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TV Thrillers

Collected here are the cops and robbers from our collective TV memory. So Peter Falk as the great 'Columbo' sits next to Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer in '24'. 'Kojak' shares shelf space with 'Cracker' and 'MacGyver' meets 'Reilly: Ace of Spies'.

The Turn of the Screw (1999)

6/10
Director: Ben Bolt
Starring: Colin Firth, Pam Ferris, Jodhi May, Joe Sowerbutts, Grace Robinson, Jason Salkey...

A naive, young governess (Jodhi May) is hired by a charming bachelor (Colin Firth) to look after his two young children in a grand mansion in rural En... Read more

The Unit: Season 1 (2006)

8.1/10
Director: Bill L Norton, David Mamet, Steve Gomer, etc
Starring: Dennis Haysbert, Regina Taylor, Robert Patrick, Audrey Marie Anderson, Max Marti...

A fictionalized and dramatic look inside a covert Special Forces team that operates outside the military chain of command. Conceived by David Mamet, a... Read more

The Untouchables: Season 1, Volume 1 (1959)

7.9/10
Starring: Robert Stack

Considered one of the best crime series of its time, the hit show starred Robert Stack as real-life Chicago gangbuster and prohibition agent Eliot Nes... Read more

The Untouchables: Season 1, Volume 2 (1959)

7.6/10
Starring: Robert Stack

Considered one of the best crime series of its time, the hit show starred Robert Stack as real-life Chicago gangbuster and prohibition agent Eliot Nes... Read more

The Vice: Series 1 and 2 (1999)

7.8/10
Director: Roger Gartland, David Thacker, Douglas Mackinnon, Matthew Evans, Philippa Langdale
Starring: Ken Stott, Caroline Catz, David Harewood, Marc Warren, Anna Chancellor

Detective Inspector Chappel heads up the Metropolitan Police Vice Squad to investigate crime in the London sex trade. Prostitution, elicit drugs and m... Read more

The Whistleblowers (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Richard Clark, John McKay
Starring: Richard Coyle, Indira Varma, Paul Freeman

Ben Graham and Alisha Cole are two lawyers are about to witness something that will take them into a world of few moral certainties. Read more

The Wire: Season 1 (2002)

9.3/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland, Daniel Attias, Ernest Dickerson, Peter Medak, Brad Anderson, Tim Van Patten
Starring: Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wood Harris

From Emmy-winning David Simon, this unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. To... Read more

The Wire: Season 2 (2003)

8.2/10
Starring: Idris Elba, Dominic West, Larry Gilliard Jr, Seth Gilliam, Sonja Sohn, Wood Harr...

From creator David Simon, this unvarnished, highly realistic series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. In the comp... Read more

The Wire: Season 3 (2004)

9.3/10
Starring: Idris Elba, Wood Harris, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Dominic West...

Everyone is feeling the heat in Baltimore. The drug war is losing campaign, bodies are piling up in the street and a desperate mayor demands to see so... Read more

The Wire: Season 4 (2006)

8.6/10
Starring: Dominic West, John Doman, Frankie Faison, Aidan Gillen, Deirdre Lovejoy, Clarke...

With the fall of the Barksdale empire, and the ascent of a new young drug king in Baltimore, McNutty, Bunk and the rest of the detail continue to "fol... Read more