We’ve collected a list of our favorite British crime films. Now, “crime” is a pretty wide genre. We are focusing more on movies that are built around crime, as opposed to detective stories ...

Adrian Scarborough stars in “The Chelsea Detective.” (Jon Hall/AcornTV/TNS) Number of seasons: Two (four 90-minute episodes per season, plus a Christmas special that premiered earlier this month).

With the holidays upon us, you might be looking to curl up with a British detective show. The kind of quietly straightforward procedural that is occasionally wry, occasionally laden with gloom ...