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Series Similar to Payback

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

1. The Endgame

   2022 · Crime, Thriller · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   A "high-stakes thriller," following Elena Federova, a "very recently captured" international arms dealer and criminal mastermind who can orchestrate many complicated and coordinated bank heists, even while in captivity, and Val Turner, the "principled, relentless and socially-outcast" FBI agent who will stop at nothing to foil Elena's plan.

2. The Tower

   2021 · Crime, Thriller · returning98% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on ITVX.

   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.

3. Code of Silence

   2025 · Crime, Thriller · returning92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on ITVX.

   Code of Silence introduces us to Deaf catering worker, Alison Woods. She's struggling to make ends meet, juggling two jobs, in a police canteen and a local bar, while also doing her best to support her Deaf mum, Julie. When DC Ashleigh Francis calls on Alison to lip read the conversations of some dangerous criminals, she is plunged into a new and exhilarating world.

4. Smother

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended91% match

   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.

5. Six Four

   2023 · Crime, Thriller · returning88% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on ITVX.

   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.

6. MINDHUNTER

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended87% match

   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.

7. Black Bird

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended87% match

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

   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? 

8. Unbelievable

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended87% match

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

   The true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.

9. D.P.

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended86% match

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

   A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.

10. Bodyguard

    2018 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended86% match

    Recommended for similar Crime / 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?