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Series Similar to Bancroft

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

1. Wanted

   2016 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   The series follows two complete strangers, Lola and Chelsea, who intervene in a fatal carjacking while waiting at a suburban bus stop, and are subsequently thrust into a chase from authorities across Australia with a vehicle filled with cash. The strangers must rely solely on each other while they are on the run.

2. Marcella

   2016 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Set in contemporary London with a British Metropolitan Police Officer at its heart, Marcella is Scandinavian noir on the streets of Britain. Told with Rosenfeldt's unflinchingly clear Nordic style, full of hooks and action, The series will lead the audience through a narrative maze until the final moments of the drama. Marcella will also delve into the psychology of a single female detective working solo on a serial murder case with many potential suspects and victims.Returning to the Met's Murder Squad after a 12-year career break, Marcella Backland is a detective in her late 30's who gave up her fast-tracked role to marry and devote her life to starting a family. With the abrupt end to her marriage to the love of her life Jason and isolated from her daughter at boarding school, Marcella returns to work whilst attempting to make sense of what's happened in her life.

3. Luther

   2010 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8.4).

   A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

4. Happy Valley

   2014 · Drama, Crime · ended

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

   When a kidnap spirals out of control, Yorkshire police sergeant Catherine Cawood comes face to face with the man who destroyed her family.

5. The Fall

   2013 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

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

   This gripping psychological thriller forensically examines the lives of two hunters; one a serial killer that stalks his victims at random, and the other a high-powered detective superintendent brought in to catch him.

6. The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies

   2014 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on ITV1.

   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. The Crow Girl

   2025 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   The Crow Girl begins with the gruesome discovery of a teenage boy's body discarded in plain sight. Determined to find who is responsible, DCI Jeanette Kilburn joins forces with psychotherapist Sophia Craven to hunt the killer despite opposition from her superiors including confidant DI Lou Stanley.The investigation takes them into a dangerous world of historic abuse and murder. Together they uncover a chain of shocking events involving the disappearance of children that have gone overlooked for decades, as well as evidence of police corruption.  As the body count rises and the two women are dragged into the depths of the murders, an intimacy starts to form between them, and so begins a complex, twisted love story. All the while, the killer is inching ever closer to home.

8. Penoza

   2010 · Drama, Crime · ended

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

   Housewife Carmen van Walraven is forced to take over her family's criminal business when her husband is assassinated for trying to snitch.

9. Smother

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Set in a small town on the wild and rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern, a devoted mother is determined to protect her family and particularly her three daughters Jenny, Anna and Grace, at any cost. When Val's husband Denis is found dead at a foot of a cliff near their home the morning after a family party, Val attempts to investigate the events that unfolded the night before.

10. Manhunt

    2019 · Drama, Crime · ended

    Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem, also on ITV1.

    Compelling real-life crime drama based on Met Detective Colin Sutton's memoirs.