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Crime Not Punishment: How UK Police Thrillers Became Essential Viewing

Its coppers vs wrong ‘uns in the very best procedural dramas.

A middle aged white woman in a British police uniform standing in the door of a police car arm resting on door, looking serious into the distance

Happy Valley

The Fall

Black man with beard, wearing a suit and tie looking concerned

Luther

Criminal: UK

A white man in a suit and white woman in an orange raincoat looking serious, with a coastal cliff behind them

Broadchurch

A middle aged white man with dark hair and beard in a dark room looking concerned

Dept. Q

Line of Duty

Adolescence

Trigger Point

White man with short grey hair wearing a thick brown jacket looks sternly towards the camera. In the background a lake surrounded by green valley

Ridley (Season 2)

Deadwater Fell

Grantchester

A white man wearing a suit and red tie is standing in front of red brick building looking at the camera at a 3/4 angle

Dalgliesh

A white woman and back man in a stylish suit and coat, stand by a car and glass fronted offices

Granite Harbour

Hinterland

Two police officers, a man and a woman looking at the camera stand in front of two police cars

Hope Street

A white man and woman in black police uniforms looking serious

Blue Lights (Season 1)

Three men in smart period business clothes and hats staring seriously at the audience

Ripper Street

A white woman in a large Victorian blue dress and a hat walks in front of a building with glass doors

Miss Scarlet (Season 5)

A white woman and white man in Victorian clothing standing in a doorframe

Miss Scarlet & the Duke

Two white men and a white woman lean on a vintage car in 1970s police detective dress

Life on Mars

A white man sits in a dim 70's living room in an armchair beside a drinks table with bottles of alcohol and a landline telephone

Steeltown Murders

Sherwood

A Brown woman detective and a young brown policeman in uniform standing in front of a police car

DI Ray

Black woman with afro hair, wearing a white shirt and black cardigan is showing the picture of a young black girl to someone.

Get Millie Black

Woman speaks into a walkie-talkie next to a man in a suit, both against a background lit up by blue lights

The Capture

Marcella

A young British Asian man with cuts on his face looking affronted

Informer

A group of serious looking people staring at the camera with a purple glow around them

Suspect

Man with a moustache and 1950s style hat stands next to a blonde woman in a police uniform, they look like they are inside an empty theatre.

See How They Run

Blue Story

Four white men swaggering down an alley in cheap suits and ties, smoking, some wearing Christmas cracker party hats

Filth

Two white male police officers standing in a field with a white bedraggled man holding a shotgun next to a large circular ancient undetonated bomb

Hot Fuzz

A woman with multi-coloured hair and sharp, angular chopped fringe and sides, with another woman behind her styling the hair into a tall bouffant

Medusa Deluxe

Gameplay of a tall redheaded man and a shorter black woman looking at an investigation board with red laser lines in a geometric pattern making connections between the pinned images and documents

Murder Mystery Machine

A young Black woman and an older white man stand looking serious in a dark setting

Criminal Record

The Wrap: July 2025

Welcome to The Wrap - your monthly roundup of standout UK film, TV and games. This July, we’re spotlighting a romantic drama led by two UK icons, an animated reboot, and a cult strategy game remastered for modern players.

Documentaries to Inspire and Fire You Up

In celebration of this month's Sheffield DocFest, we look at recent documentaries that offer extraordinary perspectives on our world.

graphic novel style drawing of man with stubble wearing a white shirt, sitting in front of a window with skyscrapers in the background is looking pensive and has his hand at the back of his head.

Flee

A middle aged bald white man with black framed glasses looks down the camera as neon multi-coloured lines and text swirl around him

Heston: My Life With Bipolar

Young children playing on a snowy slope in snow suits and using wooden sledges

Occupied City

A middle aged Black woman and an older Black woman sitting in a low lit room looking haunted

Grenfell: Uncovered

A young white woman with long blonde hair standing in a bright green forest with blue flowers

Is There Anybody Out There?

A white woman in dark clothes walking through an industrial apocalyptic wasteland with green descriptive text beside her face as if scanned

2073

A brown man with a thick moustache wearing jeans and a white vest, singing into a mic with his fist raised

Live Aid: When Rock 'n' Roll Took on the World

Close up of a small primate with fluffy dark grey fur and white circles around the eyes and mouth, poking out from behind a tree

Underdogs

Black and white still of two young white men on a small stage singing and playing the guitar in the 80s

Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

A small commercial submarine in the dark, gloomy ocean with a strip of blue light illuminating it from above

Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster

Planet Earth

A young American Chinese man with a backpack walking along a clear blue, crystal shore, in a personal video captured shot

The Mission

A young Japanese woman in a suit, sitting in a lawyers office beside another Japanese woman blurred in the foreground, with a troubled face

Black Box Diaries

Blue Planet

Fish-eye lens of a man sat at a drum kit with other band members circled around, light up blue with spotlights behind them

Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound

Zanzibar Red Colombus on a green background

The Secrets Lives of Animals

Two middle aged white men beside their motorcycles with a picturesque green mountain behind them

Long Way Home

An old white haired man in a blue raincoat standing on the edge of a picturesque cliff with a view of the ocean

Ocean with David Attenborough

A woman model in an Alexander McQueen dress with belt at the top, sprayed with black and neon green paint

McQueen

Close up of a bison standing in grass with a moutain-scape in the background

The Americas

Artistic shot a of a white man sitting at an elegantly laid table with candles and flowers in a stately room with paintings on the wall

High & Low - John Galliano

A white middle aged man wearing a jumper and jacket, sitting at a dark workshop table with a smirk on his face

The Diamond Heist

Two performers on a small stage in a small grungy venue playing energetically

Meet Me in the Bathroom

Black and white photograph of two older men looking off into the distance with a coast view behind them

Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger

Two white men in thick clothing standing beside their motorcyclists in a dry shrub landscape

Long Way Up

A black and white close up still of a young man with short wild hair, a slight smile on his face

The Real Charlie Chaplin

A white man in Superman costume, blue and red suit with red cape, pointing upwards, flying through New York

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Black and white still of a white man with small round glasses playing the guitar next to a Japanese woman sitting playing a piano

One to One: John & Yoko

A man in motorbike clothing and helmet, riding on a motorbike through a hot, dry landscape

Long Way Down

Black and white still of three white men with big hair and 80s clothing on stage playing instruments

Becoming Led Zeppelin

An slim older white man sits in a music studio with a guitar propped up behind him

If These Walls Could Sing

Two middle aged white men standing on wooden steps on the down to a blustering British beach

Blur: To The End

A woman footballer in red shirt and white shorts holding a trophy aloft with a stadium full of people cheering

Copa 71

Two white men with scraggly facial hair sit on their motorbikes in a dramatic green mountainous and forest landscape

Long Way Round

Four white women Formula 1 drivers holding up trophies as a crowd cheers behind them

F1: The Academy

Two male footballers in red and white kit, one with 'Beckham 7' on back of shirt, and a football manager on the football field celebrating

Beckham

Some of the World’s Biggest Animations are UK-made, but do you know which ones?

Wallace & Gromit are just the tip of an animation iceberg...

Stop motion claymation of a sheep, a little lamb and a brown dog outside a farmhouse and field

Shaun The Sheep

Claymation of a group of pirates atop a ship's wooden look out all cheering with their hands and objects in the air

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

graphic novel style drawing of man with stubble wearing a white shirt, sitting in front of a window with skyscrapers in the background is looking pensive and has his hand at the back of his head.

Flee

Mixed media VR graphics of a person with a lighter instead of a head lighting a bin on fire

Impulse: Playing With Reality

Stop motion animation of a white man on a motorcycle and a dog sitting in a red sidecar

Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave

A panther sitting opposite a young brown boy in a jungle with a paw gently holding the boy's face

Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle

Stop motion animation of a white man with wide mouth putting his hand in a rabbit hutch gingerly towards a shaking brown rabbit; a light brown dog stands upright looking through the wire hutch window

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Stop motion claymation of a lamb using a brush to comb his hair with a bigger sheep behind him

Shaun the Sheep Movie

Arthur Christmas

Claymation of characters, a bunny-type, dog and sheep, sitting in a spaceship

A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

Stop motion animation of two chickens in a hen coop pointing at flip paper with diagrams on plotting their escape

Chicken Run

Stop motion animation of a male chicken and a female chicken looking surprised at a small chick's leg, kicking and breaking free of it's egg shell in the hen coop

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Claymation of a group of characters wearing animal furs in a pre-historic setting

Early Man

Animation of an anthropomorphised rat looking unnerved with two large slugs behind him

Flushed Away

Robin Robin

Ron's Gone Wrong

Two young children stranding in thick snow outside the orange slow of a shop front with a Christmas tree in the window

That Christmas

A serene forest with orangutans, an old Japanese man and a young white boy sit in the middle of the clearing

Kensuke’s Kingdom

2d animation of a woman in Elizabethan royal clothing, large red hair and crown, a young brown girl in a stripey jumper, a white bunny, and Father Christmas in a red suit with a large white beard

The Night Before Christmas In Wonderland

Black and white sketch style animation of a young boy with a mohawk facing a minimalist, scratchy animation of a large imposing wolf

Peter and the Wolf

A CGI bear in blue coat and red hat, rafting on an open upturned umbrella down a river

Paddington in Peru

Animated ginger cat grins cheekily, against a green backdrop.

The Amazing Maurice

Animated scene of Sherlock Gnomes with two other gnomes, standing in the London Underground next to a sign for Baker Street.

Sherlock Gnomes

Animation of a white horse touching a little boy's head, a fox sitting beside them, it is a starry night sky and snow on the ground .

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Animation in the style on Vincent Van Gogh's self portrait, ginger hair and beard, with different tones of blue swirls in the background

Loving Vincent

Live action with a CGI brown bear in a blue duffle coat and red hat holding a white dog coming down the escalators in Paddington station

Paddington

Affairs of the Art

Stop motion animation of a male chicken and a female chicken looking surprised at a small chick's leg, kicking and breaking free of it's egg shell in the hen coop

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Colourful animation of a family of blue and light brown dogs

Bluey

Bright animation of a family of pastel pink pigs, Daddy, Mummy, Peppa and George, standing on green field with a house in the background

Peppa Pig

Soft, 3D animation of a sweet looking bear in a blue duffle coat and a red hat, standing an a colourful attic bedroom with a London bus toy on the floor

The Adventures of Paddington

Cartoon of a white woman with brown hair next to a blonde baby brushing their teeth.

Cocomelon (Season 11)

Animation of a middle aged white man in a grey suit, with big ears and a mole on his face, holding a small brown teddy bear

Mr. Bean: The Animated Series

Animation of a dog chasing a brown stick with a face running away

Stick Man

Paddington 2

Stop motion animation of a blue train on the tracks riding through greenery past a quaint stone building

Thomas & Friends

Animation of a large brown furry creature with long teeth, yellow eyes and wart on his nose, gently holding a small mouse

The Gruffalo

Animation of two characters riding on the back of a friendly looking red and orange dragon

Zog and the Flying Doctors

A teenage boy clutches a sword, holding it upright. The sword obscures half of his face and on the sword is part of the face of a wolf. Behind the boy stand two stone statues with the heads of wolves, each holding a sword in two hands.

Wolf King

A 2D drawing of a family of birds

Puffin Rock

Anime style animation of a white male character mid-action shot running with a look of determination

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Colourful animation of a large brown dog in scout's leader uniform, surrounded by various small smiling animals in front of a rainbow

Hey Duggee

New releases

A British-Japanese young man and a white young woman lay on a bed looking up at the ceiling

Too Much

Comedic actor Megan Stalter brilliantly leads this enjoyable romantic comedy from Girls creator Lena Dunham.

Two young Palestinian men sit under a tree with a skateboard propped up next to them looking forlorn

To a Land Unknown

Fantastic central performances from Palestinian actors Mahmood Bakri and Aram Sabbah lead this raw and authentic crime-thriller.

Colourful animation of anthropomorphised orange goldfish and blue cat with massive grins and teeth on display

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball

French writer and animator Ben Bocquelet creates and executive produces this imaginative, vibrant and funny animation series.

Does The UK Have The World’s Best Comedy?

We’ve gathered the evidence, and it looks like there’s nothing we can’t mine for laughs.

Three white men, two in flat caps, standing around a very small three wheeled van

Only Fools & Horses

A white man with dark hair and facial hair wearing an Elizabethan ruffle and elegant black outfit

Blackadder

Smiling woman with short blonde hair sits with a young boy on a sofa in front of a decorated Christmas tree.

Love Actually

Three white men looking grumpy and one white woman smiling in dated office attire in a boring office setting

The Office

Stop motion animation of a plasticine beige dog, white woman in white red, small whit poodle dog and a white bald man trying to stop the woman from flying off down the hill on her bike

Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death

Stop motion plasticine characters, a bald white man with a large teethy smile and a beige and brown dog looking suspicious with an uncanny, overly smiley gnome between them

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

A white blonde woman in red Christmassy penguin pyjamas sits crossed legged on a messy sofa strewn with books and papers

Bridget Jones's Diary

Man with a moustache and 1950s style hat stands next to a blonde woman in a police uniform, they look like they are inside an empty theatre.

See How They Run

Seven Psychopaths

In Bruges

A middle aged white man in a white doctors coat applying wires and monitors to bare torso of a young white man

Killing of a Sacred Deer

Five women sit behind a dinning table full of plates and wine glasses.

Bad Sisters

Catastrophe

Motherland

A group of mixed aged women standing in lines as a choir smiling

Military Wives

A tall blond male teenager standing next to his mum, leaning her head against his chest smiling

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Wedding Season

Bright pink and purple, watercolour style game still of a dreamy house with big round pods on top

Tangle Tower

The Duke

Triangle of Sadness

Blonde woman holds a woman with dark hair up against a fridge, knife in her hand

Killing Eve

Three white middle aged men in suits standing in front of the door to 10 Downing Street flanked by two police officers

Yes Minister

The Death of Stalin

Derry Girls

Three men huddled together looking through a gap in the fence looking surprised

Four Lions

Pride

A white woman with red hair in a suit looking contemplative with dramatic snowy topped mountains in the background

Cunk on Life

A young black woman and young Indian man in period clothing standing on scenic, sunny, green land

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Good Omens

Grouping a three white men in vicar dog collars and a put together white woman

Father Ted

Slow Horses

A young white man in a tux sitting at a grand table with many candles covering the table, his image reflected in a disorientating way

Saltburn

Ghosts

Attack the Block

A line of 5 white men standing at a pubs bar all downing a pint of beer with their right hand

The World's End

Yesterday

A blonde woman smiling widely, looking through an oval frame with missing mirror in a Barbie pink environment

Barbie

A young white man stares at a tiny bright orange man with green hair trapped under a glass dome on a desk

Wonka

Two white men stand facing each other on the street at night with a ghoulish figure in the background between them

Shaun of the Dead

Anime style animation of a white male character mid-action shot running with a look of determination

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

The Baby

Five white men in chainmail and holding shields, one wears a crown, they all look up in comical distress

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

variety of gameplay characters in combat and fantasy outfits

Tactical Breach Wizards

Animated game still of a young boy with spiky hair and a sword on his back lit up by a yellow golden glow

Fable

A Black man in a checked shirt and tie and a white ginger woman in a suit stand over a small metal box on a messy basement office

The IT Crowd

Two white men, one Black man and one white woman stand in hospital uniforms wielding guns

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace

Claymation of a group of characters wearing animal furs in a pre-historic setting

Early Man

Two white male police officers standing in a field with a white bedraggled man holding a shotgun next to a large circular ancient undetonated bomb

Hot Fuzz

Annika

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Four white men swaggering down an alley in cheap suits and ties, smoking, some wearing Christmas cracker party hats

Filth

A man in red heart sunglasses and an extravagant costume, orange flame bodysuit and massive red and black feathered wings

Rocketman

A group of women walking and dancing purposefully in Greece mid-song

Mamma Mia!

A group of people in Greece pointing and dancing

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Two men in black outfits stand against a pink sparkly fabric backdrop.

The Sparks Brothers

Black and white photo of young men, one in sunglasses, one sticking out his tongue.

Supersonic

Nothing Compares

Woman wearing a leather jacket, half of her dyed white and the other half dyed black, has the words 'The Future' written in facepaint across her eyes.

Cruella

A tall white woman with blonde hair in bouffant updo standing beside a white man with curly dark hair in trendy kitchen

Absolutely Fabulous

Young woman in traditional Pakistani clothing assumes a martial arts position

Polite Society

Claymation of characters, a bunny-type, dog and sheep, sitting in a spaceship

A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

Cow

Gameplay of the Grinch, mischievous furry green figure in a red Santa outfit with his brown dog at this feet wearing one antler, standing on a dark stony mountain

The Grinch: Christmas Adventures

Four white older teen lads on holiday, one with a dark fake tan, walking in nightlife

The Inbetweeners Movie

A group of people pulling various faces at the camera

Spaced

Fleabag

A white woman with long black hair wears a yellow satin dressing gown, stood in a forest with dappled light shining through, a man in a suit stands behind her

Poor Things

Two white men in suits staring straight ahead in the shadows with a single strip of light across their face

Inside No. 9

Birds eye view of game play of featureless figures in in a restaurant and some players in the kitchen cooking and serving up food

PlateUp!

A young man and a woman walk through a shopping centre smiling at each other

Rye Lane

Two white men, one standing in a woman's dressing gown, the other sitting with his face in his hand

Peep Show

Three young white women, one holding a cat, looking a hole in the ceiling

Such Brave Girls (Season 2)

Kat Sadler’s dark comedy about two troubled sisters returns for its highly-anticipated six-episode second series.

A middle aged white woman and man in coats and scarves standing in a light embrace on a beach

Four Letters of Love

Irish writer Niall Williams adapts his own international bestselling novel in this gripping tale of fate and dreams.

A Black man and two white men sit on an offroad jeep in explorer clothing holding a large camera

The Wild Ones

Blending high-quality footage with important conservation work, embark on a gripping adventure to protect some of the world’s endangered species.

ScreenUK at the BAFTAs 2025

ScreenUK celebrates all the UK nominees. Check out the highlights from the night...

A brown woman wearing a retro 80s jacket, bra and shorts, sitting closely next to a white woman with short dark hair, sleeveless top and baggy jeans in a dated, old school gym

Love Lies Bleeding

Three young white men walking up purple lit staircase, wearing tracksuits, one wearing an Irish tricolour balaclava

Kneecap

A young white woman with glitter on her face leaning back to kiss a young Black man

The Outrun

A white man leaning over a white woman his arm around her, looking at something on a desk

The Brutalist

A white woman in army uniform holding a old style camera looking unnerved

Lee

A middle aged white man in red velvet cardinal clothes surrounded by other men in similar clothing

Conclave

A young white woman with large beehive style hair and thickly flicked eyleliner and young white man in a suit and hat

Back To Black

A young white woman walking down a war torn street in 1940s with her arm around a young mixed race Black boy

Blitz

A young white man and a teenage girl sit on a sofa looking at each other, bottles of beer on a table next to them

Hoard

A young Black teenage girl holding onto a young white man with a chestful of tattoos as they ride an electric scooter

Bird

A middle aged Black woman on mobile phone looking distressed

Hard Truths

Stop motion plasticine characters, a bald white man with a large teethy smile and a beige and brown dog looking suspicious with an uncanny, overly smiley gnome between them

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes: Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound

Go behind the scenes of Mogwai: If the Stars Had Sound, the first feature from director Anthony Crook. This is the story of how a deeply personal, fan-powered film came together through luck, grit, and community.

Close up of a young white man with the sun in his eyes

Diciannove

Writer-director Giovanni Tortorici’s exceptional debut feature is produced by talented and revered Italian director Luca Guadagnino.

A brown man with a thick moustache wearing jeans and a white vest, singing into a mic with his fist raised

Live Aid: When Rock 'n' Roll Took on the World

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, dive into the story behind the Live Aid concerts, one of history’s largest music events.

A young white woman and man in 1930s clothing, dancing closely and tenderly with their heads resting against each other

Shoshana

Inspired by real-life events, Douglas Booth and Irina Starshenbaum lead this romantic drama set in the Middle East.

Gameplay of medieval soldiers in chainmail with axes and red and white cross shields

Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition

Delve into this expanded remaster of a classic, as you travel back in time to attack enemy lords.

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A white woman, white man and Black man stand looking determined in front of a turquoise van

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Three white men looking grumpy and one white woman smiling in dated office attire in a boring office setting

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