer, police, male protagonist, police station, crime investigation, daring rescue, life risking, race against time, terrorism, forced into action, criminality ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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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, police investigation, inspector, fighting crime, partner, investigation, law enforcement, police station, society, workplace situations, police, british police ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, east end london
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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The New Adam-12 is a syndicated revival of the 1968–1975 series of the same name. Like the original, this program focused on the daily jobs and lives of two police officers whose patrol car is designated "Adam-12". This time, the ...
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detective, serious, sincere, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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21 Jump Street is an American police procedural crime drama television series that aired on the Fox Network and in first run syndication from April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991, with a total of 103 episodes. The series focuses on a squad of ...
Style:
captivating, serious, detective, light, sitcom ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
youth, police, undercover, teenage life, hidden identity, undercover agent, society, youth gang, teenager, police officer, high school, team ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith methodically investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, detective
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police investigation, police detective, partners against crime, fighting crime, society, law enforcement, police, die hard, nypd, car chase, investigation, crime investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Dominick Delvecchio is an integrity-minded, honest police detective who works out of the Washington Heights division of the Los Angeles Police Department. When not screeching tires, rousting bad guys and trading quips with his burly partner Paul ...
Style:
detective, realistic, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful
Plot:
police station, society, law enforcement, fighting crime, partner, police detective, defense attorney, squad, idealist, police procedural, police protagonist, sergeant ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence ...
Style:
retro, detective, telenovela, vintage
Plot:
police, investigation, hippie, woman with a gun, cop, die hard, female police officer, counterculture, teenage girl, african american, teenager, teenage boy ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
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Police Squad! is a television comedy series first broadcast in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's usual ...
Style:
parody, spoof, sitcom, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
private detective, satire, police, absurd humor, partners against crime, police officer, deadpan, woman with a gun, stoner, weirdo, humour, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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."
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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, california, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California city. A spin-off of The Rookies, the series aired on ABC from February 1975 to April 1976.
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Style:
realistic, stylized, rough, serious, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
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swat, police protagonist, law enforcement, police investigation, fighting crime, danger, tough law enforcer, workplace, workplace situations, police officer, vietnam veteran, teamwork ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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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Plot:
police, law enforcement, cop, police protagonist, partner, fighting crime, workplace, police detective, partners against crime, workplace situations, police officer, urban ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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. ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, new york state
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.
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detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
police detective, cop, police, legal, team, women, police officer, die hard, punishment, parents, villain, woman with a gun ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, murder, workplace, society, workplace situations, partner, police station, nypd, cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Starsky & Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series, which consisted of a 70-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 50 minutes each. The show was created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, semi serious, rough, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
police detective, car chase, undercover, partners against crime, police protagonist, police investigation, buddies, law enforcement, unlikely partners, society, working undercover, cop ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, southern california, california
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
police, die hard, legal, nypd, police officer, partner, police detective, tough heroes, police investigation, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, partners against crime ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Gloria Sheppard is an intuitive LAPD homicide detective who juggles her demanding personal and professional lives while raising two sons with the help of her troubled younger brother, Davey.
Style:
sincere, captivating, detective, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
police detective, single mother, lapd, relationship vs career, law enforcement, family relations, motherhood, investigation, friendship, rivalry, homicide detective, police procedural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
Style:
retro, detective, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
cop, investigation, police officer, women, woman with a gun, car chase, lapd, undercover, undercover agent, partner, tough law enforcer, partners against crime ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by MGM Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to July 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol. The series ran ...
Style:
detective, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
highway patrol, motorcycle, affair, police officer, car chase, law enforcement, bike, racing, police protagonist, truck, stuntman, woman with a gun ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, southern california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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, disturbing ...
Plot:
rookie, police, fighting crime, state trooper, partner, law enforcement, police officer, streetwise, partners against crime, supportive coworker, ex athlete, honest law enforcer ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Style:
detective, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
kids
Plot:
police, british police, cop, city, police investigation, law enforcement, realism, fighting crime, partners against crime, partner, pig, fictional city ...
Time:
20th century, future, 60s, 70s, 80s
Place:
england, united kingdom
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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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, tense, detective, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
police, law enforcement, coworker, determination, police detective, homicide detective, murder, murder investigation, suspicion, police investigation, father daughter relationship, danger ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, south america
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
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Crime Story is an American TV drama, created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson, that premiered in 1986 and ran for two seasons on NBC. The executive producer was Michael Mann, who had left his other series Miami Vice to oversee Crime Story and ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
police detective, gangster, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, tough heroes, mafia, mobster, danger, cop, escapades, betrayal, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1963
Place:
chicago, usa, las vegas, illinois
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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T. J. Hooker is an American police drama television program starring William Shatner in the title role as a 15-year veteran police sergeant. The series premiered as a mid-season replacement on March 13, 1982, on ABC and ran on the network until May ...
Style:
detective, exciting, realistic, serious, witty ...
Plot:
police, police officer, investigation, car chase, female warrior, rookie, pretty girl, agent, die hard, intelligence agency, woman with a gun, police investigation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
police, who done it, investigation, danger, fighting crime, police investigation, rivalry, law enforcement, honest law enforcer, murder investigation, police detective, cop ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded ...
Style:
realistic, tense, detective, serious, talky ...
Plot:
police detective, police, police station, homicide detective, murder, justice, cop, police protagonist, team, police investigation, fighting crime, workplace ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
baltimore, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
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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, female police officer, politician, police, law enforcement, fighting crime, political corruption, chief of police, partner, partners against crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
Similarity:
24%
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