English TV series about the law

List of the best English TV series about the law according to viewers: Can’t Get You Out of My Head, Made in Chelsea, From Darkness, Skins, Informer, James May's Cars of the People, Life, The English Game, The Pale Horse, Trump: An American Dream.

In the top there are new series of 2023, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 8.5
Genredocumentary, history
CountryUnited Kingdom

Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genredocumentary, reality TV
CountryUnited Kingdom

Reality series following the lives, loves and awks of SW3's bright young things.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:40

The story of Claire Church, a former police officer who moves away to the remote Western Isles in an attempt to escape the past and violence that still haunts her. Soon, Claire is pulled back into an investigation she thought she long left behind, by her former lover and colleague DCI John Hind and his new DS Anthony Boyce.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, drama, short
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:45

Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

Raza, a young second-generation British-Pakistani man from London is coerced by Gabe, a counterterrorism officer, into informing.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genredocumentary
CountryUnited Kingdom

Top Gear's James May presents this 3 part series which takes a look at the 'peoples car'. Covering every form of cars for the masses - from the Beetle to the Kei Car, May looks at the many forms of people's car, their origins and their effect on history. Each episode covers a particular theme; these being cars from dictatorships, microcars and the dream cars we aspire to.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Gail, Belle, David, and Hannah all encounter new and disruptive influences in their lives, kicking off interweaving stories set in a house in Manchester, England, UK, divided into four flats.

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: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins investigating and is drawn to the The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumored witches living in a small village. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using dark arts.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredocumentary, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom

Friends, associates and critics reveal the truly American story of Donald Trump, the brash businessman who defied the odds to become U.S. president.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genreadventure, documentary, reality TV
CountryUnited Kingdom

Follow Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman as they travel on electric Harley-Davidsons 13,000 miles through Central and South America. A follow up to previous series Long Way Round and Long Way Down.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

Having stumbled into a career in contract killing, misfits Fran and Jamie are not your typical killers for hire. Working out of their scruffy van, each episode follows the hapless duo as they try to carry out their latest hit, inevitably derailed by incompetence, bickering, and inane antics. As each hit goes south, our (anti)heroes are thrown into one bizarre misadventure after another, each full of oddball characters and unexpected dilemmas.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:00

A dutiful Liverpool beat cop discovers what he is truly capable of after his partner is brutally murdered in a targeted attack by a local gang.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

Some Girls is a British comedy series written by Bernadette Davis that airs on BBC Three. The show stars Adelayo Adedayo, Mandeep Dhillon, Alice Felgate, Natasha Jonas, Dolly Wells, Colin Salmon, Jassa Ahluwalia and Franz Drameh. It debuted on 6 November 2012 and the first series ran for six episodes.BBC Three announced at the end of the first series that the show would return for a second series. On 18 September 2013, they confirmed that each episode of the second series will premiere on BBC iPlayer a week ahead of being broadcast on BBC Three. The first episode became available on iPlayer on 23 September and will be broadcast on BBC Three on 30 September with the rest of the series following that trend.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantasy, family
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany

Mayhem and mishaps follow young witch Mildred Hubble wherever she goes. She just can't help it! But with her friends' help, Mildred always manages to avoid disaster just in time.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom

A wealthy London housewife is forced to return to her hometown in Australia, where she's forced to confront her past and the reasons that caused her to leave years ago.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

Set against the backdrop of one of the most explosive times in U.K. history, Guerrilla tells the story of a politically active couple whose relationship and values are tested when they liberate a political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1970s London.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:58

Lip Service was a British television serial drama portraying the lives of a group of lesbians living in Glasgow, Scotland. Production on the show, which stars Laura Fraser, Ruta Gedmintas and Fiona Button, began in summer 2009 in Glasgow. The show debuted on BBC Three on 12 October 2010. Filming on a second series was confirmed in late 2010, with filming beginning on 30 May 2011. The second series aired on BBC Three from 20 April 2012. In January of 2013, shows creator, Harriet Braun, announced that BBC Three cancelled the series without explanation.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration04:27

From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:13

A down-and-out DJ plots to rebuild his music career while working as a nanny for his famous best friend's wild 11-year-old daughter.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:40

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountryUSA, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Austria
Duration06:00

Scarlett is a 1994 six hour miniseries loosely based on the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone with the Wind, written by Alexandra Ripley. The series was filmed at 53 locations in the United States and abroad, and stars Joanne Whalley as Scarlett O'Hara, Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler, and Sean Bean as Lord Richard Fenton as well as many other notable British and American actors.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:40

When the body of a foreign student is discovered in the streets of the down-at-heel city of Besźel, it’s just another day’s work for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But he uncovers evidence that the murdered girl came from Ul Qoma, a city that shares a dangerous and volatile relationship with Besźel, and this case will challenge everything Borlú holds dear.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, game
CountryUnited Kingdom

8 Out of 10 Cats is a British television comedy panel game produced by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by company Harris Poll. The show's title is derived from a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas cat food, which originally claimed that "8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas".

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

Neve Kelly discovers she is dead. She’s scared and confused by this new existence. But, when she realizes she has been murdered, she’s furious. She’s determined to find her killer and get justice, believing that it was someone she knew.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:53

When the news is announced that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course with Earth, the most hilarious and unexpected chain of events imaginable is set in motion.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:00

    A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredocumentary, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Andrew Marr's History of the World is a 2012 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers 70,000 years of world history from the beginning of human civilisation, as African nomadic peoples spread out around the world and settled down to become the first farmers, up to the twentieth century.

    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: 6.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Family-based sitcom set in the capital of British Pakistan - Sparkhill, Birmingham. Citizen Khan follows the trials and tribulations of loud-mouthed, tight-fisted, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan and his long suffering family, wife Mrs Khan and daughters Shazia and Alia.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    A tale of secrets and scandals set in 1840s London. When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will have consequences for decades to come as secrets unravel behind the porticoed doors of London’s grandest postcode.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genredocumentary
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Explorer Levison Wood sets out on a nine-month walk along the length of the River Nile, visiting rainforests, deserts, cities and war zones, and encountering modern Africa, its people and its wildlife.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:00

    Frankie is a British television drama series created by Lucy Gannon. The series stars Eve Myles as the eponymous character Frankie Maddox, a district nurse more emotionally involved with her job than her personal life. The series is both set and filmed in the English city of Bristol.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredocumentary
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    Cameras in space tell stories of life on our planet from a brand new perspective, revealing new discoveries, incredible colours and patterns, and just how fast it is changing.

    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: 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: 5.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to repeat a terrible tragedy. Adaptation of the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    An incendiary hate crime stirs civil unrest, fast-tracking rookie cop Kurt Wallander to detective in this origin story for the popular character.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A prisoner consumed by guilt, an officer with an impossible choice. What does it take to survive? A tense story of punishment and principles, starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham.

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