Best TV shows on Netflix (Royaume-Uni) : our Top 20

2010 · Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat · 4 seasons

Set in present-day London, a celebrated detective and his physician partner tackle contemporary crimes across the city, blending high-tech tools with razor-sharp observation to unravel baffling mysteries.

With Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Louise Brealey, Mark Gatiss and Andrew Scott

2013 · Steven Knight · 6 seasons

In the aftermath of the Great War in 1919 Birmingham, a ruthless family-run gang—infamous for sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps—uses intimidation and cunning to expand its reach. At its center, the hard-edged and calculating Tommy Shelby stops at nothing to lift his clan from the industrial streets into positions of wealth and influence.

With Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Helen McCrory, Finn Cole, Ned Dennehy and Joe Cole

2011 · Charlie Brooker · 7 seasons

A reality-twisting anthology that unfolds uncanny vignettes exposing humanity’s darkest impulses, its most brilliant inventions, and the unsettling costs that connect them.

With Michaela Coel, Daniel Lapaine, Hannah John-Kamen, Aaron Paul, Claire Keelan, Sinead Matthews and Anna Wilson-Jones

2019 · Laurie Nunn · 4 seasons

Awkward and inexperienced, Otis, whose mother is a sex therapist, teams up with rebellious Maeve to run a clandestine sex-and-relationship counseling service for their classmates at school.

With Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells, Kedar Williams-Stirling and Alistair Petrie

2016 · Peter Morgan · 6 seasons

A decades-spanning, behind-the-scenes chronicle of Queen Elizabeth II and the prime ministers who steered Britain through the post-war era. It peels back the curtains of Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street to expose the political maneuvers, personal entanglements and strategic rivalries that shaped the defining events of the latter 20th century. Two seats of authority, two contrasting courts — one sovereign.

With Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Olivia Colman, Vanessa Kirby, Jeremy Northam, Victoria Hamilton and Tobias Menzies

2016 · Peter Morgan · 6 seasons

During World War II in Damascus, Taj, a celebrated local boxer, is accused of treason, his honor and reputation torn apart. Shunned and stripped of everything, he must fight relentlessly to reclaim his family and restore his name amid the turbulent events that will propel Syria toward independence.

With Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Vanessa Kirby, Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce, Lesley Manville and Dominic West

2025 · Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham · 1 season

A 13-year-old's arrest for the death of a classmate shatters the lives around him—his family, his therapist and the lead detective all scramble to reassess what they thought they knew and to uncover the truth behind the tragedy.

With Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Erin Doherty, Faye Marsay, Christine Tremarco and Mark Stanley

2025 · Scott Frank · 2 seasons

A cocky yet brilliant detective is appointed to head a newly formed police unit, assembling a ragtag team of outsiders to reopen and solve Edinburgh’s long‑unsolved cases.

With Matthew Goode, Chloe Pirrie, Jamie Sives, Alexej Manvelov, Leah Byrne and Kelly Macdonald

2017 · Jonathan Entwistle · 2 seasons

Seventeen-year-old James is convinced he has no empathy and watches his own impulses with a detached, clinical curiosity. Alyssa, also 17, arrives at school as a moody, magnetic new student and the two form an unlikely connection; she convinces him to join her on a darkly comic, impulsive road trip to find the man she believes is her biological father. As they travel, their uneasy bond unravels secrets, tests their morals, and forces both teens to confront who they really are and what family might mean.

With Alex Lawther, Jessica Barden, Steve Oram, Naomi Ackie, Josh Dylan, Jack Veal and Navin Chowdhry

2018 · Jed Mercurio · 1 season

Haunted by his wartime experiences, a troubled veteran is assigned to protect a polarizing politician who may be the target of an imminent terror plot.

With Richard Madden, Keeley Hawes, Sophie Rundle, Gina McKee, Pippa Haywood, Stuart Bowman and Paul Ready

2024 · Guy Ritchie · 2 seasons

Eddie, an aristocratic heir, inherits his family’s country estate only to discover it secretly houses a sprawling cannabis empire — and the entrenched operators have no plans to leave.

With Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Michael Vu and Stephane Fichet

2019 · Ricky Gervais · 3 seasons

Tony's once-perfect existence collapses when his wife Lisa dies unexpectedly. Plunged into profound grief, he briefly considers ending his life, but instead decides to stay alive long enough to take out his rage on the world—speaking and acting without restraint, indifferent to the consequences.

With Ricky Gervais, Tom Basden, Kerry Godliman, David Bradley, Joe Wilkinson, Tony Way and Diane Morgan

2015 · Stephen Butchard · 5 seasons

In a land forged by conflict and conviction, this series follows the rise of a people who rally beneath one of history’s most legendary monarchs to reclaim their homeland. Blending well-known historical events and figures with imagined lives, it traces epic battles and daring feats while probing the tangled forces of politics, faith, and war. Against that backdrop, characters confront tests of courage, loyalty, and love as they struggle with belonging and identity, striving to build not merely a state but a place they can truly call home.

With Alexander Dreymon, Emily Cox, Eliza Butterworth, Mark Rowley, Arnas Fedaravicius, Timothy Innes and Ian Hart

2010 · Julian Fellowes · 6 seasons

Set in the turbulent years following the Edwardian era, the series follows the privileged Crawley family and the household staff who sustain their estate as intimate dramas—love, ambition, betrayal and loss—unfold behind closed doors. Major political shifts, wars and changing social expectations sweep across Britain, forcing both masters and servants to confront new realities that challenge traditions and reshape the rigid class order.

With Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Joanne Froggatt, Hugh Bonneville, Phyllis Logan and Elizabeth McGovern

2022 · Alice Oseman · 3 seasons

Charlie and Nick, an unlikely pair of high-school friends, begin to realize their close bond is shifting into something deeper, forcing them to navigate attraction, identity, and the messy awakenings of first love as they grow up.

With Joe Locke, Kit Connor, William Gao, Yasmin Finney, Cormac Hyde-Corrin, Tobie Donovan and Sebastian Croft

2024 · Richard Gadd · 1 season

A struggling stand-up's brief act of compassion toward a vulnerable woman ignites a relentless, smothering obsession that draws them into a dangerous spiral and threatens to undo both of their lives.

With Richard Gadd, Jessica Gunning, Nava Mau, Nina Sosanya, Michael Wildman, Danny Kirrane and Shalom Brune-Franklin

2019 · 2 seasons

Witness the sweeping saga of life on Earth—how organisms have evolved, adapted and endured across billions of years—vividly brought to the screen in a bold, cinematic natural-history series.

With David Attenborough

2018 · Lisa McGee · 3 seasons

Set in 1990s Northern Ireland, five secondary-school students come of age as political unrest unfolds around them. They navigate friendship, first love, family expectations and the struggle to define who they are, while the surrounding tensions and violence repeatedly intrude on their lives and shape the choices that will determine their futures.

With Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Nicola Coughlan, Jamie Lee O'Donnell, Dylan Llewellyn, Tara Lynne O'Neill and Tommy Tiernan

2019 · 1 season

A band of self-taught internet detectives, spurred into action by a sadistic predator's horrific online footage, launches a perilous hunt that drags them deep into a shadowy criminal underworld.

With Deanna Thompson, John Green, Benjamin Xu, Marc Lilge, Antonio Paradiso, Anna Yourkin and Claudette Hamlin

2025 · Steven Knight · 1 season

In 1868 Dublin, the passing of the Guinness patriarch throws his four heirs—each hiding compromising secrets—into a fierce battle for control of the family brewery, where ambition, betrayal and fragile loyalties will shape the fate of their dynasty.

With Anthony Boyle, Louis Partridge, Emily Fairn, Fionn O'Shea, James Norton, Niamh McCormack and Seamus O'Hara