Caught

Series Similar to Caught

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

1. The Widower

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   The Widower is a three-part drama from ITV Studios based on the crimes of convicted murderer, Malcolm Webster, played by Reece Shearsmith (Psychoville, The League of Gentlemen, A Field in England).The Widower tells how, over a 13 year period Malcolm Webster set about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée.

2. The Gold

   2023 · Drama, Crime · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   The Gold opens with the events of November 26th 1983, when six armed men broke into the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. What started as ‘a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery' according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft, at the time the biggest in world history, but for its wider legacy.

3. Ransom

   2017 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Ransom follows Eric Beaumont, a highly specialized negotiator who is parachuted into crisis situations to defuse them before they spin out of control. Eric is so brilliantly effective, it's hard to know when he's working someone or dealing straight, which is part of his charm – he knows how to get what he wants and rarely loses. He travels the globe with his team which includes a new recruit, Maxine Carlson, a young woman eager to learn from one of the best negotiators, but who may have her own personal agenda. Together they negotiate the most difficult, high stakes kidnap and ransom cases, though his missions are complicated by the fact that many countries have outlawed private negotiation. As a result, Eric and his team are often in as much danger from the authorities as the criminals they face.

4. The Take

   2009 · Drama, Crime · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   The Take is a four episode British drama TV series on Sky 1 based upon the Martina Cole novel. Shooting for the show took place in Dublin. The show premiered on 17 June 2009 and stars Tom Hardy, Brian Cox, Hayley Angel Holt, Shaun Evans, Kierston Wareing, and Charlotte Riley.The show received critical acclaim, mainly for Tom Hardy's portrayal of criminal sociopath Freddie Jackson.

5. The Pembrokeshire Murders

   2021 · Drama, Crime · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   In The Pembrokeshire Murders, the story centers around two unsolved double murders from the 1980s. In 2006, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Steve Wilkins decided to reopen both cases. Employing pioneering forensic methods, Wilkins and his team found microscopic DNA and fibres that potentially linked the murders to a string of burglaries committed in the 80s and 90s. The perpetrator of those robberies was nearing the end of his prison sentence, but if Steve Wilkins was right, he was also a serial killer. Could Steve and his team find enough forensic evidence to charge their suspect before he was released to potentially kill again?

6. Chasing Shadows

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Chasing Shadows follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.

7. Gangland Undercover

   2015 · Drama, Crime · ended94% 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.

8. Safe House

   2015 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Safe House is a character-driven psychological thriller with a strong investigative narrative, inspired by true events. Each season sees a new cast and a new case, all centering on a police safe house coming under threat.

9. Prey

   2014 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   On the run accused of a terrible crime, Manchester Detective Marcus Farrow tries to prove his innocence while being hunted by his former friends and colleagues.

10. Thorne

    2010 · Drama, Crime · ended93% 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.