The excellent Helen Mirren returns as DCI Jane Tennison in the fifth volume of this intriguing award-winning drama. When a young rent boy is found dead the vice cop finds herself caught up in a full blown murder investigation which leads her into the sordid underworld of child pornography. find out more...

Set within the vibrant dancehalls and low-life hang-outs of 1940s Paris, ambitious young actress Jenny, her covetous, piano-playing husband/manager Maurice Martineau and their devoted confidante Dora Monier attempt to cover one another's tracks when a sexually ogreish high-society business acquaintance is murdered. Enter Inspector Antoine whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path in this classic whodunit murder mystery. find out more...

A masterful adaptation of David Peace's Ellroy-esque noir trilogy. In '1974', the first chapter, a rookie journalist looks to solve the increasingly vexing case of a serial killer on the loose. A bleak vision of corruption in an emphatically isolated 'North', which raises the game for levels of darkness in TV drama. Andrew Garfield gives a captivating performance as the idealistic journalist in way over his head. Highly recommended. find out more...

The trilogy continues and life in West Riding becomes grimmer. Police corruption interferes with the search for a killer in Yorkshire, England. This time, Paddy Considine's Mancunian copper-with-a-heart-of-gold is brought in to head the inquiry into the unsolved murders. Like the journo before him, he finds resistance wherever he turns. Gripping stuff, based on David Peace's novel "Nineteen Eighty" find out more...

The grisly trilogy concludes in dramatic fashion. Mark Addy gives a sterling performance as a burned-out solicitor whose conscience won't let him give up. The seemingly untouchable, corrupt West Yorkshire police, and the true evil mastermind behind the child abductions and murders of the last 14 years are dragged into the light. Excellent British television. find out more...

After thirty years as partners in the NYPD, highly decorated detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp who appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. When additional crimes take place it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer; one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. 'Righteous Kill find out more...

When Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the Devonshire moors under mysterious circumstances rumours of a family curse remerge. His American nephew and heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, decides to open up the ancestral hall and appoints Holmes and Watson to investigate Sir Charles's death and the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles. An excellent rendering of one of the better known Sherlock Holmes adventures, and a must for all crime thrillers fans! find out more...

State of Play is a classic conspiracy thriller that promotes the belief that New Labour has betrayed the longing for a new ethical politics, replacing the sleaze scandals of the Major years with more of the same. The script, the dialogue and the acting are all top drawer in this gripping, pacey, multi-layered tale of ambitious and talented young men tragically failing. find out more...

The story continues in this gripping conspiracy thriller. find out more...

Dr Alex Beck is a man still tortured by his past, eight years ago his beloved wife was brutally murdered and, worryingly short on evidence, the police attempted, but failed, to place the responsibility for her death at his door. When Alex receives a mysterious e-mail attachment showing what looks to be his long dead wife standing outside a tube-station his life once again spirals out of control, only this time he's not prepared for his grief to prevent him from attempting to uncover the truth ho find out more...