Shows Like The Long Call

If you liked The Long Call (2021), a crime and drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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DCI Banks (2011)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama
A thrilling drama based on the novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot.
2
Dalgliesh (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and drama
A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.
3
Inspector Morse (1987)
★ 7.9/10Also crime and drama
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of…
4
The Sinner (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama
In a small New York town, a haunted detective hunts for answers about perplexing crimes while wrestling with his own demons.
5
Missing You (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and crime
When Detective Kat Donovan matches on a dating app with the fiancé who disappeared years before, she learns that some secrets are best left in the past.
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Grantchester (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama
In 1953 at the hamlet of Grantchester, Sidney Chambers—a charismatic, charming clergyman—turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.
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Last Seen (2026)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and drama
When emergency dispatcher Ian Ridley receives a frantic call from a teenager he believes could be his long-missing daughter, he stops at nothing to find her.
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Strike (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama
A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator…
9
L.A.'s Finest (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
Syd Burnett has left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna, a working mom with an equally complex past, Syd is pushed to examine whether her unapologetic…
10
Cross (2024)
★ 7/10Also crime and drama
Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but…
11
Cardinal (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation…
12
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
Five years after the death of schoolgirl Andie Bell, Pippa Fitz-Amobi sets out to uncover what really happened to her. Sal Singh, Andie's boyfriend, admitted to the murder before taking his own life, but Pip doesn't…
13
American Rust (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime
A compelling family drama and a timeless story told through the eyes of complicated and compromised chief of police Del Harris of a Pennsylvania Rust Belt town full of good people making bad choices.
14
Bosch: Legacy (2022)
★ 7.9/10Also crime and drama
Bosch is now making a living as a private investigator two years after he quit the LAPD and finds himself working with one time enemy and top-notch attorney Honey “Money” Chandler. Meanwhile, Bosch's daughter Maddie is…
15
Five Days (2007)
★ 5.8/10Also crime and drama
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
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Ballard (2025)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and crime
Detective Renée Ballard plunges into a web of murder and corruption as she hunts a ruthless serial killer and uncovers a sinister police conspiracy that threatens everything she stands for. With her own demons nipping…
17
Fargo (2014)
★ 8.3/10Also crime and drama
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
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Hightown (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
Amid the drug trade on Cape Cod, a body washes ashore and is discovered by an irreverent National Marine Fisheries Service officer, Jackie Quinones, who is determined to help solve the murder even if the state cops…
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
A dying man's enigmatic last words send vicar's son, Bobby Jones, and his socialite friend, Lady Frankie Derwent, on a crime-solving adventure.
20
Wallander (2008)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and crime
This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the…