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: 7.6 |
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: 7.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.
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: 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: 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.
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: 6.3 |
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: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, crime, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Belgravia, London, November 7th, 1974. Sandra Rivett, nanny of the aristocratic Lucan family, is found beaten to death. Shortly thereafter, the prime suspect, John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, mysteriously disappears. When the manhunt begins, the subsequent scandal shakes the foundations of the British ruling class like never before.
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: 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: 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: 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: 7.6 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United 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.
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: 7.1 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective |
Country | Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom, Norway |
Duration | 02:04 |
Detective Inspector Eva Thörnblad returns to Silver Height seven years after her daughter Josefine disappeared by a lake in the woods. The body was never found and the girl was believed to have drowned. Now a boy has vanished without a trace and Thörnblad wants to find out if there is a link to her daughter's disappearance. At the same time , she will take care of the legacy of her father, the great entrepreneur Johan Thörnblad, who built an empire of timber and timber processing on the large forest owned by his ancestors. As the plot deepens more children are kidnapped and what initially seems like a police drama takes a more sinister and stranger twist with each episode.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:40 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Based on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie’s quest to bring to justice notorious Scottish killer Peter Manuel.
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: 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: 7.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Soulful thriller set in Tokyo and London, exploring the butterfly effect of a single murder across two cities. A dark, witty and daring examination of morality and redemption.
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: 7.9 |
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: 6.4 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:40 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:18 |
After his daughter goes missing, a widower begins uncovering the dark secrets of the people closest to him.
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: 7.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre lead an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that goes to the very heart of Britain’s national security.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:18 |
It's 1933, and an older and greyer Hercule Poirot has fallen out of the public eye. When he receives anonymous letters threatening murder, he must take matters into his own hands.
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: 8.6 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
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: 7.6 |
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: 7.7 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:52 |
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.
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 |
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
A two-part drama about the search in 2008 for missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Charismatic adventurer Franklin Blake is on the most important quest of his life - to solve the disappearance of the priceless Moonstone and win back Rachel Verinder, his one true love.
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: 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.