English TV series about crime bosses

List of the best English TV series about crime bosses according to viewers: Peaky Blinders, Spotless, People Just Do Nothing, Bedlam, Vexed, World Without End, Man Down, The Bay, This Is England '86, Criminal: UK.

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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: 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: 8.5
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: 6.4
Genrehorror, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:43

Bedlam was a British supernatural drama television series created by David Allison, Neil Jones and Chris Parker. It first aired on 7 February 2011 on Sky Living and Sky Living HD. The series finale was aired on 15 March 2011. In December 2011, it was announced that a second series had been commissioned for airing in Spring 2012 with an updated cast. Series 2 began airing in June 2012 with Lacey Turner taking the lead as a suspended paramedic who can see dead people. On 13 November 2012 Jack Roth who plays Max in the series revealed that Bedlam may return for Series 3 and that a decision on the shows future is to be made around Christmas 2012. On 11 March 2013 Roth announced on Twitter that Bedlam would not be returning for a third series.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:59

Comedy drama following a mismatched pair of police officers who disagree on everything with their partner, from policing to their personal life.

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: 7.6
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

Dan is a childish idiot trapped in an adult’s life, whose world is at near collapse.His girlfriend Naomi is fast running out of patience with his inability to navigate the simplest of life tasks. He has two uniquely dysfunctional friends and a listless teaching career that sees him begrudgingly teach a version of the same lesson every day, inexplicably popular with all but one of the pupils, with his only highlight coming in the form of Miss Lipsey, a head mistress who views Dan with a mixture of pity and despair. To make matters worse, he is tormented daily by his willfully insane father, whose driving motivation in life seems to be to ensure his son is humiliated at every turn.

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: 8.3
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:43

It's 1986 - the year Maradona ends England's world cup dreams in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed and the year Shaun is leaving school.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecrime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain
Duration01:00

Within the walls of an interrogation room and with time running out, London investigators go after three suspects, each accused of a grievous crime.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:00

Following the fact-based historical book of the same name, this drama follows the rise of Cromwell as he becomes Henry the VIII's closest advisor. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

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: 8.2
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:57

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in a comedy that follows an American man and an Irish woman who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

When strange young misfit Kim Noakes was just a little girl, her father died in murky circumstances and her mother Tina whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techniques. Now all grown up, Kim sets out into the real world for the first time to begin a secret mission of honouring her father’s memory.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:42

When a teenage couple runs away to be together, the extraordinary gift they possess unleashes powerful forces intent on dividing them forever.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, adventure, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:50

Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore. But are they true? We take a slightly tongue in cheek, mischievous – and deliberately ambiguous – look at what might have happened...

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

Meg, Nicky and Usman's lives all revolve around their obsession for the massively popular fantasy game "Kingdom Scrolls" – a mystical, magical and most importantly virtual world of wizards and wyverns. But when gaming n00b Russell bumbles into their team, the group find themselves increasingly forced to deal with the real world.

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: 6.6
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

Love — and lies — spiral when a DNA researcher helps discover a way to find the perfect partner, and creates a bold new matchmaking service.

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: 8.1
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:60

Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces to find the Antichrist and stop Armageddon.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:30

The lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed all in white.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:55

Robyn, the sharp and witty publicity maven, is an expert at her craft but a complete self-saboteur when it comes to her personal life. Robyn’s work as a crisis PR strategist is fast-paced and unpredictable, as she counsels high-profile personalities in entertainment, fashion and sports.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, history, sport
CountryUnited Kingdom

Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide navigate professional and personal turmoil to change the game — and England — forever.

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.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration03:00

    A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:30

    A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and Steve in the present day.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration01:00

    The plot follows detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wasserman working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between France and the UK. They later learn that the killer—who comes to be nicknamed the "Truth Terrorist"—is on a moral crusade to highlight many social problems, terrorising both countries in the process

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Anna, Nancy, Louie and Cat have had enough of their tyrannical young boss Jack Evans, and make a drunken snap decision at a work function that has shocking repercussions.

    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
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland

    Coming-of-age drama about lovable rogues Conor and Jock as they navigate their awkward teenage years, hatching plans and adventures to help distract from their tough home lives and their inability to stay out of trouble at school.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:31

    Detective dramas featuring private investigator Cormoran Strike based on the novels by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling's pen name).

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:59

    When a pizza delivery driver is shot dead in south London, a tenacious detective goes after the people traffickers behind his murder and unravels a conspiracy that goes to the top.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

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

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    The life of Tracey, a religious, Beyoncé-obsessed 22-year-old living in an estate in Tower Hamlets, and the mishaps of her neighbourhood, friends and family. Oh, and obvs her boyfriend!

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, crime, detective, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    The story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher deliberately breached police procedure and protocol to catch a killer, a decision that ultimately cost him his career and reputation.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in northern suburbia. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, on the brink of adulthood, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:42

    The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Father Michael, a Catholic priest presiding over a Northern urban parish who is Modern, maverick, and reassuringly flawed; must be confidante, counselor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:59

    A year after the disappearance of their son, Gabe and Eve Caleigh and their two daughters attempt to start anew, they head to Crickley Hall - a seemingly perfect countryside house. But when cellar doors start to open on their own, phantom children's cries are heard through the night and a frenzied cane-wielding specter rears its head - the Caleigh's realize the house comes with a lot more than they bargained for. Just as they're ready to move out, Eve Caleigh hears Cam's cries and all bets are off.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    Drama about a fictional British Royal family set in modern day London, who inhabit a world of opulence and regal tradition that caters to any and every desire, but one that also comes with a price tag of duty, destiny and intense public scrutiny.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:30

    Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:32

    Sally4Ever follows the life of Sally, a soon-to-be promoted marketer who, for 10 years, has lived a comfortable and dull suburban life with David. But on the night he asks her to marry him, Sally has a crisis and embarks on a wild affair with Emma, a seductive, charismatic, boho actress, singer, musician, poet and author. Before Sally knows it, Emma has moved in, rearranged the furniture and her life. Is this really what Sally wants, or has she made a mistake?

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Three-part contemporary ghost story set in Yorkshire. Tom Parfitt's arrival at a local retirement home leads to an eerie unexpected death.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    After finding out he has an STI, Dylan must get back in touch with every girl he has ever had sex with to let them know the bad news.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A dedicated forensic psychiatrist, Emma Robertson, is assigned to assess the sanity of Connie Mortensen, a “yummy mummy” accused of a despicable crime.

    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: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:59

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