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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'.

Prime Suspect 1 / Prime Suspect 2 (1991)

Director: Christopher Menaul, John Strickland
Starring: Helen Mirren

"Prime Suspect 1" (1991) - D.C.I Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren), a skilled, top-class detective, battles to prove herself in a male dominated environmen... Read more

Prime Suspect 7 - The Final Act (2006)

8.4/10
Director: Philip Martin, Charles Beeson, Vernon Antcliff
Starring: Helen Mirren, Stephen Tompkinson, Frank Finlay, Robert Pugh, Brendan Coyle

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Wallander 4: The Final Chapter (2016)

Director: Ben Caron, Jonathan Van Tulleken
Starring: Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Kenneth Branagh, Richard McCabe, Jeany Spark

All three feature-length episodes from the third series of the BBC crime drama starring Kenneth Branagh as the Swedish detective. Inspector Kurt Walla... Read more

Mammon: Season 1 (2014)

6.7/10
Starring: Dennis Storhoi, Jon Oigarden, Terje Stromdahl, Ingjerd Egeberg, Alexander Tunby...

A newspaper journalist revealing fraud in a large multinational company, finds his family involved, ruining his career, family relations, and entangle... Read more

Top of the Lake (2013)

7.6/10
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: David Wenham, Genevieve Lemon, Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, Robyn Malcolm, Elisab...

12-years-old and 5 months pregnant, Tui Mitcham walks into a freezing New Zealand lake... then disappears. Detective Robin Griffin returns home to inv... Read more

Fortitude: Season 1 (2014)

7.4/10
Starring: Richard Dormer, Veronica Echegui, Michael Gambon, Sofie Grabol, Bjorn Hlynur Har...

In the placid international Arctic community of Fortitude, a murder has been committed. As London's Detective Chief Inspector Eugene Morton (Stanley T... Read more

Sherlock: Series 2 (2011)

7.5/10
Starring: Una Stubbs, Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch

In "A Scandal In Belgravia", Sherlock gets embroiled in the complex plans of the dangerous and desirable Irene Adler and finds himself employing every... Read more

Taggart: Volume 1 (1983)

7.2/10
Starring: Harriet Buchan, Neil Duncan, Mark McManus, Robert Robertson

First broadcast in 1983 under the title 'Killer', this paved the way for a generation of detective series and became 'Taggart' in 1985. This hugely po... Read more

Prime Suspect 5 / Prime Suspect 6 (2003)

Director: Philip Davis, Tom Hooper
Starring: Helen Mirren, Steven Mackintosh, David O'Hara, Ben Miles, Robert Pugh, Frank Fin...

"Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement" (1996) - D.C.I. Tennison, sent to Manchester, investigates a murder in which a drug runner was shot dead. She s... Read more

Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Inspector Wexford Collection (1996)

6.8/10
Starring: Sadie Frost, George Baker, Diane Keen, Christopher Ravenscroft, Russell Mabey

Based on international best selling author Ruth Rendell's riveting novels, 'The Inspector Wexford Collection' is full of drama, deceit and intrigue. T... Read more