Dead and Buried

Series Similar to Dead and Buried

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

1. Roadkill

   2020 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, also on BBC iPlayer.

   Roadkill is about self-made, forceful and charismatic politician Peter Laurence. Peter's public and private life seems to be falling apart – or rather is being picked apart by his enemies. As the personal revelations spiral, he is shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, expertly walking a high wire between glory and catastrophe as he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. However, events show just how hard it is, for both an individual and a country, to leave the past behind. With enemies so close to home, can Peter Laurence ever out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?

2. Our Zoo

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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

   Our Zoo is a drama series based on the true story of the Mottershead family who, in the face of staunch opposition and huge personal sacrifice, founded Chester Zoo in the 1930s.

3. Leap Day

   2025 · Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8.3), hidden gem.

   February 29, also known as Leap Day, comes around once every four years and is a cause for celebration. That is true for a lot of people, except for Day and Night. Every February 29, on their birthday, someone they love dies. But the year they turn 20, Day's cousin Ozone and Night's closest friend Dream survive the fateful curse. Day and Night must now work together to defeat their Leap Day destiny. Will this mystery be unraveled?

4. Critical Incident

   2024 · Drama, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   A police officer pursuing a teenage suspect onto a busy train platform, knocks a bystander onto the train tracks, critically injuring them. As an intense investigation commences, the lives of the pursued and the pursuer are thrown into turmoil.

5. The Guest

   2025 · Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, also on BBC iPlayer.

   Ria has never had the time or opportunity to think about what she might actually want from the world. So, when she starts cleaning for Fran, she's intoxicated by this confident and self-assured woman who encourages her to take control of her life and, when Ria flourishes, an intense friendship is forged.However, when Fran's advice leads to a shocking event, the lives of these two very different women become intertwined by shared secrets and dangerous plots. What follows is a compelling and manipulative game of cat-and-mouse. But just who is playing who?

6. Kalifat

   2020 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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

   Agent Fatima gets a tip that a terrorist act is planned in Sweden. At the same time, the teenager Sulle has opened her eyes to her student assistant who opens the doors to a new fascinating world. 

7. Little Disasters

   2025 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Little Disasters centers on four friends who were thrown together while expectant mothers with little in common apart from their due dates. When Jess takes her baby daughter to hospital with a head injury she can't explain, close friend and on-duty A&E doctor Liz is forced to make the excruciating decision as to whether to call social services on her friend. The decision sets of a chain of events that show how a moment can fracture and nearly destroy families and friendships.

8. The Day of the Jackal

   2024 · Thriller · returning

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

   The Day of the Jackal follows an unrivaled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.

9. Playing Nice

   2025 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover that their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child?Living a waking nightmare, Pete and Maddie are jettisoned into the world of the other couple; Miles and Lucy. At first it seems all four are agreed on a solution, but it soon becomes clear that hidden motives are at play. How far can each couple trust the real parents of their child – or even each other? As Pete and Maddie are stretched to breaking point, they realise they will stop at nothing to keep their family together.

10. Blind

    2022 · Thriller · ended

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

    A human drama about people who have become unfair victims and ordinary perpetrators who are blind to uncomfortable truths. It also depicts a mystery thriller that tracks criminals.