British TV Dramas on Netflix
Last updated January 21, 2025
Top Boy
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn this gritty, stylish drama series, two London drug dealers ply their lucrative trade at a public housing estate in North London. When a rival gang boldly snatches their investment cash, the guys fix their sights on revenge.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 12
2009 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThis season, DCI Barnaby and his colleagues investigate art forgery, murders near a safe house connected to Cold War British spies, the murder of a man staked out in a model village like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels and more.
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Inspector Morse: Series 2
1988 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsMorse's cases include the seemingly natural death of an American tourist with a connection to an Oxford museum, the slaying of a Japanese student, the disappearance of a teenage schoolgirl and the murder of a secretary who had murky relationships.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 9
2005 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn Series 9 of this long-running crime series, DCI Barnaby and his keen colleagues solve homicide cases involving a beauty queen, a haunted house, blackmail and the construction of a supermarket in the rural county of Midsomer.
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Inspector Morse: Series 1
1987 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsOxford, England's enigmatic Inspector Morse and his partner, Sgt. Lewis, investigate the untimely death of a piano teacher; the slaying of an Oxford University examination official; and an old, unsolved murder at a country church.
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Inspector Morse: Series 3
1989 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsEnigmatic Inspector Morse and his partner Sgt. Lewis investigate mysterious deaths in Oxford, including a cricket player's apparent suicide and the strangulation of a playboy architect.
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Inspector Morse: Series 4
1990 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsCranky and brilliant Inspector Morse and partner Sgt. Lewis continue to solve Oxford's murder mysteries when an environmentalist's death appears suspicious, a family business turns deadly, and Morse himself becomes a prime murder suspect.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 1
1997 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn this series based on the novels of Caroline Graham, DCI Barnaby solves small-town murders in the villages of Midsomer County, where the cop is confronted with deaths involving a new-age commune, a community theater, a writers' club and others.
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Masterpiece Mystery!: Inspector Lewis: Series 5
2012 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn Series 5 of this police drama, Inspector Lewis and Detective Hathaway must enter a strange, new world -- suburbia -- to solve Oxford's mysteries. Responding with typical tenacity, Lewis pursues cases involving a babysitter, a botanist and more.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 2
1999 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThe villains of Midsomer face a tough adversary as DCI Barnaby and his colleagues solve murders in the beautiful but deadly villages of Midsomer. In Series 2, a shady real estate developer, a surly landlord and a Brazilian woman are among the dead.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 4
2001 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThe fictional English county of Midsomer is shaken by more grisly killings in Series 4 of the procedural drama. DCI Barnaby and crew investigate a murder with extraterrestrial undertones, and struggle to solve the murder of a philandering postman.
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Masterpiece Classic: Great Expectations
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsAn orphaned young man meets a convict in a cemetery and sets into motion a series of events that leads him from a life in his brother-in-law's forge to a mysterious inheritance and his acquaintance with the eerie Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward.
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Inspector Lewis
2007 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsPolice inspector Lewis returns to solving homicides after a long absence and partners with the clever, university-educated Det. Sgt. Hathaway, whose knowledge of the modern world frequently proves helpful to his old-school boss.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 6
2003 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn the small villages of Midsomer, DCI Barnaby and his crew investigate when an arrogant actor dies in an explosion, a couple are clubbed to death and other cases in this crime drama series based on Caroline Graham's novels.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 3
1999 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn Series 3 of the crime drama series, DCI Barnaby and his murder-solving colleagues face a supernatural threat when a 17th-century painting is defaced. Meanwhile, a widely hated man in the village of Midsomer Mallow is skewered with a pitchfork.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 8
2005 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsStill unearthing dark crimes in beautiful Midsomer County, DCI Barnaby and Sgt. Scott investigate homicides relating to the local regatta, orchid smuggling, a racehorse, a relish factory and more in Series 8 of this long-running drama.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 5
2002 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsBased on Caroline Graham's novels, set in the rustic villages of Midsomer, this series finds DCI Barnaby and his colleagues investigating homicides involving a book club, a farmer's wife and a student killed on the same day that his grandfather dies.
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Inspector Morse
1987 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsInspector Morse has an abundance of intellect, but not much patience when it comes to his superiors or low-brow culture. Along with his cheerful sergeant, Lewis, Morse tackles the most devious crimes found in the diverse community of Oxford.
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Midsomer Murders
1998 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsThis long-running British detective drama centers first on the efforts of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and later on those of his younger cousin, DCI John Barnaby, to crack hard-to-solve crimes in the fictional English county of Midsomer.
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Masterpiece Classic: Great Expectations
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn this lavish production of Charles Dickens's classic tale, orphan Pip's fortunes change when an anonymous patron takes an interest in him. Meanwhile, he becomes involved with eccentric Miss Havisham, who can't get over being left at the altar.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 7
2003 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsA new sargeant accompanies DCI Barnaby to solve homicides involving church officials being burned to death, the shooting of a barman at the local pub and other cases in this crime drama which takes place in the rustic villages of Midsomer County.
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Ripper Street: Series 1
2013 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsCharged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of London's East End, Inspector Edmund Reid and his men fight to uphold justice and the rule of law, but always in the background lurks the fear of the era's most evil killer, Jack the Ripper.
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Ripper Street
2013 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsIn April 1889 -- six months after the last Jack the Ripper killing -- East London is emerging into a fragile peace, hopeful that the murderer's reign of terror might have finally run its course.
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Midsomer Murders: Series 11
2008 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsDetective Chief Inspector Barnaby and his colleagues investigate a death at an upper-crust wedding, a murder involving a cult and more in this 11th season of the series. The sharp sleuths fight deadly crime amid otherwise peaceful rural villages.
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Masterpiece Mystery!: Inspector Lewis: Series 4
2011 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsNo-nonsense sleuth Inspector Lewis and his brainy partner DS Hathaway investigate a murder in Oxford's last all-women's college in Series 4. Other baffling cases include the murder of a bishop and the deaths of participants in a clinical drug trial.
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