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1. Death in Paradise (2011– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A Detective Inspector is transferred from London to the Caribbean island of Saint-Marie to investigate and solve complex murders.
Stars: Elizabeth Bourgine, Don Warrington, Danny John-Jules, Joséphine Jobert
Votes: 27,286
2. Midsomer Murders (1997– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A veteran Detective Chief Inspector and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer County.
Stars: John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson, Neil Dudgeon
Votes: 39,019
3. Vera (2011– )
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
With her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her team as they face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.
Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Jon Morrison, Riley Jones, Kenny Doughty
Votes: 19,661
4. Sex Education (2019–2023)
TV-MA | 1,755 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A teenage boy with a sex therapist mother teams up with a high school classmate to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Stars: Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey
Votes: 348,212
5. Sherlock (2010–2017)
TV-14 | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The quirky spin on Conan Doyle's iconic sleuth pitches him as a "high-functioning sociopath" in modern-day London. Assisting him in his investigations: Afghanistan War vet John Watson, who's introduced to Holmes by a mutual acquaintance.
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves
Votes: 991,861
6. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen
Votes: 683,345 | Gross: $532.18M
7. The Night Manager (2016)
TV-14 | 346 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The night manager of a Cairo hotel is recruited to infiltrate an arms dealer's inner circle.
Stars: Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Debicki, Olivia Colman
Votes: 102,214
8. The Terror (2018–2025)
TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Supernatural, semihistorical, horror anthology series, where each season is inspired by a different infamous or mysterious real life historical tragedy.
Stars: Jared Harris, Derek Mio, Tobias Menzies, Kiki Sukezane
Votes: 50,924
9. Rush (I) (2013)
R | 123 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara
Votes: 510,755 | Gross: $26.95M
10. Magpie (2024)
R | 90 min | Thriller
A couple find their lives turned upside-down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial major star.
Director: Sam Yates | Stars: Daisy Ridley, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Shazad Latif, Alistair Petrie
Votes: 45
11. Whitechapel (2009–2013)
TV-14 | 817 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A fast-tracked inspector, a hardened detective sergeant, and an expert in historical homicides investigate modern crimes with connections to the past in the Whitechapel district of London.
Stars: Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton, Sam Stockman
Votes: 14,656
12. Strike Back (2010–2020)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive unit of British military intelligence. A team of special operations personnel conduct several high risk missions across the globe.
Stars: Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Michelle Lukes, Daniel MacPherson
Votes: 33,378
13. Cloud Atlas (2012)
R | 172 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
Directors: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 373,582 | Gross: $27.11M
14. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022)
TV-MA | 174 min | Mystery, Thriller
A dying man's enigmatic last words send vicar's son, Bobby Jones, and his socialite friend, Lady Frankie Derwent, on a crime-solving adventure.
Stars: Will Poulter, Lucy Boynton, Daniel Ings, Jonathan Jules
Votes: 7,748
15. Genius (I) (2017– )
TV-14 | 43 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life stories of history's greatest minds, from their days as young adults to their final years: their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws, and genius.
Stars: Samantha Colley, Seth Gabel, Antonio Banderas, Clémence Poésy
Votes: 20,056
16. Hellboy (2019)
R | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, Hellboy battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane
Votes: 98,029 | Gross: $21.90M
17. Utopia (I) (2013–2014)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After a group of people, who meet online, discover a bizarre graphic novel which seems to hold mysterious answers, they find themselves being tracked down by a merciless organization known merely as 'The Network'.
Stars: Adeel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Neil Maskell, Fiona O'Shaughnessy
Votes: 50,810
18. Jonathan Creek (1997–2016)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jonathan Creek, a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles, works from his home in a converted windmill. He uses his abilities to solve impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
Stars: Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin, Stuart Milligan, Julia Sawalha
Votes: 8,941
19. The Bank Job (2008)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry along with a treasure trove of dirty secrets.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays
Votes: 188,789 | Gross: $30.06M
20. Funny Woman (2023– )
TV-MA | 47 min | Comedy
A young woman from Blackpool finds her voice in the male-dominated world of the 1960s comedy and takes London by storm.
Stars: Gemma Arterton, Tom Bateman, Arsher Ali, Rupert Everett
Votes: 2,640
21. The Cursed (2021)
R | 111 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger - and exorcise some of his own demons in the process.
Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran
Votes: 15,694
22. Cranford (2007–2009)
TV-PG | 469 min | Drama
In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip, and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.
Stars: Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie, Deborah Findlay
Votes: 10,568
23. Deep State (2018–2019)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
What happens when a man who believes he has retired from MI6 is called back to do one more job to regain his life, only to discover that this job may mean he has no life to go back to.
Stars: Joe Dempsie, Karima McAdams, Anastasia Griffith, Alistair Petrie
Votes: 6,819
24. The Duchess (2008)
PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.
Director: Saul Dibb | Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 87,069 | Gross: $13.82M
25. Hampstead (2017)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American widow finds unexpected love with a man living wild on Hampstead Heath when they take on the developers who want to destroy his home.
Director: Joel Hopkins | Stars: James Norton, Brendan Gleeson, Hugh Skinner, Diane Keaton
Votes: 7,163 | Gross: $0.14M
26. Holby City (1999–2022)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama
The everyday lives, professional and personal, of the doctors, nurses and patients who find themselves, for various reasons, in the wards of the frenetic cardiac unit of Holby City General Hospital.
Stars: Hugh Quarshie, Rosie Marcel, Jaye Jacobs, Bob Barrett
Votes: 2,578
27. Dalziel and Pascoe (1996–2007)
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Mystery, Drama
Superintendent Dalziel and partner DI Pascoe investigate murder, and find a bond forming between them despite their blatantly different personalities.
Stars: Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan, David Royle, Jennifer James
Votes: 3,284
28. A Little Chaos (2014)
R | 117 min | Drama, Romance
Two talented landscape artists become romantically entangled while building a garden in King Louis XIV's palace at Versailles.
Director: Alan Rickman | Stars: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Matthias Schoenaerts
Votes: 25,274 | Gross: $0.55M
29. Victor Frankenstein (2015)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.
Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott
Votes: 59,887 | Gross: $5.78M
30. The Forsyte Saga (2002–2003)
TV-PG | 276 min | Drama, History, Romance
Chronicles the lives of three generations of the upper-middle-class British family, the Forsytes, from the 1870s to 1920.
Stars: Damian Lewis, Rupert Graves, Gina McKee, Amanda Root
Votes: 6,506
31. Silent Hours (2021 TV Movie)
156 min | Crime, Thriller
Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered.
Director: Mark Greenstreet | Stars: Tim Allen, Susie Amy, John Baldwin, Sarah Bascombe
Votes: 1,549
32. Emma (1996 TV Movie)
TV-G | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Faithful, enchanting adaptation of Jane Austen's nineteenth-century tale of Emma Woodhouse--a clever young woman whose mischievous matchmaking schemes nearly end up jeopardizing her own shot at romance.
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Bernard Hepton, Mark Strong, Samantha Bond
Votes: 6,061
33. New Blood (2016)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The series follows junior investigators Stefan and Rash, who are brought together by a link between two seemingly unrelated cases.
Stars: Mark Strepan, Ben Tavassoli, Mark Addy, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 3,026
34. A Plague Tale: Requiem (2022 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
After escaping their devastated homeland, Amicia and Hugo travel far south. There, they attempt to start a new life and control Hugo's curse. But, when Hugo's powers reawaken, death and destruction return in a flood of devouring rats.
Directors: Sergey Hogart, Victor Voron, Kevin Choteau, Jason Baughan | Stars: Robyn Wolf, Chloe Louis, Tom Hudson, Giorgia Sinicorni
Votes: 2,130
35. Year of the Rabbit (2019)
30 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Detective Inspector Rabbit, a dedicated, tough, thick, and oft-inebriated Victorian copper, sleuths his way across London with his two young partners: a doofy rookie and a brilliant Black policewoman no one ever believes.
Stars: Matt Berry, Freddie Fox, Susan Wokoma, Alun Armstrong
Votes: 3,953
36. The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies (2023– )
300 min | Drama, Thriller
Two very different women, Alice, a would-be designer, and Cheryl, a best-selling fantasy author, become trapped in a triangle of epic proportions with Rob, a conman posing as an ecopreneur who may or may not be trying to destroy them both.
Stars: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Alistair Petrie, Rebekah Staton, Julian Barratt
Votes: 1,076
37. The Escape Artist (2013)
180 min | Drama, Thriller
A junior barrister celebrated for spiriting people out of tight legal corners represents an accused murderer.
Stars: David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Brid Brennan, Sophie Okonedo
Votes: 6,887
38. Harley and the Davidsons (2016)
TV-14 | 60 min | Biography, History
Bill Harley joins Walter and Arthur Davidson to risk their fortunes and livelihoods launching the now-iconic motorcycle company. Each has his own challenges to overcome, but they are united by their dreams and ambitions.
Stars: Michiel Huisman, Bug Hall, Robert Aramayo, Annie Read
Votes: 3,493
39. Mrs Dalloway (1997)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance
In 1923 London, socialite Clarissa Dalloway's (Vanessa Redgrave's) well-planned party is overshadowed by the return of an old suitor she had known thirty-three years earlier.
Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox
Votes: 4,165 | Gross: $3.26M
40. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011–2014)
386 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
"The Suspicions of Mr Whicher" premiered in 2011 and starred Paddy Considine as Jonathan 'Jack' Whicher, a detective leading the investigation into a notorious child murder in the 1860s. ... See full summary »
Stars: Paddy Considine, Tim Pigott-Smith, William Beck, Nancy Carroll
Votes: 920
41. The Game (2014–2015)
59 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A Cold War spy thriller that tells the story of invisible wars fought by MI5.
Stars: Tom Hughes, Jonathan Aris, Victoria Hamilton, Shaun Dooley
Votes: 3,498
42. Undercover (I) (2016)
TV-14 | Drama, Thriller
A lawyer returns to Britain to become the first black Director of Public Prosecutions. She begins to suspect that everything she knew about the man she has been married to for the past 20 years is a lie.
Stars: Sophie Okonedo, Adrian Lester, Daniel Ezra, Shannon Hayes
Votes: 2,262
43. Game-On (1995–1998)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
The misadventures of three twenty-something flatmates, bound together by circumstance. Mandy is sexually active, Martin is sexually inactive, and their troubled landlord Matthew never leaves the flat.
Stars: Matthew Cottle, Samantha Womack, Neil Stuke, Tracy Keating
Votes: 2,548
44. Vendetta (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 106 min | Action, Thriller
Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents. With police closing in & his old unit on his trail, he has to to evade capture long enough to complete his gruesome crusade.
Director: Stephen Reynolds | Stars: Danny Dyer, Vincent Regan, Roxanne McKee, Alistair Petrie
Votes: 4,358
45. Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020 TV Movie)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie considers selling a manuscript that will kill off her most famous creation.
Director: Joe Stephenson | Stars: Helen Baxendale, Blake Harrison, Jacqueline Boatswain, Gina Bramhill
Votes: 2,589
46. The Face of an Angel (2014)
Not Rated | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Ava Acres, Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Anjella Mackintosh
Votes: 5,220
47. Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures (1999 Podcast Series)
Sci-Fi
This is not a tv series but an officially licenced ongoing series of straight to cd Doctor Who audio dramas featuring original adventures of various tv Doctors and companions (old & new).
Stars: Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Sarah Sutton
Votes: 39
48. Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures (2012 Podcast Series)
Sci-Fi
Tom Baker returns as The Fourth Doctor for the first time in 31 years in all new adventures. Encountering new and old foes and reuniting with old friends such as Harry, Leela, K9, Romana ... See full summary »
Stars: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Leeson, Jane Slavin
49. Silent Hours (2017– )
60 min | Drama, Thriller
When three women are brutally murdered in four nights, private detective John Duval, ex-lieutenant commander in Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for the sexual killer stalking Portsmouth's silent hours.
Stars: Indira Varma, Dervla Kirwan, Hugh Bonneville, Vicki Michelle
Votes: 318
50. The One Show (2006– )
30 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
A live magazine programme featuring topical stories and big name studio guests.
Stars: Alex Jones, Matt Baker, Christine Lampard, Adrian Chiles
Votes: 614