English TV series about retribution

List of the best English TV series about retribution according to viewers: And Then There Were None, Dancing on the Edge, Urban Myths, Penny Dreadful, Cuckoo, Stag, The Hollow Crown, The Spanish Princess, The Job Lot, Partners in Crime.

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

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: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration07:30

An explosive 1930s drama following a jazz band in London at a time of huge change.

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: 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: 7.2
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

Dark comedy about a group of obnoxious friends who struggle to survive the Stag Weekend from hell, as a deer-stalking expedition in the Scottish Highlands quickly turns messier than expected.

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
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: 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.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:40

Set in a 1950s Britain rising from the ashes of the Blitz into the grip of a new Cold War, our beekeeping duo stumble into a world of murder, undercover agents and cold war conspiracy. Tuppence is a woman who sees adventure round every corner, throwing herself head first into every mystery with passion and fervour, determined to get to the truth no matter what it takes, much to the dismay of her more cautious husband Tommy.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:10

In a world where everyone is striving for what is not worth having, no one is more determined to climb to the heights of English society than Becky Sharp.

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

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

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: 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: 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: 8.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:54

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

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: 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: 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: 7.2
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

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

    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: 6.4
    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: 7.8
    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: 7.4
    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: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:00

    "The Game" is a 1970s Cold War spy thriller set in the world of espionage. It tells the story of the invisible war fought by MI5 as it battles to protect the nation from the threats of the Cold War.

    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: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:20

    Paul Pennyfeather is an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Hebburn is a warm and affectionate tale of north east family life. It tells the tale of the Pearson family and their impetuous and ambitious son, Jack, who has left Tyneside for the bright lights and glamour of Manchester. He has secretly married a middle class Jewish girl, Sarah, and realises that it is about time he introduced her to his family.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Longing for love, obsessed with sex, Linda is on the hunt for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than she thought.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, we follow the trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her odious mistress Caroline.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A thrilling drama based on the novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration03:00

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

    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: 7.6
    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: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:11

    A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.

    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: 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: 7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:23

    Comedy series about three young women living in Leeds who've graduated, had a year out, and are now struggling to find a job they're passionate about, a place to live that is half decent and a boyfriend they actually like. A sitcom about making terrible decisions, but having a brilliant time doing it.The show focuses on Meg, her eccentric cousin Bunny and their friend Laura as they discover that life might just be a bit tougher than they had imagined. From demeaning Promotions jobs complete with mad outfits to pursuing the men of their dreams - yet dating the men of their nightmares - the girls face '#FML-worthy' disasters in both their work and personal lives.

    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: 7.8
    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: 8.1
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
    Duration07:20

    A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.

    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: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration00:30

    The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now a man shows up on their doorstep claiming Jack’s innocence. The family must come to terms with this news and the fact that the real killer might still be among them.

    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: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration03:00

    The life of an orphan is changed by the providential intervention of a mysterious benefactor.

    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: 7.4
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:00

    The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.

    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: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:54

    Exile is a British psychological thriller television series dealing with the topic of Alzheimer's disease against a background of corruption. It stars John Simm and Jim Broadbent and was broadcast on BBC One. The series received varyingly positive reviews.John Simm received a BAFTA nomination for his role as Tom Ronstadt, as did the director John Alexander.

    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.




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