If you don't mind subtitles or if you speak Italian, this one's not bad.
“ drug use, sex, and corruption, foreign and domestic.”
Wait are you sure this isn’t a documentary about the Biden’s?
😂
Ok, I’m game. What the hell were they?
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Big Dogs.
On prime. Alternate New York PD. opens with a short lecture on the fall of the Roman Empire.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6599010/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
“Violence, bad language, drug use, sex, and corruption, foreign and domestic.”
But enough about the Biden Administration.
“The Fury”
Czech subtitled.
Detective Kunes has a problem once again: he’s lambasted the boyfriend of his ex-wife, and is threatened with dismissal from the police service. His high-ranking (female) boss has a solution for him: “removing” him on an internships in a back-of-beyond borderland region
Humorous at times and pretty violent. Murders and corruption.
Line of Duty. English. Internal Affairs unit. Politics, fake policing, real policing, corruption, double and triple crossing, cleverness where you don’t expect it, likewise weakness, likewise sacrifice and integrity.
Dogs of Berlin - Netflix
For visiting different places, Trapped, in Iceland, and Reyka, in South Africa.
I guess I’m old school. Dragnet is good enough for me.
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Car 54
Police Squad
I am constantly searching for the lesser known, quality shows. I especially like foreign language films, because of the surprise factor. Not being able to figure plot twists. Face it, American films have a pattern, and it is predictable.
I saw a police movie made in Japan ca 1950 about a detective on a murder case. It was an unfiltered slice of Japanese life from that time that you just don’t see in the mainstream. I was a little surprised at how Western everyone dressed and acted. It was like watching an American crime flick from the same era, but with Japanese actors and English subtitles.
Wish I could remember the name.
True Detective on HBO on demand. Three seasons, all different casts snd story lines each season. Season one and three are better than season two but all are worth watching.
If you don't mind subtitles or if you speak Italian, this one's not bad.
The Bridge, Swedish/Danish version was very good. Better than the US/Mexican or British/French versions. There are a lot of good Scandinavian crime dramas. And some not so good ones.
“Violence, bad language, drug use, sex, and corruption”
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Oh, good. I was afraid there would be smoking.
City Homicide is an Aussie detective series. It ran 5 seasons. The 5th season was more of a mini-series.
It is not too dated.
On numerous streaming services.
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NYPD Blue ran several seasons.
Streaming on Hulu.
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The Romeo Section ran 2 seasons. It is a Canadian detective series.
Streaming on Amazon Prime.
I highly recommend these two:
1. Babylon Berlin - Set in 1920s-1930s Berlin, involves a young ‘shell shocked’ German veteran who is a Berlin homicide detective. He has to solve murder cases in the swirling violent politics of Monarchists-Rightists-Early Nazis-Socialists-Communists of Berlin and nihilist Cabaret culture of Berlin. He has his own crumbling personal life - PTSD & drug addiction from the war. Amidst all that he tries to maintain his honor and perform as a dedicated policeman. The show his real historic figures mingled in with the fictional characters. For example, one of his police superiors is the founder of serial killer profiling as a criminal forensic technique. In German with English subtitles, it’s so good you don’t care.
2. Nicolas La Floch - Set in Paris in the late 1700s. Monsieur La Floch is a police inspector in service to the King’s police. It’s set roughly at the end of the American Revolution but before the French Revolution. He has murders, international and court intrigue to deal with as well as trying to operate honestly in a crumbling corrupt royal court environment. It too has several real historic figures weaved in with storyline. His boss was the real superintendent of the royal police and escaped the revolution by fleeing to Spain. In French with English subtitles. It’s also so good you don’t care!
Neither of these are for the faint of heart. Both show the seamy underworld of 1920s Berlin and 1780s Paris and the violence particularly in the La Floch series of pre-modern police techniques.