Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "detective-series"

1. Sherlock (2010–2017)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The quirky spin on Conan Doyle's iconic sleuth pitches him as a "high-functioning sociopath" in modern-day London. Assisting him in his investigations: Afghanistan War vet John Watson, who's introduced to Holmes by a mutual acquaintance.

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves

Votes: 996,612

2. Vera (2011– )

TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

With her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her team as they face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.

Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Jon Morrison, Riley Jones, Kenny Doughty

Votes: 19,981

3. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In the 1890s, William Murdoch uses radical forensic techniques for the time, including fingerprinting and trace evidence, to solve some of the city's most gruesome murders.

Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris

Votes: 17,425

4. Columbo (1971–2003)

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

Los Angeles homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo uses his humble ways and ingenuous demeanor to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes.

Stars: Peter Falk, Mike Lally, John Finnegan, Bruce Kirby

Votes: 41,889

5. Elementary (2012–2019)

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

A crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London, eccentric Sherlock escapes to New York where his father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Aidan Quinn, Jon Michael Hill

Votes: 118,912

6. Luther (2010–2019)

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

John Luther is a brilliant homicide detective with a knack for getting inside the minds of murderers. Unfortunately, his unconventional methods and personal demons put him at odds with his team.

Stars: Idris Elba, Dermot Crowley, Michael Smiley, Warren Brown

Votes: 154,149

7. Gotham (2014–2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The story behind Detective James Gordon's rise to prominence in Gotham City in the years before Batman's arrival.

Stars: Ben McKenzie, Jada Pinkett Smith, Donal Logue, Camren Bicondova

Votes: 240,584

8. C.B. Strike (2017– )

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

War veteran turned private detective Cormoran Strike solves brutal murders with the help of his trusted partner Robin Ellacott.

Stars: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Kerr Logan, Jack Greenlees

Votes: 24,617

9. The Sinner (2017–2021)

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

Detective Ambrose employs some unusual tactics and a deep capacity for empathy to solve his cases. His boundless dedication is driven by his dark past, leading him into powerful and often dangerously intimate bonds with his suspects.

Stars: Bill Pullman, Jessica Hecht, Dohn Norwood, Adam LeFevre

Votes: 138,821

10. Foyle's War (2002–2015)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.

Stars: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Ellie Haddington

Votes: 18,230

11. Found (2023– )

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Each year, over 600,000 people are reported missing in the United States. Gabi Mosely and her crisis management team use unorthodox methods to find the forgotten people.

Stars: Shanola Hampton, Kelli Williams, Brett Dalton, Gabrielle Walsh

Votes: 4,480

12. Miss Scarlet & the Duke (2020– )

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

When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner - step forward a detective known as the Duke.

Stars: Kate Phillips, Stuart Martin, Cathy Belton, Simon Ludders

Votes: 10,938

13. The Alienist (2018–2020)

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

Newspaper illustrator John Moore meets with criminal psychologist (alienist) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century.

Stars: Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans, Robert Wisdom

Votes: 60,082

14. Mr. Mercedes (2017–2019)

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

A demented killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again.

Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Holland Taylor, Jharrel Jerome, Breeda Wool

Votes: 26,543

15. Rogue (2013–2017)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Grace, an undercover detective, is tormented by the possibility that she might have contributed to her son's mysterious death. While trying to uncover the truth, she gets involved with a dangerous criminal.

Stars: Cole Hauser, Thandiwe Newton, Sergio Di Zio, Sarah Jeffery

Votes: 3,232

16. Haven (2010–2015)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Many in the coastal town of Haven, Maine have a dormant curse or "trouble" that could trigger at any time for any reason. FBI agent Audrey Parker, the sheriff and the town's black sheep must deal with the troubles' deadly effects.

Stars: Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, Eric Balfour, Richard Donat

Votes: 41,313

17. Pushing Daisies (2007–2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A pastry chef with the power to bring dead people back to life solves murder mysteries with his resurrected childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.

Stars: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale

Votes: 59,526

18. Crime (2021– )

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

When an Edinburgh schoolgirl is abducted, DI Ray Lennox investigates her disappearance whilst confronting his own past trauma.

Stars: Dougray Scott, Joanna Vanderham, Ken Stott, Sarah McCardie

Votes: 6,134

19. Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (2019–2021)

TV-G | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In swinging 60's Melbourne, gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea.

Stars: Geraldine Hakewill, Joel Jackson, Catherine McClements, Louisa Mignone

Votes: 2,983

20. Cardinal (2017–2020)

TV-MA | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme investigate the murder of a young girl, while Cardinal struggles to right past wrongs that could derail the investigation and end his career, as the case grows more violent and twisted.

Stars: Billy Campbell, Karine Vanasse, Kristen Thomson, Glen Gould

Votes: 11,681

21. The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013–2018)

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

Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning, to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon.

Stars: Nadine Garner, Craig McLachlan, Charlie Cousins, Joel Tobeck

Votes: 5,097

22. Private Eyes (2016–2021)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Former professional hockey player Matt Shade partners with private eye Angie Everett to solve crimes around Toronto.

Stars: Jason Priestley, Cindy Sampson, Barry Flatman, Jordyn Negri

Votes: 5,653

23. Rocco Schiavone (2016– )

TV-MA | 100 min | Crime, Thriller

A cranky and unorthodox detective is exiled to the snowbound Val D'Aosta where he is confronted with compelling cases.

Stars: Marco Giallini, Ernesto D'Argenio, Francesco Acquaroli, Christian Ginepro

Votes: 2,349

24. Black Spot (2017–2019)

TV-MA | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A police chief and an eccentric new prosecutor investigate a string of grisly crimes and eerie phenomena in an isolated town at the edge of a forest.

Stars: Suliane Brahim, Hubert Delattre, Laurent Capelluto, Samuel Jouy

Votes: 13,736

25. Vienna Blood (2019– )

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

Max Liebermann, a medical student and protegé of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around 1900s Vienna.

Stars: Matthew Beard, Juergen Maurer, Amelia Bullmore, Conleth Hill

Votes: 8,249

26. 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: 4,838

27. Hinterland (2013–2016)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A noir crime drama set in Aberystwyth, Wales, where troubled DCI Tom Mathias solves murders while searching for redemption.

Stars: Richard Harrington, Mali Harries, Alex Harries, Hannah Daniel

Votes: 15,108

28. Baptiste (2019–2021)

Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Mercurial retired police detective, Julien Baptiste, specializes in missing-persons cases.

Stars: Tchéky Karyo, Anastasia Hille, Tom Hollander, Fiona Shaw

Votes: 10,221

29. Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017–2021)

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

The series follows Frankie Drake, a female private detective operating in Toronto in the 1920s.

Stars: Lauren Lee Smith, Chantel Riley, Rebecca Liddiard, Sharron Matthews

Votes: 3,175

30. Maigret (2016–2017)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cases of hard-working Parisian detective Chief Inspector Jules Maigret.

Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Shaun Dingwall, Leo Staar, Lucy Cohu

Votes: 1,982

31. Mystery!: Cadfael (1994–1998)

TV-14 | 983 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The medieval era cases of a Crusader-turned-Monk who investigates mysteries in the Norman English town of Shrewsbury.

Stars: Derek Jacobi, Michael Culver, Julian Firth, Terrence Hardiman

Votes: 3,107

32. Black Sun (2017– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1920s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.

Stars: Andrija Kuzmanovic, Marija Bergam, Dragan Bjelogrlic, Jovana Stojiljkovic

Votes: 12,408

33. Prescription: Murder (1968 TV Movie)

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

A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.

Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Peter Falk, Gene Barry, Katherine Justice, William Windom

Votes: 5,509

34. Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963)

60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The cases of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations and the two handsome, slick, tough-guy detectives who ran the firm, Thomas Jefferson Lopaka, or Tom for short, and Tracy Steele, a Korean War veteran and former city police detective.

Stars: Poncie Ponce, Connie Stevens, Douglas Mossman, Robert Conrad

Votes: 687

35. Bancroft (2017–2020)

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

A dark thriller surrounding Elizabeth Bancroft, a senior detective with explosive secrets.

Stars: Sarah Parish, Ryan McKen, Adam Long, Lee Boardman

Votes: 4,059

36. We Hunt Together (2020– )

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A gripping twist on a classic cat-and-mouse story, this British drama series explores the intoxication of sexual attraction and the dangerous power of emotional manipulation as two conflicted detectives track down a pair of deadly killers.

Stars: Eve Myles, Babou Ceesay, Hermione Corfield, Vicki Pepperdine

Votes: 2,783

37. Prime Suspect 3 (1993)

104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police.

Stars: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Karen Tomlin, David Thewlis

Votes: 3,994

38. Jack the Ripper (1988)

TV-PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Scotland Yard police inspector, battling the booze, investigates the Jack the Ripper murders and discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the Queen.

Stars: Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Lewis Collins

Votes: 5,667

39. Sweating Bullets (1991–1993)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Nick Slaughter, a former RCMP and DEA agent, who had left the company after being fired from his job, moves to the Florida town of Key Mariah to set up a detective service.

Stars: Rob Stewart, Carolyn Dunn, Ian Tracey, Ari Sorko-Ram

Votes: 1,939

40. The Famous Five (1978–1979)

25 min | Adventure, Crime, Family

Modern adaptation of Enid Blyton's adventure stories about Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog.

Stars: Marcus Harris, Gary Russell, Jennifer Thanisch, Michele Galagher

Votes: 593

41. Dirk Gently (2010–2012)

58 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Holistic detective Gently relies on the universe to unravel mysteries based on the 'interconnectedness of all things'.

Stars: Stephen Mangan, Darren Boyd, Lisa Jackson, Jason Watkins

Votes: 3,503

42. Partners in Crime (2015)

55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Agatha Christie's crime-fighting duo, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, solve mysteries and search for enemy spies in 1950s Britain.

Stars: Jessica Raine, David Walliams, James Fleet, Matthew Steer

Votes: 2,701

43. Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act (2006)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Approaching retirement, Jane Tennison investigates the murder of a missing girl. But the cracks soon begin to show as Jane struggles with an alcohol problem and her father's death.

Stars: Helen Mirren, Stephen Tompkinson, Laura Greenwood, Eve Best

Votes: 3,484

44. Jack Taylor (2010)

Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Irish ex-cop Jack Taylor solves crimes as a maverick private investigator. Based on Ken Bruen's crime-drama books.

Stars: Iain Glen, Nora-Jane Noone, Killian Scott, Paraic Breathnach

Votes: 2,586

45. IJ Inspector Jamshed (2024)

120 min | Action, Adventure, Family | Post-production

"Unlock the Secrets of an International Espionage Caper: Inspector Jamshed and His Sleuth-Savvy Children Lead the Way to Worldwide Peace and Order!"

Director: Fahd Nur | Stars: Omair Rana, Ahad Raza Mir, Anoushay Abbasi, Faran Tahir

46. Dark Heart (2016–2018)

Not Rated | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

DI Will Wagstaffe and his team investigate horrifying and brutal attacks.

Stars: Tom Riley, Joseph Teague, Anjli Mohindra, Charlotte Riley

Votes: 1,713

47. The Shadow Line (2011)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Christopher Eccleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in this intricate conspiracy thriller set in a world of blurred morality, inhabited by conflicted characters on both sides of the law.

Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Kierston Wareing, Richard Lintern

Votes: 4,993

48. Forhøret (2019–2023)

TV-MA | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Bjørn investigates the killing of his daughter. People around him believe she might have committed suicide, but he doesn't accept that. Both the stakes and the suspense rise relentlessly as Bjørn inches closer to the truth.

Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Alma Ekehed Thomsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Lars Mikkelsen

Votes: 2,436

49. The Detectives (1993–1997)

50 min | Comedy, Crime

In the never ending, high tech war against crime, Detective Constables Bob Louis and David Briggs are the Scud missiles of the police arsenal of intuition, hunches and inspired guesses... all of them hopelessly wrong.

Stars: Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell, George Sewell, Frank Windsor

Votes: 1,610

50. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011–2014)

386 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

"The Suspicions of Mr Whicher" premiered in 2011 and starred Paddy Considine as Jonathan 'Jack' Whicher, a detective leading the investigation into a notorious child murder in the 1860s. ... See full summary »

Stars: Paddy Considine, Tim Pigott-Smith, William Beck, Nancy Carroll

Votes: 955