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Life on Mars (Series 1) (2006)
Life on Mars Season 1 part of TV Series: Life on Mars
Bharat Nalluri / John Alexander … actor: John Simm / Philip Glenister …
The first series of Life On Mars focuses on Sam's life following the crash and his arrival in 1973. Elements are thrown in to suggest he is mad, in a coma, or travelled back in time. Also during the first series run, Sam is informed that he is DI (Detective Inspector) to DCI Gene Hunt and the rest of the CID department in Manchester in 1973. This revelation is something that Sam finds hard to understand; he spends most of the series working alone, against his team and Gene.
Watched
Oct. 24, 2026
Rewatched in #LifeOnMarsTV watch party on Mastodon.
2000s UK Police Crime
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Magnum Force (1973)
Magnum Force
Ted Post actor: Clint Eastwood / Hal Holbrook …
other title: Una 44 Magnum per l'ispettore Callaghan / Dirty Harry går amok …
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.
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Dirty Harry (1971)
Dirty Harry
★ 7.0 7 ratings
Don Siegel actor: Clint Eastwood / Harry Guardino …
other title: Ispettore Callaghan: Il caso Scorpio è tuo!! / A Fúria da Razão …
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
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The Big Heat (1988)
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Andrew Kam / Johnnie To actor: Waise Lee Chi-Hung / Joey Wong Cho-Yin …
other title: Big Heat / 城巿特警
A cop is losing the control of his right hand and cannot pull the trigger on time anymore. Before any accident happens, he decides to resign. Meanwhile his friend and informer is brutally murdered in Malaysia. Before leaving the force, he decides to find the killers with the help of his buddy, a young cop and an inspector from Kuala Lumpur.
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Bullitt (1968)
Bullitt
Peter Yates actor: Steve McQueen / Robert Vaughn …
other title: 布利特 / 浑身是胆 …
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.
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PTU (2003)
PTU
★ 8.2 17 ratings
Johnnie To actor: Simon Yam / Maggie Shiu Mei-Kei …
other title: PTU - Police Tactical Unit
Follows a police tactical unit during one dangerous night on the streets of Hong Kong as they try to recover a cop's stolen gun. Things turn deadly when they run into a web of gangland crimes.
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Deep Cover (1992)
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Bill Duke actor: Larry / Jeff Goldblum …
other title: Massima copertura / Cobertura Total …
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.
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Hard Boiled (1992)
辣手神探
★ 7.8 13 ratings
John Woo actor: Chow Yun-Fat / Tony Leung Chiu-wai …
other title: Fervura Máxima / À toute épreuve …
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
Watched
April 18, 2026
Realism is overrated. Insane action all the way!

Rewatched for the umpteenth time a day after the 34th anniversary of its release (16 April 1992).
Police PhilipKwok PhilipChan Crime HongKong