The Artful Dodger

Series Similar to The Artful Dodger

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

1. A Town Called Malice

   2023 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Set amongst the beach clubs and palm trees of the Costa del Sol in the early 80s, A Town Called Malice follows the Lords, a crime family of petty thieves from South London, as they decamp from London to Spain to profit from an unexpected windfall – and to escape the attention of the police in a high-profile murder enquiry.

2. Brassic

   2019 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Brassic is about Vinnie, a man from the north of England with bipolar disorder and his best mate Dylan, whose girlfriend Erin decides to leave town. Dylan is faced with the impossible decision between a fresh start with the love of his life or staying behind with his inseparable gang of mates that he can't live without.

3. Irreverent

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Irreverent is a fish out of water drama that follows criminal mediator Paulo Keegan as he flees Chicago and the United States after a mediation gone wrong and assumes the identity of Reverend Mackenzie "Mack" Boyd. Paulo posing as "Mack" finds himself trapped in Clump, Australia - a small, eccentric beach town in Far North Queensland hundreds of miles away from civilization and phone reception. In order to stay alive, "Mack" must keep the wool over the town's eyes and play the role of devoted Reverend, while desperately searching for an exit strategy before his past catches up to him.

4. Gangland Undercover

   2015 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8.1), hidden gem.

   The only man brave enough to sneak into three outlaw biker gangs and live to tell the tale, Charles Falco, author of "Vagos, Mongols and Outlaws", goes from convict to infiltrator as he secretly documents the Vagos' illegal activities and ultimately brings them to justice. With the real Charles Falco starting each episode in a silhouetted interview, his story is brought to life in this fact-based docudrama series that sees Falco work as an informant for the Feds on a covert mission inside the dangerous Vagos' world of violence, murder and drug trafficking. Having climbed the gang's ranks while facilitating 62 arrests, Charles Falco exposes how he crippled the criminal enterprise from the core of the biker underworld in this mind-blowing true story, Gangland Undercover.

5. The Gold

   2023 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   The Gold opens with the events of November 26th 1983, when six armed men broke into the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. What started as ‘a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery' according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft, at the time the biggest in world history, but for its wider legacy.

6. The Penguin

   2024 · Drama, Crime · ended

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

   Starring Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb (aka The Penguin), the DC Studios series continues filmmaker Matt Reeves' The Batman epic crime saga that began with Warner Bros. Pictures' global blockbuster The Batman. Developed by showrunner Lauren LeFranc, the series centers on the character played by Farrell in the film.

7. Snabba cash

   2021 · Drama, Crime · ended

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

   Snabba cash is set in Stockholm ten years after the events depicted in the feature films. It is a buzzing environment where the craving for status and money is stronger than ever. The entrepreneurial jet set as well as the criminal world has become even more brutal, chaotic and ruthless. When these two worlds collide, loyalty, friendships and business partners will all be tested in the never-ending quest for easy money.

8. Banished

   2015 · Drama, Crime · ended

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

   At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death.

9. Halifax: Retribution

   2020 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Jane is enjoying a life away from working as a forensic psychiatrist on the police frontline as a university professor. She is also in a stable and loving long-term relationship with her musician partner Ben, and is comfortable in her role as stepmother to his daughter Zoe.However, the case of a serial killer who is terrorising Melbourne lures her back to the job she left behind as the case suddenly gets very personal.

10. The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies

    2014 · Drama, Crime · ended

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

    This drama tells the real-life story of retired schoolteacher Christopher Jefferies who was initially questioned by police as a suspect in the murder of Jo Yeates who rented a flat from him. He was vilified by the press, partly on account of his eccentric appearance and long flowing hair, even after he had been released on bail by the police.