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Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. 7.1. Rate. A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals money from the office of a shady lawyer--with catastrophic consequences. Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly.
Apr 4, 2022 · Even in movies with police as the primary characters, such as Welles’s Touch of Evil (1958) and Joseph H. Lewis’s The Big Combo (1955), law enforcement is portrayed as simply a different type of gangster. 1953’s The Big Heat, directed by Lang and starring Glenn Ford as Detective Dave Banion, offers perhaps the most sympathetic depiction of a police officer in a film noir.
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- Honorable Mention: Acquitted
- Department Q
- Case
- Bordertown
- Trapped
- The Bridge
- The Killing
- Wallander
Where to watch:Channel 4, Walter Presents Despite being home to Jo Nesbø and his dry-heaving disaster of a gumshoe Harry Hole, Norway is perhaps the least prolific of the Scandinavian nations when it comes to classic procedurals, favoring international political intrigue over small-town sociopaths. Acquitted is a notable exception to the rule.A Nor...
Where to watch:Netflix Department Qis an expertly-rendered series of Danish movie mysteries produced by Lars Von Trier’s company Zentropa. Central to the movies’ appeal is their X-Files-like framing, involving two guys who are relegated to a basement office and forced to resurrect cobweb-covered cold cases. The series hangs its haton the charmingly...
Where to watch:Netflix In Case—perhaps the bleakest Nordic series currently available on your Netflix app—the action stems from the death of a teenager, as it so often does in these series. (Shades of Twin Peaks‘ Laura Palmer, as usual.) The loss elicits drastic reactions from the show’s haggard-looking ensemble cast, populated by corrupt ballet in...
Where to watch:Netflix Bordertownis an unexpected diamond in the rough in the sea of internationally-sourced crime dramas branded as Netflix originals, which usually tend to satisfy but never surprise. Part of the show’s unique pull is endemic to Finland’s harsh language and landscape, but its attention to character building is where its greatest p...
Where to watch:Amazon Prime Trappedis the snowiest series in the bunch—an Icelandic show where an avalanche is one of the plot’s central catalysts. People are stranded in little pockets less than a mile away from each other in a small town, leaving everyone vulnerable to attack. On-foot chase scenes take an eternity in the massive drifts. The weath...
Where to watch:Hulu The Danish-Swedish version of The Bridge(like The Killing, it was also made into an inferior show for U.S. cable television) is primarily the tale of a dynamic and improbable police partnership. Personal tribulations affect the police work of both Martin Rohde (Kim Bodnia) and Saga Noren (Sofia Helin) throughout the show’s first...
Where to watch:DVD Like the ITV hit Broadchurch, Season 1 of the original Danish version of The Killingabout families, first and foremost. It’s perhaps the best of the major-league Scandi noir shows at dealing with the subject, thanks to its moving, multidimensional rendering of the grieving Larsen family. The first season of Søren Sveistrup’s lege...
Where to watch:Season 1 and 3 (Hulu), Season 2 (Amazon Video) The late Henning Mankell was among the most tasteful, inventive, and widely adapted of the Scandinavian crime writers. He was prolific even just with his book series focusing on suburban Swedish police detective Kurt Wallander, but his additional concepts for the ensuing TV series made h...
Sep 26, 2018 · September 26, 2018 By Bruce Riordan. Since 1968, when Bullitt first shot into theaters turning Steve McQueen and his Ford Mustang Fastback into global icons, the “police procedural” has been a staple of crime stories on screens big and small. Bullitt ’s smashing success, both commercially and artistically, ushered in the first “Golden ...
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- Mystery Road. Aboriginal detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) has been brought to a small western Australian town to help out the local police chief, Emma James (Judy Davis), after two farmhands at a cattle station go missing.
- Deadloch (Australia) This highly enjoyable black comedy from Down Under is set in a slightly backwards little town in Tasmania, which happens to have a somewhat newly arrived community of lesbians who often find themselves at odds with the rest of the town.
- Criminal (U.K., France, Spain, Germany) Netflix made this innovative show: an anthology series that had three episodes set in a police station in four different countries.
- Cardinal (Canada) Reserved police detective John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) is used to working alone in the small town of Algonquin Bay, so his newly arrived partner, Lise Delorme (Karine Vanasse) has her work cut out for her.
Police procedurals are a genre of film and TV that delve into the intricate details of law enforcement methods and crime-solving techniques. They focus on the step-by-step process that detectives and police officers follow to solve crimes, often highlighting realistic aspects of police work. This genre is characterized by its attention to ...
Jan 14, 2024 · The icy backdrop to these crime procedurals is usually combined with genre plot staples like a small-town cop fleeing his or her past in the closest Big City or local notables plotting to enrich ...
