Vortex

Series Similar to Vortex

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

1. Ad Vitam

   2018 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, hidden gem.

   In a world where everyone believes death has been conquered, the bodies of seven youngsters who have committed suicide are discovered. Were they a cult? Was it political? Or perhaps a cry for help from a lost youth… Darius, a cop aged 120, is tasked with investigating, along with the rebellious Christa.

2. Limitless

   2015 · Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Limitless, based on Relativity's 2011 Bradley Cooper thriller, picks up where the movie left off and follows Brian Sinclair as he discovers the power of the mysterious drug NZT, and is coerced into using his newfound drug-enhanced abilities to solve weekly cases for the FBI.

3. La Mante

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   In Paris, police search for a psychopath whose murders are inspired by Jeanne Deber, known as "The Mantis", a famous serial killer who terrorised the country 20 years ago. Believing it takes one to know one, the police asks Jeanne Deber to help hunt the copycat. Placed in solitary confinement since her arrest, "The Mantis" agrees on one condition: to deal only with Detective Damien Carrot, her estranged son. Damien has no choice, for a serial killer is on the loose and could strike anytime, anywhere in Paris.

4. Professor T

   2021 · Drama, Crime · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Set against the stunning backdrop of one of the world's most prestigious educational institutions, Cambridge University, Professor T is centered around the eccentric, but brilliant Criminology Professor Jasper Tempest, who suffers with OCD and has a tortured past.

5. Altered Carbon

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8).

   Altered Carbon is set in the 25th century when the human mind has been digitized and the soul itself is transferable from one body to the next. Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite interstellar warrior known as an Envoy who has been imprisoned for 250 years, is downloaded into a future he'd tried to stop. If he can solve a single murder in a world where technology has made death nearly obsolete, he'll get a chance at a new life on Earth.

6. Oasis

   2017 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Set in the near future, Oasis tells the story of priest Peter Leigh, who is called to a remote planet where a mysterious multinational company is building the first permanent off-Earth human colony. The planet, Oasis, is humanity's last chance to escape from Earth's impending collapse, but it quickly becomes apparent that it may not be as hospitable to humanity as it seems…

7. Life on Mars

   2006 · Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8).

   Drama about a present-day Manchester detective who, after suffering near-fatal injuries in a car-crash, awakes to find himself living in 1973.

8. Hard Sun

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Science-Fiction profile, hidden gem.

   Set in contemporary London, Hard Sun centers on detectives Robert Hicks and Elaine Renko, partners and enemies who seek to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a world that every day slips closer to certain destruction. Hicks is a family man and a great, committed officer. He's also profoundly corrupt. Renko is a difficult and damaged, but utterly incorruptible officer. Thus, the two cops stand on different ends of the social and moral spectrum and also seriously distrust one other – and for good reason. But they must somehow learn to work together if they're going to survive until the end of the world.

9. Second Chance

   2016 · Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Science-Fiction profile.

   A thrilling new action-drama about a man brought back to life by two scientists playing god in the quest to save one of their own lives. Seventy-five-year-old Jimmy Pritchard is a shell of his former self. A drinker, a womanizer and a father who always put work before family, Pritchard was forced to resign as L.A. County Sheriff for corrupt conduct more than a decade ago. Now, some 15 unkind years later, he is killed when he stumbles upon a robbery at the home of FBI Agent Duval Pritchard, one of his two children. But death is surprisingly short for Jimmy, who is brought back to life by billionaire tech-genius twins Mary Goodwin and her brother, Otto, founders of the social networking empire, Lookinglass. Resurrected as a younger, better version of himself, with physical abilities of which he never dreamed, a re-animated Pritchard is given a Second Chance at life. What will he do with it? Will he try to repair the damage he did to his family? Will he embrace a new sense of purpose or fall prey to old temptations?

10. Continuum

    2012 · Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

    Recommended for similar Crime / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8).

    Continuum centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to anyone that she and the rebels are from the future.