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Četnické humoresky (2001 - 2007)

7.8 /10

Crime series about a police station in the city of Brno, in the period of the pre-war First Czechoslovak Republic. The stories are based on real case files from that era.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 15` . Year(s): 2001 - 2007

Director: Pavlína Moskalyková , Antonín Moskalyk

Stars: Tomáš Töpfer , Ivan Trojan , Zdeněk Junák , Jan Grygar , Jiří Datel Novotný , František Švihlík

Thirty Cases of Major Zema (1976 - 1980)

6 /10

Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 14` . Year(s): 1976 - 1980

Director: Helena Rohanová , Jiří Sequens , Jiří Mikeťuk

Producer: Jiří Radil , Petr Čapek , Josef Císař

Stars: Jiří Zahajský , Petr Kostka , Bohumil Koška , Květa Fialová , Václav Bouška , Otakar Rademacher

The Prague Mysteries (2021)

6.7 /10

The Inspector Hynek Budik as been assigned chief of police in the area on the outskirts of Prague, With detectives Martin Novacek an inexperienced rookie and the inspector Havlik will seek to solve difficult cases of murder.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 6` . Year(s): 2021

Director: Jiří Kačírek Jr. , Fanda Loukota , Jaroslav Brabec

Producer: Romana Špiková , Jakub Svoboda , Ilona Jirásková

Stars: Jaroslav Plesl , Jiří Langmajer , Denis Šafařík , Lenka Vlasáková , Darija Pavlovičová , Lucie Žáčková

Rapl (2016 - 2019)

7.4 /10

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. But there's a fly in the ointment. His real mission is to unravel the two-year old case of the murder of policewoman Wágnerová, the investigation of which has reached an impasse. But the crime rate in the borderlands is one of the highest in the whole country - involving smuggling, drug production, poaching, prostitution and murders. Kunes has to deal with one difficult case after another, and it takes quite some time before he can start doing what he's sent to do, and then he does it in fact by coincidence.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . Year(s): 2016 - 2019

Director: Jan Pachl

Producer: Jakub Bílý , Vladimír Kořínek

Stars: Hynek Čermák , Lucie Žáčková , Alexej Pyško , Jan Dolanský , Lukáš Příkazký , Tomáš Jeřábek

Territory of the White Kings (1991)

6 /10

The story centers around a group of children, led by Leontinka and Olda. Father of Leontinka manages the local Deer Park with an invaluable breed of white deer. A series of mysterious events unfolds, threatening the deer. Leontinka and Olda, who is in turn a son of a local police officer, search for the villain.

Average Episode Run Time: 51` . Year(s): 1991

Director: Pavel Klein , Petr Skácel , Ludvík Ráža

Producer: Zdeněk Polák

Stars: Lukáš Jenčík , Robert Ježek , Blažej Svoboda , Marek Škobis , Adéla Stodolová , Petr Čech

Labyrinth (2015 - 2018)

7.3 /10

Finding the body of the regional politician Karas, killed in the spirit of medieval torture and carefully arranged in a strange scene, unleash police hunt for a sadistic perpetrator. He puts investigation team in the way of a complex series of murders that shake the local region and criminologists themselves.

Average Episode Run Time: 58` . Year(s): 2015 - 2018

Director: Jiří Strach , Petr Hudský

Stars: Miroslav Donutil , Jiří Langmajer , Lenka Vlasáková , Denisa Nesvačilová , Michal Dalecký , Pavel Řezníček

Modré stíny (2016)

7.4 /10

This time the detectives deal with the case of a murdered professor. One day a cleaning woman finds him shot to death in his own study. The detectives will thus investigate whether the murder is connected with the victim's persistent effort for the removal of the University's quaestor because of the latter's strange machinations during the reconstruction of the University building. And they'll also want to know why the murderer took the great risk involved in killing the victim on the university soil. The search for the answer to the question who could wish the death of the peculiar but honest professor will take them farther than they have expected.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 10` . Year(s): 2016

Director: Viktor Tauš

Producer: Ilona Jirásková , Ivana Jaroschy

Stars: Stanislav Majer , Martin Pechlát , Klára Melíšková , Andrei Toader , David Novotný , Dana Novák Pešková

Methanol (2018)

7.5 /10

One shot – you get blind. Two shots – you die. It waits for you in tobacconist, in gift bag from your friend, at wedding… Do you know, what are you drinking? Case that connected police, courts, journalists and politicians. Real story, that can repeat anytime again. In the end of summer 2012, Czech republic was shocked by incidents, that public, detectives or attorneys don't remember. Alcohol made of mix of ethanol and deadly toxic methanol killed at least 38 people and harmed at least 80 in few weeks.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 30` . Year(s): 2018

Director: Tereza Kopáčová-Vrabelová

Stars: Veronika Freimanová , Lukáš Vaculík , Vladimír Kratina , Dušan Sitek , David Máj , Kristýna Podzimková

Zrádci (2020)

7.8 /10

David must join forces with police analyst Petra as they are drawn deep into the tangled web of who controls the flow of meth into Europe.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 8` . Year(s): 2020

Director: Pavlína Kindlová , Tomáš Zelenka , Jiří Macek

Producer: Jitka Chaloupková , Agnieszka Kurzydło , Jiří Holan

Stars: Cyril Dobrý , Lenka Krobotová , Martin Havelka , Rostislav Novák , Petr Franěk , Lukáš Duy Anh Tran

Rabbies (2018)

7.9 /10

Although Czech republic is country free of rabbies, some cases of infected animals appear near one of villages in Sumava region. Virologist Pavel Rogl, that is in his thirties, has task to inspect the situation, supervise the vaccination and find the source of infection. He is also charged to elaborate an expertise for team of police detectives, that are investigating mysterious double homicide. It is possible, that murders are connected to infection. Is it a human murderer, or big beast that escaped?

Average Episode Run Time: 57` . Year(s): 2018

Director: Tomáš Bařina

Stars: Kryštof Hádek , Ihor Krotovych , Přemysl Bureš , Štefan Capko , Johana Matoušková , Stanislav Majer

Vražedné stíny (2022)

6.1 /10

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Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 29` . Year(s): 2022

Director: Jiří Svoboda

Producer: Jan Maxa

Stars: Ondřej Vetchý , Nikita Machytková , Martin Finger , Tereza Hofová , Tomáš Töpfer , Miroslav Donutil

Mamon (2015)

7.3 /10

While investigating the privatization of energy giant Central Energy, journalist Petra Vlčka uncovers corruption involving his brother the CEO.

Average Episode Run Time: 55` . Year(s): 2015

Director: Vladimír Michálek

Stars: Matěj Hádek , Eva Leimbergerová , Gabriela Míčová , Michal Dlouhý , Tereza Hofová , Daniel Tůma