Criminal: Germany

Series Similar to Criminal: Germany

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

1. Young Wallander

   2020 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

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

   In a bold and original new story set in contemporary Sweden, Young Wallander sees Henning Mankell's iconic detective Kurt Wallander investigate his gripping first case. The story focuses on the formative experiences – professional and personal - faced by Kurt as a recently graduated police officer in his early twenties.

2. Criminal: France

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

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

   Secrets emerge and entire cases unravel inside a police interview room in Paris, where suspects and investigators face off in an intricate dance.

3. Dead to Me

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile, also on Netflix.

   Dead to Me is about a powerful friendship that blossoms between a tightly wound widow and a free spirit with a shocking secret.

4. Professor T

   2021 · Drama, Crime · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Set against the stunning backdrop of one of the world's most prestigious educational institutions, Cambridge University, Professor T is centered around the eccentric, but brilliant Criminology Professor Jasper Tempest, who suffers with OCD and has a tortured past.

5. 100 Code

   2015 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Over the past 16 months, young, blonde, blue-eyed women have been found dead and buried in a field of asphodels. Tracking the killer from New York to Stockholm, NYPD detective Conley is on a special dispensation to observe and advise the Stockholm PD.

6. White Christmas

   2011 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

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

   Kim Yo Han is a psychiatrist who gets involved in a serial murder when his car broke down on Christmas Eve during a sudden storm and he is forced to take shelter at a private high school. Seven students and a teacher are also there over the winter break, but they are gradually murdered one by one as they receive letters from a killer who wants revenge for the death of his mother and sister.

7. Houdini & Doyle

   2016 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Inspired by true events, the series follows two great men of the 20th Century and real-life friends - Harry Houdini, master magician, escape artist and paranormal debunker; and Arthur Cohen Doyle prolific writer, creator of "Sherlock Holmes" and paranormal aficionado. They grudgingly join forces with New Scotland Yard to investigate unsolved, inexplicable and possibly supernatural crimes, alongside the first female Constable of the London Metropolitan Police Force, Adelaide Statton.In the series, Houdini, Doyle and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists... or are they a ruse to conceal murder?

8. Snöänglar

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Snöänglar is set the night before Christmas Eve, while Sweden is paralysed by heavy snowstorms. Five-week-old baby Lukas inexplicably disappears from his home in a Stockholm suburb. The young parents are in shock. But seasoned police officer Alice believes that something is not quite right in their stories. She becomes obsessed with the case. Other people become suspicious of Lukas' mother Jenni who took sleeping pills that night and doesn't remember a thing, a nurse who had expressed concerns about the baby's safety and Jenni's own mother Kajsa. 

9. Mare of Easttown

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

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

   Mare of Easttown follows a small-town Pennsylvania detective who investigates a local murder at a time when her own life is crumbling around her.

10. The Bletchley Circle

    2012 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

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

    The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II.Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends.