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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'.

Detective Montalbano (Episodes 16-18) (1999)

7.6/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta

Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. Filmed in the ancient, sun-washed Sicilian c... Read more

Detective Montalbano (Episodes 19-20) (1999)

7.6/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta

Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. Filmed in the ancient, sun-washed Sicilian c... Read more

New Worlds (2014)

6.2/10
Director: Charles Martin
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Jeremy Northam, Michael Maloney, Freya Mavor, Alice Englert

The 1680s bring a new King, Restoration, and more tyranny. In Massachusetts, a robber's son falls for an anti-monarchist. In England, a young lady fal... Read more

Hidden (BBC) (2018)

6.4/10
Director: Andy Newbery, Eric Styles

Detective Inspector Cadi John (Sian Reese-Williams) returns to North Wales to care for her ailing father, but when a young woman's body is found in a... Read more

Cagney and Lacey: Season 1 (1982)

Starring: Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, John Karlen, Philip Baker Hall, Lance Henriksen, Grace...

Here was something entirely new: a cop show featuring two strong and intelligent female detectives in a male-dominated workforce. Credited as a ground... Read more

Justified: Season 6 ( The Final Season ) (2015)

6.7/10
Starring: Joelle Carter, Walton Goggins, Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jacob Pitts, Erica...

Each episode of the edge-of-your seat final season propels U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) and criminal mastermind Boyd Crowder (Walton... Read more

Damages: Season 1 (Blu-ray) (2007)

8.1/10
Starring: Rose Byrne, Glenn Close, Ted Danson, Peter Facinelli, Philip Bosco, Tate Donovan

Steering clear of courtroom cliches this series follows one case and the people involved, with a film noir-like menace and story. Young lawyer Rose By... Read more

V: Season 2 (Blu-ray) (2010)

6/10
Starring: Scott Wolf, Elizabeth Mitchell, Joel Gretsch, Morris Chestnut, Morena Baccarin,...

They seem almost godlike among us. They are the alien Visitors who, led by mysterious queen Anna, base their operations out of 29 motherships hovering... Read more

The Fugitive: Season 1 (1963)

7.6/10
Starring: Barry Morse, David Janssen

This hugely popular, original hit TV series stars David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, a physician unjustly accused of murdering his wife. When his tr... 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