Cross-media picks for Dick Wolf fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
The picks here share a preoccupation with the machinery of law and order — detectives navigating corrupt institutions, prosecutors weighing truth against procedure, and ordinary people caught inside systems that grind without mercy. You'll find urban grit (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago), morally complicated cops, and the persistent friction between what's legal and what's right. From L.A. Confidential's noir conspiracies to This Is the Police 2's sheriff-desk strategy, the tone is unsentimental and the stakes are always human.
Film
15 Minutes
A media-circus murder case that interrogates how crime and celebrity feed each other in modern America.
Film
Hollywood Homicide
Two detectives juggling moonlit lives while working a Hollywood homicide — procedural instincts wrapped in comedy.
Film
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
NYC detectives wade through a drug-dealer murder tangled in robbery and mistaken identity.
Film
Brooklyn's Finest
Three NYPD officers in Brooklyn's roughest precinct struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
Film
Probation Order
A drama following probation officers supervising released law-breakers — and the chaos that follows.
Film
L.A. Confidential
Corrupt 1950s LAPD detectives unravel a diner-slaying conspiracy — procedural noir at its sharpest.
Film
10th & Wolf
A mob entanglement story where a veteran's homecoming forces a reckoning between loyalty and the law.
Film
High Heel Homicide
Undercover detectives race to catch a serial killer whose victims are all former cops.
Series
Law & Order True Crime
An anthology that peels back the media circus surrounding real criminal trials to expose what cameras miss.
Series
CSI: NY
NYPD forensic scientists apply hard science to New York crime — the investigative process front and centre.
Series
Law & Order: UK
The procedural format transplanted to the British justice system, balancing police work against prosecution.
Series
American Crime Story
Famous real criminal investigations retold with meticulous detail, focusing on institutional failures and media pressure.
Series
Justice Heroes
A cops-and-robbers drama built on emotional stakes as much as street-level action.
Series
Touching Evil
A detective returning from psychological leave hunts serial criminals with an elite FBI rapid-response unit.
Series
NYPD Blue
Manhattan precinct drama weaving multiple plotlines through an ensemble — the blueprint for gritty cop TV.
Series
Manhunt
A real London detective's methodical manhunt for serial criminals, told with procedural authenticity.
Game
True Crime: Streets of LA
Play an LA cop deciding whether to enforce the law or bend it, across a sprawling open-city criminal underworld.
Game
Police Quest Collection
A rookie cop's homicide investigation grows into a chase after a murderous drug lord — police procedure as adventure.
Game
Blues and Bullets
Eliot Ness, retired from crime-fighting, is dragged back into a city rotting with corruption — noir atmosphere throughout.
Game
Enforcer: Police Crime Action
Patrol a small American town, balance duty with personal life, and hold back a rising criminal threat.
Game
This Is the Police 2
Run a sheriff's department, make hard calls under pressure, and interpret the law on your own moral terms.
Game
The Shield: The Game
Step into the shoes of a morally ambiguous detective commanding an elite strike team through crime-ridden streets.
Game
Murder by Numbers
A 1990s LA actress-turned-amateur-sleuth solves pixel puzzles and interrogates witnesses to crack real murders.
Game
Art of Murder: FBI Confidential
A young FBI agent investigates a string of macabre murders targeting wealthy victims in an adventure-puzzle format.
Book
Beyond the Law
A decades-old police cover-up surfaces when the Hardy Boys dig into a corruption case against a veteran chief.
Book
Final Cut
Teen detectives go undercover at a TV studio to solve a screenwriter's murder — crime fiction with insider flair.
Book
Field of graves
A Nashville cop and a medical examiner face public scrutiny while hunting a serial killer targeting university women.
Book
Nypd Red 2
NYPD Red hunts a vigilante serial killer taking justice into their own hands across New York City.
Book
Criminal minds
An FBI profiling team untangles seemingly unrelated Chicago murders — the procedural method as the story's engine.
Book
Family affair
A nonfiction account of Chicago mafia operations and the Family Secrets trial that finally put the Outfit's leaders away.
Book
Blowout
Married FBI agents Savich and Sherlock balance a personal getaway against a new case demanding their full attention.
Book
Heat wave
NYPD detective Nikki Heat investigates a Manhattan real estate mogul's death with a journalist shadowing her every move.
Start with NYPD Blue for raw precinct drama, American Crime Story for real-case anthology depth, or Manhunt for a grounded true-crime pursuit — all share the same procedural seriousness and institutional complexity that define Dick Wolf's universe.
NYPD Red 2 drops you into a New York task force chasing a vigilante killer, Field of Graves pairs a Nashville cop with a medical examiner on a serial-killer case, and Criminal Minds follows FBI profilers through a baffling Chicago murder series.
Blues and Bullets puts you in Eliot Ness's shoes investigating corruption, This Is the Police 2 tasks you with running a whole sheriff's department under moral pressure, and Art of Murder: FBI Confidential casts you as an agent cracking a series of high-profile killings.