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1. 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: 39,460

2. A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)

TV-MA | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

DI Jack Frost is an unconventional policeman with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice. Sloppy, disorganized, and disrespectful, he attracts trouble like a magnet.

Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Arthur White

Votes: 8,752

3. 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: 6,720

4. Scott & Bailey (2011–2016)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Detectives Janet Scott & Rachel Bailey investigate murders with Manchester Police's Major Incident Team.

Stars: Suranne Jones, Lesley Sharp, Tony Mooney, David Prosho

Votes: 11,045

5. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)

TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Drama series following a team of detectives who investigate unsolved murders using modern technology.

Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Tara Fitzgerald

Votes: 6,435

6. Taggart (1983–2010)

TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Maryhill CID investigates gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow.

Stars: Blythe Duff, James MacPherson, Robert Robertson, Iain Anders

Votes: 2,004

7. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)

46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A team of dedicated detectives investigate gruesome murders across London.

Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall, Amanda Lawrence

Votes: 3,473

8. Eliminators (2016)

R | 94 min | Action, Thriller

Thomas, widower and ex federal agent, hides in London with his daughter. 3 men break in. Thomas kills them. His photo ends on TV. A US crime boss sends a killer to London.

Director: James Nunn | Stars: Scott Adkins, Stu Bennett, Daniel Caltagirone, James Cosmo

Votes: 4,857

9. Murdered for Being Different (2017 TV Movie)

61 min | Crime, Drama

On August 11, 2007, twenty-year-old Sophie Lancaster was brutally attacked in a park by a gang of teenagers and died 13 days later in hospital. She and her boyfriend Robert Maltby were attacked because they were dressed as Goths.

Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Chanel Cresswell, Nico Mirallegro, Abigail Lawrie, Sally Lindsay

Votes: 713

10. Care (2000 TV Movie)

105 min | Crime, Drama

A troubled boy (Steven Mackintosh) endures physical abuse by the staffers at a children's home.

Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Steven Mackintosh, Jaye Griffiths, Maria Pride, Charlotte Cornwell

Votes: 290

11. Sus (I) (2010)

91 min | Drama

1979: Election Night - A police interview room. Delroy's pregnant wife has been found dead in a pool of blood and he is brought in as the chief suspect. He is interrogated by D.S. Karn, a ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Heath | Stars: Ralph Brown, Clint Dyer, Rafe Spall, Anjela Lauren Smith

Votes: 436

12. Sykopath

15 min | Short, Drama, Mystery | Post-production

When police officer Andrea Sykes starts to investigate a series of murders of male prostitutes, she's forced to protect a witness; Terry Wright. As tensions between them rise, can Andrea keep her secrets buried?

Director: Jethro Randell | Stars: Georgina Thompson, Brandon James Watts, Marcus Marino Gould, Kerry Frater

13. Vic Reeves Investigates... Jack the Ripper (2007 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary, Crime, History

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Stars: Vic Reeves, Laura Burke, Mark Burke, Keith Charles

Votes: 16

14. Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode: Murder in Mind (1973)

TV-14 | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

While suffering from amnesia, Betty Drew stumbles into a police station; unable to identify herself but admitting to having just committed murder. Her elaborate, yet muddled, story is ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Richard Johnson, Zena Walker, Donald Gee, Ronald Radd

Votes: 210

15. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode: A Traitor to Memory (2004)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Lynley is assigned to the hit and run of a woman while attending an anniversary party at his superior officer's house.

Director: Brian Stirner | Stars: Patrick Kennedy, David Calder, Rosalind Jones, Mandy More

Votes: 344

16. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode: In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (2004)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When the daughter of a retired police officer and a male friend are found beaten to death, Lynley brings in the recently demoted Havers to help.

Director: Sebastian Graham Jones | Stars: Tom Lawrence, Emma Willis, Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small

Votes: 334

17. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode: A Cry for Justice (2004)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Havers is reinstated as DS and immediately volunteers to go undercover in a case involving a murder made to look like suicide.

Director: Alrick Riley | Stars: Catherine McDonough, Steven Webb, Sharon Small, Al Weaver

Votes: 333

18. Jonathan Creek (1997–2016)
Episode: Mother Redcap (1998)

TV-PG | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A judge at police protection is killed by a rapier blade to the heart after a brief struggle, but only his wife was in that room at the time.

Director: Keith Washington | Stars: Brian Murphy, Leonard Kavanagh, Georgine Anderson, Nicola Walker

Votes: 389

19. Jonathan Creek (1997–2016)
Episode: The House of Monkeys (1997)

TV-PG | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A scientist is stabbed in the back with a Samurai sword. He is found in a locked room. Creek is called in to solve the problem

Director: Sandy Johnson | Stars: Charles Kay, Annette Crosbie, Sara Markland, Simon Day

Votes: 417

20. The Last Detective (2003–2007)
Episode: Benefit to Mankind (2004)

69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

With a history of depression, a bloodstream full of booze, and a high-pressure job in medical research, Henry Winton seems like an open-and-shut suicide case after his body turns up in the ... See full summary »

Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Peter Davison, Colin MacLachlan, Peter Jonfield, Charles De'Ath

Votes: 119

21. M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team (2003–2005)
Episode: Daddy's Little Girl (2003)

TV-PG | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a three year old building is demolished the perfectly preserved body of a nineteen year old cancer survivor is found with a crushed skull.

Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Lindsey Coulson, Samantha Spiro, Richard Hope, Richard Huw

Votes: 46

22. M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team (2003–2005)
Episode: Moving Targets (2003)

TV-PG | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a uniformed sergeant and a criminal are gunned down in a drive-by, the team first has to find which was the intended victim in order to find the killer.

Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Lindsey Coulson, Samantha Spiro, Richard Hope, Richard Huw

Votes: 54

23. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Breaking Glass: Part 1 (2003)

TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The CCS is alerted to sexual abuse of young boys in care homes. The team race to identify the murderer before his vengeful victims reach him.

Director: David Thacker | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 139

24. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Every Breath You Take: Part 1 (2001)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The body of missing Police Sergeant Debbie Briton turns up in a golf bag. Suspicion falls on a stalker, but Grace is not convinced that he is the killer.

Director: Gary Love | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 170

25. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Multistorey: Part 1 (2003)

TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Boyd has to battle his demons when the case against a mass murderer, who killed his close friend, is reopened.

Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 176

26. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Undertow: Part 1 (2005)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The team's convinced that a non-violent criminal about to be released from prison is responsible for a series of attacks/murders of women, but can they prove it?

Director: David Thacker | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Esther Hall

Votes: 146

27. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Walking on Water: Part 1 (2003)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

DNA evidence clears a man of the murder of his adopted fisherman stepfather eleven years earlier, but who killed him and who was responsible for the simultaneous disappearance of three female family members?

Director: Andy Hay | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 165

28. Marple (2004–2013)
Episode: Miss Marple: Nemesis (2007)

TV-14 | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Miss Marple and her nephew, novelist Raymond West, embark on a coach tour of historic English houses with an eclectic group of characters at the behest of a late friend who had knowledge of an unsolved murder.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Laura Michelle Kelly, Dan Stevens, Graeme Garden

Votes: 1,857

29. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Yahrzeit: Part 1 (2007)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a London flat is being rehabbed a bloody Nazi dagger is discovered in the fireplace and the team joins with a Massad agent in a hunt to solve the case.

Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 171

30. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Deus Ex Machina: Part 2 (2007)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Boyd connects the disappearance of the Mahdi's skull to the cold case murder of a former Iraqi VIP in his store years earlier and a college-centered Middle Eatern cult.

Director: Andy Hay | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 128

31. 24 Hours in Police Custody (2014– )
Episode: The Detective and the Surgeon (2019)

TV-PG | 47 min | Documentary, Crime

Bedfordshire Police investigate a reported burglary in which antiques worth a quarter of a million pounds have been stolen from a country estate. But something about the case doesn't add up.

Director: John Douglas | Star: Zawe Ashton

Votes: 43

32. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Special Relationship: Part 2 (2002)

TV-14 | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Feminist Katherine Reed's private life and her desire to have a child hold the keys for the cold case team in solving her murder.

Director: David Thacker | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 139

33. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Undertow: Part 2 (2005)

TV-14 | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Prime suspect Steven Hunt drowns two more girls despite being kept under surveillance by the Team.

Director: David Thacker | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Esther Hall

Votes: 128

34. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Walking on Water: Part 2 (2003)

TV-14 | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Another member of the Lovell family turns up in the family boatyard under a pile of cockles minus a head and hands.

Director: Andy Hay | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 140

35. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Sins: Part 2 (2008)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Sociopathic-sadistic serial killer convict Kelleher, who is dying of cancer, escapes from prison, he takes prison psychiatrist Dr. Hooper with him for unclear reasons.

Director: Daniel Percival | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 131

36. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Duty and Honour: Part 1 (2008)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A mummified hand is discovered in the woods and linked to a military academy in the area that trains mercenaries to fight in Iraq.

Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 125

37. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Duty and Honour: Part 2 (2008)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a witness in Boyd's ongoing murder investigation is killed by a sniper, the team scrambles to work through the remaining suspects before anyone else suffers the same fate.

Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 114

38. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Pietà: Part 2 (2008)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The team discovers that even though the war crimes occurred a decade earlier the deaths they're investigating are intertwined with s current drug deal.

Director: Philippa Langdale | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 124

39. For Love or Money (2019–2022)
Episode: Episode #2.6 (2021)

44 min | Documentary, Crime

Kym and Ashley uncover the truth about a military man who took over £20,000 from a woman after an online meeting. DC Mark Cananur leads his fraud team on an early morning raid that he hopes will break a shameless romance fraud ring.

Directors: Kirk Barber, Matthew Lees, Channing Brankin | Stars: Kym Marsh, Ashley John-Baptiste

40. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)
Episode: The Red Dahlia: Part 1 (2010)

47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The discovery of the mutilated body of a young woman seems to echo that of the notorious unsolved Los Angeles 'Black Dahlia' murder of the 1940s.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall, Celyn Jones

Votes: 756

41. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Magdalene 26: Part 2 (2009)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The team connects Father Quinn to the 1967 club murder old case after he rescues Elizabeth at the hospital from from being murdered by the Turkish mafia and connects her questionable business practices with her kidnapping.

Director: Andy Hay | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 128

42. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: End of the Night: Part 2 (2009)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Although Boyd has sufficient evidence to arrest rapist Jason Bloch, he allows him time to incriminate accomplice James Mitcham, now a respected surgeon whom he blackmails to care for his invalid wife.

Director: Dan Reed | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 131

43. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Substitute: Part 2 (2009)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The team finally discovers what the principles have been smuggling -- human body parts, which are harvested from smuggled illegal aliens and sold for great profit on the black market.

Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 130

44. Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode: The Silent Land (2010)

TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jeff Bowmaker runs a profitable business in Midsomer Magna conducting spooky "ghost tours" at night when the unpopular village librarian turns up dead.

Director: Peter Smith | Stars: John Nettles, Jason Hughes, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard

Votes: 783

45. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)
Episode: The Red Dahlia: Part 3 (2010)

47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Langton is sure arrogant, aristocratic Charles Wickenham , aided and abetted by his incestuous family is guilty of the horrific copycat murders.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall, Celyn Jones

Votes: 159

46. Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode: Master Class (2010)

TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A gifted young pianist with emotional issues is in competition with other young talents for a scholarship in a prestigious private musical academy.

Director: Renny Rye | Stars: John Nettles, Jason Hughes, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson

Votes: 883

47. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)
Episode: Deadly Intent: Part 1 (2011)

46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Mexico someone is having plastic surgery. On a London estate disgraced ex-cop Frank Brandon is found shot dead in a crack den and Anna,now an inspector,joins the hunt for the killer. ... See full summary »

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall, Celyn Jones

Votes: 120

48. Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode: Not in My Back Yard (2011)

TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A group of conservationists object to the development of a pristine part of the village and adherents from both sides become victims of a mysterious killer.

Director: Peter Smith | Stars: John Nettles, Jason Hughes, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson

Votes: 695

49. For Love or Money (2019–2022)
Episode: Episode #3.5 (2022)

44 min | Documentary, Crime

Norman met Michael via an online dating site, but to access a huge inheritance, Michael says he needs Norman's money. Something doesn't add up. DC Mason is tracking a suspected romance fraudster in the UK and is about to launch a raid.

Directors: Paul Arnold, Aaron Nelson, Steve McConville | Stars: Kym Marsh, Ashley John-Baptiste, Rebecca Mason

50. Endeavour (2012–2023)
Episode: Pilot (2012)

TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Young Endeavour Morse joins Inspector Fred Thursday's investigation into the disappearance of a schoolgirl named Mary Tremlett.

Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Michael Matus, John Light, Flora Montgomery, Patrick Malahide

Votes: 4,945