The Vault
Heavy Traffic
1973 ★ 6.5A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment
Black Creek
2024 ★ 4.4A dark, gritty, dystopian, western action martial arts film featuring a strong 'no-holds-barred' female protagonist portrayed by action film star Cynthia Rothro
Narcos
2015 ★ 8.1A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels. Narcos is an American crime drama television series that provides
Running Scared
1986 ★ 6.7Running Scared is a British television children's drama serial produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC 1 in 1986, based on the Bernard Ashley novel and is se
White Lightning
2026 ★ 0.0WHITE LIGHTNING is a gritty, funny, and uniquely American story about second chances, legacy, and what it takes to outrun your past. This feature-length documen
The Bathers
2003 ★ 4.7Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of six women working as dancers at a seedy Parisian peep show.
Bovensloters
2026 ★ 0.0In 2026, broadcaster PowNed, in collaboration with producer NewBe, will bring the brand-new fictional series "Bovensloters" to NPO Start. This gritty crime seri
Gangsters
1976 ★ 8.5A pioneering show starring Maurice Colbourne as Birmingham gangster John Kline. The show was noted for its gritty true-life quality, and often graphic violence.
In Darkness
2018 ★ 6.1A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld. In Darkn
Oz
1976 ★ 5.4Teenage groupie Dorothy rides with a small-time rock band when, suddenly, the van runs off the road, and she hits her head. She awakes in a fantasy world as gri
Wes Diego
2023 ★ 0.0A gritty thriller based in the underbelly of organized crime in Houston, where Wes & Diego thread the needle between the streets and corrupt police. Task: Write
In the Line of Duty: Street War
1992 ★ 5.4In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the dead cop's
Wayne
2019 ★ 8.3In this gritty and sometimes bloody tale, sixteen year-old Wayne sets out on a dirt bike with his new crush Del to take back the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that was
Watchmen
2009 ★ 7.4In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked vetera
Time
2021 ★ 7.6Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an al
CSI: Miami
2002 ★ 7.7The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts,
The First 48
2004 ★ 7.9The First 48 follows detectives from around the country during these first critical hours as they race against time to find the suspect. Gritty and fast-paced,
A Touch of Frost
1992 ★ 7.5Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet.
Spiral
2005 ★ 7.9This gritty crime drama set in the dark underbelly of Paris follows police officers and lawyers as they investigate and prosecute crimes. Throw any romantic not
Gomorrah
2014 ★ 8.0Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen t
NCIS: Origins
2024 ★ 7.5In 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, Leroy Jethro Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office, wh
Den of Thieves
2018 ★ 6.9A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws p
Primp & Preen
★ 0.0An early 2000s inspired gritty horror film about the pressures of appearances on young men and how when one man is pushed to the edge his deepest desires for be
Over There
2005 ★ 6.7Gritty, intense, evocative and emotional, "Over There" takes you to the front lines of battle and explores the effects of war on a U.S. Army unit sent to Iraq o