Dublin Murders

Series Similar to Dublin Murders

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

1. The Killing

   2011 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.2).

   The Killing follows Seattle homicide detectives Stephen Holder and Sarah Linden and their work as detectives investigating murders. Sarah Linden takes cases very seriously and has issues keeping her work and family separate, as she pairs up with recovering addict Stephen Holder to solve dark murders.

2. The Field of Blood

   2011 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on BBC One.

   Adaptation of Denise Mina's thriller set in 1982. When the story of a murder has huge implications for her family, newspaper copy boy Paddy Meehan battles prejudices to get to the truth. As she inches closer to revealing the truth, her investigations place her in mortal danger.

3. Quirke

   2014 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Quirke is a bold, mesmerising drama full of mystery, secrets and intrigue.A consultant pathologist in the Dublin city morgue in the 1950s, Quirke is a powerful character more at ease among the cold silent slabs than the company of his fellow men. But in truth, his profession provides his greatest pleasure: inquisitive by nature, he is fascinated with unlocking the secret to these cadavers' deaths. After a body vanishes from his mortuary one night Quirke's curiosity is piqued by the lengths his brother is prepared to go to, to cover up the cause of one young woman's death in childbirth.Based on the novels by John Banville.

4. Six Four

   2023 · Crime, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   Six Four is a dark and compelling story of kidnap, corruption, betrayal and an uncompromising search for the truth, when Chris and Michelle O'Neill's teenage daughter goes missing.Serving police detective, Chris is provided with a startling revelation about an infamous, unsolved case that once divided the police when a local girl called Julie Mackie disappeared. Now, reeling from the news that his own daughter has gone missing, Chris is approached by a journalist who tells him that fatal mistakes were covered-up in Julie's disappearance. Revisiting the case, Chris uncovers a series of undeniable errors, corruption and unbridled ambition.

5. The Victim

   2019 · Drama, Thriller, Legal · ended

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

   The Victim is a gripping, contemporary legal thriller told through the eyes of the plaintiff and the accused. Set in Edinburgh, within Scotland's unique legal system, the show offers a constantly surprising and twisting perspective on who is really ‘the victim'.

6. The Missing

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

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

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

7. Bodyguard

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.2), also on BBC One.

   Set in and around the corridors of power, Bodyguard tells the fictional story of David Budd, a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch (RaSP) of London's Metropolitan Police Service.When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics stand for everything he despises, Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, is he actually her biggest threat?

8. Hidden

   2011 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   When the mysterious lawyer Gina Hawkes turns up asking Harry to find a missing alibi witness for her client he agrees to take on the job but is unwittingly drawn into investigating the death of his brother 20 years ago. Harry quickly finds himself caught up in a much bigger and more complex conspiracy that reaches deep into the heart of the British political system.

9. Criminal Justice

   2008 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   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.

10. Inside Man

    2022 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on BBC One.

    A vicar's life begins to intertwine with that of a prisoner on death row and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar.