Broken

Series Similar to Broken

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

1. The Virtues

   2019 · Drama · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   The Virtues is a drama series that's equal parts unlikely love story and an exploration of the conflict between sin and virtue. The story revolves around Joseph, a moral yet troubled man who's lost everything. He finds himself compelled to travel to Ireland to confront demons from a childhood spent in the care system, resulting in savage and brutal consequences. He also crosses paths with a fiery, yet guarded woman, Dinah, who's hiding a secret.

2. Three Girls

   2017 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   Three Girls tells the true story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale.Holly is new to Rochdale and keen to make friends and fit in. She finds herself drawn into a world she cannot escape, despite her pleas for help. It's a world that is all too familiar to sexual health worker Sara, who has been recording and reporting cases of child abuse for years.

3. State of Play

   2003 · Drama · ended95% match

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

   The serial begins with the murder of a young man, in what appears to be a drug-related killing, and the apparently coincidental death of Sonia Baker, the young researcher for MP Stephen Collins (Morrissey). As the deaths are investigated by journalist Cal McCaffrey of The Herald (Simm) and his colleagues (including Kelly Macdonald as Della Smith and Bill Nighy as editor Cameron Foster) it appears that not only were the deaths connected, but that a conspiracy links them with oil industry-backed corruption of high-ranking British government ministers.

4. Capital

   2015 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   On one day, the people of one South London street all receive an anonymous postcard with the simple message 'we want what you have'. Its unsettling ripples affect every corner of the community.

5. The Outcast

   2015 · Drama · ended95% match

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

   Post-war coming-of-age drama based on the novel by Sadie Jones.

6. The Queen's Gambit

   2020 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

   Chronicling the life of an orphan chess prodigy, the story - set during the Cold War era - follows Beth Harmon from the age of eight to twenty-two, as she struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world.

7. Dirty Business

   2026 · Drama · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (9).

   Based on a decade-long investigation into England's water companies, and telling the real stories of whistleblowers and victims who believe their lives have been destroyed after encountering sewage polluted water, Dirty Business is a major new factual drama investigating one of the biggest potential corporate scandals in British history.Dirty Business follows the story of two unlikely detectives, who notice that the fish in the river running through their idyllic Oxfordshire hamlet are dying. They contact their water company to find out why, and the company's strange and evasive reply sparks an investigation that remains ongoing to this day.

8. I Know This Much is True

   2020 · Drama · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   I Know This Much is True is described as an epic family saga that explores the American identity following the parallel lives of twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey throughout the latter half of the 20th century.

9. Three Families

   2021 · Drama · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   In 2019, Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law was lifted. This two-part dramatisation tells the compelling real stories of the families behind the controversial campaign.

10. Reckless

    2014 · Drama · ended94% match

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

    Reckless is set in Charleston, S.C., where a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a charming southern attorney must hide their intense mutual attraction as a police sex scandal threatens to tear the city apart.