Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Drama series set in 1953, against the backdrop of the real hamlet of Grantchester. The drama focuses upon the life of Sidney Chambers, a charismatic, charming clergyman who turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:30 |
Danny is a gregarious, hedonistic romantic who gets drawn into the dangerous world of British espionage in this contemporary, emotional thriller. He falls for the anti-social but enigmatic Alex, both from opposite worlds, and they soon realise they’re perfect for each other. But when Alex suddenly disappears, Danny is utterly ill-equipped to take on his complex and codified world. Young, innocent and adrift he needs to decide whether he’s prepared to fight for the truth?
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
A drama dealing with the abduction and murder of a young black girl, soon to be adopted by her white foster family, and the trail of lies, blame, guilt and notoriety which follow.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, Italy, Germany |
Duration | 04:30 |
Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin. The series was filmed on location in Italy, but the dialogue is in English. The series, which comprises three 90-minute films, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sunday evenings from 2 January 2011 on BBC One. The three films were based on the books Vendetta, Cabal and Ratking.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:43 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective, biography |
Country | United 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.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 03:34 |
A dark and compelling thriller centering on Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft, a female detective with an explosive secret.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:30 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Chasing Shadows' follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Two detectives are dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, but as the case of the missing children intensifies, both are forced to confront the darkness that lies in their past.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:41 |
DI Cadi John and DC Owen Vaughan try to solve a case involving Mali Pryce, a young woman whose body was discovered in a stream in the woods.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
U.S. police chief Bill Hixon lands in the British town of Boston, Lincolnshire, with his 14-year-old daughter Kelsey in tow hoping they can flee their painful recent past. But this unfamiliar, unimpressed community will force Bill to question everything about himself and leave him asking whether it's Boston that needs Bill, or Bill that needs Boston?
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Based on Iain Banks's best-selling novel, this romantic mystery follows Stewart as he returns to his childhood home and tries to discover the truth behind his best friend's death.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 07:20 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 01:00 |
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
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United 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.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United 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.
Mark | imdb: 8.2 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
An incendiary hate crime stirs civil unrest, fast-tracking rookie cop Kurt Wallander to detective in this origin story for the popular character.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:52 |
DI Helen Weeks grapples with pregnancy as she undertakes a very personal abduction case.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:42 |
Cassie Bedford has visions... whether she likes it or not. Sometimes she encounters unsettled spirits who need her help. When her father, Detective Tom Hackett, and his new partner, former FBI agent Damien Asante, need assistance, Cassie reluctantly uses her abilities and helps solve some of the city’s most challenging cases.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:00 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:20 |
After seven years in prison, David Collins is acquitted of the murder of his wife. Now, he must fight to rebuild his shattered life while police search for the real murderer.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Romance, rivalry and radical mystery collide as a group of teens attend a remote island sleepaway camp in this suspenseful, supernatural drama.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United 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.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 00:30 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United 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.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Prime Suspect 1973 tells the story of 22-year-old Jane Tennison's first days in the police force, in which she endured flagrant sexism before being thrown in at the deep end with a murder enquiry.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men, the series explores the personal and professional consequences of coming into contact with a man like Nilsen.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:29 |
A serial killer thriller told in reverse, unravelling the truth behind a series of murders as DCI Gabriel Markham hunts down a brutal killer.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:46 |
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:31 |
Detective dramas featuring private investigator Cormoran Strike based on the novels by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling's pen name).
Mark | imdb: 8.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Jonathan Creek follows the story of Madeline Magellan, an investigative journalist. Like most journalists, she sticks her nose in where it isn't wanted, but this is what makes her such a great journalist! While writing a piece about the death of a prominent artist, she happens across a man named Jonathan Creek. Jonathan makes a living inventing magical tricks for magician Adam Klaus, and has a brilliantly lateral mind.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:43 |
13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Arthur & George is a three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' novel about Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle as played by actor Martin Clunes. Set in 1906 in Staffordshire, Hampshire and London the drama follows Sir Arthur and his trusted secretary, Alfred ‘Woodie’ Wood as they investigate the case of George Edalji, a young Anglo-Indian solicitor who was imprisoned for allegedly mutilating animals and writing obscene letters.
Mark | imdb: 8.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, West Germany |
Paul Temple is a British-German television series . It features Francis Matthews as Paul Temple, the fictional detective created by Francis Durbridge, who solves crimes with the assistance of his wife Steve. Paul Temple used overseas locations in France, Malta, Germany and elsewhere. T
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
During the thrilling social change of the mid-1950s, four remarkable women who previously served secretly during WWII as code-breakers, turn their skills to solving murders overlooked by police. In the process they are plunged into fascinating corners of the city, forge powerful relationships, and rediscover their own powers and potential.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | horror, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:43 |
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Three adult siblings find their family thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother, Vivien, declares she is in love with a new man. The tension his presence creates threatens to drag the whole family towards tragedy, and perhaps crime.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Emma Banville, a human rights lawyer known for defending lost causes, sets out to prove the innocence of Kevin Russell, who was convicted for the murder of a school girl 14 years earlier.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how you look.