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1. Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther breaks out of prison to hunt down a sadistic serial killer who is terrorising London.
Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis, Dermot Crowley
Votes: 64,438
2. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 138,114 | Gross: $8.18M
3. A Very English Scandal (2018)
TV-14 | 56 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe is accused of conspiracy to murder his gay ex-lover and forced to stand trial in 1979.
Stars: Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Alex Jennings, Patricia Hodge
Votes: 16,288
4. Law & Order: UK (2009–2014)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
UK version of the long-running U.S. TV drama that tells the stories of two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.
Stars: Bradley Walsh, Robert Glenister, Harriet Walter, Freema Agyeman
Votes: 4,863
5. Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992)
Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The cases of a portly and eccentric criminal law barrister.
Stars: Leo McKern, Jonathan Coy, Julian Curry, Marion Mathie
Votes: 1,729
6. The Duke (2020)
R | 95 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Stephen Rashbrook, James Wilby
Votes: 13,237
7. The Paradine Case (1947)
Approved | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn
Votes: 12,405
8. The MacKintosh Man (1973)
PG | 98 min | Thriller
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews
Votes: 5,227 | Gross: $3.30M
9. The Naked Edge (1961)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento
Votes: 1,481
10. Garrow's Law (2009–2011)
60 min | Biography, Drama, History
Garrow's Law is the true tale of William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
Stars: Andrew Buchan, Lyndsey Marshal, Rupert Graves, Aidan McArdle
Votes: 1,248
11. Dr. Crippen (1963)
TV-PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, History
The real-life story of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife so he could be with his young lover. But was he truly guilty of murder?
Director: Robert Lynn | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Samantha Eggar, Coral Browne, Donald Wolfit
Votes: 738
12. Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama
In post-WW2 England, a taxi driver is ostracized by society after he's accused of murdering a school-girl and his untried lawyer must find the real killer to save his client from the hangman.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Cathy O'Donnell, Derek Farr, Ian Hunter
Votes: 478
13. Sherlock Holmes (1932)
68 min | Drama, Thriller
The famous detective is pulled away from retirement and his fiancée when the condemned Moriarty escapes from prison and swears vengeance.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Clive Brook, Miriam Jordan, Ernest Torrence, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 243
14. Hell to Pay (2005 Video)
93 min | Crime
Larry Malone sets up his brother Dave to get rid of Murphy, a rival gang leader, and then informs on Dave to have him convicted of murder. In one simple act of double-dealing he, ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Gomez Martin | Stars: Dave Courtney, Dave Legeno, Terry Stone, John Altman
Votes: 141
15. Diana's Legacy (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary assessing the impact of the death of Princess Diana, on the Royal Family and the public. The programme examines how she changed the institution of the monarchy, and the ... See full summary »
Director: Rob Coldstream | Stars: Mark Lockyer, Neil Salvage, Judy Norman, Gerry O'Toole
16. The Unguarded Hour (1955 TV Movie)
75 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Walter Fitzgerald, Greta Gynt, Raymond Huntley, Graham Stuart
17. Ultus and the Three-Button Mystery (1917)
Crime
Having made a daring escape from the Old Bailey, Ultus becomes involved in the case of the kidnapping of a Cabinet Minister by the agents of a Foreign Power, aided by faithful assistant ... See full summary »
Director: George Pearson | Stars: Aurelio Sidney, Manora Thew, Charles Rock, Alice De Winton
18.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Rumpole of the Bailey
(1975)
61 min | Comedy, Drama
An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.
Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Leo McKern, Joyce Heron, Noel Willman, David Yelland
Votes: 156
19.
Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992)
Episode:
Rumpole's Return
(1980)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bored Rumpole living in Florida retirement uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers
Director: John Glenister | Stars: Leo McKern, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Albert Welling, Robin Halstead
Votes: 180
20.
The Brief (2004–2005)
Episode:
Children
(2004)
71 min | Crime, Drama
Farmer has doubts about his prosecution of a twelve year old gypsy girl for murder and takes custody of his son while his ex-wife vacations.
Director: Stuart Orme | Stars: Rita Ora, Frankie Cosgrave, Barney Clark, Alan Davies
Votes: 39
21.
The Brief (2004–2005)
Episode:
The Road to Hell
(2004)
71 min | Crime, Drama
Struggling under tons of gambling and alimony debt, criminal defense attorney Henry Farmer takes on a raft of cases all at the same time. Worse still, he's up against some tough judges--including his own estranged father.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Christopher Fulford, Linda Bassett, Robert Whitelock, Zara Turner
Votes: 57
22.
Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode:
Ancient History
(1997)
TV-MA | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A new law suspending the statute of limitations on war atrocities has Kavanagh prosecuting a Polish doctor who stands accused of war crimes.
Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: John Thaw, Jonathan Adams, Robin Bailey, Gillian Bevan
Votes: 97
23.
By the Sword Divided (1983–1985)
Episode:
Restoration
(1985)
Drama, History, War
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence | Stars: Sharon Maughan, Rob Edwards, Bert Parnaby, Tim Bentinck
Votes: 6
24.
A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
Episode:
Part 2
(1980)
42 min | Drama
Beneath the surface of these cities, how do people live and work? What are the differences, what are the similarities, what are the stories? A worker at an iron-smelting factory in Beijing;... See full summary »
Director: Michael E. Briant | Stars: Paul Shelley, Nigel Stock, Ralph Michael, Sally Osborne
Votes: 6
25.
The Devil's Mistress (2008)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2008)
53 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The people of the besieged city of Oxford are in a desperate situation. Devastated by the King's brutal betrayal, Angelica has been cast out of court, and finds herself destitute and ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Munden | Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Daniel Ryan, Tim McInnerny, Dominic West
Votes: 96
26.
Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty (2021)
Episode:
Firm in a Firm
(2021)
Documentary, Crime, History
Revealing the dirty secrets behind London's policing with a story of corruption that goes to the very top of the Met and leads to the formation of the first internal anti-corruption unit.
Director: Todd Austin | Stars: Martin Short, Paul Lashmar, Jackie Malton, Stephen Simmons
Votes: 9
27.
Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty (2021)
Episode:
Goodbye Rotten Apple
(2021)
Documentary, Crime, History
The second episode dives into the sleazy underbelly of London's Soho in the early 1970s, where an explosion of dirty pornographic bookshops provides an open invitation for corrupt cops to ... See full summary »
Director: Todd Austin | Stars: John O'Connor, Martin Short, Martin Tomkinson, Paul Lashmar
Votes: 9
28.
Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode:
The Hide
(2010)
TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Foyle battles to save a young man accused of high treason from the executioner's noose in a case that will shatter his personal world to the core.
Director: Stuart Orme | Stars: Andrew Scott, Richard Goulding, Tim van Eyken, Michael Kitchen
Votes: 751
29.
A Tale of Two Cities (1989)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1989)
Drama, History, Romance
The similarity of a dissolute English lawyer to an exile from revolutionary France proves useful.
Stars: James Wilby, Xavier Deluc, Serena Gordon, John Mills
Votes: 10
30.
The Casual Criminalist (2020– )
50 - The Hammersmith Ghost Murder
(2021 Podcast Episode)
35 min | Crime
In 1803 in Hammersmith, a village then outside London, England, a ghostly apparition appeared in a church graveyard and frightened late night passersby. When a blunderbuss toting excise ... See full summary »
Star: Simon Whistler
31.
At Home with the Georgians (2010– )
Episode:
Safe as Houses
(2010)
Documentary
Director: Phil Cairney | Stars: Amanda Vickery, Richard Dixon, Amy Marston, Hannah Boyde
Votes: 7
33.
The Danny Kaye Show (1963–1967)
Episode:
Jose Ferrer, Dorothy Collins
(1964)
Comedy, Music
Danny is joined by guest performers actor Jose Ferrer and singer Dorothy Collins. Danny and Jose are featured as adversaries in several sketches - the two men play rival job applicants for ... See full summary »
Stars: Danny Kaye, Dorothy Collins, The Earl Brown Singers, José Ferrer
34.
Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues (2015)
Episode:
Rogues
(2015)
59 min | Biography
In the final episode, Sam looks at urban crime, fraud and corruption in the 18th century, uncovering a fascinating rogues gallery of charmers, fraudsters and villains. Charmers like thief ... See full summary »
Stars: Lucy Moore, Harry Potter, Sam Willis
Votes: 20
35.
Inspector George Gently (2007–2017)
Episode:
Gently and the New Age
(2017)
TV-MA | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Met's new Special Investigations Squad boss asks Gently to investigate high levels of corruption within the force.
Director: Bryn Higgins | Stars: Martin Shaw, Roger Barclay, Damien Matthews, Adam Levy
Votes: 380
36.
Why Didn't They Laugh? (2018– )
Tommy Robinson
(2019 Podcast Episode)
Comedy, News
Stars: Owen Benjamin, Tommy Robinson