Adolescence

Series Similar to Adolescence

If you enjoyed Adolescence, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Acceptable Risk

   2017 · Drama, Crime · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   When her husband, Lee, is murdered, Sarah Manning comes to realize that she knows nothing about his past. Sarah begins to question who Lee actually was and what he did in his work for a powerful global organization. And why did Lee, a salesman, need to carry a gun?

2. The Penguin

   2024 · Drama, Crime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8).

   Starring Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb (aka The Penguin), the DC Studios series continues filmmaker Matt Reeves' The Batman epic crime saga that began with Warner Bros. Pictures' global blockbuster The Batman. Developed by showrunner Lauren LeFranc, the series centers on the character played by Farrell in the film.

3. Snabba cash

   2021 · Drama, Crime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), also on Netflix.

   Snabba cash is set in Stockholm ten years after the events depicted in the feature films. It is a buzzing environment where the craving for status and money is stronger than ever. The entrepreneurial jet set as well as the criminal world has become even more brutal, chaotic and ruthless. When these two worlds collide, loyalty, friendships and business partners will all be tested in the never-ending quest for easy money.

4. Thorne

   2010 · Drama, Crime · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Thorne, a television drama series which debuted on Sky1 in the UK on 10 October 2010, is based on crime writer Mark Billingham's novels. The series stars David Morrissey in the title role of Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, and includes Aidan Gillen, Eddie Marsan, and Natascha McElhone as supporting cast members.

5. Halifax: Retribution

   2020 · Drama, Crime · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Jane is enjoying a life away from working as a forensic psychiatrist on the police frontline as a university professor. She is also in a stable and loving long-term relationship with her musician partner Ben, and is comfortable in her role as stepmother to his daughter Zoe.However, the case of a serial killer who is terrorising Melbourne lures her back to the job she left behind as the case suddenly gets very personal.

6. The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies

   2014 · Drama, Crime · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   This drama tells the real-life story of retired schoolteacher Christopher Jefferies who was initially questioned by police as a suspect in the murder of Jo Yeates who rented a flat from him. He was vilified by the press, partly on account of his eccentric appearance and long flowing hair, even after he had been released on bail by the police.

7. When They See Us

   2019 · Drama, Crime · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, also on Netflix.

   Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park. Based on the true story.

8. Taken Down

   2018 · Drama, Crime · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   In this Irish crime drama set in Dublin, Esme, a young Nigerian girl is found dead at a bus stop opening an investigation into her death. This leads Inspector Jen Rooney and her team of detectives to a nearby centre where asylum-seekers are housed and processed. The shaken residents there are reluctant to talk to anyone. Many are terrified of deportation; many are just frightened of the policeWe follow the team of detectives as they discover the world where refugees exist, and we see the unfolding impact their investigation has on fragile lives.

9. Extracurricular

   2020 · Drama, Crime · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   Determined to escape a dead-end life, a gifted high school student turns to a world of serious crime to ensure he can pay for college.

10. Gangland Undercover

    2015 · Drama, Crime · ended92% match

    Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8.1).

    The only man brave enough to sneak into three outlaw biker gangs and live to tell the tale, Charles Falco, author of "Vagos, Mongols and Outlaws", goes from convict to infiltrator as he secretly documents the Vagos' illegal activities and ultimately brings them to justice. With the real Charles Falco starting each episode in a silhouetted interview, his story is brought to life in this fact-based docudrama series that sees Falco work as an informant for the Feds on a covert mission inside the dangerous Vagos' world of violence, murder and drug trafficking. Having climbed the gang's ranks while facilitating 62 arrests, Charles Falco exposes how he crippled the criminal enterprise from the core of the biker underworld in this mind-blowing true story, Gangland Undercover.