Gidseltagningen

Series Similar to Gidseltagningen

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

1. Greyzone

   2018 · Drama, Action, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   When a brilliant drone engineer, Victoria, is taken hostage in her own home, a series of dangerous events are set into motion.

2. Mammon

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Mammon is a thriller series in the spirit of "All the Presidents men". However, in this story not all journalists are good, and the hunt for truth far more personal. Peter Verås is an uncompromising journalist in the most respected newspaper in Norway. He makes his life's biggest mistake when he gets hold of evidence of a financial fraud from an anonymous source. It turns out the evidence points to his own brother. As he still pursues and the story breaks, the brother commits suicide. Peter tries to track down the anonymous source, only to discover that the source was the brother himself. A search for the truth has commenced that involves media, high – ranked politicians as well as the financial elite. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes for him and his brother's family.

3. Nobel

   2016 · Drama, Thriller, War · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   24 hours after returning to his home in Oslo following a traumatic tour of duty in Afghanistan, Erling Riser is given orders to kill an Afghan man on the street. When he discovers the orders were not sent by the Head of Intelligence he must find out who is sending them and why he is being used as a hitman. His wife no longer trusts him, and he cannot trust anyone himself, Erling finds himself in the middle, as both a target and hitman, of a complex killing game. Nobel places a dramatic conspiracy plot in the middle of Norway's war in Afghanistan and at the centre of the world's most famous humanitarian prize. Politics and social commentary are combined in this gripping thriller.

4. Bodyguard

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

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

   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?

5. 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.

6. 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?

7. 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.

8. 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. 

9. The Code

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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

   Stretching from the spectacular red desert of Australia's outback to the cool corridors of power in Canberra, The Code tells the story of two very different brothers who are handed information those in the highest political echelons will kill to keep secret.

10. 22. juli

    2020 · Drama, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

    They help the injured. They comfort the bereaved. They try to understand. This is the story of those who were at work when the terror hit Norway on July 22, 2011.