Den tidligere CIA-agent Bryan Mills bliver jaget vildt, da hans ekskone findes myrdet. Alle spor peger nemlig i retning af Bryan, og snart har han både FBI og CIA i hælene. Nu må den hårdtslående eks-agent bruge sine bedste færdigheder for at få ram på de virkelige mordere og beskytte det eneste, der betyder noget for ham - nemlig hans datter.
I det 19. århundredes Frankrig har den noble Jean Valjean skabt sig en succesfuld tilværelse med masser af indflydelse. Hvad ingen ved er, at Valjean kommer fra ludfattige kår og faktisk er en bortsluppen straffefange. Da den ihærdige politiinspektør Javert pludselig dukker op i Valjeans by, genkender han den tidligere indsatte, og snart sætter en årelang menneskejagt ind. Valjean undslipper i første omgang, men da han og adoptivdatteren Cosette mange år senere slår sig ned i Paris, forelsker hun sig i den unge revolutionær Marius, hvilket atter placerer Valjean i Javert's søgelys.
Fransk politis inspektør Jacques Clouseau er overbevist om, at den berømte juveltyv sir Charles Willingham har sat næsen op efter prinsesse Dala's yderst tillokkende juvel kaldet "Den lyserøde Panter". Snart bringer den vilde jagt de involverede fra et fashionabelt vintersportssted til maskebal i Rom, hvor forvirringen for alvor tager til, da Clouseau selv må skrives på listen over mistænkte.
En række mord har rystet lokalsamfundet, og folk tror efterhånden, at det kun kan skyldes et legendarisk væsen fra de mørke tider: Golem.
Frankenstein Jr. kommer for at tage besiddelse af farmands slot, der tilfældigvis rummmer Ygor, der overlevede en hængning og monstret, der ligger i coma. Der gør det dog ikke længe, så sker der mord i landsbyen. Inspector Krogh, stor rolle til Lionell Atwill, skal finde hoved og hale i mordene.
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.
Spain, 1982. Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector, accepts a posting in Denia, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, in the hope of leading a quieter life and that the natural environment will help improve the fragile health of his daughter; but once in his new post he becomes involved by chance in the investigation of the strange death of the inspector he has come to replace.
Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, voluntarily agrees to be questioned by Inspector Gallien on New Year's Eve. What initially is a routine procedure, soon becomes a harsh interrogation that seems to confirm the initial suspicions.
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.
A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora, or perhaps his daughter, but receive little help from the law. Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with the investigation.
En politimand bliver myrdet mens han ligger på hospitalet. Efterforskningen, som ledes af Martin Beck, viser snart at politimanden ofte mishandlede både mistænkte forbrydere og almindelige borgere, men eventuelle klager blev afvist på grund af misforstået loyalitet fra hans kolleger. Beck må opklare sagen inden flere bliver slået ihjel.