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51.
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996–2007)
Episode:
Exit Lines
(1997)
TV-14 | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Drama
Peter is called out to investigate the murder of elderly Robert Deeks, an old soldier whose medals were also stolen. On the same night, Andy is accused of drunk driving, resulting in the ... See full summary »
Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: Emma Cunniffe, Warren Clarke, David Yelland, Dave Hill
Votes: 140
52.
Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992)
Episode:
Rumpole and the Honourable Member
(1978)
Not Rated | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An MP is accused of raping one of his assistants, and seems reluctant to defend himself. Rumpole is left with only one line of defence; attack the complainant's character, thereby infuriating his son's American fiancée.
Director: Graham Evans | Stars: Leo McKern, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, David Yelland, Deborah Fallender
Votes: 116
53.
Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992)
Episode:
Rumpole and the Younger Generation
(1978)
Not Rated | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rumpole is defending a young member of the Timson clan, an extended family of light-fingered but otherwise moral South London villains. To his distress, his own son appears to be acquiring some of the Timson traits.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Leo McKern, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, David Yelland, John Welsh
Votes: 176
54.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Mrs McGinty's Dead
(2008)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A pair of photographs are the only clues that Poirot has to solve the murder of a village charwoman, and to prove the innocence of the victim's lodger.
Director: Ashley Pearce | Stars: David Suchet, Joe Absolom, Simon Molloy, Richard Hope
Votes: 2,058
55.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
Chinese Walls
(2006)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lynley investigates the murder of a 23 year old girl in Hyde Park after she quit her job with a high profile lawyer to work for an on-line sex site.
Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Isabella Calthorpe, Sharon Small, Nathaniel Parker, Paul Hickey
Votes: 280
56.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Third Girl
(2008)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a seemingly neurotic young heiress tells Ariadne Oliver and Poirot that she thinks she may have killed someone, her ex-nanny is found with her wrists slashed.
Director: Dan Reed | Stars: David Suchet, David Yelland, Jemima Rooper, Zoë Wanamaker
Votes: 2,069
57.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997– )
Episode:
The Thirties
(1997)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Jenkins reconnects with Stringham and Widmerpool and meets Quiggan. Widmerpool is articled to a solicitor but intends to go into business and politics as well.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Sarah Badel, Robin Bailey, Gillian Barge, Paul Brooke
Votes: 28
58.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Three Act Tragedy
(2010)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a vicar chokes to death on a cocktail while attending a party held by actor Sir Charles Cartwright, Poirot initially dismisses the idea of murder but reconsiders when another guest dies in the same manner.
Director: Ashley Pearce | Stars: David Suchet, Martin Shaw, Kimberley Nixon, Art Malik
Votes: 2,227
59.
The Diplomat (2023– )
Episode:
Don't Call It a Kidnapping
(2023)
TV-MA | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
As new details about the bombing emerge, Kate struggles to see eye-to-eye with Hal. Prime Minister Trowbridge's fiery remarks at a funeral cause a stir.
Director: Simon Cellan Jones | Stars: Keri Russell, Rufus Sewell, David Gyasi, Ali Ahn
Votes: 1,505
60.
Strauss Dynasty (1991– )
Episode:
Emilie
(1991)
Drama, Music
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Edward Fox, Alice Krige, John Rhys-Davies, Cherie Lunghi
Votes: 6
61. Strauss Dynasty (1991– )
606 min | Drama, Music
A dramatisation of two generations of the Strauss family of Vienna, whose dance music and operettas dominated much of Europe and beyond for most of the 19th century.
Stars: Edward Fox, Alice Krige, John Rhys-Davies, Cherie Lunghi
Votes: 155
62.
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder (2004–2005)
Episode:
The Case of the Croydon Poisonings
(2005)
60 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Julian Fellowes examines the unsolved murders of three members of the same upper middle-class family living in 1920s Croydon, who died within a year of each other from arsenic poisoning.
Director: Delyth Thomas | Stars: Julian Fellowes, Jean Marsh, Stella Gonet, Richard Lumsden
Votes: 118
63.
Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode:
Episode #6.10
(2004)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama
Di and Jim do battle with Grayling as the tribunal gets underway. Buxton presses charges against Kris for physical assault.
Director: Nigel Douglas | Stars: James Gaddas, Jack Ellis, Tracey Wilkinson, Fiona Gillies
Votes: 36
64.
Love Soup (2005–2008)
Episode:
They Do Not Move
(2005)
TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Alice's search for a new flat prompts her to reflect that properties are like people: just when you seem to have found the ideal candidate, there's always one fatal flaw you know you could ... See full summary »
Director: Sandy Johnson | Stars: Claire Vousden, Paul Fields, Michael Landes, Chandrika Chevli
Votes: 21
65.
Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode:
Death and Dust
(2007)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Barnaby and Jones are called to investigate a series of murders involving a pair of feuding families.
Director: Sarah Hellings | Stars: John Nettles, Jason Hughes, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard
Votes: 799
66.
Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode:
The Fall: Part 1
(2007)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Demolishing a building in 2007, a wrecking crew discovers two desiccated corpses still conjoined who were shot to death by a single bullet while having sex in 1992.
Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson
Votes: 143
67.
Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode:
The Fall: Part 2
(2007)
TV-14 | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The relationship of Boyd and Grace becomes strained as he comes closer to the killer and a scenario involving official corruption becomes apparent.
Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson
Votes: 123
68. A Dance to the Music of Time (1997– )
Not Rated | 416 min | Drama
Anthony Powell's twelve volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatized for television.
Stars: Gillian Barge, Nicholas Jones, Simon Russell Beale, Robin Bailey
Votes: 518
69. BBC2 Play of the Week (1977–1979)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length movies.
Stars: Judi Dench, Richard O'Callaghan, Frederick Treves, Clive Swift
Votes: 47
70.
Bones (2005–2017)
Episode:
The Yanks in the U.K.: Parts 1 and 2
(2008)
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During Bones' stay in England, the daughter of an American businessman is murdered. The businessman insists that the FBI help with the case, so Booth and Bones investigate. Meanwhile, Angela's husband shows up at the Jeffersonian.
Director: Ian Toynton | Stars: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor
Votes: 1,302
71.
Law & Order: UK (2009–2014)
Episode:
Masquerade
(2010)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a student is found stabbed, the police have to deal with counter-allegations of murder and rape. Facing angry parents, lurid media headlines, and mixed feelings among police and prosecutors, this case proves a hard one to handle.
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Bradley Walsh, Jamie Bamber, Harriet Walter, Ben Daniels
Votes: 121
72. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
British crime investigation series based around aristocratic, Oxford-educated Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his working-class assistant Sergeant Barbara Havers.
Stars: Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small, Lesley Vickerage, Paul Hickey
Votes: 5,747
73. Dalziel and Pascoe (1996–2007)
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Mystery, Drama
Superintendent Dalziel and partner DI Pascoe investigate murder, and find a bond forming between them despite their blatantly different personalities.
Stars: Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan, David Royle, Jennifer James
Votes: 3,305
74. The Line of Beauty (2006)
177 min | Drama, Romance
A young man becomes attached to a family that's not his own, and casts himself into the life of plentiful riches and gay love affairs for which he seems destined.
Stars: Dan Stevens, Tim McInnerny, Hayley Atwell, Alice Krige
Votes: 1,910
75.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Taken at the Flood
(2006)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young widow is left in sole possession of her late husband's fortune, her brother who dominates her refuses to let her share it with her in-laws, so they enlist Poirot to prove her missing first husband might not be dead.
Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: David Suchet, Jenny Agutter, Patrick Baladi, Eva Birthistle
Votes: 2,015
76.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Murder in the Mews
(1989)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a woman is found shot in her flat after Bonfire Night, Poirot is enlisted to decipher whether the victim died by her own hand, or by someone else's.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 2,080
77.
The Line of Beauty (2006)
Episode:
The Love Chord
(2006)
59 min | Drama, Romance
Nick Guest comes to London to stay with the Feddens, devours their rich lifestyle, and falls in love.
Director: Saul Dibb | Stars: Dan Stevens, Oliver Coleman, Carmen Du Sautoy, Tim McInnerny
Votes: 47
78.
Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode:
Harvest of Souls
(2016)
TV-14 | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the owner of an equestrian center is trampled by his own horse, Barnaby unravels a complex feud from the past.
Director: Nicholas Laughland | Stars: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Fiona Dolman, Manjinder Virk
Votes: 590
79. Spider's Web (1982 TV Movie)
105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The wife of a Foreign Office diplomat discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.
Director: Basil Coleman | Stars: Penelope Keith, Robert Flemyng, Thorley Walters, Elizabeth Spriggs
Votes: 243
80. David Copperfield (1974–1975)
300 min | Drama
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
Stars: Ian Hogg, David Troughton, Patience Collier, David Yelland
Votes: 111
81. May We Borrow Your Husband? (1986 TV Movie)
102 min | Drama
Adaptation of a story by Graham Greene. A middle-aged writer becomes involved with a newly-married young woman staying in the same hotel.
Director: Bob Mahoney | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Attenborough, Simon Shepherd, Francis Matthews
Votes: 44
82.
David Copperfield (1974–1975)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1974)
52 min | Drama
With his mother now dead, David Copperfield id put to work by his cruel stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. Rather than working in the counting house however, he is put to work cleaning empty wine ... See full summary »
Director: Joan Craft | Stars: Jonathan Kahn, Anne Ridler, Pat Keen, Gareth Thomas
Votes: 7
83. Rocket Man (2005– )
60 min | Drama
A recently widowed Welsh man struggles to build a rocket to launch his wife's ashes into space.
Stars: Robson Green, Charles Dale, John Rhys Halliwell, Kai Owen
Votes: 157
84.
Affairs of the Heart (1974–1975)
Episode:
Emma
(1974)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Emma agrees to a pretend engagement with a young Earl in order to protect him from the horde of eligible young women besieging him.
Director: John Frankau | Stars: Cheryl Campbell, Jeremy Clyde, Lally Bowers, Valerie White
Votes: 12
85.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Big Four
(2013)
TV-PG | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As the threat of world war looms large, Poirot seeks the help of friends both old and new when he is pitted against a dangerous group of dissidents responsible for a series of violent murders.
Director: Peter Lydon | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, Philip Jackson
Votes: 2,005
86. Chariots of Fire (1981)
PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers
Votes: 65,906 | Gross: $58.97M
87. Othello (1981 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 195 min | Drama, Romance
General Othello (Sir Anthony Hopkins) becomes convinced that his wife is having an affair, even though there is no evidence.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: Anthony Pedley, Bob Hoskins, Geoffrey Chater, Alexander Davion
Votes: 488
88. A Bit of a Do (1989)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
The television comedy followed two families in a Yorkshire town, the working-class Simcocks and middle-class Rodenhursts, through social events. It was based on books by David Nobbs, who also created Reginald Perrin.
Stars: David Jason, Gwen Taylor, Nicola Pagett, Stephanie Cole
Votes: 230
89. Reg (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Drama
The story of Reg Keys who lost his son in the Iraq War and then went on to contest Tony Blair's seat at Sedgefield in the 2005 General Election.
Director: David Blair | Stars: Tim Roth, Anna Maxwell Martin, Elliott Tittensor, Sandra Voe
Votes: 358
90.
Strauss Dynasty (1991– )
Episode:
Schani
(1991)
Drama, Music
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Anthony Higgins, Stephen McGann, John Gielgud, Edward Fox
Votes: 5
91. ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Comedy, Drama
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Stars: Michael Bryant, William Simons, Katherine Barker, Geoffrey Palmer
Votes: 88
92. Star Quality (1985 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy
In 1940's England, a young playwright is getting his first play produced by an important director. But the director wants to get a temperamental actress for the lead. And when Lorraine ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Dossor | Stars: Susannah York, Ian Richardson, Peter Chelsom, David Yelland
Votes: 65
93. Hunter Killer (2018)
R | 121 min | Action, Thriller
An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
Director: Donovan Marsh | Stars: Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Linda Cardellini
Votes: 73,619 | Gross: $15.77M
94. Happy End (2017)
R | 107 min | Drama
A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin
Votes: 16,934 | Gross: $0.30M
95.
A Bit of a Do (1989)
Episode:
The Registry Office Wedding
(1989)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Liz and Neville get married,though Laurence's recent suicide throws a shadow on the proceedings.Jenny and Paul have reconciled as she is pregnant again, Elvis is dating Carol and Simon,... See full summary »
Director: David Reynolds | Stars: David Jason, Gwen Taylor, Nicola Pagett, Michael Jayston
Votes: 18
96. Stranded (2002 TV Movie)
120 min | Adventure, Drama
David Robinson is being shipped off to a penal colony. His wife and kids are allowed to accompany him. A storm strikes the ship and the family (save for one son, Jacob) are trapped below ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Beeson | Stars: Liam Cunningham, Brana Bajic, Roger Allam, Jesse Spencer
Votes: 850
97.
ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Episode:
Facing the Sun
(1980)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Claude Whatham | Stars: Marjorie Bland, Ann Bruce, Cheryl Burfield, Victoria Fairbrother
Votes: 6
98. Private Peaceful (2012)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, War
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Jack O'Connell, George MacKay, John Lynch
Votes: 1,719
99.
A Bit of a Do (1989)
Episode:
The Church Wedding
(1989)
51 min | Comedy, Drama
Rita is marrying Gerry but Paul stays away from the wedding out of protest. The bride also fails to show but at the reception she announces that she does not want to get married as it would... See full summary »
Director: John Glenister | Stars: David Jason, Gwen Taylor, Nicola Pagett, Michael Jayston
Votes: 11
100. Coriolanus (2011)
R | 123 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
Director: Ralph Fiennes | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Lubna Azabal
Votes: 33,516 | Gross: $0.76M