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Series · 10 connectionsA spin off from the Austrian series Kommissar (Inspector) Rex. Rex the Police Dog moves from Vienna to Rome to continue his career.
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2012 · 100 min · Crime · Mystery
Interesting modern actualization made by Italian broadcasting service (RAI) of immortal, well-known characters created by the genial American novelist Rex Stout.
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1994 · 45 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery
After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.
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2012 · 120 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery
The young "Commisario" detective Salve Montalbano, based in a village, solves mysterious crimes in Sicilia.
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Weed smoking, foulmouthed Rocco Schiavone is an offbeat Deputy Commissioner of the State Police. For disciplinary reasons he is transferred to the Alpine town of Aosta, far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated but cranky Roman despises the mountains, the cold, and the provincial locals as much as he disdains his superiors and their petty rules. But he loves solving crimes.
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2005 · 90 min · Action & Adventure · Comedy · Crime · Drama
Follows police officer Francisco "Paco" Miranda and his men through funny cases.
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Inspector Dario Maltese travels from Rome to the city of his birth, Trapani in Sicily, to attend his best friend's wedding. But tragedy strikes and he finds himself pulled into a murder investigation.
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2006 · 100 min · Action & Adventure · Comedy · Crime
Coliandro is an inspector serving at the Bologna police headquarters who constantly finds himself embroiled, against his will, in matters bigger than himself. But Coliandro never backs down, even though his carelessness and investigative incompetence inevitably land him in trouble.
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2002 · 42 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery
The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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2000 · 45 min · Comedy · Crime
In this soft reboot of Tequila et Bonetti (1992), a tough Italian American cop arrives through an international police exchange program in Rome, Italy, where he is teamed up with his new partner, a sentient local police dog with a cool attitude.
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2015 · 75 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery
Valeria Ferro, an inspector of the Turin Homicide Squad, is a young and extremely skilled police officer, with a keen intuition and an obsession: the truth. But her past reveals a wound that dates back to her adolescence, when her mother, Lucia, was convicted of her husband's murder.
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