Presumed Innocent

Series Similar to Presumed Innocent

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

1. Shining Girls

   2022 · Crime, Thriller, Supernatural · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on Apple TV.

   Shining Girls is a metaphysical thriller, which follows a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker.

2. Black Bird

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), also on Apple TV.

   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? 

3. The Lincoln Lawyer

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Legal · returning83% match

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

   Mickey Haller, an iconoclastic idealist, runs his law practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, as he takes on cases big and small across the expansive city of Los Angeles.

4. Payback

   2023 · Crime, Thriller · returning83% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   With an idyllic family lifestyle in the suburbs of Edinburgh, Lexie is unaware her husband, Jared, has been laundering Cal Morris' illegal earnings on a vast scale. Jared's every move is being monitored by financial investigators DC Jibran Khan and DCI Adam Guthrie, who are determined to use the Noble family to bring Cal Morris to justice. A partner in Jared's business, Lexie is forced into working for Cal, at the same time as the police net inexorably tightens. Soon Lexie finds herself walking a treacherous tightrope between Cal and the police in which her safety, and even her life, are in grave danger.

5. Goliath

   2016 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended82% match

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

   Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.

6. Code of Silence

   2025 · Crime, Thriller · returning82% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   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.

7. Bosch: Legacy

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended81% match

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

   Harry Bosch, retired homicide detective turned Private Investigator, fights to work cases without the authority his former job provided. Attorney Honey "Money" Chandler, having survived an attempted murder, struggles to maintain her faith in the justice system. And Maddie Bosch discovers the possibilities and challenges of being a rookie patrol cop on the streets of Los Angeles.

8. MINDHUNTER

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended81% 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.

9. Criminal Record

   2024 · Crime, Thriller · returning80% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on Apple TV.

   Criminal Record is a powerful, character-driven thriller set in the heart of contemporary London. An anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives into a confrontation over an old murder case – one a young woman in the early stages of her career, the other a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy. The series touches on issues of race, institutional failure, and the quest to find common ground in a polarized Britain.

10. Unbelievable

    2019 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended80% 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.