Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Edwin Sherin

1. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )

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

This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.

Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T, Dann Florek

Votes: 124,774

2. Law & Order (1990– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

New York's finest police detectives and prosecutors fight to make the city a safer place. With integrity as the guiding force from investigation to verdict, the teams weigh every perspective in their commitment to finding justice.

Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina, Sam Waterston

Votes: 44,535

3. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)

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

This series focuses on the NYPD's Major Case Squad, a force of detectives who investigate high-profile cases, while also showing parts of the crime from the perpetrator's point of view.

Stars: Kathryn Erbe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 27,868

4. Medium (2005–2011)

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

Suburban mom Allison DuBois attempts to balance family life with solving mysteries using her special gift. The dead send her visions of their deaths or other crimes while she sleeps.

Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber, Sofia Vassilieva

Votes: 31,106

5. L.A. Law (1986–1994)

TV-PG | 46 min | Drama

The lives and work of the staff of a major Los Angeles law firm.

Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins, Michael Tucker

Votes: 6,456

6. Moonlighting (1985–1989)

TV-PG | 3,073 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The quirky cases of a former model and a smart aleck detective who manage a private detective agency.

Stars: Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley, Curtis Armstrong

Votes: 24,244

7. Hill Street Blues (1981–1987)

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

The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct.

Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz, James Sikking

Votes: 10,553

8. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999)

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

An American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

Stars: Richard Belzer, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto, Kyle Secor

Votes: 14,180

9. Tour of Duty (1987–1990)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Drama, War

The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.

Stars: Terence Knox, Stephen Caffrey, Tony Becker, Ramón Franco

Votes: 4,949

10. Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A teenage genius deals with the usual problems of growing up, on top of being a licensed physician in a difficult residency program.

Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Max Casella, Belinda Montgomery, Lawrence Pressman

Votes: 9,746

11. Great Performances (1971– )

TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical

Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.

Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo

Votes: 896

12. The Black Donnellys (2007)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama

Four young Irish brothers are caught up in New York's underworld of organized crime.

Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Tom Guiry, Olivia Wilde, Billy Lush

Votes: 14,369

13. Valdez Is Coming (1971)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Western

A Mexican-American sheriff (Burt Lancaster) must resort to violence against a powerful rancher (Frank Tanner, played by Jon Cypher) in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera, Jon Cypher

Votes: 4,531 | Gross: $0.06M

14. Chelsea Walls (2001)

R | 109 min | Drama

This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.

Director: Ethan Hawke | Stars: Paz de la Huerta, Vincent D'Onofrio, Bianca Hunter, Kevin Corrigan

Votes: 2,216 | Gross: $0.06M

15. Omnibus (1952–1961)

55 min | Drama, History, Music

Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.

Stars: Alistair Cooke, Leonard Bernstein, Joseph N. Welch, Helen Hayes

Votes: 218

16. The Doctors and the Nurses (1962–1965)

60 min | Drama

The story takes place in a large hospital and revolves around two nurses, Liz Thorpe (Shirl Conway), the older head nurse, and Gail Lucas, the naive student nurse. The two nurses were ... See full summary »

Stars: Shirl Conway, Zina Bethune, Michael Tolan, Joseph Campanella

Votes: 112

17. Camera Three (1955–1980)

30 min | Drama

A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.

Stars: James Macandrew, Faubion Bowers, Margaret Croyden, Alfredo Antonini

Votes: 62

18. East Side/West Side (1963–1964)

60 min | Drama

In this weekly drama show, George C. Scott plays a dedicated social worker trying to solve the problems of his clients in the fascinating mix of cultures that makes up New York City.

Stars: George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, Linden Chiles

Votes: 206

19. South Beach (1993)

60 min | Crime, Drama

In order to stay out of jail, a team of ex-cons is hired by the government. They must use their individual skills to bring down criminals in South Florida.

Stars: Yancy Butler, Tony Miros, John Glover, Eagle Eye Cherry

Votes: 119

20. Art in the Twenty-First Century (2001– )

TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary

The only series on television in the US to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists, "Art in the Twenty-First Century" is a Peabody Award-winning biennial program following artists at work as they transform inspiration into art.

Stars: Charles Atlas, Damien Young, Erika Fortner, Harmony Murphy

Votes: 78

21. Daughter of the Streets (1990 TV Movie)

91 min | Drama

An activist single mom finds her life in turmoil when her neglected daughter becomes a hooker, living with an abusive and sadistic pimp.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Jane Alexander, Roxana Zal, Harris Yulin, Martha Scott

Votes: 249

22. WIOU (1990–1991)

60 min | Drama

The TV network sends Hank Zaret to be news director of station WNDY (known as WIOU to the staff). The news co-anchors are Neal Frazier and Kelby Robinson. Eddie Bock and Taylor Young are ... See full summary »

Stars: John Shea, Helen Shaver, Harris Yulin, Phil Morris

Votes: 50

23. Brenner (1959–1964)

30 min | Crime, Drama

Roy is a hardened twenty year cop with the NYPD; his son Ernie is an idealistic rookie. Together they face and learn from their different views of life and work.

Stars: Edward Binns, James Broderick, Dick O'Neill, Crahan Denton

Votes: 52

24. Lena: My 100 Children (1987 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, History

At the end of World War II Lena Kuchler arrives at a refuge camp in search of her disappeared family members. But at this place she can get no information in her case but only encounters hungry children.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Linda Lavin, Torquil Campbell, Lenore Harris, Cynthia Wilde

Votes: 149

25. The Father Clements Story (1987 TV Movie)

G | 100 min | Drama

In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African-American Chicago priest takes on the Catholic church during his fight to adopt a troubled teen and save him from life on the streets.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Ron McLarty, Leon

Votes: 95

26. Settle the Score (1989 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama

In this suspenseful drama, a Chicago policewoman remains haunted by the memory of the man who raped her two decades before and decides to return to her hometown to find him.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Jeffrey DeMunn, Louise Latham, Howard Duff

Votes: 125

27. My Old Man's Place (1971)

R | 93 min | Drama, War

Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A psychotic sergeant who also did tours in Nam, joins them. Personalities clash hard.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Mitchell Ryan, William Devane, Michael Moriarty

Votes: 56 | Gross: $0.02M

28. Tiger Lily Road (2013)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

When a hostage situation turns into sexual obsession, all bets are off.

Director: Michael Medeiros | Stars: Tom Pelphrey, William Hill, Michael Medeiros, Ilvi Dulack

Votes: 52

29. A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (1991 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

A drama exploring Thee stormy relationship between two fiercely independent artists: Georgia O'Keefe who needs the serene simplicity of New Mexico to paint and photographer Alfred Stieglitz... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Jane Alexander, Michael Allison, Rachel Aviva, Vernel Bagneris

Votes: 37

30. Scene Smoking: Cigarettes, Cinema & the Myth of Cool (2001)

59 min | Documentary

An anti-smoking documentary that explores the effects of smoking cigarettes, why people consider it cool, and how youth today are still at risk.

Director: Terry Moloney | Stars: Jaques D. Barth, Dick Beebe, Bonnie Bruckheimer, Darren Capozzi

Votes: 86

31. Across the River (1965)

85 min | Drama

A junk collector rescues a woman near his home across the lake from Manhattan who changes his life.

Director: Stefan Sharff | Stars: Lou Gilbert, Kay Doubleday, Samuel J. McCurry, Archie Smith

Votes: 13

32. Great Performances (1971– )
Episode: King Lear (1974)

TV-G | 175 min | Music, Musical

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Douglass Watson, Paul Sorvino, Raul Julia, James Earl Jones

Votes: 139

33. Brenner (1959–1964)
Episode: I, Executioner (1959)

26 min | Crime, Drama

Ernie is rattled after a shooting a disturbed young man who stabbed him and then attacked another police officer. The doctor treating his wounds doesn't give him much sympathy, but he meets... See full summary »

Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Edward Binns, James Broderick, Kathleen Murray, Ruth White

34. Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993)
Episode: Academia Nuts (1990)

TV-PG | Comedy, Drama, Family

One of the hospital benefactors, an elderly woman comes for her annual physical. Canfield informs Doogie that she's only generous unless she's told that something is wrong with her. So he tells Doogie to make something up.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Max Casella, Belinda Montgomery, Lawrence Pressman

Votes: 45

35. East Side/West Side (1963–1964)
Episode: No Hiding Place (1963)

60 min | Drama

An upwardly mobile black family moves into a previously all-white neighborhood in suburban Long Island, New York. Chuck and Anne Severson, who are Neil's friends, at first welcome them to ... See full summary »

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, Edwin Sherin

Votes: 23

36. Hill Street Blues (1981–1987)
Episode: Fathers and Guns (1986)

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

Furillo faces a moral and emotional dilemma when his father is shot, while Belker has nightmares about nuclear destruction.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz, Betty Thomas

Votes: 80

37. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999)
Episode: Baby, It's You (1997)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

New York detectives Briscoe and Curtis accompany Falsone and Munch to Baltimore as they look for the suspect in a teen model's death.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes

Votes: 153

38. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999)
Episode: For God and Country (1996)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In the second part of a story started on Law & Order: Charm City (1996), Bayliss and Pembleton work with Lennie Briscoe and Rey Curtis to find the people involved in the NYC subway bombing and the Baltimore church bombing five years earlier.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hofmann

Votes: 171

39. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999)
Episode: Sideshow (1999)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The investigation of a Government worker's murder uncovers a connection to the White House.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson

Votes: 113

40. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode: Blood, Sweat and Fears (1990)

TV-PG | 48 min | Drama

Kuzak uses new evidence and a testimony by a very hostile witness to plead for a new trial for Earl Williams. Meanwhile, Victor defends Dr. Michael Dayan, a surgeon being sued for wrongful ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry

Votes: 43

41. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode: Outward Bound (1990)

TV-PG | 48 min | Drama

Kuzak represents a gay former policeman suing a journalist who "outed" his homosexuality without permission. After Rosalind resigns from the firm, McKenzie seeks another star litigator and ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry

Votes: 33

42. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode: Vowel Play (1990)

TV-PG | 48 min | Drama

Brackman appears on the TV game show "Wheel of Fortune," and ends up getting a date with Vanna White. Meanwhile, C.J. and her old friend from law school, the seedy, alcoholic, chain-smoking... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry

Votes: 32

43. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Act of God (1995)

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

Did a struggling contractor intentionally blow up the building he was working on, or was he the intended target of the explosion?

Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 285

44. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Admissions (1999)

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

A Hispanic mathematics professor is the prime suspect in the murder of a graduate student. He claims he is being racially profiled, but detectives have two potential motives. However, they cannot place him at the scene of the crime.

Director: Jace Alexander | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 273

45. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Aftershock (1996)

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

After witnessing an inmate's execution, McCoy, Kincaid, Briscoe, and Curtis react in different and extreme ways.

Director: Martha Mitchell | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 831

46. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Agony (1998)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a woman is brutally attacked, the police believe they have stumbled on a serial killer. Prosecutors struggle with how to put him away for life with little evidence.

Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 332

47. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Ambitious (1999)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The son of an imprisoned crime boss and a couple of strip club owners become the central figures in a murder investigation.

Director: Christopher Misiano | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 272

48. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: American Dream (1993)

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

The discovery of skeletal remains on Roosevelt Island leads to a new trial for a former Wall Steet junk bond broker now serving time in the victim's murder. The defendant chooses to act as his own counsel.

Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth, S. Epatha Merkerson, Michael Moriarty

Votes: 326

49. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Angel (1995)

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

A woman claims that a Puerto Rican man kidnapped her infant daughter while she was in a church confessional. However, she later confesses to killing her baby and cremating her body.

Director: Arthur W. Forney | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 323

50. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Animal Instinct (1993)

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

A university scientist is murdered, allegedly over an affair her husband was having. However, Stone later suspects that the alleged "mistress" may actually be delusional, and that there was actually no affair.

Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth, Dann Florek, Michael Moriarty

Votes: 307