Apple Tree Yard

Series Similar to Apple Tree Yard

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

1. The Victim

   2019 · Drama, Thriller, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   The Victim is a gripping, contemporary legal thriller told through the eyes of the plaintiff and the accused. Set in Edinburgh, within Scotland's unique legal system, the show offers a constantly surprising and twisting perspective on who is really ‘the victim'.

2. Too Close

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Dedicated forensic psychiatrist, Dr Emma Robinson is not easily shocked. She's worked with her fair share of high security patients. Then she's sent to assess Connie for trial. Connie has a searing insight into Emma's deepest insecurities and starts to brutally exploit them. Their sessions become a complex psychological game with confusing undercurrents. Can Emma find out what happened on the night of the crime? Or what happened to turn Connie into a monster? She tries to understand Connie, and her complicated relationship with her beautiful best friend, Ness, which seems to have made her snap. But as Emma tries to uncover the truth behind the madness and learn what triggered Connie's despicable behaviour, it seems that her attempts to see justice done may destroy her instead.

3. The Cry

   2018 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, also on BBC One.

   The Cry chronicles the collapse of a marriage in the aftermath of a tragedy, and explores the myths and truths of motherhood. The abduction of a baby from a small coastal town in Australia is the catalyst for a journey into the disintegrating psychology of a young woman - Joanna - as she and her husband, Alistair, deal with an unthinkable tragedy under both the white light of public scrutiny and in their private lives.

4. Our Zoo

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Our Zoo is a drama series based on the true story of the Mottershead family who, in the face of staunch opposition and huge personal sacrifice, founded Chester Zoo in the 1930s.

5. The Missing

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community.

6. Bodyguard

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8.2), also on BBC One.

   Set in and around the corridors of power, Bodyguard tells the fictional story of David Budd, a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch (RaSP) of London's Metropolitan Police Service.When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics stand for everything he despises, Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, is he actually her biggest threat?

7. Hunted

   2012 · Drama, Action, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   Sam is a spy, a hunter who now finds herself hunted by a ruthless hidden enemy. Trapped in an intricate web of suspense and paranoia, she must discover who wants her dead by confronting her past.

8. The Code

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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

   Stretching from the spectacular red desert of Australia's outback to the cool corridors of power in Canberra, The Code tells the story of two very different brothers who are handed information those in the highest political echelons will kill to keep secret.

9. Fearless

   2017 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Emma Banville is a solicitor known for defending lost causes. She's investigating the killing of a schoolgirl in East Anglia and trying to free the man she thinks was wrongly convicted of the girl's murder. As she digs ever deeper into the case, she begins to sense powerful forces, in the police and the intelligence services at home and abroad, who want to stop her uncovering the truth.

10. Hidden

    2011 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

    When the mysterious lawyer Gina Hawkes turns up asking Harry to find a missing alibi witness for her client he agrees to take on the job but is unwittingly drawn into investigating the death of his brother 20 years ago. Harry quickly finds himself caught up in a much bigger and more complex conspiracy that reaches deep into the heart of the British political system.