2010s TV Favourites
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1. Black Sails (2014–2017)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Follows Captain Flint and his pirates twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel "Treasure Island."
Stars: Jessica Parker Kennedy, Toby Stephens, Hannah New, Zach McGowan
Votes: 113,758
2. House of Cards (2013–2018)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama
A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Michel Gill, Robin Wright, Kate Mara
Votes: 530,997
3. Vikings (2013–2020)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Vikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore--and raid--the distant shores across the ocean.
Stars: Katheryn Winnick, Gustaf Skarsgård, Alexander Ludwig, Georgia Hirst
Votes: 583,107
4. Homeland (2011–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
Stars: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Damian Lewis, Rupert Friend
Votes: 361,019
5. Person of Interest (2011–2016)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-CIA agent and a wealthy programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes, including the civilians' roles, are left a mystery.
Stars: Jim Caviezel, Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Chapman, Michael Emerson
Votes: 189,100
6. Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
An Atlantic City politician plays both sides of the law by conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era.
Stars: Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham
Votes: 203,188
7. The Killing (2011–2014)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police investigation, the saga of a grieving family, and a Seattle mayoral campaign all interlock after the body of 17-year-old Rosie Larsen is found in the trunk of a submerged car.
Stars: Mireille Enos, Joel Kinnaman, Billy Campbell, Liam James
Votes: 123,430
8. The Americans (2013–2018)
TV-MA | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
At the height of the Cold War, two Russian agents pose as the average American couple, complete with family.
Stars: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Keidrich Sellati, Holly Taylor
Votes: 111,350
9. Hell on Wheels (2011–2016)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Western
The Civil War is past, but former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon can't put it behind him. Fresh are the memories of the death of his wife, killed at the hands of Union soldiers, an act that sets him on a course of revenge.
Stars: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Robin McLeavy, Phil Burke
Votes: 55,771
10. The Blacklist (2013–2023)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A new FBI profiler, Elizabeth Keen, has her entire life uprooted when a mysterious criminal, Raymond Reddington, who has eluded capture for decades, turns himself in and insists on speaking only to her.
Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold
Votes: 279,695
11. 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: 119,067
12. Copper (2012–2013)
TV-MA | 42 min | Action, Drama
In the 1860s, an Irish-American Civil War veteran joins the New York City police force.
Stars: Tom Weston-Jones, Kyle Schmid, Anastasia Griffith, Ato Essandoh
Votes: 11,028
13. The Bridge (2011–2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
Stars: Sofia Helin, Rafael Pettersson, Sarah Boberg, Candice van Litsenborgh
Votes: 76,837
14. 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: 154,376
15. Nikita (2010–2013)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A rogue assassin returns to take down the secret organization that trained her.
Stars: Maggie Q, Shane West, Lyndsy Fonseca, Aaron Stanford
Votes: 53,909
16. True Detective (2014– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.
Stars: Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch
Votes: 656,772
17. 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: 999,028
18. Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu to find his father's killer, the Governor offers him the chance to run his own task force: Five-0.
Stars: Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Taylor Wily, Daniel Dae Kim
Votes: 78,680
19.
Endeavour (2012–2023)
Episode:
Pilot
(2012)
TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Young Endeavour Morse joins Inspector Fred Thursday's investigation into the disappearance of a schoolgirl named Mary Tremlett.
Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Michael Matus, John Light, Flora Montgomery, Patrick Malahide
Votes: 4,945
20. Ripper Street (2012–2016)
TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The streets of Whitechapel are the haunt of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid and his team of officers, who aim to maintain law and order in a place once terrorized by Jack the Ripper.
Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Jerome Flynn
Votes: 22,512
21. Midsomer Murders (1997– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A veteran Detective Chief Inspector and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer County.
Stars: John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson, Neil Dudgeon
Votes: 39,468
22. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
DI Robert Lewis and DS James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Stars: Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Clare Holman, Rebecca Front
Votes: 15,884
23. Wallander (2005–2013)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Swedish cop in a small town by the Baltic coast.
Stars: Krister Henriksson, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Mats Bergman, Douglas Johansson
Votes: 6,202 | Gross: $0.01M
24. Borgen (2010–2022)
TV-14 | 58 min | Drama
A political drama about a prime minister's rise to power, and how power changes a prime minister.
Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Søren Malling, Lisbeth Wulff
Votes: 29,923
25. Science Britannica (2013)
60 min | Documentary
Brian Cox discusses British scientists and their contributions to our modern world.
Stars: Brian Cox, Paul Nurse, Simon Baron-Cohen, Tipu Aziz
Votes: 229
26. 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: 18,275
27. Wonders of the Universe (I) (2011)
TV-G | 59 min | Documentary, Family
Professor Brian Cox visits some of the most dramatic parts of the globe to explain the fundamental principles that govern the laws of nature - light, gravity, energy, matter and time. With ... See full summary »
Stars: Brian Cox, Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 4,343
28. Wonders of the Solar System (2010)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Family
In this spellbinding series Professor Brian Cox visits the most extreme locations on Earth to explain how the laws of physics carved natural wonders across the solar system.
Stars: Brian Cox, Richard Hoover, Carolyn Porco, Alan Hildebrand
Votes: 4,718
29. The Borgias (2011–2013)
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, History
In the fifteenth century, Pope Alexander VI tries to control all power in Italy with the help of his several sons, through murder, intrigue, war, and marriage alliances.
Stars: Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Peter Sullivan
Votes: 53,955
30. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
An exploration of our discovery of the laws of nature and coordinates in space and time.
Stars: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Christopher Emerson, Keythe Farley, Piotr Michael
Votes: 128,728
31. Generation War (2013)
TV-MA | 270 min | Action, Drama, History
Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.
Stars: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein
Votes: 32,601 | Gross: $0.09M
32. Running Man (2010– )
TV-14 | 80 min | Comedy, Game-Show, Reality-TV
Running Man is a reality-variety show where the cast must complete missions at various places to win the race.
Stars: Yoo Jae-suk, Jong-Kook Kim, Haha, Suk-Jin Jee
Votes: 3,555
33. Ailiseu (2009–2013)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Mystery, Romance
The National Security Service (NSS) is a secret South Korean black ops agency that takes on a secret terrorist organization, called IRIS.
Stars: Kim Yeong-cheol, Yun Ju-sang, Kim Seung-woo, Lee Jung-Gil
Votes: 2,314
34. Un village français (2009–2017)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama
Traces the experiences of various residents of a fictional small village just inside the occupation zone during WWII. Deals with issues including collaboration, the Resistance, the fate of French Jews, and war profiteering.
Stars: Robin Renucci, Audrey Fleurot, Thierry Godard, Marie Kremer
Votes: 1,719
35. Don Matteo (2000– )
TV-G | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Terence Hill stars as Don Matteo, a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He's a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn't want to help.
Stars: Nino Frassica, Nathalie Guettà, Francesco Scali, Terence Hill
Votes: 1,472
36. Spiral (2005–2020)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Follows criminal investigations in Paris from all the different points of view of those involved.
Stars: Caroline Proust, Audrey Fleurot, Thierry Godard, Philippe Duclos
Votes: 6,752
37. Detective Montalbano (1999–2021)
TV-14 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Commissioner Montalbano works in Vigata, Montelusa province with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, in each episode Montalbano solves complicated cases with his characteristic cunning in a rural Sicily ruled by the mafia.
Stars: Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta, Angelo Russo, Cesare Bocci
Votes: 4,424
38. Caïn (2012– )
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A cynical, experienced homicide detective based in Marseilles, France is crippled in the line of duty and depends on a wheelchair to get around.
Stars: Smadi Wolfman, Mourad Boudaoud, Julie Delarme, Bruno Debrandt
Votes: 378
39. Blood of the Vine (2011– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime
A wine expert in the Bordeaux region of France, is caught up in murders each episode - The scenery is beautiful, the characters are very engaging,and if you like wine and its beginnings you... See full summary »
Stars: Pierre Arditi, Yoann Denaive, Catherine Demaiffe, Claire Nebout
Votes: 179
40. Il commissario Manara (2008– )
50 min | Crime
Young inspector Luca Manara is a playboy. He works in a little Police Station in Tuscany. He drives his bike, a Triumph Bonneville, also for his job, chasing thieves. He loves jazz music, beautiful girls and Lara.
Stars: Guido Caprino, Jane Alexander, Lucia Ocone, Augusto Fornari
Votes: 216
41. Paris the Great Saga (2012)
300 min | Documentary
Director: Xavier Lefebvre | Stars: Ornella Bess, Hélène Bizot, Pascal Tantot
Votes: 36
42. The Weissensee Saga (2010–2018)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama
The lives of two families in East Berlin between 1980 and 1990 as the era of communist DDR slowly comes to an end.
Stars: Florian Lukas, Uwe Kockisch, Jörg Hartmann, Ruth Reinecke
Votes: 2,338
43. The Inspector and the Sea (2007–2021)
90 min | Crime
German police inspector Robert Anders is a family man who lives with his Swedish wife and investigates murders in the spectacular landscape of the Swedish island of Gotland.
Stars: Walter Sittler, Andy Gätjen, Inger Nilsson, Frida Hallgren
Votes: 370
44. Beck (1997– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Commissioner Martin Beck and his eccentric partner Gunvald Larsson investigate murders in Stockholm, Sweden.
Stars: Peter Haber, Ingvar Hirdwall, Rebecka Hemse, Måns Nathanaelson
Votes: 6,359
45. Knightfall (2017–2019)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A look at the final days of the Knights Templar during the 14th century.
Stars: Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Julian Ovenden
Votes: 22,122
46. Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien.
Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman
Votes: 135,167
47. Broadchurch (2013–2017)
TV-MA | 1,143 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Stars: David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan
Votes: 127,330
48. Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie (2009–2024)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Agatha Christie's masterful storytelling gets a soupçon of French flair in these attractive, witty mysteries. These French adaptations are a fresh, stylish twist on classic Christie tales.
Stars: Blandine Bellavoir, Samuel Labarthe, Elodie Frenck, Dominique Thomas
Votes: 1,495
49. Antigone 34 (2012– )
52 min | Crime, Drama
In French with English subtitles. Stoic, unflappable Captain Lea Hippolyte leads a law enforcement unit in historic Montpellier, in the south of France. Antigone 34 is a stylish, fast-paced... See full summary »
Stars: Claire Borotra, Anne Le Nen, Bruno Todeschini, Aubert Fenoy
Votes: 85
50. Anti-Drug Squad (2011–2015)
TV-14 | 100 min | Action, Drama
The series chronicles the investigations of the Narcotics squad, struggling with the trafficking of drugs, especially among young people.
Stars: Gedeon Burkhard, Raffaella Rea, Stefano Dionisi, Sergio Friscia
Votes: 39
51. Mammon (2014–2016)
58 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A newspaper journalist revealing fraud in a large multinational company finds out that his family is involved, which ruins his career and family relations and entangles him with a mystery.
Stars: Jon Øigarden, Anna Bache-Wiig, Ingjerd Egeberg, Nils Ole Oftebro
Votes: 2,102
52. Donna Leon (2000– )
90 min | Crime, Drama
Police detective Commissario Guido Brunetti solves murder cases in Venice.
Stars: Karl Fischer, Annett Renneberg, Patrick Diemling, Laura Syniawa
Votes: 343
53. Real Estate Embezzlement (2013)
Crime, Drama
Stars: Anniek Pheifer, Abbey Hoes, Tibor Lukács, Sophie van Winden
Votes: 59
54.
Spuren des Bösen (2010– )
Episode:
Spuren des Bösen
(2010)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a multinational corporation employee is murdered just before being charged for embezzlement, Policeman Richard Brock must use all his skills as a police psychologist to solve the case.
Director: Andreas Prochaska | Stars: Heino Ferch, Nina Proll, Stefan Kurt, Erwin Steinhauer
Votes: 235
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