British Crime Dramas, a list by abbacarter

75

/659/

65

/57/

3.2

/3675/

81

/27/

40

58

/9/

2.0

age 14+

A desperate father searching for his runaway daughter gets caught up in a murder case — and stumbles upon secrets which could destroy his family for good.

53

49

5.8

/4480/

63

/340/

69

/32/

44

/25/

39

52

/12/

age 15+

A charming tutor infiltrates a wealthy family's life, revealing a sinister agenda.

74

IMDb 19

7.5

/26782/

76

/864/

82

/93/

3.8

/25055/

80

/40/

73

63

/18/

3.0

age 14+

In Chicago, Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognizes. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.

69

IMDb 89

7.0

/11340/

68

/824/

68

/65/

79

/57/

59

71

/23/

age 15+

When a child goes missing in the aftermath of a house explosion, a concerned neighbor teams up with a private investigator to find them. As secrets unravel and a military conspiracy emerges, all hell is unleashed on South Oxford's sleepy suburbs.

71

IMDb 93

7.3

/40597/

74

/1693/

70

/140/

3.7

/10354/

67

/63/

81

63

/24/

age 15+

A rising-star restaurateur is forced into New York's criminal underworld when his chaotic brother returns to town with loan sharks on his trail.

65

45

6.2

/2737/

64

/102/

73

/15/

70

/10/

59

/8/

A man in the midst of a mid-life crisis moves his family to a remote Scottish village, only to find himself entangled in a dangerous friendship with a sinister neighbour.

62

6.3

/5274/

65

/451/

67

/54/

74

/19/

44

61

/9/

Secluded on a remote Greek island, retired assassin Julie has a somewhat thorny reunion with her estranged son, Edward, visiting from England. Armed with questions around new information on his paternity, Edward battles to find the right time to speak to his frustratingly distant mother. But, when the moment finally presents itself, things take a deadly turn as Julie’s dangerous past catches up with her and they are forced to flee the island and go on the run together.

76

62

6.8

/2920/

68

/200/

67

/22/

100

/11/

78

/7/

Gabriel Book, proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop, relies on his vast collection to unravel baffling cases. He nurtures a group of lovable yet troubled individuals, providing informal protection and guidance.

81

IMDb 77

8.1

/103745/

79

/4206/

80

/323/

88

/59/

90

69

/22/

age 13+

A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

78

69

7.1

/4425/

72

/202/

68

/23/

100

/24/

77

80

/9/

A deaf catering worker who is struggling to make ends meet is called upon by a police detective superintendent to lip-read the conversations of criminals.

73

63

7.1

/3159/

66

/164/

55

/23/

100

/8/

81

70

/6/

Explosive events unfold after Wright family patriarch Jack is discovered dead from a supposed suicide, leaving his immediate family utterly devastated.

64

6.4

/6353/

68

/755/

61

/62/

3.0

/2958/

87

/15/

40

66

/9/

age 14+

Mother of two, Elisa, allows her daughter, Lucia, to go on an impromptu sleepover with her new best friend Josephine after meeting Josephine's mother, Rebecca, at her beautiful home. But when Elisa arrives to collect Lucia the next day, the house turns out to be an empty luxury rental and Lucia has been abducted.

71

59

6.8

/4143/

67

/157/

72

/18/

88

/8/

65

71

/6/

DCI Jeanette Kilburn and eminent psychotherapist Dr. Sophia Craven join forces to hunt the killer of young men. The investigation takes Jeanette and Sophia into a dangerous world of historic abuse and murder.

75

7.2

/72716/

75

/3362/

71

/349/

92

/72/

64

78

/31/

age 15+

When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.

78

61

7.4

/4027/

68

/132/

75

/16/

100

/10/

73

/4/

age 14+

Susan has left publishing and is living in Crete with her long-time boyfriend, Andreas. But her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Alan Conway visited the hotel and wrote a novel based on what happened there. Cecily MacNeil, the young woman who helps run the hotel, read the book and believed the wrong man had been arrested. Now she has disappeared. Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book and find Cecily before it is too late?

79

8.1

/123815/

80

/5664/

81

/902/

4.1

/38017/

85

/54/

77

72

/28/

age 14+

An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.

65

53

7.5

/3894/

70

/166/

60

/32/

57

/5/

DCI Ellis, a tenacious cop, is parachuted into failing investigations alongside her partner DS Harper. Each case will bring her to a different police station where she'll have to not only immerse herself in the case, but also win over the local police.

74

7.5

/41805/

72

/1613/

74

/255/

3.7

/38391/

76

/102/

65

70

/32/

3.5

age 16+

When an intriguing novel appears at the bedside of a journalist whose career has been built on revealing transgressions, she is horrified to realize she's a key character in a long-buried story—one that exposes her darkest secret.

72

6.8

/23526/

71

/1423/

74

/269/

83

/42/

68

69

/20/

age 14+

Five years after the death of schoolgirl Andie Bell, Pippa Fitz-Amobi sets out to uncover what really happened to her. Sal Singh, Andie's boyfriend, admitted to the murder before taking his own life, but Pip doesn't believe he's responsible and teams up with Sal's brother Ravi to uncover the truth. If Sal Singh isn't a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from finding out the truth?

65

6.9

/41356/

69

/1667/

70

/270/

3.5

/31113/

72

/78/

57

61

/32/

2.5

age 15+

A desperate father, alongside a tenacious cop, battles his own demons on the streets of 1980s New York as he searches for his missing nine-year-old son.

51

35

6.2

/1805/

60

/112/

61

/21/

44

/9/

29

50

/6/

Emma a successful woman fears of losing her mind after suffering from sleep deprivation two weeks before turning 40. Only by investigating the truth of her painful past, can she find the answers to her present.

71

68

6.8

/4803/

66

/288/

67

/48/

81

/27/

75

70

/14/

age 14+

The year is 1536. Lawyer Matthew Shardlake finds his life turned upside down when Thomas Cromwell sends him to investigate a suspicious death at the remote monastery of Scarnsea. Deception, deceit, and corruption are rife as it soon becomes clear that the murder is not the first. Shardlake is drawn into a web of lies that threatens not only his integrity but his life.

NEW

68

39

6.7

/1617/

65

/81/

65

/16/

78

/4/

age 15+

Smart, capable and by the book Grace Narayan was flying high as an inner-city police sergeant before being forced into a 'punishment posting' on the small, antiquated island of St. Jory. Confronted by the forgotten and unsolved case of missing teenage boy Cai, Grace quickly discovers that she must overcome scarce evidence, extraordinary local characters, and the island's strange cult history to uncover the truth.

61

IMDb 50

7.1

/10327/

70

/628/

71

/91/

38

/19/

61

59

/6/

age 14+

London police officer DC Hana Li is escorting Dr Matthew Nolan back to Beijing where he has been accused of a crime. However, on board flight 357, she finds herself embroiled in an escalating conspiracy and a growing number of murders.

66

50

7.2

/4324/

68

/116/

63

/26/

61

/11/

age 13+

Retired archaeologist Judith Potts lives alone in a faded mansion in the peaceful town of Marlow, filling her time by setting crosswords for the local paper. During one of her regular wild swims in the Thames, Judith hears a gunshot coming from a neighbour's garden and believes a brutal murder has taken place.

66

6.7

/21595/

66

/1580/

70

/329/

72

/53/

62

63

/23/

age 11+

When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to discover key pieces of her life—including her young daughter—have changed.

77

7.9

/21960/

76

/754/

72

/125/

3.9

/6586/

87

/15/

85

68

/4/

age 15+

A young boy growing up in the suburbs of 1980s Brisbane faces the harsh realities of life — and the looming dangers that threaten his family.

62

54

6.5

/4542/

63

/174/

67

/28/

64

/11/

46

69

/7/

Joanna finds an unidentified man dead in a lift in a underground car park after a devastating flood, police assumes that he became trapped as the waters rose, but she is obsessed with discovering what happened to him.

64

6.8

/67150/

72

/2914/

71

/420/

3.2

/18615/

72

/18/

46

55

/4/

age 15+

When ex-soldier Maya sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep into the past.

72

7.3

/66697/

74

/3312/

71

/474/

3.7

/22197/

82

/28/

73

64

/8/

age 15+

One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.

72

7.2

/7975/

68

/378/

67

/83/

3.6

/1068/

76

/29/

81

73

/19/

age 15+

When Lorna Brady, a survivor of one of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, wakes to find a corpse in her house, she has no idea who the dead woman is or if she's responsible for the apparent murder, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts of sleepwalking.

66

63

6.3

/4492/

62

/265/

64

/57/

3.4

/976/

90

/20/

60

61

/7/

age 15+

When a local girl goes missing, a woman is forced to face the demons from her traumatic childhood.

72

66

7.1

/4623/

65

/198/

69

/38/

3.4

/336/

78

/9/

81

69

/5/

The hunt to catch the killer of three young women in the Port Talbot area in 1973 and the remarkable story of how - in the first case of its kind - the mystery was solved almost 30 years later using pioneering DNA evidence. Contrasting the policing methods of the 1970s with the forensic breakthroughs of the early 2000s, the series portrays a town dealing with the repercussions of an unsolved case three decades on, and asks if justice can ever truly be found.

44

5.2

/11286/

56

/520/

64

/166/

25

/24/

30

37

/9/

age 15+

A respected London surgeon's affair with his son's fiancée turns into an erotic infatuation that threatens to change their lives forever.

67

64

7.4

/7341/

70

/314/

66

/45/

60

/9/

After leaving paradise and seeking a quieter life, Humphrey has taken a job as Detective Inspector in his fiancée Martha's hometown. But with the high crime rate, maybe things will be louder than expected.

61

5.9

/17659/

62

/1113/

67

/201/

73

/23/

40

68

/10/

age 14+

When the crew of the Kinloch Bravo find themselves cut off from all communication with the Scottish mainland by a mysterious fog, they must fight to find a way home whilst managing environmental pressures, mounting paranoia and rising tensions. But as the threat facing them reveals itself to be something beyond their wildest imagination, the divided crew must form an alliance to ensure survival.

68

51

6.1

/1168/

61

/70/

45

/24/

3.4

/367/

100

/10/

67

74

/6/

Based on Sara Collins’ award-winning novel of the same name, which is set against the dazzling opulence of Georgian London, this powerful drama follows the eponymous Frannie’s journey from a Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion of celebrated scientist George Benham and his exquisitely beautiful wife, Madame Marguerite Benham.

79

7.6

/32555/

75

/1628/

74

/266/

3.8

/5922/

95

/20/

88

71

/8/

age 15+

Lucy wakes every night at exactly 3:33am. Nothing in her life has made sense for a long time. But the answers are out there, somewhere, at the end of a trail of brutal murders.

80

7.5

/16317/

76

/1050/

73

/164/

94

/16/

91

72

/4/

age 15+

Caught between two warring clans, the son of a notorious witch responsible for a deadly massacre tries to find his place in the world — and his powers.

63

6.7

/41684/

70

/1928/

68

/344/

3.1

/15508/

67

/24/

46

64

/6/

age 15+

A prisoner on death row in the US, a vicar in a quiet English town, and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar cross paths in the most unexpected way.

78

77

7.6

/13741/

74

/389/

69

/80/

95

/22/

82

76

/13/

When a 25-year-old murder in St Andrews becomes the subject of a provocative true-crime podcast, DS Karen Pirie is tasked with heading up a review. Digging up the past, Karen uncovers fresh evidence and a potential perpetrator. But when suspects start coming under attack, the cold case turns into an active investigation. Can Karen find the killer before it’s too late?

66

63

6.9

/4643/

68

/235/

67

/49/

3.4

/249/

67

/15/

55

75

/5/

Doctor Joseph O'Loughlin a man who appears to have the perfect life and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted, even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling.

57

50

6.9

/5364/

65

/173/

61

/30/

33

/9/

60

57

/10/

Retired Detective Inspector Alex Ridley is lured back into service as a consultant detective when his former protégée, Carol Farman, needs help cracking a complex murder case.

48

6.0

/17578/

64

/931/

65

/184/

3.0

/2721/

22

/23/

42

46

/9/

1.5

age 15+

Identical twins Leni and Gina have secretly switched places for years. But when one sister disappears, both of their lives start to fall apart.

49

38

5.6

/2731/

59

/132/

61

/24/

58

/15/

18

45

/12/

A Veteran detective is called to a hospital mortuary to identify a corpse only to find it is his estranged daughter. Traumatized by the news she apparently took her own life, Frater sets out to discover the truth about her death.

75

7.4

/12918/

71

/444/

69

/76/

96

/37/

55

87

/14/

Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.

64

62

6.7

/5587/

68

/279/

67

/76/

3.2

/440/

73

/15/

58

56

/4/

A small fictional village in England is completely subdued by an alien presence for an entire day. Upon waking, it is discovered that numerous women in the town are pregnant.

69

6.3

/8552/

63

/555/

66

/127/

3.2

/3601/

76

/45/

71

69

/19/