British TV Dramas on Netflix
Last updated March 14, 2025
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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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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Miss Marple: 4.50 From Paddington
1987 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsWhen Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train, the absence of a body leads no-one to believe her. Except Miss Marple. Co-starring Maurice Denham, Jean Boht, Joanna David.
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George Gently
2007 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsOn the eve of his retirement, Scotland Yard Inspector George Gently decides to pursue one final murder case, suspecting that it's the handiwork of a gangster who's already gotten away with the murder of Gently's own wife.
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Skins: Vol. 6
2012 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThe gang returns in style, burning their way through a holiday in Morocco. But what begins as a hedonistic fortnight before their return to college blossoms into a living hell. By the time they return to Bristol, everything's changed.
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Skins: Vol. 4
2010 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsSeason 4 of this provocative teen drama opens with Emily, Freddie and the rest of the gang reeling from a local girl's drug-induced suicide, which leads to Thomas getting tossed out of school and lands Cook in jail for peddling ecstasy.
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Skins
2007 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsBoldly taking on controversial teen topics such as drug use and mental illness, this incisive series centers on the tense lives of a group of hormonal teenagers as the friends and wannabe lovers weather their final two years of school.
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George Gently: Series 1
2007 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn 1960s Britain, London police officer George Gently moves to England's North Country to solve the hit-and-run murder of his wife. Feared by criminals and corrupt cops, George also works with his partner, John, to stop lawbreakers of all types.
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Skins: Vol. 2
2008 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn the wake of a violent first-season finale that saw Tony hit by a bus, Tony is miraculously alive -- but he's hardly the same popular, attractive and intelligent boy he once was. Neither Sid nor Michelle know what to do with the new Tony.
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The Hour: Season 2
2012 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsOne year has passed since "The Hour" was unceremoniously taken off air for their controversial interview with Lord Elms, and much has changed. Freddie has been fired and left to go travelling, whilst Bel fought to stay and improve the ratings.
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The Hour: Season 1
2011 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsAs a new investigative television program launches in 1950s London, the up-and-coming news team's competitive ambitions and passions lead to rivalries and a love triangle while they cover an unexplained murder in this British mini-series.
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The Hour
2011 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThis six-part political thriller focuses on the launch of a new BBC news program in June 1956, as the Suez Crisis is unfolding in the Middle East. The story follows the efforts of the show's staff to reveal the tangled politics of the era.
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George Gently: Series 4
2011 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsMartin Shaw is back as Inspector George Gently, a by-the-book cop from London now working in the northeast of England, a corner of the country that's just starting to experience the social changes sweeping the rest of 1960s Britain.
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George Gently: Series 2
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn Series 2, a murder investigation uncovers shocking abuses in a former home for children, clues to a murder lead to a seedy hostess club, and an apparent suicide might actually be foul play.
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Skins: Vol. 1
2007 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThis stark ensemble drama captures a slice of life at a fictional high school in Bristol, England, focusing on the everyday struggles of an openly gay student, a habitually hard partier, a girl with an eating disorder and other characters.
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George Gently: Series 3
2010 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn this rural British detective series set in the 1960s, Inspector George Gently investigates a young woman's murder and a child's disappearance, and also looks into a mysterious death possibly linked to the anti-nuclear protest movement.
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Skins: Vol. 5
2011 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsPrepare to meet the third generation of "Skins," four girls and four boys who will love each other, hate each other, screw each other and make each other laugh. Leaving behind the comfort of their old cliques, together they become something amazing.
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Skins: Vol. 3
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsIn Bristol, England, a group of teenagers, including a Congolese immigrant, an adorable virgin and a volatile queen bee, copes with real-life problems such as underage sex, drug abuse, violence and eating disorders.
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Derek: Season 1
2012 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWhile filming at a nursing home, a documentary crew's cameras capture the life of socially awkward caregiver Derek Noakes, a 49-year-old bachelor whose passions include Jesus Christ, animals and autographs.
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Masterpiece Classic: Wuthering Heights
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsEmily Brontë's sweeping tale of romance set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors gets the "Masterpiece" treatment in this lush made-for-television adaptation starring Charlotte Riley and Tom Hardy. Cathy (Riley) eventually fell in love with Heathcliff (Hardy), the young Gypsy boy her father brought home years ago. But now that they're adults, another man (Tom Payne) is offering her his affections -- and a far more comfortable life.
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Derek
2012 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsRicky Gervais created and stars in this heartwarming comedy-drama as Derek, a loyal nursing home caretaker who sees only the good in his quirky co-workers as they struggle against prejudice and shrinking budgets to care for their elderly residents.
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Masterpiece Classic: Wuthering Heights
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsEmily Brontë's sweeping tale of romance set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors gets the "Masterpiece" treatment in this lush made-for-television adaptation starring Charlotte Riley and Tom Hardy.
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Torchwood: Season 1
2006 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn this series spin-off from "Doctor Who," policewoman Gwen Cooper learns of a secret organization known as Torchwood, a clandestine group that monitors alien activity on Earth. Cooper soon joins the team in a quest to protect Earth from invasion.
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Kingdom: Series 3
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsCounty solicitor Peter Kingdom (Stephen Fry) returns for a third season to handle the legal cases of small-town Market Shipborough's quirky residents while dealing with the antics of his unstable sister, Beatrice (Hermione Norris).
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Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1992 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWhen a woman is poisoned at the village fete at Gossington Hall, the police deduce the intended victim was film star Marina Gregg. Then another woman is murdered. Can Miss Marple succeed where the police have failed?
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