Vaka

Series Similar to Vaka

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

1. Fartblinda

   2019 · Drama, Thriller · returning

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

   An ambitious financial reporter Bea receives an anonymous tip about irregularities at a Swedish major bank. Bea weathered a scoop, but the review is made more difficult by her love affair with the bank's married CEO, Peder. Based on Carolina Neurath's book "Speed Blind" which in turn is inspired by real events.

2. Veronika

   2024 · Drama, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   When a police officer with a tablet addiction sees a dead boy, she questions her sanity, but she realizes that she is facing victims of unsolved crimes and that her past can help to catch a killer on the loose.

3. Jo Nesbøs Harry Hole

   2026 · Drama, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   A brilliant but troubled detective, Harry Hole, hunts a serial killer while battling a corrupt adversary, Tom Waaler, as they navigate ethical gray areas, with Harry determined to bring the criminal to justice.

4. Valkyrien

   2016 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Doctor Ravn is a surgeon desperate to find a cure for his dying wife Vilma. The hospital had given up on her, so Ravn enters into an alliance with Oslo's underworld and opens a clinic in a disused underground station for those in need, who either have no GP or cannot use public hospitals. Ravn's endeavours both to build a clinic and get patients is made possible by the corrupt Leif. Convinced that the end of the world is nigh, Leif has widespread access and knowledge of the city's underground shelters and secret passages, as well as a significant network in the Oslo underworld and its black economy.

5. Arne Dahl

   2011 · Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Swedish crime thriller series about an elite team of detectives.

6. ALEX

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   ALEX is about the hard-dead and corrupt police Alex who decided to get clean. But the dark forces he has co-operated with refuses let him go, which causes both Alex and his family's life to be jeopardized. While Alex gets a new partner, Frida, who secretly been instructed to bring him down.

7. Springfloden

   2016 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Springfloden alternates between the time lines of 1987 and 2011. The latter follows Police Academy Cadet Olivia Rönning and her work for a class assignment: She is tasked with unraveling the mystery of a cold case from 1987, one in which three people sadistically murdered a young woman on a Koster Islands beach – a killing that a young boy inadvertently witnessed.At that time, national homicide investigator Tom Stilton was unable to solve the case, since he couldn't ascertain the victim's identity, locate the murderers, or establish a motive for the killing. And so it was shelved. Fifteen years later, he took a new approach to the case, but a bruising divorce left Stilton in a fragile mental state that deteriorated even further.As Rönning digs through case files, she sorts out as much as she can, but there are still many questions left unanswered. What would really help her is getting input from the now-former detective, the homeless Stilton.

8. Reservatet

   2025 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   When a neighbor's au pair vanishes from her wealthy suburb, Cecilie seeks answers — and unravels secrets that shatter her seemingly perfect world.

9. Bron / Broen

   2011 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8.3).

   When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

10. Gåsmamman

    2015 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

    Sonja is living a rather carefree life together with her loving family. Her husband Fredriks marijuana operation is a silver lining for the family economy, but everything falls apart and Sonja's forced to play a dangerous game with both the organized crime and the police in order to protect her children. She can no longer be sure about who her friends are and who she can trust.