**BRIT BOX: TV & Films to See
by cachaltron | created - 12 May 2021 | updated - 2 weeks ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Heading Home
(1991)
TV-PG | 88 min | Drama
A story of a woman who is torn between two men in post World War II London.
Director: David Hare | Stars: Gary Oldman, Joely Richardson, Stephen Dillane, Stella Gonet
Votes: 100
2. Death in Paradise (2011– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Cultures collide when British Detective Inspector is transferred from England to the Caribbean island of Saint Marie to head the island's police department.
Stars: Elizabeth Bourgine, Don Warrington, Danny John-Jules, Joséphine Jobert
Votes: 28,022
3. Vera (2011–2025)
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: 20,087
4. The Moonstone (2016)
TV-G | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A diamond goes missing after a party at an English country house, and numerous suspects have a motive for its disappearance.
Stars: Josh Silver, Leo Wringer, Terenia Edwards, Nisa Cole
Votes: 658
5. Line of Duty (2012–2021)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Drama series following the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit.
Stars: Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, Adrian Dunbar, Craig Parkinson
Votes: 70,226
6. The New Statesman (1987–1994)
TV-14 | 70 min | Comedy
The ultra right-wing Alan B'Stard, the most selfish, greedy, dishonest, sadistic and sociopathic Conservative MP of them all, plots to achieve his meglomaniacal ambitions.
Stars: Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton, Marsha Fitzalan, Terence Alexander
Votes: 2,806
7. The House of Eliott (1991–1994)
50 min | Drama
Two sisters in 1920s London work to achieve success in the dressmaking business.
Stars: Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard, Aden Gillett, Cathy Murphy
Votes: 1,637
8. Sister Boniface Mysteries (2022– )
TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The investigations of Sister Boniface of St Vincent's Convent - nun, moped rider, wine maker and part-time forensic scientist.
Stars: Lorna Watson, Max Brown, Jerry Iwu, Ami Metcalf
Votes: 3,372
9. Hope Street (2020– )
TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama
The arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging - what brings this big city girl to a sleepy Northern Irish seaside town?
Stars: Kerri Quinn, Des McAleer, Ciarán McMenamin, Niall Wright
Votes: 2,420
10. Magpie Murders (2022– )
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Editor Susan Ryeland gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives Alan Conway's unfinished manuscript of an Atticus Pünd mystery.
Stars: Conleth Hill, Lesley Manville, Tim McMullan, Ian Lloyd Anderson
Votes: 6,990
11. Hotel Portofino (2022– )
TV-14 | 54 min | Drama
A glamorous period drama about an English hotel in 1920s Italy, when Benito Mussolini's brand of fascism was on the rise.
Stars: Natascha McElhone, Oliver Dench, Louisa Binder, Mark Umbers
Votes: 2,873
12. Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama (2022)
47 min | Biography, Drama
Follows the Wagatha Christie case, a UK High Court defamation case between Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney. Rooney famously tried to catch out Vardy for selling news stories about her to the tabloids, using sleuth tactics.
Stars: Lindokuhle Justice Khanyile, Michael Sheen, Natalia Tena, Chanel Cresswell
Votes: 417
13. Karen Pirie (2022– )
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After the promotion to Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit, Karen Pirie reopens the cold case of a murdered barmaid. Her investigation unearths flaws in the original 1995 inquiry.
Stars: Lauren Lyle, Barrie Hunter, Ariyon Bakare, Chris Jenks
Votes: 9,436
14. Sherwood (II) (2022– )
TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two shocking and unexpected murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history.
Stars: Adam Hugill, Lorraine Ashbourne, Perry Fitzpatrick, Philip Jackson
Votes: 9,306
15. Reyka (2021– )
52 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1994 in South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and, as an adult, becomes a detective. Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries.
Stars: Kim Engelbrecht, Iain Glen, Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Gerald Steyn
Votes: 1,258
16. The Responder (2022– )
TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A crisis-stricken, morally-compromised first-responder tackles a series of night shifts on the beat in Liverpool.
Stars: Martin Freeman, Adelayo Adedayo, Warren Brown, Faye McKeever
Votes: 12,982
17. Murder on the Blackpool Express (2017 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A Blackpool coach driver and a female tour guide get caught up in a whodunit mystery when someone starts bumping off their passengers, the elderly fans of a crime novelist who's showing them places that inspired his works, one by one.
Director: Simon Delaney | Stars: Susie Blake, Katy Cavanagh-Jupe, Matthew Cottle, Kevin Eldon
Votes: 1,590
18. The Tractate Middoth (2013 TV Movie)
35 min | Mystery, Thriller
On his deathbed vicar Rant makes a secret confession to his niece Mary Simpson. Some twenty years later young librarian William Garrett is asked by elderly John Eldred to locate a book ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Gatiss | Stars: Louise Jameson, John Castle, Eleanor Bron, David Ryall
Votes: 649
19. Payback (I) (2023)
TV-MA | 287 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When her husband is attacked, a woman becomes entangled in a police operation to topple a notorious crime lord.
Stars: Morven Christie, Peter Mullan, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Derek Riddell
Votes: 3,795
20. Three Little Birds (2023)
TV-MA | Drama
A life-affirming drama, written by Sir Lenny Henry inspired by his mother's stories about leaving Jamaica in the 1950s for Great Britain. Follows sisters Leah and Chantrelle and their friend Hosanna starting a new life in England.
Stars: Rochelle Neil, Yazmin Belo, Saffron Coomber, Javone Prince
Votes: 663
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