Safe House

Series Similar to Safe House

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

1. Absentia

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   Absentia centers on an FBI agent who, while hunting one of Boston's most notorious serial killers, disappears without a trace and is declared dead. Six years later, she is found in a cabin in the woods, barely alive and with no memory of the years she was missing. Returning home to learn her husband has remarried and her son is being raised by another woman, she soon finds herself implicated in a new series of murders.

2. Bloodlands

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   When a car containing a possible suicide note is pulled out of Strangford Lough, Northern Irish police detective Tom Brannick quickly connects it to an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance. Bloodlands follows his dogged hunt for a legendary assassin, an explosive cat-and-mouse game where the stakes have never been higher.

3. Chasing Shadows

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on ITV1.

   Chasing Shadows follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.

4. Kidnapped

   2006 · Crime, Thriller · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   On a rainy New York morning, the idyllic existence of self-made millionaire Conrad Cain and his well-to-do wife, Ellie,is torn apart when their 15-year-old son, Leopold, is kidnapped on his way to school and his bodyguard, Virgil, is left to die. Desperate to find his son, Cain enlists the services of Knapp a professional investigator who, alongside his partner, Turner works outside the law's strict rulebook to retrieve kidnapping victims. Meanwhile, operating opposite Knapp are Special Agent Latimer King, an experienced FBI agent who postpones his retirement due to a vested interest in this complicated case, as well as King's colleague and antithesis Agent Andy Archer.

5. The Widower

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem, also on ITV1.

   The Widower is a three-part drama from ITV Studios based on the crimes of convicted murderer, Malcolm Webster, played by Reece Shearsmith (Psychoville, The League of Gentlemen, A Field in England).The Widower tells how, over a 13 year period Malcolm Webster set about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée.

6. Midwinter of the Spirit

   2015 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem, also on ITV1.

   Merrily Watkins, a single mother who is not your average country vicar. Her newly acquired training in the works of exorcisms has pulled her to the dark side of the pulpit. She has become one of the very few women priests who are working as exorcists - a job which is mistrusted by the modern church and rarely ever talked about. Merrily is joined by Rev Huw Owen, a deliverance ministry tutor and Merrily's mentor. Her advanced and excessive knowledge of the paranormal underworld brings her to the notice of the local police who need her help. The force need her advice on the investigation of a grisly murder. However Merrily is still going through the motions of losing her late unfaithful husband, Sean, in a car crash. She seeks shelter in her job despite having a 16-year-old daughter, Jane. After the discovery of a gruesome murder, Merrily becomes convinced that Satanists are operating in the city.

7. MINDHUNTER

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended93% 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.

8. 100 Code

   2015 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Over the past 16 months, young, blonde, blue-eyed women have been found dead and buried in a field of asphodels. Tracking the killer from New York to Stockholm, NYPD detective Conley is on a special dispensation to observe and advise the Stockholm PD.

9. A Mother's Son

   2012 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on ITV1.

   When a teenage schoolgirl is murdered in a quiet coastal town, a mother finds a pair of stained trainers - and begins to suspect that either her son or stepson may be involved.

10. The Fixer

    2015 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended93% match

    Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

    Ellie Molaro is an investigator with the NTSB - the US federal body which determines the causes of major accidents. She becomes suspicious of the "official answers" to an oil rig disaster, spearheads a private investigation with a secret tipster named Carter.Carter claims that a conspiracy of "Fixers" are behind some of the worst global disasters, all rigged to manipulate the stock market, and reap billions for a select few.Now, their largest operation in decades is an impending, catastrophic event targeting Washington, D.C. and the only way they can succeed is if Ellie and Carter are among the casualties.