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1.
Waterfront Beat (1990–1991)
Episode:
Stake Out
(1991)
Crime, Drama
Det. Supt. Frank Mathews puts together an operation in the attempt catch whoever is throwing body parts in the Mersey. Irishman Gerry Darcey's arrest causes a stir when he demands to speak to the Assistant Chief Constable.
Director: Robert Gabriel | Stars: Bruce Alexander, John Ashton, Romy Baskerville, Leila Bertrand
Votes: 14
2. Dropping Off Michael (2015)
16 min | Short, Drama
Young Michael is taken out for his last day of freedom by his Uncle Duncan. Despite the fun line-up that his uncle has laid on for him, Michael cannot forget where he's finally going that ... See full summary »
Director: Zam Salim | Stars: Felicity Allen, Maureen Carr, Kevin Main, Brian McCardie
Votes: 25
3. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
After being framed for a murder, a monster slayer must find the assassin and clear his name.
Director: Adam Badowski | Stars: Doug Cockle, Alexander Morton, Antony Byrne, David Annen
Votes: 6,623
4. Dog Days (2023– )
Crime
Homeless Zoso must battle the odds to get his life back on track and be allowed to see his young daughter again, in this compelling and affecting drama.
Stars: Conor McCarron, Lois Chimimba, Shanon Allan, Ben Clifford
Votes: 23
5.
Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode:
Time of Need
(1999)
TV-14 | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A new government minister is charged by a young felon with having molested him while he was in her care over a decade before.
Director: David Thacker | Stars: John Thaw, Anne Carroll, Martin Chamberlain, Kenneth Cope
Votes: 78
6. 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: 70,251
7.
Outlander (2014– )
Episode:
Wentworth Prison
(2015)
TV-MA | 57 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A visit from Black Jack causes Jamie to realize a fate exists that is worse than his death sentence.
Director: Anna Foerster | Stars: Caitríona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Douglas Henshall
Votes: 4,708
8. Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures (1999 Podcast Series)
Sci-Fi
Full-cast audio drama series based on "Doctor Who (1963)" chronicling the further adventures of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors.
Stars: Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Sarah Sutton
Votes: 44
9.
Time (2021– )
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2021)
TV-14 | 66 min | Crime, Drama
Mark suffers a tragic personal loss and is given the chance to leave prison for a day. Eric is forced to take greater risks to protect his family.
Director: Lewis Arnold | Stars: Sean Bean, Stephen Graham, Lee Morris, Hannah Walters
Votes: 1,076
10. Firestorm (II) (2018 TV Movie)
Sci-Fi
By the end of the 21st century mankind has pulled itself up by its bootstraps but in 2102 a new threat emerges that could cause the extinction of the human race.
Director: Steven Begg | Stars: Gethin Anthony, Naoko Mori, Brian McCardie, Sophia Myles
Votes: 18
11. After the Fray (2015)
9 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
Set in the not so distant future a military veteran recounts his experiences on the front lines of a catastrophic world war. Constantly haunted by his past and unable to forgive himself, ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Harrison | Stars: Brian McCardie, Kim Vithana
Votes: 14
12. Outlander (2014– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Claire Beauchamp Randall, a nurse in World War II, mysteriously goes back in time to Scotland in 1743. There, she meets a dashing Highland warrior and gets drawn into an epic rebellion.
Stars: Caitríona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin
Votes: 179,153
13.
M.I.High (2007–2014)
Episode:
The Fall of Skul
(2013)
Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Simon Hynd | Stars: Oyiza Momoh, Sam Strike, Oscar Jacques, Natasha Watson
Votes: 9
14.
Line of Duty (2012–2021)
Episode:
Blood Money
(2014)
TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An arrogant Dryden is questioned regarding the traffic offence and is dismissive though Steve lets him know Lindsay has revealed that he knew about the convoy route and aims to pursue it ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Martin Compston, Keeley Hawes, Christina Chong, Adrian Dunbar
Votes: 1,246
15.
Lilies (2007)
Episode:
The Reckoning
(2007)
59 min | Drama
After a life-threatening delivery, May rejects her baby, awaiting the return of Mr. Brazendale. The turmoil created by Dadda's flight, the neighbors' scorn, and Iris's pursuit of a vocation... See full summary »
Director: Brian Kelly | Stars: Brian McCardie, Leanne Rowe, Kerrie Hayes, Catherine Tyldesley
Votes: 19
16.
Time (2021– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2021)
TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama
Mark is being bullied by fellow inmate Johnno. Does he tell the prison officers and be labeled a grass or risk the attacks becoming more and more violent? Eric's son is attacked.
Director: Lewis Arnold | Stars: Sean Bean, Stephen Graham, James Nelson-Joyce, Shaun Mason
Votes: 1,037
17.
Line of Duty (2012–2021)
Episode:
The Probation
(2012)
TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Gates returns to rescue Arnott but leaves before Kate, her cover now blown, arrives to find evidence that a body had been stored at the warehouse. Arnott recalls that the chief torturer was... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Mackinnon | Stars: Tomi May, Gregory Piper, Martin Compston, Vicky McClure
Votes: 1,558
18. Time (2021– )
TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama
Eric is a prison officer who tries to protect those in his charge. When one of the most dangerous inmates identifies his weakness, Eric faces an impossible choice between his principles and his love for his family.
Stars: Siobhan Finneran, Sean Bean, Jodie Whittaker, Stephen Graham
Votes: 27,263
19.
Time (2021– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2021)
TV-14 | 56 min | Crime, Drama
Mark Cobden is sent to prison and has to learn quickly how to survive. When an inmate identifies prison officer Eric McNally's weakness, he faces an impossible choice.
Director: Lewis Arnold | Stars: Sean Bean, Stephen Graham, Kadiff Kirwan, James Nelson-Joyce
Votes: 1,155
20.
M.I.High (2007–2014)
Episode:
Trojan KORPS
(2013)
Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Simon Hynd | Stars: Oyiza Momoh, Sam Strike, Oscar Jacques, Natasha Watson
Votes: 6
21.
Line of Duty (2012–2021)
Episode:
The Caddy
(2014)
TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Prasad claims that Dryden wanted Tommy silenced as he was blackmailing him about Carly, hence the ambush. However the order was to spare Lindsay. Hastings charges Dryden for the driving ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Keeley Hawes, Martin Compston, Bennett Warden, Sacha Dhawan
Votes: 1,293
22. Lilies (2007)
60 min | Drama
Tough, sexy, funny and heartbreaking, Lillies details the lives of Iris, May and Ruby Moss - Catholic sisters coming of age in a dockland terraced house. Familial love sustains them, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Brian McCardie, Catherine Tyldesley, Kerrie Hayes, Leanne Rowe
Votes: 805
23. Ghosts (I) (2014)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama
Live recording of London stage production of Ibsen's classic play 'Ghosts'.
Director: Robert Delamere | Stars: Lesley Manville, Jack Lowden, Adam Kotz, Charlene McKenna
Votes: 59
24. Waterfront Beat (1990–1991)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Police series set in the Liverpool docks.
Stars: Brian McCardie, Rupert Frazer, Denis Lill, Geoffrey Leesley
Votes: 9
25.
Lilies (2007)
Episode:
The Release
(2007)
58 min | Drama
As May makes every effort to conceal her condition, Ruby takes up with a group of newfound friends who introduce her to liberating modern ideas: feminism and vegetarianism. May, however, ... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Brian McCardie, Kerrie Hayes, Leanne Rowe, Catherine Tyldesley
Votes: 18
26.
Rebus (2000–2004)
Episode:
Knots and Crosses
(2007)
TV-PG | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Drug pusher Daniel Carr is acquitted of murder on a technicality. Rebus is blamed and investigated by Clive Dawson, once his best friend, now anything but. Carr and his obnoxious brother ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Gartland | Stars: Ken Stott, Claire Price, Graeme Rooney, Therese Bradley
Votes: 141
27.
The Musketeers (2014–2016)
Episode:
An Ordinary Man
(2015)
TV-14 | 57 min | Adventure, Drama
D'Artagnan must protect king Louis when a notorious criminal kidnaps them both.
Director: John Strickland | Stars: Ryan Gage, Luke Pasqualino, Tom Burke, Howard Charles
Votes: 388
28. Shameless (2004–2013)
TV-MA | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The lives and relationships of a group of siblings and their estranged father Frank Gallagher on a rough Manchester estate.
Stars: David Threlfall, Rebecca Atkinson, Alice Barry, Nicky Evans
Votes: 18,488
29.
M.I.High (2007–2014)
Episode:
The Dark Wizard
(2013)
Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Richard Senior | Stars: Oyiza Momoh, Sam Strike, Oscar Jacques, Natasha Watson
Votes: 9
30. Case Histories (2011–2013)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Former soldier and policeman Jackson Brodie becomes a private investigator.
Stars: Jason Isaacs, Amanda Abbington, Zawe Ashton, Millie Innes
Votes: 4,858
31. Accused (2010–2012)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Created by Jimmy McGovern, each episode of this series examines a person who is accused of a crime and what led them to end up in the Dock.
Stars: Michael Maloney, Chord Melodic, Andrew Readman, Rosina Carbone
Votes: 2,939
32.
Murder Most Horrid (1991–1999)
Episode:
Mrs Hat and Mrs Red
(1991)
30 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Mrs Hat is shocked when she bumps into Mrs Red, and ends up following her home. She finds herself literally stepping into her shoes and taking over her luxurious lifestyle.
Director: Bob Spiers | Stars: Dawn French, Jim Carter, Kate McEnery, Ricco Ross
Votes: 56
33.
Sea of Souls (2004–2007)
Episode:
Insiders
(2006)
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
The team investigate the apparent possession of a grieving father by a recently murdered criminal.
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence | Stars: Stephen Lord, Frances Grey, Dawn Steele, Iain Robertson
Votes: 21
34.
Lilies (2007)
Episode:
The White Charger
(2007)
59 min | Drama
At tea with her employer, Mr. Brazendale, May meets a charming photographer with obvious designs on the trusting girl. Meanwhile, Billy finds a stray stallion in the woods, which Dadda schemes to keep for the upcoming Orange Parade.
Stars: Brian McCardie, Leanne Rowe, Daniel Rigby, Kerrie Hayes
Votes: 23
35.
Lilies (2007)
Episode:
The Sea
(2007)
59 min | Drama
Billy's best friend from the war returns to Liverpool, and a maelstrom of long-suppressed emotions threatens to engulf them both. May learns that she is expecting and then discovers that ... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Brian McCardie, Daniel Rigby, Catherine Tyldesley, Leanne Rowe
Votes: 25
36.
Lilies (2007)
Episode:
The Serpent
(2007)
59 min | Drama
When Billy inadvertently brings home a snake, a local teacher invites Mr. Moss to discuss the exotic reptile in her class. But their relationship soon turns romantic--to the horror of his ... See full summary »
Stars: Brian McCardie, Daniel Rigby, Catherine Tyldesley, Leanne Rowe
Votes: 19
37.
Ordeal by Innocence (2018)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2018)
TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
At Sunny Point, justice has fallen out of the hands of the law, and Leo and Gwenda's wedding becomes a theatre of brutal revenge.
Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Matthew Goode, Luke Treadaway, Bill Nighy, Morven Christie
Votes: 496
38. The Long Shadow (2023)
TV-PG | 49 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A desperate cat and mouse hunt ensues when Yorkshire is being haunted by a serial killer.
Stars: Jack Deam, Kris Hitchen, Lee Ingleby, Michael McElhatton
Votes: 7,454
39. The Musketeers (2014–2016)
TV-14 | 55 min | Adventure, Drama
Set on the streets of 17th-century Paris, "The Musketeers" gives a contemporary take on the classic story about a group of highly trained soldiers and bodyguards assigned to protect King and country.
Stars: Luke Pasqualino, Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles
Votes: 23,860
40. Charles I: Downfall of a King (2019)
59 min | Documentary
Historian Lisa Hilton discovers how, in just fifty tempestuous days, Charles I's rule collapsed, laying the foundations for civil war, the loss of royal power and, ultimately, the king's head.
Stars: Brian McCardie, Lisa Hilton, Charles Spencer, Will O'Connell
Votes: 69
41. Forget About Me (1990 TV Movie)
72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The story of two Scottish squadies off on leave to Budapest to see a concert by the band Simple Minds. On their way they meet a beautiful Hungarian girl and a love triangle begins.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Ewen Bremner, Brian McCardie, Zsuzsanna Várkonyi, Attila Grandpierre
Votes: 67
42.
M.I.High (2007–2014)
Episode:
The Face of Revenge
(2013)
Action, Comedy, Crime
Cuthbert Peabody hijacks a new MI9 invention, capable of changing people's faces into other peoples faces, the team must crack a highly complex musical code, to put a stop to it, making them turn to an unlikely source.
Director: Richard Senior | Stars: Oyiza Momoh, Sam Strike, Oscar Jacques, Natasha Watson
Votes: 6
43.
M.I.High (2007–2014)
Episode:
The Final Endgame
(2013)
Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Adrian McDowall | Stars: Oyiza Momoh, Sam Strike, Oscar Jacques, Natasha Watson
Votes: 6
44. Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A crusty barrister oversees difficult criminal cases while dealing with the demands of his family life.
Stars: John Thaw, Oliver Ford Davies, Nicholas Jones, Cliff Parisi
Votes: 1,089
45. Murphy's Law (2003–2007)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As a maverick cop with a dark past, DS Tommy Murphy fails a psychiatric assessment but is given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment.
Stars: James Nesbitt, Del Synnott, Claudia Harrison, Owen Teale
Votes: 1,481
46.
Lilies (2007)
Episode:
The Chit Behind King Billy
(2007)
56 min | Drama
To help get the family pianola out of hock for a street party honoring war vets, Ruby takes a job selling corsets, training all the while for the Olympic swimming tryouts. But brother Billy... See full summary »
Director: David Moore | Stars: Brian McCardie, Kerrie Hayes, Daniel Rigby, Catherine Tyldesley
Votes: 29
47.
Lilies (2007)
Episode:
The Tallyman
(2007)
59 min | Drama
Scarlet fever invades the district, and the Mosses scramble to provide for seven orphaned children and stay one step ahead of the dreaded housing inspector. But, in secret, May becomes more... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Brian McCardie, Catherine Tyldesley, Kerrie Hayes, Daniel Rigby
Votes: 22
48.
Charles I: Downfall of a King (2019)
Episode:
A Nation Divided
(2019)
59 min | Documentary
A Nation Divided The King's proclamation has been sent around the country. Soon, over 200 MPs will return to Westminster to aid Charles; he simply has to run down the clock.
Director: Tom Cholmondeley | Stars: Justin Champion, Jessie Childs, Leanda de Lisle, Jonathan Healey
Votes: 15
49.
Case Histories (2011–2013)
Episode:
One Good Turn, Part 2
(2011)
58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The dead man is not Martin ,who reappears,having been drugged by the mysterious Bradley who then disappeared. Jackson learns that Graham Hatter ran the cleaning company, which is a front ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Anderson | Stars: Jason Isaacs, Amanda Abbington, Natasha Little, Kirsty Mitchell
Votes: 243
50.
M.I.High (2007–2014)
Episode:
Mission: Incredible
(2013)
Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Simon Hynd | Stars: Oyiza Momoh, Sam Strike, Oscar Jacques, Natasha Watson
Votes: 6