Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Robert B. Parker

1. Spenser Confidential (2020)

R | 111 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When two Boston police officers are murdered, ex-cop Spenser teams up with his no-nonsense roommate Hawk to take down criminals.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin, Iliza Shlesinger

Votes: 97,868

2. Jesse Stone: Stone Cold (2005 TV Movie)

R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jesse Stone (Selleck) is a New England police chief investigating a series of murders, in an adaptation of Robert B. Parker's novel.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Jane Adams, Reg Rogers, Viola Davis

Votes: 8,272

3. Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama

In this prequel to 'Stone Cold,' Tom Selleck reprises his role as Jesse Stone, an L.A. cop who relocates to a small town only to find himself immersed in one mystery after the other.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Saul Rubinek, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth

Votes: 6,281

4. Appaloosa (2008)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

Director: Ed Harris | Stars: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons

Votes: 64,782 | Gross: $20.21M

5. Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama

Police Chief Jesse Stone's shrink recommends looking into old, unsolved cases to reduce drinking by staying busy. Of 3 cases before his time, he starts on the killing of a bank teller. He's also investigating an alleged rape.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Rebecca Pidgeon

Votes: 4,989

6. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Ron McLarty, Richard Jaeckel

Votes: 3,274

7. Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama

A body's found on the shore of a lake. Police Chief Jesse Stone starts an investigation. It turns out to be a pregnant high school student. There's also a case of a persistent wife beater. Jesse starts seeing a shrink and dating.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth, Orla Brady

Votes: 5,525

8. Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost (2011 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama

After his involuntary retirement, Jesse Stone investigates the suspicious death of a young friend while the Paradise police force deals with the arrogant new chief, who is the son-in-law of a town councilman.

Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Gloria Reuben

Votes: 3,933

9. Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jesse Stone comes out of involuntary retirement after the new chief who replaced him was blown up, along with another officer in their police car. Jesse is forced to solve the crime on his own since all the other officers have quit.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Gloria Reuben

Votes: 4,006

10. Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama

Police Chief Jesse Stone's suspended in Paradise. He helps a friend as "temp" with a serial killer in Boston. He gets his first cellphone to avoid calls from his ex. Paradise PD's way over its head with a convenience store robbery/murder.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Stephen McHattie

Votes: 4,355

11. Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2009 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Leslie Hope

Votes: 4,579

12. Monte Walsh (2003 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 117 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Wyoming, 1892: Monte's been cowboy for ranchers all his life but he's no longer young and big business is taking over the ranches.

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Isabella Rossellini, Keith Carradine, George Eads

Votes: 3,038

13. A Man Called Hawk (1989)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Action

Hawk is called upon to help those who need his help or whose lives may be in danger. He is also called upon by people from his past to settle old scores or to collect or settle old debts.

Stars: Avery Brooks, Moses Gunn, Angela Bassett, William Fichtner

Votes: 694

14. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)

120 min | Mystery

House boat living Private eye who solves crime.

Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Michael O. Smith, Alfie Wise

Votes: 393

15. Untitled Jesse Stone Project (TV Movie)

Crime | Announced

Plot unknown. The next installment of the Jesse Stone franchise.

Star: Tom Selleck

16. Poodle Springs (1998 TV Movie)

95 min | Crime, Drama

An aging Phillip Marlowe gets mixed up with blackmail and murder amongst the elite social set in 1963.

Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: James Caan, Dina Meyer, David Keith, Tom Bower

Votes: 994

17. Spenser: A Savage Place (1995 TV Movie)

Crime, Mystery

Candy Sloane, a news reporter that Spenser used to date, hires him out as backup while she investigates a credit card fraud ring that might be operating out of a previously-bankrupt movie company.

Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Cynthia Dale, Ross Petty

Votes: 192

18. Spenser: Small Vices (1999 TV Movie)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Rita Fiore hires Spenser to determine if two-time loser Ellis Alves really did kill a college coed. Soon everybody wants him off the case, from the investigating officer to the parents of ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Eugene Lipinski, Laila Robins, Chris Britton

Votes: 327

19. Spenser: Ceremony (1993 TV Movie)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Spenser is hired to locate April Kyle, the missing daughter of Harry Kyle, millionaire and candidate for Governor. With the assistance of Hawk, Spenser travels from Boston's "Combat Zone" ... See full summary »

Directors: Paul Lynch, Andrew Wild | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, J. Winston Carroll, Dave Nichols

Votes: 228

20. Thin Air (2000 TV Movie)

95 min | Crime, Drama

Frank Belson didn't ask too many questions about the past of his new wife Lisa St. Claire, even after she suddenly and mysteriously disappeared one night. He brings in Spenser to help ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Marcia Gay Harden, Jon Seda, Luis Guzmán

Votes: 466

21. Spenser: The Judas Goat (1994 TV Movie)

91 min | Crime, Mystery

Spenser is hired out by Hugh Dixon to track down the killers of his wife and daughters. He and Hawk are drawn into a huge plot involving assassination attempts on African leader Winston Boyko by some racist terrorist named Paul.

Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Natalie Radford, Geordie Johnson

Votes: 209

22. The Bob Braun Show (1967–1984)

Talk-Show

This was a local Cincinnati, Ohio talk show hosted by Bob Braun, a Cincinnati personality. Bob Braun got his start as the sidekick for Ruth Lyons, another Cincinnati legend.

Stars: Bob Braun, Rob Reider, The Cliff Lash Orchestra, Nancy James

Votes: 156

23. E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998– )

30 min | Documentary

Hollywood's most notorious scandals exposed through interviews and re-enactments.

Stars: A.J. Benza, A.C. Lyles, Marc Wanamaker, Bob Thomas

Votes: 317

24. Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes (1994 TV Movie)

Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama

When one of Susan's former patients, a news reporter, turns up dead on the outskirts of Wheaton, the cocaine capitol of Massachusetts, she and Spenser head out to Wheaton to find out why he... See full summary »

Director: Vic Sarin | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Sonja Smits, J. Winston Carroll

Votes: 190

25. The Curse of the Bambino (2003 TV Movie)

59 min | Documentary, Sport

Add a Plot

Director: George Roy | Stars: Ben Affleck, Glen Ordway, Steven Wright, Michael Chiklis

Votes: 246

26. Walking Shadow (2001 TV Movie)

96 min | Mystery

As a favor to his longtime lover Dr. Susan Silverman, Spenser agrees to investigate the stalking of a theater company director, pro bono. But before he can get started, an actor is killed ... See full summary »

Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Ernie Hudson, Marcia Gay Harden, Eric Roberts

Votes: 125

27. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: Blues for Buder (1989)

Mystery

A young boy who has radical religious ideas seems totally lost, no one knows how to deal with him. Both his parents disappeared. Then BL is asked to look into it, and it seems that there's much more to his situation.

Director: Burt Reynolds | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Elizabeth Ashley, Neil Patrick Harris

Votes: 169

28. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: High Rise (1990)

Mystery

Kimberly and Oz are in an office picking a birthday present for BL, when a hostage situation occurs. When BL finds out he's determined to get them out.

Director: Nick McLean | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Dana Kaminski, Ossie Davis, Ricardo Montalban

Votes: 29

29. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: A Time and a Place (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

The police are pointed in Hawk's direction for the murder of a policeman. He gets into a fight with a cop.

Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Avery Brooks, Jay O. Sanders, David Margulies, Anthony LaPaglia

Votes: 20

30. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: Beautiful Are the Stars (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

Hawk comes into the possession of some South African diamonds and, in doing so, gains the attention of a hit man.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Avery Brooks, Frances Foster, Tony Devon, Daniel Gerroll

Votes: 15

31. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: Choice of Chance (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

When a federal witness is gunned down in his home, the unfortunate family living next door get caught in the gunfire.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Avery Brooks, Joe Morton, Joe Banks, Charles S. Dutton

Votes: 23

32. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: Hear No Evil (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

Hawk is hired to protect a deaf university student, and his roommate, who witnessed a murder.

Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Avery Brooks, Josh Hamilton, Lorraine Toussaint, Ronald Hunter

Votes: 19

33. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: If Memory Serves (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

Hawk is hired to protect a Haitian historian from someone he believes is trying to use voodoo to learn of a secret.

Director: Mario DiLeo | Stars: Avery Brooks, Paul Butler, Nathan George, Charles Dumas

Votes: 17

34. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: Intensive Care (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

When Hawk and Old Man's sister are taken hostage in the hospital by armed men, Hawk has an idea to make the situation go his way, not as the gunmen would like it to go.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Avery Brooks, Cynthia Bond, Olivia Cole, Moses Gunn

Votes: 23

35. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: Life After Death (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

Hawk helps a young man to prove that he did not shoot his pregnant girlfriend.

Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Avery Brooks, Tatyana Ali, Erik Dellums, Paul Guilfoyle

Votes: 20

36. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: Never My Love (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

Hawk is bothered by two violent brothers, one of whom seems intent on causing trouble for him.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Avery Brooks, Angela Bassett, Julian Christopher, Novella Nelson

Votes: 20

37. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: Passing the Bar (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

Hawk comes to the aid of an old lawyer friend who is trying to defend a man on a murder charge.

Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Avery Brooks, Earle Hyman, Gerry Bamman, Gerard Murphy

Votes: 20

38. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: Poison (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

While he is tracking down the source of heroin laced with strychnine, Hawk is repeatedly disrupted by a dogged reporter.

Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Avery Brooks, Yusef Bulos, William Fichtner, Joseph C. Phillips

Votes: 17

39. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: The Divided Child (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

The Kirkpatricks hire Hawk to protect their family after the attempted kidnapping of their son. Hawk's job is made harder when their son tries to understand why a kidnapping attempt was made.

Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Avery Brooks, Mary McDonnell, Mark Metcalf, Hortensia Colorado

Votes: 15

40. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: The Master's Mirror (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

Hawk searches for an old friend and fellow Vietnam War vet turned stressed-out government operative named David Tracton, who has become a killing machine. Hawk's old boss Colonel Edward ... See full summary »

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Avery Brooks, Angela Bassett, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jack Ryland

Votes: 44

41. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: Vendetta (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

Hawk's cousin has a contract put on his head after romancing the girlfriend of a member of the mob. He comes to the rescue.

Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Stars: Avery Brooks, Keith David, Troy Byer, Suzzanne Douglas

Votes: 21

42. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode: A Madness Most Discreet (1986)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Spenser tries to protect a former Russian ballerina, when she hires him to help her find stolen papers, but he gets more than he bargained for once he discovers that she is a person of ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty

Votes: 46

43. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode: Among Friends (1987)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Hawk is framed for the attempted murder of Marty Quirk. There is a new gun in town named Tyrone Blackwell. Name looks good on a tombstone.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Carolyn McCormick, Ron McLarty

Votes: 44

44. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode: An Eye for an Eye (1986)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Spenser has just relocated and out of no where, former clients are accusing of trying to shake them down. Spenser is oblivious to what they are talking about. Later a D.A. is threatening to take action against him.

Director: William Wiard | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Carolyn McCormick, Ron McLarty

Votes: 44

45. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode: And Give Up Show Biz? (1986)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young man is found floating in the water. When he wakes up, he claims to have no memory of who he is. Spenser tries to help him. Later, he becomes the prime suspect in a murder. But he claims he can't be a killer.

Director: William Wiard | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Carolyn McCormick, Ron McLarty

Votes: 35

46. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode: Angel of Desolation (1986)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Spenser is hired by the fashion model wife of a rich bank owner who says her life is in danger. After multiple attempted murders and one successful murder, Spenser realizes that the wife is... See full summary »

Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty

Votes: 45

47. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode: Arthur's Wake (1988)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Spenser's old friend and mentor, Arthur, is mugged on the street, losing a large sum of cash. In trying to help his hero, Spenser finds his good intentioned friend not being wholly truthful... See full summary »

Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty

Votes: 33

48. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode: At the River's Edge (1986)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Spenser witnesses an ex convict murder a 19 year girl then kill himself. The girl's wealthy younger sister hires Spenser to find out why her sister was killed. Clues lead Spenser to a ... See full summary »

Director: David Whorf | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty

Votes: 46

49. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode: Autumn Thieves (1985)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Spenser stumbles onto a ring of thieves while investigating a relic stolen from a museum.

Director: William Wiard | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty

Votes: 52

50. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode: Blood Money (1985)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The wife of a kidnapped oil tycoon hires Spenser to deliver $1 million in ransom money to a ring of terrorists while police have the drop-off area surrounded.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty

Votes: 47