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Prime VideoPaatal Lok
2020– · Series · Hindi · 2 seasonsCrime · Drama · Thriller
A down-and-out cop lands the case of a lifetime when four suspects are nabbed in the assassination attempt of a journalist. The pursuit leads him to 'Paatal Lok' and to shocking discoveries in the four suspects' pasts.
Prime Video - #1493#1493
MAXPeacockHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · Movie · 2h 10mAction · Family · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on a quest to eliminate the remaining horcruxes. On the other hand, the students and teachers must unite to defend Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and his army.
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Prime VideoTouch of Evil
1958 · Movie · 1h 35mCrime · Drama
A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation h...
Prime Video - #1793#1793
Prime VideoShoplifters
2018 · Movie · Japanese · 2h 1mCrime · Drama · Thriller
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar exist...
Prime Video - #1992#1992
Prime VideoSapta Sagaradaache Ello - Side B
2023 · Movie · Kannada · 2h 28mAction · Drama · Romance
10 years later, Manu gets released from jail and starts to build his life again. However, the memories of Priya haunt him and he is forced to enter her life again. A new life with Surabhi and memories of Priya along with it form p...
Prime Video - #2092#2092
Prime VideoInvestigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970 · Movie · Italian · 1h 55mCrime · Drama
1 OscarA high-ranking police inspector murders his mistress and - in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion - deliberately plants clues that indicate his responsibility for the crime.
Prime Video - #2392#2392
NetflixPrime VideoThe Untamed
2019– · Series · Mandarin · 1 seasonAction · Drama
Two talented disciples from respected clans meet during their youth and form a close affinity, only to be separated by dire circumstances. Sixteen years later, can they unravel the tragedy of the past to solve the mysteries of the...
NetflixPrime Video - #3091#3091
Paramount+Prime VideoTerminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 · Movie · 2h 17mAction · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
4 OscarsA cyborg from the future, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten-year-old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Paramount+Prime Video - #3191#3191
Prime VideoThe General
1926 · Movie · 1h 18mAction · Comedy
After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through ene...
Prime Video - #3790#3790
PeacockPrime VideoPerson of Interest
2011–2016 · Series · 5 seasonsAction · Crime · Drama
An off-the-grid and presumed-dead former CIA agent, John Reese, is hired by a mysterious tech billionaire software genius, Harold Finch, to prevent violent crimes before they happen in New York City via an advanced surveillance so...
PeacockPrime Video - #3890#3890
MAXPrime VideoThe 39 Steps
1935 · Movie · 1h 26mCrime · Mystery · Thriller
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
MAXPrime Video - #3990#3990
NetflixPrime VideoStargate SG-1
1997–2007 · Series · 10 seasonsAction · Drama
Set after the events of the Stargate (1994) movie, the series follows SG-1, one of many secret military teams of soldiers and scientists who travel through a gateway to other planets and fight against dangerous aliens to protect e...
NetflixPrime Video - #4789#4789
Prime VideoThe Bridge
2011–2018 · Series · Swedish · 4 seasonsCrime · Mystery · Thriller
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
Prime Video - #4889#4889
MAXPeacockHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Movie · 2h 22mAction · Family · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard.
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Prime VideoVendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu
2022 · Movie · Tamil · 2h 57mAction · Crime · Drama
Muthu, a low caste youngster, goes to the streets of Mumbai for a living. His quest takes him to a series of unexpected events, where he gets involved in the underground activities of Mumbai's Tamil gangsters. Will he get to the top?
Prime Video - #6089#6089
Prime VideoBallard
2025– · Series · 1 seasonCrime · Drama
Detective Renée Ballard plunges into a web of murder and corruption as she hunts a ruthless serial killer and uncovers a sinister police conspiracy that threatens everything she stands for. With her own demons nipping at her heels, Ballard must outwit both criminals and colleagues to bring long-overdue justice to the victims and their families.
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Prime VideoA Taxi Driver
2017 · Movie · Korean · 2h 17mAction · Drama · History
A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.
Prime Video - #7288#7288
Prime VideoJohn Wick: Chapter 4
2023 · Movie · 2h 49mAction · Crime · Thriller
John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Prime Video - #8288#8288
Prime VideoBirds of Passage
2018 · Movie · Spanish · 2h 5mCrime · Drama
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their cul...
Prime Video - #8487#8487
Prime VideoAnd Then There Were None
1945 · Movie · 1h 37mCrime · Drama · Mystery
Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too l...
Prime Video - #8987#8987
Prime VideoSweet Country
2018 · Movie · 1h 53mAction · Crime · Drama
Western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
Prime Video - #9287#9287
Prime VideoThe Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
1991–1993 · Series · 3 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the mysteries of the Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Thor Bridge, Shoscombe Old Place, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Illustrious Client and The Creeping Man.
Prime Video - #9587#9587
Prime VideoThe Long Goodbye
1973 · Movie · 1h 52mCrime · Comedy · Drama
Private eye Philip Marlowe helps friend Terry Lennox out of a jam and is implicated in his wife Sylvia's murder. He also is hired by Eileen Wade to locate her dipsomaniac husband Roger, who frequently disappears when he wants to d...
Prime Video - #9987#9987
Prime VideoSarpatta Parambarai
2021 · Movie · Tamil · 2h 53mAction · Documentary · Drama
When Sarpatta Parambarai is challenged to a do-or-die match, will Kabilan, a young labourer, put on the gloves himself and lead his clan to victory, or be dissuaded by his disapproving mother and dangerous politics?
Prime Video - #10587#10587
Apple TV+Paramount+Prime VideoMinority Report
2002 · Movie · 2h 25mAction · Crime · Mystery
John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.
Apple TV+Paramount+Prime Video - #11087#11087
PeacockPrime VideoChicago P.D.
2014– · Series · 13 seasonsAction · Crime · Drama
Follows the lives of the personnel of the fictional 21st District, which houses both uniformed officers and the department's elite Intelligence Unit as they fight every day to keep the city of Chicago, Illinois safe.
PeacockPrime Video - #11187#11187
Prime VideoChandu Champion
2024 · Movie · Hindi · 2h 22mAction · Biography · Drama
9 bullet wounds (one still in the body), three different sports and an unshakable determination to fulfill the dream of an Olympic Gold later, Muralikant Petkar, India's first Paralympian to finish at the top of the podium, got the recognition by his own country 45 years after he achieved what no athlete from his country could.
Prime Video - #11486#11486
PeacockThe Day of the Jackal
2024– · Series · 2 seasonsAction · Crime · Drama
The Jackal is an elusive assassin who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. He soon meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who tracks him down in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe.
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Prime VideoKhartoum
1966 · Movie · 2h 8mAction · Drama
In the Sudan, in 1884 to 1885, Egyptian forces led by British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim Army led by a religious fanatic, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Oli...
Prime Video - #11786#11786
Prime VideoAsh Is Purest White
2018 · Movie · Mandarin · 2h 16mCrime · Drama · Romance
In an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.
Prime Video - #12186#12186
Prime VideoTell No One
2006 · Movie · French · 2h 11mCrime · Drama · Mystery
An accidental discovery near a doctor's estate stirs up some painful memories eight years after his wife's hideous murder, and now, things are bound to take a turn for the unexpected. Does the good doctor know more than he's letti...
Prime Video - #12386#12386
Paramount+Prime VideoLongmire
2012–2017 · Series · 6 seasonsCrime · Action · Drama
Walt Longmire is the dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Widowed only a year, he is a man in psychic repair but buries his pain behind his brave face, unassuming grin and dry wit.
Paramount+Prime Video - #12486#12486
Prime VideoThe Iron Mask
1929 · Movie · 1h 45mAction · Drama · History
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled when his son is born--an heir to the throne. But his Queen has actually delivered twin boys. Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain...
Prime Video - #12786#12786
Prime VideoThe Roundup
2022 · Movie · Korean · 1h 46mAction · Crime · Thriller
Followed by Ma Seok-do, who heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect. However, he discovers additional murder cases and learns about a killer who had committed crimes against tourists for many years.
Prime Video - #12986#12986
PeacockChicago Fire
2012– · Series · 14 seasonsAction · Drama
Follows both the professional and personal lives of the firefighters, rescue personnel, and paramedics of the Chicago Fire Department at the fictional Firehouse 51 as they risk their lives to save and protect the city of Chicago, ...
Peacock - #13685#13685
HuluPrime VideoThe Roundup: No Way Out
2023 · Movie · Korean · 1h 45mAction · Crime · Thriller
Seven years after the roundup in Vietnam, Ma Seok-do joins a new squad to investigate a murder case. He soon starts to dig deeper when he finds out the case involves a synthetic drug and a gang of thugs.
HuluPrime Video - #13885#13885
Prime VideoBullet in the Head
1990 · Movie · Cantonese · 2h 16mAction · Crime · Drama
When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
Prime Video - #13985#13985
Prime VideoWord of Honor
2021– · Series · Mandarin · 1 seasonAction · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Zhou Zi Shu gets embroiled in a conspiracy in the martial arts world. He meets Wen Ke Xing who leaves the Ghost Valley to avenge his parents' deaths. They become fast friends and embark on an adventure to find a legendary treasure.
Prime Video - #15185#15185
Prime VideoThe Sparring Partner
2022 · Movie · Cantonese · 2h 18mCrime · Drama
Based on a shocking case in real life, a young man partners with his friend to murder and dismember his parents. Pleading not guilty to the crime, defense attorneys face each other as nine jurors grapple with the truth.
Prime Video - #15285#15285
PeacockPrime VideoLife
2007–2009 · Series · 2 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
Detective Charlie Crews was framed, convicted and cleared for a crime he didn't commit. Twelve years of hard time have given him a unique philosophy on life and criminal investigation. Now he's readjusting to a world that's moved on.
PeacockPrime Video - #15685#15685
Prime VideoCut Off
2018 · Movie · German · 2h 12mAction · Crime · Horror
Thriller set in the world of Forensic Pathology. Medical examiner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.
Prime Video - #16085#16085
Prime VideoPonniyin Selvan: Part I
2022 · Movie · Tamil · 2h 47mAction · Drama
Vandiyathevan crosses the Chola land to deliver a message from the Crown Prince Aditha Karikalan, while Kundavai attempts to establish political peace as vassals and petty chieftains plot against the throne.
Prime Video - #16685#16685
Prime VideoRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
2009 · Movie · 1h 42mCrime · Drama · History
Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to find the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions.
Prime Video - #17785#17785
HuluPrime VideoElementary
2012–2019 · Series · 7 seasonsAction · Crime
A crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London, eccentric Sherlock escapes to New York where his father forces him to live with his worst nightmare--a sober companion, Dr....
HuluPrime Video - #17885#17885
Prime VideoBefore the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 · Movie · 1h 57mCrime · Drama · Thriller
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong triggering a series of events that send them, their father and the wife of one brother barreling toward a shattering climax.
Prime Video - #18385#18385
PeacockPrime VideoBlue Ruin
2014 · Movie · 1h 30mCrime · Drama · Thriller
A mysterious outsider's quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
PeacockPrime Video - #19184#19184
HuluParamount+Prime VideoCriminal Minds
2005– · Series · 18 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico helps police solve violent serial crimes using profiling. Team members analyze evidence and psychology to catch unknown subjects, but their demanding work affects personal lives.
HuluParamount+Prime Video - #19384#19384
Prime VideoBlack Robe
1991 · Movie · 1h 41mAction · Drama · War
In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.
Prime Video - #20784#20784
Prime VideoBuzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural
2016–2021 · Series · 7 seasonsAction · Comedy · Horror
Ryan, ever the believer, embarks on a quest to convince his skeptical friend Shane that the paranormal exists by investigating the evidence around the most notorious supernatural folklore.
Prime Video - #20884#20884
Prime VideoMarighella
2021 · Movie · Portuguese · 2h 35mAction · Drama · History
Facing a violent military dictatorship and an intimidated opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella articulates a resistance all the while ousting heinous crimes of torture and the infamous censorship instituted by th...
Prime Video - #20984#20984
Prime VideoThe Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
2018 · Movie · Korean · 2h 5mAction · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
When a bright high school student with memory loss enters a national talent show to help her struggling family, she finds her ordinary life flipped upside down by the sudden arrival of mysterious strangers seemingly connected to h...
Prime Video - #21484#21484
Prime VideoWire in the Blood
2002–2008 · Series · 6 seasonsCrime · Drama · Mystery
Dr Tony Hill, a clinical psychologist, helps Detective Inspectors Jordan and Fielding get to the bottom of inexplicable criminal cases and uses his 'dark side' to fathom serial killers and their victims.
Prime Video - #22483#22483
Apple TV+Masters of the Air
2024– · Series · 1 seasonAction · Drama · History
1 EmmyDuring World War II, five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, ten men inside an aluminum bomber known as a "Flying Fortress" battle antiaircraft fire and unrelenting flocks of German fighters.
Apple TV+ - #22583#22583
Prime VideoThe Legend of Baron To'a
2020 · Movie · 1h 43mAction · Comedy
Fritz, a young Tongan man grappling with his wrestling superstar father Baron To'a's legacy, both metaphorically and literally following in his deceased father's footsteps by fighting for the return of his dad's stolen championshi...
Prime Video - #22683#22683
Prime VideoThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 · Movie · Swedish · 2h 32mCrime · Drama · Mystery
Influential industrialist Vanger's niece Harriet disappeared under mysterious circumstances 40 years ago. As a last attempt at solving the case, he hires investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
Prime Video - #22783#22783
Prime VideoCangaço Novo
2023– · Series · Portuguese · 1 seasonAction · Crime · Drama
Adrift and desperately needing money to pay for his ailing adoptive father's care, Ubaldo, a bank clerk who's unable to remember his childhood, receives an inheritance that will change his destiny for good. He goes to Cratará, in the heart of the northwest desert, where he'll become the leader of a pack of ruthless bandits, fulfilling the legacy of his biological father - a mythical cangaceiro.
Prime Video - #22983#22983
Prime VideoThe 36th Chamber of Shaolin
1978 · Movie · Mandarin · 1h 56mAction · Drama
A school student who conspires with his teacher and others to overthrow the Qing Dynasty sees his family slaughtered at the hands of his enemies. He joins the Shaolin Temple and rigorously studies martial arts to avenge his belove...
Prime Video - #23383#23383
Prime VideoLethal Weapon
2016–2019 · Series · 3 seasonsAction · Comedy
A slightly unhinged ex-Navy SEAL Martin Riggs moves to California and starts working at the LAPD. He is paired with a veteran Detective Roger Murtaugh and together, they fight some of the most dangerous criminals in the city.
Prime Video - #24583#24583
Prime VideoThe Legend
1993 · Movie · Cantonese · 1h 46mAction · Comedy · History
Martial artists join Red Lotus Flower Society to overthrow evil emperor. Governor hunts society members. Kung fu practitioner falls for merchant's daughter amid kung fu contest for her hand. Gender role reversal comedy ensues.
Prime Video - #24783#24783
PeacockIp Man
2008 · Movie · Cantonese · 1h 46mAction · Biography · Drama
A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Wilson Yip, the film stars Donnie Yen in the lead role, and features fight choreography by Sammo Hung.
Peacock - #25583#25583
Prime VideoDouluo Continent
2021– · Series · MandarinAction · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Having lost his mother at a very young age, Tang San grew up relying on his father just as much as his father relied upon him. Meticulous and mature for his age, with extraordinary talent and wit, he was sent to Ruoding Academy.
Prime Video - #26183#26183
Prime VideoBeasts Clawing at Straws
2020 · Movie · Korean · 1h 48mCrime · Drama · Mystery
A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.
Prime Video - #26683#26683
PeacockThe Guest
2014 · Movie · 1h 40mAction · Mystery · Thriller
A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.
Peacock - #27083#27083
NetflixPrime VideoTeen Wolf
2011–2017 · Series · 6 seasonsAction · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
An average high school student and his best friend get caught up in some trouble causing him to receive a werewolf bite. As a result they find themselves in the middle of all sorts of dramas in Beacon Hills.
NetflixPrime Video - #28582#28582
Prime VideoOdds Against Tomorrow
1959 · Movie · 1h 36mCrime · Drama · Thriller
In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.
Prime Video - #29582#29582
Prime VideoThe Long Season
2023– · Series · Mandarin · 1 seasonCrime · Drama · Family
Wang Xiang meets a person he fears in Hualin. A mystery involving a lost father, deceased lover, and old friend spans 20 years. Characters search for truth across time and space. When mystery is solved, fate remains.
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