English series about the village

List of the best English series about the village, selected by visitors to our site: Father Brown, Glue, Home Fires, Lark Rise to Candleford, The Casual Vacancy, Ghosts, The Irregulars, Deadwater Fell, World Without End, Queens of Mystery.

In the top there are new series of 2022, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:52

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:43

In Overton, a remote little village in the English countryside, the townsfolk have two interests which are farming and racehorses. Life there seems simple but the village teens resort to playing chicken over razor-sharp blades spinning atop farm silos and other dangerous games to kill their boredom.Then, quite suddenly, life in Overton becomes a lot less boring. Another, much more literal type of killing is revealed when someone finds the body of a local teen under the wheels of a tractor. Now a murder investigation will bring to light all those secrets this close-knit community has been hiding, and life in Overton will never be the same.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genredrama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom

The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the characters find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world. By banding together as the Great Paxford Women’s Institute, they help maintain the nation’s fabric in its darkest hour, and discover inner resources that will change their lives forever.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:52

    Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:20

    The citizens of the small British town of Pagford fight for the spot on the parish council after Barry Fairbrother dies.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:40

    A cash-strapped young couple inherit a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefantasy, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    In Victorian London, a gang of troubled street teens are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    When a seemingly perfect and happy family is murdered by someone they knew and trusted, cracks appear on the surface of a supposedly idyllic community.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryGermany, Canada, United Kingdom, Hungary

    Two hundred years after the construction of the great cathedral, the medieval town of Kingsbridge is taken under siege by Queen Isabella. Caris, a visionary young woman, inspires her people to stand up for their rights and revolt against to the most powerful forces of her time, the Church and the Crown.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Matilda Stone is a perennially single female detective whose three aunts are well-known crime writers that help her solve whodunit style murders as well as set her up on blind dates.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:59

    In 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small Welsh village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of rising cello star Matilda Gray commits suicide, without apparent reason. Among her possessions, Matilda discovers tantalising evidence, linking her mother to the Welsh girl's disappearance all those years ago.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, detective, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    London widow Cora Seaborne moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms an unlikely bond with the village vicar, but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:43

    Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    With a documentary style delivery, this drama tells the story of a team of top murder detectives with each episode featuring a different murder while also following a serialized story involving the lead detective’s missing wife.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    It's Mayday in a small town steeped in pagan traditions where the crowning of the May Queen is the highlight of the day until suddenly she goes missing.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A Welsh community devastated by tragedy is forced to confront difficult truths amid the search for justice.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:22

    Mr. Sloane's titular character is a buttoned-down 1960's man in crisis. Between his failed attempts at marriage, career success and even suicide, it's fair to say that 1969 isn't shaping up to be Watford-dweller Mr. Sloane's year. But with a potential job opportunity on the horizon and the phone number of a prospective new love interest following a chance encounter in his local hardware store, could Mr Sloane's luck be about to change?

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Cuffs is a fresh, authentic and visceral drama that will take the audience on an exhilarating ride through the challenges of front-line policing. Adrenalized and vibrant, the show is packed full of dramatic incidents and colourful characters. From a booby trapped cannabis farm in a suburban semi to an elderly farmer's wife with a shotgun, the stories are surprising and exciting. There will be more absurd altercations - such as a middle-class dog-napping or fisticuffs between pensioners - as well as the daily grind of speeding drivers, city-centre shoplifters and Saturday night drinkers.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:43

      Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould the lives of this wealthy family and their servants.‬

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:43

      Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration04:00

      The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      Fermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with Billy Winters, her tyrannical stepfather, whom she can barely stand, prepares to flee from such a suffocating life with the help of the seductive Liam Ward, without being aware that her decision will unearth deeply buried secrets a long time ago.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genreaction, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Samantha Hunter suspects someone within the private intelligence agency she works at tried to kill her and she seeks to uncover the person behind it.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration00:57

      The lives of the editors and journalists working at a left-leaning broadsheet and a populist tabloid.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:41

      Coal Hill School has been a feature of Doctor Who since the first episode, but now we get to see the day-to-day adventures of the students coping with intrusions from space and time.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, drama, crime, detective, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:30

      Inspector John Marlott investigates a series of crimes in 19th Century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The story of George, who being frustrated by memories of fighting in the great war and living with his extended family, wants to bring more beauty into the world. When he comes across a camel and monkey that are about to be abandoned, he embarks on a plan to set up a zoo.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Julien Baptiste delves into the criminal underworld of Amsterdam's red light district and uncovers a complex web of deceit and lies.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France
      Duration00:41

      In London, the life of Jean, a troubled crime scene cleaner, is turned upside down when his outlaw brother Martin crash lands into his world, entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genredrama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration08:48

      The Hollow Crown is a series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays. The first Season is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV, Part I and Henry IV, Part II (treated as one film in two parts in the series) and Henry V. The Second Season is subtitled "The Wars of the Roses" as a reference to its scope. It is based on Shakespeare's first tetralogy: Henry VI: Part I, Henry VI: Part II, Henry VI: Part III (treated as two films in the series) and Richard III.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A black comedy about three ordinary guys who find themselves, forced by an extraordinary set of circumstances, into setting up an assisted-suicide business.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A young girl with a learning disability makes her way through life.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration00:35

      Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:00

      Karen Clarke was an ordinary girl thrown into an extraordinary world, as she first meets the glamorous Biba and her brother Rex in one long summer of love, but quickly becomes tangled up in their tragic family history with the romantic idyll turning into a nightmare – one that haunts her to the present day. She will go to extraordinary lengths to protect her family and the secrets that she keeps from them.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genreaction, drama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:30

      A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:25

      Dates is a British television romantic drama series created by Bryan Elsley, who also created Skins, which first aired on Channel 4 on 10 June 2013, at 22:00, as part of its "Mating Season" programming, illustrating a series of first dates between online dating service users. The show's target audience is "ABC1".

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A two-part drama about the search in 2008 for missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      Today is the day Ivy Moxham will escape from the cellar that's been her prison for the last 13 years. Today is the day she'll return to her home, to her family, to her life. Today is only the beginning. Thirteen explores how to pick up the threads of a life half-lived and how to survive as a family under the greatest pressure: how to feel again, chance love again. It is a psychological drama about who to trust when you can't even trust yourself. Ivy Moxham is a young girl. Ivy Moxham is a woman. Ivy Moxham is whoever you want her to be.

      Markimdb: 8.8
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      This mockumentary goes behind the microphone of Kurupt FM - the second most popular pirate radio station in West London, receiving up to eight texts per show and playing the finest in UK garage and drum 'n' bass. Co-founded by the MC Sniper and DJ Beats in 2002, the station has now built up a following of over a hundred people and has attracted the attention of the BBC who are making a documentary about the lives of those behind Kurupt FM

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Factual drama based on the notorious White House Farm murders, and the ensuing police investigation and court case.

      Markimdb: 8.9
      Genrecomedy, sport
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom

      Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      Three-part crime thriller. When detective Marcus Farrow looks into a seemingly forgotten case, he has no idea of the chaos and heartache that will soon follow. He is found at the scene of a murder, and with all the evidence pointing towards him, he is arrested and charged.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:59

        An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the pasts that follow them there. A love story, mystery, and social comedy all in one.




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