Criminal Record

Series Similar to Criminal Record

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

1. Marcella

   2016 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller 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.

2. What Remains

   2013 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   When the decomposed body of Melissa Young is found by a couple in their new flat, Detective Len Harper is determined to discover what happened to her and why nobody noticed she was missing.

3. The Tower

   2021 · Crime, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   DS Sarah Collins and DC Steve Bradshaw tread the dark path of policing in The Tower. When cops are called to a tower block crime scene, a baffling mystery begins.

4. The Gulf

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   A detective recovering from amnesia caused by a shocking car accident begins to suspect not everything is as it seems, following the reappearance of a young boy.

5. Black Bird

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), also on Apple TV.

   Inspired by actual events, when high school football hero, decorated policeman's son and convicted drug dealer Jimmy Keene is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime — enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall, or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole. Keene quickly realizes his only way out is to elicit a confession and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall's appeal goes through. But is this suspected killer telling the truth? Or is it just another tale from a serial liar? 

6. Smother

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller 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.

7. Criminal Justice

   2008 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.Season one follows Ben Coulter (Ben Whishaw), a young man who is accused of murder after a drunken night out, though is unable to remember committing the crime. Season two follows Juliet Miller (Maxine Peake) as she struggles to come to terms with her life after attempting to kill her husband, a respected and powerful barrister at the height of his profession.

8. The Missing

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

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

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

9. A Town Called Malice

   2023 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Set amongst the beach clubs and palm trees of the Costa del Sol in the early 80s, A Town Called Malice follows the Lords, a crime family of petty thieves from South London, as they decamp from London to Spain to profit from an unexpected windfall – and to escape the attention of the police in a high-profile murder enquiry.

10. MINDHUNTER

    2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

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

    MINDHUNTER is based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, by former special agent John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. For years, Douglas pursued some of the most notorious serial killers and rapists, developing profiling techniques to catch them. The book goes behind the scenes of some of his highest-profile cases, including the man who hunted prostitutes in Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer. To hone in his profiling methods Douglas interviewed and studied a skew of serial killers. Several book and TV characters have been based in part on him, including Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs, Will Graham on Hannibal and Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds.