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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: 654,012
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: 39,670
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: 20,250
4. Shetland (2013– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A local police team investigate crimes within the close knit island community of Shetland.
Stars: Alison O'Donnell, Steven Robertson, Lewis Howden, Douglas Henshall
Votes: 26,099
5. 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, Jerry Iwu, Max Brown, Ami Metcalf
Votes: 3,492
6. 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: 64,975
7. 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: 70,590
8. Granite Harbour (2022– )
59 min | Crime, Drama
Lance Corporal arriving in Aberdeen as a new recruit with Police Scotland. After completing his last assignment with the Royal Military Police, Lindo dreams of becoming a detective at New Scotland Yard.
Stars: Romario Simpson, Hannah Donaldson, Bhav Joshi, Michelle Jeram
Votes: 1,287
9. Bodyguard (2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Troubled war veteran turned Police Officer David Budd is assigned to the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Protection Branch.
Stars: Richard Madden, Sophie Rundle, Vincent Franklin, Ash Tandon
Votes: 148,676
10. Professor T (2021– )
46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, assists the police in solving crime.
Stars: Barney White, Ben Miller, Frances de la Tour, Emma Naomi
Votes: 5,587
11. Hot Fuzz (2007)
R | 121 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
An overachieving London police sergeant is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations, all while a string of grisly murders strikes the town.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy
Votes: 536,400 | Gross: $23.64M
12. 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: 15,966
13. Marcella (2016–2021)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her.
Stars: Anna Friel, Ray Panthaki, Jack Doolan, Jamie Bamber
Votes: 37,459
14. Rebus (2000–2004)
TV-PG | 1,218 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Set in Edinburgh, the mercurial Detective Inspector John Rebus's investigations lead him through the city's ancient beauty and into its more sinister quarters.
Stars: Ken Stott, Claire Price, Jennifer Black, Gregor Gillespie
Votes: 2,281
15. The Bill (1984–2010)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama
Long-running police drama series featuring officers and detectives from the fictional Sun Hill suburb in East London.
Stars: Graham Cole, Jeff Stewart, Trudie Goodwin, Simon Rouse
Votes: 4,125
16. DCI Banks (2010–2016)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tenacious and stubborn DCI Alan Banks unravels disturbing murder mysteries aided by his young assistants, DS Annie Cabbot and DI Helen Morton.
Stars: Stephen Tompkinson, Jack Deam, Andrea Lowe, Caroline Catz
Votes: 9,179
17. Grace (2021– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Drama following Brighton-based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job.
Stars: John Simm, Richie Campbell, Brad Morrison, Laura Elphinstone
Votes: 7,158
18. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles
Votes: 69,858 | Gross: $10.25M
19. London Kills (2019– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Drama series following the detectives of an elite murder investigation squad in London.
Stars: Hugo Speer, Sharon Small, Bailey Patrick, Tori Allen-Martin
Votes: 3,458
20. Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators (2018– )
TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An oddball couple of private detectives named Luella Shakespeare and Frank Hathaway investigate crime in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Stars: Mark Benton, Jo Joyner, Patrick Walshe McBride, Tomos Eames
Votes: 5,998
21. Boat Story (2023)
Drama, Thriller
Two hard-up strangers stumble across a haul of cocaine on a shipwrecked boat. After agreeing to sell it and split the cash, they become entangled with police, masked hitmen and a sharp-suited gangster known as 'The Tailor'.
Stars: Daisy Haggard, Paterson Joseph, Michele Austin, Ethan Lawrence
Votes: 3,602
22. Crime (2021– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When an Edinburgh schoolgirl is abducted, DI Ray Lennox investigates her disappearance whilst confronting his own past trauma.
Stars: Dougray Scott, Joanna Vanderham, Ken Stott, Sarah McCardie
Votes: 6,224
23. No Offence (I) (2015–2018)
TV-MA | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Follows a group of police officers on the front line wondering what they did to end up where they are now, on the ugly side of Manchester.
Stars: Joanna Scanlan, Elaine Cassidy, Will Mellor, Paul Ritter
Votes: 6,763
24. A Confession (2019)
TV-PG | 45 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
DSU Stephen Fulcher intends on catching a killer of a missing woman, even if that may cost him his career and reputation.
Stars: Martin Freeman, Siobhan Finneran, Imelda Staunton, Peter Wight
Votes: 10,112
25. Maurice (1987)
R | 140 min | Drama, Romance
Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 23,690 | Gross: $3.13M
26. River (2015)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
John River is a brilliant police inspector whose genius lies side-by-side with the fragility of his mind. He is a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest.
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Nicola Walker, Adeel Akhtar, Lesley Manville
Votes: 27,345
27. The Long Call (2021)
46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Follows detective Matthew Venn as he returns to an evangelical community in which he grew up to attend his father's funeral.
Stars: Ben Aldridge, Declan Bennett, Siobhán Cullen, Martin Shaw
Votes: 3,914
28. The Tower (2021–2023)
TV-14 | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a long-serving cop and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a London tower block, Detective Sarah Collins investigates the dark heart of policing.
Stars: Gemma Whelan, Emmett J Scanlan, Tahirah Sharif, Jimmy Akingbola
Votes: 6,123
29. Cracker (1993–1996)
TV-MA | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald is a criminal psychologist. He is rather anti-social and obnoxious but he has a gift for solving crimes. Thus he is employed as a consultant by the Manchester Police.
Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Geraldine Somerville, Kieran O'Brien, Barbara Flynn
Votes: 7,913
30. DI Ray (2022– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Newly promoted DI Rachita Ray takes on a case that forces her to face a lifelong personal conflict.
Stars: Parminder Nagra, Ian Puleston-Davies, Jessica Temple, Gemma Whelan
Votes: 3,114
31. The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In Victorian London, a Scotland Yard inspector hunts down the sadistic killer behind a series of gory, Jack the Ripper-Like murders.
Director: Juan Carlos Medina | Stars: Douglas Booth, Olivia Cooke, Sam Reid, María Valverde
Votes: 23,369
32. Ridley (2022– )
115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Retired Detective Alex Ridley is lured back into service as a consultant detective when his former protégée, Carol Farman, needs help cracking a complex murder case.
Stars: Adrian Dunbar, Bronagh Waugh, Terence Maynard, Georgie Glen
Votes: 3,427
33. Redemption (I) (2022)
TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
DI Colette Cunningham's no nonsense approach to policing has earned her the respect of her Merseyside Police colleagues. She seems unflappable, until she gets a call from the Garda in Dublin after the body of a young woman is discovered.
Stars: Paula Malcomson, Abby Fitz, Evan O'Connor, Moe Dunford
Votes: 4,758
34. MotherFatherSon (2019)
TV-MA | 57 min | Drama, Thriller
A fractured family at the heart of politics and power is pulled together under catastrophic circumstances.
Stars: Richard Gere, Billy Howle, Helen McCrory, Paul Ready
Votes: 4,066
35. Liar (2017–2020)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
British psychological thriller in which schoolteacher Laura Nielson accuses renowned surgeon Andrew Earlham of rape.
Stars: Joanne Froggatt, Ioan Gruffudd, Zoë Tapper, Danny Webb
Votes: 11,336
36. Mrs Sidhu Investigates (2023– )
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Mrs. Sidhu is a caterer with a taste for solving mysteries. Her sleuthing turns into an unofficial partnership with dour DCI Burton, who reluctantly accepts that together they make the perfect pairing to fight crime.
Stars: Meera Syal, Craig Parkinson, Naana Agyei Ampadu, Gurjeet Singh
Votes: 1,114
37. The Murders at White House Farm (2020)
TV-MA | 46 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Revolves around the true story of a fateful night in August 1985 when five members of the same family are murdered at an Essex farmhouse, and the ensuing police investigation and court case that follows.
Stars: Freddie Fox, Alexa Davies, Mark Addy, Scott Reid
Votes: 12,068
38. Bancroft (2017–2020)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A dark thriller surrounding Elizabeth Bancroft, a senior detective with explosive secrets.
Stars: Sarah Parish, Ryan McKen, Adam Long, Lee Boardman
Votes: 4,085
39. Little Boy Blue (2017)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History
The true story of the 2007 murder of Rhys Jones in Liverpool. The story of the aftermath and police investigation.
Stars: Sinéad Keenan, Brían F. O'Byrne, Matthew Devlin, Stephen Graham
Votes: 5,620
40. Kiri (2018)
TV-MA | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A drama dealing with the abduction and murder of a young black girl, soon to be adopted by her white foster family, and the trail of lies, blame, guilt and notoriety which follow.
Stars: Sarah Lancashire, Lia Williams, Lucian Msamati, Wunmi Mosaku
Votes: 3,073
41. Better (2023)
59 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A corrupt police detective has a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing.
Stars: Leila Farzad, Andrew Buchan, Samuel Edward-Cook, Zak Ford-Williams
Votes: 2,864
42. Litvinenko (2022)
TV-14 | 47 min | Biography, Drama, History
Determined detectives work to prove who was responsible for the death of Alexander Litvinenko, in one of the most complex and dangerous investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police.
Stars: Mark Bonnar, Margarita Levieva, Richard Pepper, Temirlan Blaev
Votes: 2,960
43. The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (2022)
TV-14 | 46 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Four-part drama based on the extraordinary story of how prison officer John Darwin faked his own death to claim life insurance and avoid bankruptcy - unbeknownst to his two sons.
Stars: Monica Dolan, Eddie Marsan, Mark Stanley, Dominic Applewhite
Votes: 4,884
44. The Coroner (2015–2016)
TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A solicitor returns to the seaside town she left as a teenager to take up the post of coroner, becoming an advocate for the dead as she investigates sudden, violent or unexplained deaths.
Stars: Claire Goose, Matt Bardock, Beatie Edney, Oliver Gomm
Votes: 2,471
45. Carry on Constable (1960)
86 min | Comedy
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. They manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Eric Barker, Kenneth Connor
Votes: 2,836
46. The Salisbury Poisonings (2020)
TV-14 | 58 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Three episode, fact based drama from the BBC, about the 2018 Novichok poisoning crisis in the city of Salisbury.
Stars: Rafe Spall, Anne-Marie Duff, Annabel Scholey, Judah Cousin
Votes: 7,321
47. WPC 56 (2013–2015)
TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The daily challenges facing the first Woman Police Constable to join a West Midlands force in the 1950s, where sexism, chauvinism and petty grudges are rife.
Stars: Charles De'Ath, John Bowler, Jennie Jacques, Mark Healy
Votes: 1,139
48. Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (2018)
Not Rated | 107 min | Action, Biography, Crime
While keeping a low profile after his defeat by Ip Man, Cheung Tin Chi gets into trouble after getting in a fight with a powerful foreigner.
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Jin Zhang, Dave Bautista, Yan Liu, Michelle Yeoh
Votes: 9,846 | Gross: $0.21M
49. Black Work (2015)
Not Rated | 135 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A policewoman sets out to discover who murdered her husband, an undercover officer.
Stars: Sheridan Smith, Matthew McNulty, Oliver Woollford, Honor Kneafsey
Votes: 1,930
50. Wild Bill (2019)
TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
US police chief Bill Hixon lands in Lincolnshire with his 14 year-old daughter Kelsey, hoping to flee their recent painful past. New community forces Bill to question everything about himself.
Stars: Rob Lowe, Bronwyn James, Tony Pitts, Aloreia Spencer
Votes: 3,217