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1. Peaky Blinders (2013–2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A gangster family epic set in 1900s England, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Helen McCrory
Votes: 649,912
2. Happy Valley (2014–2023)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Yorkshire-based crime drama centering on the personal and professional life of Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood.
Stars: Sarah Lancashire, Siobhan Finneran, James Norton, Rhys Connah
Votes: 64,607
3. Gangs of London (2020– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tells the story of London being torn apart by the turbulent power struggles of its international gangs and the sudden power vacuum that's created when the head of London's most powerful crime family is assassinated.
Stars: Joe Cole, Sope Dirisu, Michelle Fairley, Lucian Msamati
Votes: 40,233
4. Legend (I) (2015)
R | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s.
Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Paul Anderson
Votes: 202,486 | Gross: $1.87M
5. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
DI Robert Lewis and DS James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Stars: Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Clare Holman, Rebecca Front
Votes: 15,879
6. Dodger (2022– )
44 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Follows the exploits of the infamous pickpocket, The Artful Dodger, and Fagin's gang as they find ingenious ways to survive the grim and exploitative conditions of early Victorian London in the 1830s.
Stars: Billy Jenkins, Ellie-May Sheridan, Mila Lieu, Christopher Eccleston
Votes: 512
7. The Krays (1990)
R | 115 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell
Votes: 9,050 | Gross: $2.06M
8. Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, History
The Home Office bring in senior Manchester detective Peter Hunter to conduct a secret review of the Ripper investigation to date.
Director: James Marsh | Stars: Warren Clarke, Paddy Considine, James Fox, David Calder
Votes: 9,573 | Gross: $0.15M
9. Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, History
When another child goes missing, washed-up solicitor John Piggott unwittingly provides a catalyst for Detective Chief Superindent Maurice Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
Director: Anand Tucker | Stars: David Morrissey, Lisa Howard, Chris Walker, Shaun Dooley
Votes: 8,317
10. Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story (2022)
TV-MA | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Jimmy Savile once ruled the airwaves with a quirky persona and good works. So how did this icon manage to hide his many alleged bad deeds for so long?
Stars: Roger Ordish, Mark Lawson, Meirion Jones, Alison Bellamy
Votes: 9,088
11. Britain's Most Evil Killers (2017–2023)
60 min | Documentary, Crime
Brand new and exclusive to Pick, Britain's Most Evil Killers explores the crimes of Britain's 12 most brutal killers.
Stars: Elizabeth Yardley, Geoffrey Wansell, Fred Dinenage, Stuart Hamilton
Votes: 180
12. The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman (2022)
TV-MA | 42 min | Documentary, Crime
In this harrowing docuseries, a cruel conman masquerading as a British spy manipulates and steals from his victims, leaving ruined families in his wake.
Stars: Stephen Corrall, Sophie Clifton, Sarah Smith, Mark Clifton
Votes: 8,192
13. London to Brighton (2006)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Desperate to evade an angry pimp, a London prostitute and a young girl flee by train to Brighton after an appointment with a powerful client goes violently wrong.
Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Lorraine Stanley, Georgia Groome, Johnny Harris, Nathan Constance
Votes: 8,737
14. It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum, Edward Chapman
Votes: 2,379 | Gross: $0.01M
15. The Long Haul (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After leaving his U.S. Army job in Germany, a trucker takes a long-haul driver job in Britain where he runs into an organized-crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen, Gene Anderson
Votes: 990
16. Murder Maps (2015– )
Crime, History
This drama-documentary series takes us back in time to the some of the most shocking and surprising murder cases in history.
Stars: Nicholas Day, Alan Moss, Donald Rumbelow, Judith Rowbotham
Votes: 624
17. Code of Silence (2021)
97 min | Crime
The story of A deaf caterer, who becomes embroiled in a thrilling investigation, after a detective asks her to lip-read the conversations of some dangerous criminals.
Director: Ben Mole | Stars: Stephen Moyer, Alec Newman, Andrew Tiernan, Michael Higgs
Votes: 188
18. The War You Don't See (2010)
97 min | Documentary, War
Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.
Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: John Pilger, Stuart Ewen, Melvin Goodman, Dan Rather
Votes: 1,526
19. Going Off Big Time (2000)
86 min | Thriller
After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world.
Director: Jim Doyle | Stars: Neil Fitzmaurice, Dominic Carter, Nicholas Lamont, Nicholas Moss
Votes: 913
20. The Safecracker (1958)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, War
A British safe cracker goes to prison but when World War II starts he's recruited by army intelligence and is sent to German-occupied Belgium to crack the safe of a German Abwehr unit located in a chateau.
Director: Ray Milland | Stars: Ray Milland, Barry Jones, Jeanette Sterke, Victor Maddern
Votes: 451
21. Checkpoint (1956)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After killing a few Italian cops during a burglary, a thief hired by a British car racing company must flee to Switzerland disguised as a race car driver during a rally.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Anthony Steel, Odile Versois, Stanley Baker, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 307
22. Murder, Mystery and My Family (2018– )
45 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Two leading British criminal barristers re-investigate historic murder cases on behalf of a relative of the person convicted of the crime, presenting any new evidence to a judge for assessment.
Stars: Tony Hirst, Jeremy Dein, Sasha Wass, David Radford
Votes: 111
23. British Gangsters: Faces of the Underworld (2012–2015)
268 min | Documentary, Crime
Villains, gangsters or "Faces" as they prefer to be called, are the men, gang and family members who have made headlines over the past 50 years for all the wrong reasons. Some are household... See full summary »
Stars: Bernard O'Mahoney, Frankie Fraser, Paul Ferris, Walter Norval
Votes: 82
24. The Investigator: A British Crime Story (2016–2018)
47 min | Documentary, Crime
Series 1: In June 1985 Carole Packman, a wife and mother mysteriously disappeared and has never been seen since. Her husband Russell Causley is now serving a life sentence for her murder, ... See full summary »
Stars: Mark Williams-Thomas, Rick Warden, Tanya Winsor, Frances Millar
Votes: 1,742
25. Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty (2021)
60 min | Documentary, Crime, History
At the dawn of the 1970s, a secret network of bent coppers operated throughout London.
Stars: Martin Short, Paul Lashmar, John O'Connor, Jackie Malton
Votes: 63
26. Grooming Gangs: Britain's Shame (2023 TV Special)
60 min | Documentary
GB News's first investigative documentary focuses on the grooming of mainly underage white girls by men of mainly Pakistani heritage across England, and why the police and authorities have allowed such a big cover up for so long.
Stars: Charlie Peters, Elisabeth, Emily, Jack
Votes: 15
27. Manhunt: The Railway Killers (2021)
135 min | Documentary, Crime
True crime documentary using dramatic reconstructions and testimony from police and victim's friends to recall the series of murders of women at railway stations in London in the 1980s.
Stars: Jeff Edwards, Mick Freeman, Rosy Addison, Stewart Goodwin
Votes: 59
28. Railway Murders (2021– )
Documentary, Crime, History
Investigating the most notorious murders ever to take place on the British railways. The cases start from 1864 with the the first murder on a British railway.
Stars: Nicholas Day, Alan Moss, Judith Rowbotham, Donald Rumbelow
Votes: 51
29. Law and Disorder (1958)
76 min | Comedy, Crime
A British petty criminal lies to his son about his frequent prison terms by inventing honorable plausible explanations for his absences from home, but things get complicated when his son becomes a judge's assistant.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire, Elizabeth Sellars
Votes: 327
30. Jimmy Savile: Untouchable (2021 Video)
215 min | Documentary
Director: James Esposito | Stars: Shaun Attwood, Christopher Berry-Dee, Mark Costeh, Sohom Das
Votes: 12
31. Britain's Underworld (2010– )
45 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Behind upscale streets and tranquil parks, some of Britain's most ruthless gangsters keep police, judges and politicians busy protecting the public.
Stars: Shaun Dooley, Walter Norval, Michael Showers, Peter Walsh
Votes: 15
32. Savile: Portrait of a Predator (2021 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary
A prosecution account of one of the UK's biggest entertainers' alleged criminality.
Director: James Cohen | Stars: Caroline Catz, Dickie Arbiter, King Charles III, Sylvia Edwards
Votes: 33
33. The Girl on the Pier (1953)
65 min | Crime
A London copper and his family on holiday, a Yank gangster/crooner, a junior journalist, a waxworks horror museum owner and his unfaithful dolly bird wife congregate on Brighton's Palace Pier for blackmail and murder.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Veronica Hurst, Ron Randell, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes
Votes: 125