Shows Like Better

If you liked Better (2023), a drama and crime 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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Grace (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife…
2
Murder in a Small Town (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his…
3
T. J. Hooker (1982)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners…
4
Jack Irish (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime…
5
Hill Street Blues (1981)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
6
Baretta (1975)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New…
7
Inspector George Gently (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also crime
Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
8
Crime Story (1986)
★ 8/10Also crime and drama
The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.
9
In the Heat of the Night (1988)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and drama
In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the…
10
Barnaby Jones (1973)
★ 7/10Also crime and drama
Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April…
11
Castle (2009)
★ 8/10Also drama and crime
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for…
12
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
13
The Tower (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing…
14
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
★ 8.2/10Also crime and drama
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
15
Signora Volpe (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama
After years as an MI6 operative, Sylvia winds up in a village in Umbria visiting her sister Isabel and becomes involved in a murder investigation.
16
Endeavour (2013)
★ 8.1/10Also crime and drama
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
17
The Chicago Code (2011)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama
The series follows officers of the Chicago Police Department as they fight crime on the streets and try to expose political corruption within the city.
18
Detroit 1-8-7 (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and crime
What does it take to be a detective in one of America's toughest cities? Follow one homicide unit as Detroit's finest unearth the crisis and revelation, heartbreak and heroism of these inner city cops in Detroit…
19
The Rockford Files (1974)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and drama
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man…
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Murder in Suburbia (2004)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005. Detective Inspector Kate Ashurst, a graduate of a posh girls' academy, has a sharp, analytical mind; her working-class partner…