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. Blind

   2022 · Thriller · ended92% match

   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.

2. Leap Day

   2025 · Thriller · ended91% match

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

   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?

3. The Assets

   2014 · Thriller · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   The Assets is an eight-part limited series based on the real life events of CIA counter-intelligence officer Sandy Grimes. The year 1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole who would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US History, Aldrich Ames. Sandy is in a race against time to save the Soviet intelligence officers from being caught and killed. Living her own double life at home, this beautiful wife and mother vowed to stop at nothing until she uncovered the truth.

4. The Day of the Jackal

   2024 · Thriller · returning86% match

   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.

5. The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies

   2023 · Thriller · returning83% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   This is the story of two very different women and the conman they have in common; a dark, funny, and unpredictable thriller about three remarkable characters trapped in a triangle of epic proportions. Alice is a formidable PA, a single mother, and a lifelong Madonna fan. Caroline is a bestselling fantasy author who, recently bereaved, now lives alone with her toy poodle, Goblin. Rob is an eccentric and celebrated ecopreneur… who may or may not be trying to destroy them both.

6. The Rumour

   2025 · Thriller · ended81% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Joanna moves with her young son, Alfie, to the quiet town of Flinstead, seeking a fresh start. However, she quickly becomes entangled in the lives of local mothers and the unsettling dynamics of the community. When Joanna stumbles upon an online rumour about a child killer living in the town, she uses it to win over the mums at the school gate. As gossip spreads, suspicions build, and Joanna finds herself drawn into a web of secrets and paranoia. Balancing her efforts to protect her son with the growing unease in town, Joanna struggles to distinguish between truth and hearsay. With relationships strained and emotions running high, the boundaries between trust and fear blur.

7. The Guest

   2025 · Thriller · ended81% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   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?

8. Our Zoo

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended81% match

   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.

9. Zero Day

   2025 · Thriller · ended80% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   George Mullen, a massively popular, but complicated, former American President is pulled from retirement to head a commission tasked with investigating a devastating global cyber-attack.Zero Day asks the question on everyone's mind — how do we find truth in a world in crisis, one seemingly being torn apart by forces outside our control? And in an era rife with conspiracy theory and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps even of our own imagining?

10. Hijack

    2023 · Thriller · returning80% match

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

    Told in real time, Hijack is a tense thriller that follows the journey of a hijacked plane as it makes its way to London over a seven-hour flight, as authorities on the ground scramble for answers. Sam Nelson is an accomplished negotiator in the business world who needs to step up and use all his guile to try and save the lives of the passengers — but his high-risk strategy could be his undoing.