Three Girls

Series Similar to Three Girls

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

1. The Moorside

   2017 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   Following the disappearance of nine year-old Shannon Matthews from The Moorside Estate in Dewsbury, the police and community mount a frantic search. Despite their efforts, no trace of her can be found and within a few hours the police investigation takes on the scale of a murder enquiry.Emotional public appeals for information from her mother Karen Matthews amount to nothing, and the community, led by Julie Bushby, stand by her and make extraordinary efforts of their own to find Shannon.Despite the support, doubts are beginning to creep in for some regarding Karen's behaviour. Friend and neighbour Natalie struggles with her conscience as she becomes convinced that Karen knows more than she is revealing.Just as all hope is close to fading, Shannon is found alive. The wild celebrations of Julie and the community are rapidly cut short when they learn that Shannon was being held by a man known to Karen.

2. The Accident

   2019 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   In a community that has been left behind, a large construction project offers hope for a better future; regeneration, and much needed employment. But an explosion, followed by a catastrophic collapse, leaves many dead, children included, and the community devastated.

3. Honour

   2020 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Based on the heartbreaking true story of Banaz Mahmod, the young Londoner murdered by her own family for falling in love with the wrong man, Honour follows Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode's passionate search to discover the fate of missing 20-year old Banaz.

4. Capital

   2015 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   On one day, the people of one South London street all receive an anonymous postcard with the simple message 'we want what you have'. Its unsettling ripples affect every corner of the community.

5. Broken

   2017 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   Drama series about a well-respected Catholic priest presiding over a large parish on the outskirts of a major city in northern England.

6. Three Families

   2021 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   In 2019, Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law was lifted. This two-part dramatisation tells the compelling real stories of the families behind the controversial campaign.

7. The Trial of Christine Keeler

   2019 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   The Trial of Christine Keeler takes us behind the headlines to tell a human story about the sexual and cultural politics of one of the most revealing and iconic stories of modern times. At the centre of the storm was 19-year-old Christine Keeler - a young woman whom the powerful, male-dominated establishment sought to silence and exploit, but who refused to play by their rules.

8. Under the Bridge

   2024 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Limited series based on Rebecca Godfrey's book about the 1997 true story of a fourteen-year-old who went to join friends at a party and never returned home14-year-old Reena Virk joined friends at a party and never returned home. Through the eyes of Godfrey and a local police officer, the series takes us into the hidden world of the young girls accused of the murder — revealing startling truths about the unlikely killer.

9. State of Play

   2003 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   The serial begins with the murder of a young man, in what appears to be a drug-related killing, and the apparently coincidental death of Sonia Baker, the young researcher for MP Stephen Collins (Morrissey). As the deaths are investigated by journalist Cal McCaffrey of The Herald (Simm) and his colleagues (including Kelly Macdonald as Della Smith and Bill Nighy as editor Cameron Foster) it appears that not only were the deaths connected, but that a conspiracy links them with oil industry-backed corruption of high-ranking British government ministers.

10. The Queen's Gambit

    2020 · Drama · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

    Chronicling the life of an orphan chess prodigy, the story - set during the Cold War era - follows Beth Harmon from the age of eight to twenty-two, as she struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world.