Film Class: Crime Drama

1.

Pretty Little Liars

American television drama

Overview: Pretty Little Liars is an American teen drama mystery thriller television series developed by I. Marlene King. The series, loosely based on the novel series of the same name written by Sara Shepard, follows ...

Release date: 8 June 2010

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance

Director: Norman Buckley, Ron Lagomarsino

Cast: Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell, Sasha Pieterse, Ian Harding

Producer: I. Marlene King, Lisa Cochran-Neilan

Writer: I. Marlene King, Sara Shepard

Four friends band together against an anonymous foe who threatens to reveal their darkest secrets, while also investigating the disappearance of their ...

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Television shows filmed in Vancouver 375T

Television series about teenagers 1,022T

Television series about revenge 70T

2.

C.I.D.

Indian television crime series

Overview: CID is an Indian police procedural television series created by B. P. Singh for Sony Entertainment Television India. The series stars Shivaji Satam as ACP Pradyuman, Aditya Srivastava as Sr. Inspector ...

Genre: Crime, Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director: B.P. Singh, Christabelle D'Souza

Cast: Aditya Srivastav, Shivaji Satam, Dayanand Shetty, Dinesh Phadnis, Narendra Gupta, Shraddha Musale

Producer: B.P. Singh, Pradeep Uppoor

Writer: Tanmay Singh, Nitika Kanwar

The C.I.D investigate and catch killers.

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Indian action television series 40T

Sony Pictures Networks India franchises 1T

Sony franchises 13T

3.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

American police procedural crime drama television series

Overview: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often shortened to Law & Order: SVU or SVU) is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Dick Wolf for NBC. The first spin-off of Law & Order ...

Release date: 20 September 1999

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Jean de Segonzac, David Platt

Cast: Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Dann Florek, Richard Belzer, Christopher Meloni, Kelli Giddish

Producer: Peter Jankowski, Dick Wolf

Writer: Dick Wolf, Julie Martin

This show introduces the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the NYPD who investigate sexually related crimes.

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American English-language television shows 9,885T

NBC television dramas 467T

Television shows affected by the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike 86T

4.

Judge Judy

American reality court show

Overview: Judge Judy is an American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by former Manhattan family court Judge Judith Sheindlin. The show features Sheindlin adjudicating real-life small-claims disputes ...

Director: Randy Douthit, Jerry Kupcinet

Cast: Petri Hawkins Byrd, Judy Sheindlin, Jerry Bishop, Bea Arthur, Rhonda Shear, Roz Kelly

Producer: Peter Brennan, Lisa Lew

Writer: Sandi Spreckman, Kaye Switzer

Judge Judy Sheindlin, a former judge from New York, tackles actual, small claims cases with her no-nonsense...

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Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program winners 7T

2021 American television series endings 372T

2020s American legal television series 37T

5.

Revenge

2011 American drama television series

Overview: Revenge is an American drama television series created by Mike Kelley and starring Madeleine Stowe and Emily VanCamp, which debuted on September 21, 2011, on ABC. The plot is inspired by Alexandre Dumas' ...

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Kenneth Fink, J. Miller Tobin

Cast: Madeleine Stowe, Emily VanCamp, Gabriel Mann, Nick Wechsler, Josh Bowman, Christa B. Allen

Producer: Ted Babcock, Marty Bowen

Writer: Mike Kelley, Ted Sullivan

An emotionally troubled young woman makes it her mission to exact revenge against the people who wronged her father.

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Television shows based on The Count of Monte Cristo 15T

Television shows set in Long Island 7T

Psychological thriller television series 36T

6.

Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai

2010 film by Milan Luthria

Overview: Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language gangster film written by Rajat Arora and directed by Milan Luthria. It stars Ajay Devgan, Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Prachi Desai and Randeep ...

Release date: 30 July 2010

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Director: Milan Luthria

Cast: Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Prachi Desai, Randeep Hooda, Naved Aslam

Producer: Shivaji Dasgupta, Deepak Gawade

Writer: Rajat Arora, Bhrigu Brinda

As a smuggler rises to power in in 1970s Mumbai, a younger gangster seeks to overthrow him and a police officer is caught in the middle.

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2010 crime action films 19T

2010 crime thriller films 44T

2010 action thriller films 73T

7.

Castle

American police procedural comedy-drama television series (2009–2016)

Overview: Castle is an American crime-comedy-drama television series, which aired on ABC for a total of eight seasons from March 9, 2009, to May 16, 2016. The series was produced jointly by Beacon Pictures and ABC ...

Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Comedy, Romance

Director: Rob Bowman, John Terlesky

Cast: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Jon Huertas, Seamus Dever, Molly C. Quinn

Producer: Armyan Bernstein, Rob Bowman

Writer: Andrew W. Marlowe, Adam Frost

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor ...

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2000s American police comedy television series 9T

American detective television series 178T

2010s American police comedy television series 31T

8.

The Sopranos

American television series 1999–2007

Overview: The Sopranos is an American crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster, portraying the ...

Release date: 10 January 1999

Director: Timothy Van Patten, John Patterson

Cast: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Steven Van Zandt, Robert Iler, Tony Sirico

Producer: Martin Bruestle, David Chase

Writer: David Chase, Terence Winter

New Jersey mob boss, Tony Soprano, deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life.

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Existentialist television series 6T

Television series by Home Box Office 10T

Works about the American Mafia 21T

9.

Law & Order

American police procedural/legal drama television series

Overview: Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf and produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, launching the Law & Order franchise.

Release date: 13 September 1990

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Director: Constantine Makris, Edwin Sherin

Cast: Sam Waterston, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Steven Hill, Jesse L. Martin, Leslie Hendrix

Producer: Dick Wolf, Arthur W. Forney

Writer: Dick Wolf, Rene Balcer

Follows a crime, usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points, the police investigation and the prosecution in court.

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American English-language television shows 9,885T

NBC television dramas 467T

Television shows affected by the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike 86T

10.

Bones

American crime procedural comedy-drama television series

Overview: Bones is an American crime procedural comedy-drama television series created by Hart Hanson for Fox. It premiered on September 13, 2005, and concluded on March 28, 2017, airing for 246 episodes over twelve ...

Release date: 13 September 2005

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Comedy

Director: Ian Toynton, Dwight H. Little

Cast: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Tamara Taylor, John Francis Daley

Producer: Hart Hanson, David Jeffery

Writer: Hart Hanson, Kathy Reichs

Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan and cocky F.B.I. Special Agent Seeley Booth build a team to investigate murders. Quite ...

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Television series about the Federal Bureau of Investigation 39T

2000s American police procedural television series 58T

2010s American police procedural television series 82T

11.

The Godfather

1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Overview: The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same name. It is the first inst ...

Release date: 15 March 1972

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden

Producer: Gray Frederickson, Albert S. Ruddy

Writer: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son.

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ATU 300-399 9T

1970s English-language films 3,270T

Cultural depictions of the Mafia 81T

12.

Shottas

2002 Jamaican film

Overview: Shottas is a 2002 Jamaican crime film about two young men who participate in organized crime in Kingston and Miami. It stars Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Paul Campbell and Louie Rankin and was written ...

Release date: 27 February 2002

Genre: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Cess Silvera

Cast: Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Louie Rankin, Paul Campbell, Wyclef Jean, J.R. Silvera

Producer: Destiny Danny Campbell, Keith Deans

Writer: Cess Silvera

Wayne and Biggs grow up together on the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Eventually moving to Miami, they begin a ruthless climb to the ...

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Jamaican films about cannabis 2T

2000s buddy films 179T

Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films films 67T

13.

Scarface

1983 crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma

Overview: Scarface is a 1983 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone. The remake of the 1932 film, it tells the story of Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino), who arrives ...

Release date: 1 December 1983

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Brian De Palma

Cast: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Miriam Colon

Producer: Martin Bregman, Peter Saphier

Writer: Oliver Stone, Howard Hawks

In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

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1980s American films 3,361T

Films produced by Martin Bregman 27T

1980s English-language films 3,429T

14.

Paid in Full

2002 film directed by Charles Stone III

Overview: Paid in Full is a 2002 American crime drama film directed by Charles Stone III. It takes place in Harlem in the 1980s. The title of the film is taken from the 1987 album and 1987 song by Eric B. & Rakim ...

Genre: Drama, Action, Crime

Director: Charles Stone III

Cast: Wood Harris, Mekhi Phifer, Kevin Carroll, Esai Morales, Chi McBride, Cam'ron

Producer: Jesse Berdinka, Damon Dash

Writer: Azie Faison Jr., Austin Phillips

A young man from Harlem, forced to cope with the 1980s drug scene, builds an illegal empire, only to have a crisis of conscience.

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2000s American films 7,187T

2000s English-language films 10,182T

Films produced by Jay-Z 4T

15.

Original Sin

2001 romantic drama film by Michael Cristofer

Overview: Original Sin is a 2001 erotic thriller film starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. It is based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, and is a remake of the 1969 François Truffaut ...

Release date: 11 July 2001

Genre: Romance, Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Director: Michael Cristofer

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson, Gregory Itzin, Allison Mackie

Producer: Sheldon Abend, Ashok Amritraj

Writer: Cornell Woolrich, Michael Cristofer

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp ...

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2000s English-language films 4,356T

American erotic romance films 33T

American erotic drama films 110T

16.

Goodfellas

1990 crime film directed by Martin Scorsese

Overview: Goodfellas (stylized GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, who also wrote with Nicholas Pileggi, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is an film adaptation of ...

Release date: 12 September 1990

Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero

Producer: Barbara De Fina, Bruce S. Pustin

Writer: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito ...

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1990 crime films 4T

Cultural depictions of the Mafia 78T

Films about the American Mafia 93T

17.

Belly

1998 film directed by Hype Williams

Overview: Belly is a 1998 American crime drama film written and directed by music video director Hype Williams, in his film directing debut. Filmed in New York City, the film stars rappers DMX and Nas, alongside ...

Release date: 4 November 1998

Genre: Crime, Drama

Director: Hype Williams

Cast: DMX, Nas, Hassan Johnson, Taral Hicks, Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins, Oliver "Power" Grant

Producer: James Bigwood, Rj Harper

Writer: Anthony Bodden, Nas

Two young friends involved in organized crime and drug dealing find that their priorities differ.

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Films directed by Hype Williams 1T

1998 crime drama films 39T

1998 directorial debut films 133T

18.

Homeland

American political thriller television series

Overview: Homeland (stylized as HOMƎLAND) is an American espionage thriller television series developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa based on the Israeli series Prisoners of War (Original title Hebrew: חטופי ...

Director: Lesli Linka Glatter, Michael Cuesta

Cast: Matthew Rimmer, Alex Lanipekun, Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend, Maury Sterling

Producer: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon

Writer: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon

A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil ...

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American English-language television shows 9,718T

Television Academy Honors winners 85T

2020s American political television series 21T

19.

Tatort

Long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series

Overview: Tatort ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest- ...

Genre: Drama, Crime

Director: Hartmut Griesmayr, Hajo Gies

Cast: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl, Dietmar Bär, Ulrike Folkerts, Joe Bausch

Producer: Sonja Goslicki, Kerstin Ramcke

Writer: Peter Adam, Katharina Adler

A long running German cop show where detectives work to solve a crime.

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1970s German police procedural television series 11T

1980s German police procedural television series 13T

2020s German police procedural television series 24T

20.

Silk Stalkings

American crime drama television series (1991–1999)

Overview: Silk Stalkings is an American crime drama television series that premiered on CBS on November 7, 1991, as part of the network's late-night Crimetime After Primetime programming package. Broadcast for two ...