DCI Banks (Seasons 1–5)

DCI Banks (2011) is a British crime drama — adapted from Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks novels — you can watch online on iFILM. Stephen Tompkinson plays Alan Banks, a Yorkshire detective whose stubborn streak turns a routine call-out into the biggest case of his career.

His partner is DS Annie Cabbot, played by Andrea Lowe — sharp and no less relentless. Together they work cases the Yorkshire countryside would rather bury: missing girls whose disappearance spans years, killers hiding behind quiet respectability, evidence that keeps circling back to old wounds. Five missing women. One suspect in a coma.

ITV produced five series from more than twenty Robinson novels, and the show lets its leads age and carry damage between cases — not reset after every episode. For anyone who finds most British procedurals too tidy, Banks earns its bleaker tone honestly. Stream DCI Banks online on iFILM.