The Luminaries

Series Similar to The Luminaries

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

1. Picnic at Hanging Rock

   2018 · Drama, Mystery · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Picnic at Hanging Rock will plunge viewers into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and one teacher on Valentine's Day 1900, taking the audience on a new journey into the revered Australian novel through the six part drama.

2. And Then There Were None

   2015 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number.

3. Reunion: The Sound of the Providence

   2020 · Action, Adventure, Mystery · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Mystery profile.

   The iron triangle Wu Xie, Pang Zi and Zhang Qiling restart their adventure after receiving an unusual text from Wu Sansheng. Wu Xie, Pang Zi and Zhang Qiling have hung up their hats to end a ten-year promise. After trading their adventures for a normal life, a text from Wu Sansheng drives them to embark on a mysterious journey for the sake of family and friendship.

4. Timeless

   2016 · Adventure, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Mystery profile.

   Timeless tells the story of a mysterious criminal who steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. The only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?

5. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

   1977 · Action, Adventure, Mystery · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries recount the adventures of the famous teenage sleuths, based on the two series of juvenile mystery novels by the Edward Stratemeyer syndicate under the names Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene. Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of a private detective, and Nancy Drew is the daughter of a criminal attorney. In the first season, stories alternated week by week between the two families, but in the second season the independent Nancy Drew adventures were phased out so that all were working as a team. In the third season, Nancy Drew was eliminated completely and the Hardys became more involved in cases of international intrigue.

6. Ordeal by Innocence

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie's book. Heiress Rachel Argyll is murdered at her family estate. Eighteen months later, the identity of the murderer is thrown in doubt.

7. Outer Banks

   2020 · Adventure, Crime, Mystery · returning88% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Mystery profile.

   On an island of haves and have-nots, teen John B enlists his three best friends to hunt for a legendary treasure linked to his father's disappearance.

8. Word of Honor

   2021 · Adventure, Mystery, History · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Mystery profile.

   Zhou Zi Shu gets embroiled in a conspiracy in the martial arts world after quitting his job as the leader of an organization tasked with protecting royalty. He meets Wen Ke Xing, a mysterious martial artist who escapes from the Ghost Valley to avenge his parents' deaths. They become fast friends and embark on an adventure to find a legendary treasure that will give its owner ultimate power over jianghu.

9. The Long Call

   2021 · Drama, Mystery · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   The Long Call follows Detective Inspector Matthew Venn, who has returned to live in a small community in North Devon with his husband. It's a place Matthew walked away from 20 years ago, after being rejected by his family who are part of the area's Barum Brethren community.We meet Matthew outside the local church as his father's funeral takes place. Now he's back, in the place where it all began, not just to grieve for his father but to lead a shocking murder investigation. 

10. The Pretender

    1996 · Drama, Adventure, Mystery · ended86% match

    Recommended for similar Adventure / Mystery profile.

    Jarod is a Pretender - a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will, be it doctor, test pilot or lawyer. Taken from his parents at an early age, Jarod was brought up in the Centre, a think-tank facility where he believed his computer-like mind was being used to benefit mankind. But when he learned the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest-bidder no matter what their intent, Jarod escaped. Now on the run, Jarod embarks on a search for his true identity while also attempting to balance out any wrong his simulations have caused by helping people who are as powerless as he once was.