English TV series about disappearances

List of the best English TV series about disappearances according to viewers: The Bay, House of Anubis, Baghdad Central, Top of the Lake, The Last Kingdom, Pure, Deadwater Fell, Gentleman Jack, Chasing Shadows, Dickensian.

In the top there are new series of 2021, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

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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: 7.4
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:22

House of Anubis is a jointly Nickelodeon British, American, and Belgian mystery television series based on the Dutch-Belgian television series Het Huis Anubis aired in the Netherlands and Belgium. The series was created by Hans Bourlon and Gert Verhulst and premiered on Nickelodeon on New Year's Day 2011 in the United States and on 25 February 2011 in the United Kingdom. The series is the first Nickelodeon series to be filmed overseas, the first soap opera created by Nickelodeon and the channel's first soap opera aimed at children and teenagers. As of 25 February, the program will be broadcast on TeenNick. The show has since concluded its third season and as of 28 September 2013 Nickelodeon has not announced a fourth season.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom

Shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi ex-policeman Muhsin al-Khafaji has lost everything and is battling daily to keep himself and his sick daughter, Mrouj safe. But when he learns that his estranged elder daughter Sawsan is missing Khafaji is forced into a desperate search to find her.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, USA
Duration05:00

A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.

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: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:33

Marnie is not OK. She's had x-rated thoughts for the last 3672 days and she doesn't know why or what they mean. When she jumps on a coach to London, she doesn't know a soul, not even herself, but in the city she will build a new life.

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: 8.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:56

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.

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

Chasing Shadows' follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity Shop sits next door to The Three Cripples Pub, while Fagin’s Den is hidden down a murky alley off a bustling Victorian street.

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: 8.3
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: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:55

The beautiful Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, navigates the royal lineage of England with an eye on the throne.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:00

Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.

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: 8.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:46

    Lives are torn apart and relationships fractured forever when a young child goes missing. Five years later, DCI Maggie Brand leads a new investigation and puts at risk her own happy family life.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    When tough-acting loner paramedic Maleek is paired with over-friendly divorcee Wendy, their partnership looks dead on arrival. But pretty soon they're giving each other life support.

    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: 7.2
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

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

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair, a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

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

    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: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:46

    Follow three women as they each make life-changing mistakes regarding their children and husbands, which lead to unpredictable criminal consequences. Based on Paula Daly's best selling novel, Windermere.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:40

    A group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university!

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:30

    Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts -- the improbably named Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen -- the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilization. Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die -- one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys' -- a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: '... and then there were none.

    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: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can’t have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they’re ready to be parents?

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecrime, detective
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom

    When Eliza Scarlet’s father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

    Markimdb: 8.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration00:43

      A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.

      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: 6.2
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      New Worlds is a gripping 4 part mini series dealing with love, loss and the human price paid for the freedoms and liberties we enjoy today. We follow the fortunes of four young people - Beth, Hope, Abe and Ned - from across both sides of the Atlantic, caught up in these turbulent times. We see them struggle as they are torn between love and ideals in the harsh reality of the changing world. In England, the restored monarchy of Charles II has betrayed its promises and reverted to tyranny. Behind the decadence of the Court, a terror machine is repressing the freedoms won for the people with so much blood during the Civil War of England when Charles I was executed. In America, the tentacles of state terror reach the English colonists of New England who are struggling to throw off the shackles of the English Crown. At the same time the colonists are ruthlessly staking their claim to the territories occupied by the Native American Indians, and shedding much of the American Indian's blood in the process - in a chilling echo of the tyrannical behaviour that they sought to escape from when they crossed the Atlantic

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      'Unforgotten' follows modern police team DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan, who gradually unravel long-forgotten secrets which have a dramatic impact on their investigation and the four potential suspects. The slow revelation of the secrets will also affect the personal lives of both Sunny and Cassie.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrefantastic, action, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:40

      In Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life together as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their comprehension.

      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: 8.1
      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: 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: 8.4
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:46

      The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

      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: 7.5
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:59

      Witty, heartfelt and unique interlinked stories covering different aspects of LGBT life, featuring the most exciting emerging talent.

      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: 7.6
      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: 7.8
      Genredocumentary
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Fry's Planet Word sees Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.

      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: 8.1
      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: 8.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:44

      Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.

      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: 6.9
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      By Any Means follows a clandestine unit living on the edge and playing the criminal elite at their own game, existing in the grey area between the letter of the law and true justice.

      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: 7.1
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The daily troubles of the people who work in a busy West Midlands Job Centre, and the people who don’t work there, or anywhere else for that matter.




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