Shows Like Payback
If you liked Payback (2023), 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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The Endgame (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and dramaA high-stakes thriller about Elena Federova, a very recently captured international arms dealer and brilliant criminal mastermind who even in captivity orchestrates a number of coordinated bank heists, and Val Turner…
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Carl Weber's The Family Business (2018)
★ 8.5/10Also drama and crimeMeet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens. By day, they’re an upstanding family; by night, they live a dangerous secret life.
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The Tower (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crimeA 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…
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Murder in a Small Town (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crimeKarl 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…
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Joan (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and crimeA penniless mother makes an impulsive decision in the jewellery shop where she works, and is propelled into a different world.
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Jack Irish (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crimeJack 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…
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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and dramaDS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
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Smother (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and dramaOn the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.
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Grace (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and dramaBrighton 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…
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London Kills (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and crimeWith a documentary style delivery, this drama tells the story of a team of top murder detectives with each episode featuring a different murder while also following a serialized story involving the lead detective’s…
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White Lies (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and crimeSet in the wealthy neighbourhood of Bishopscourt, Cape Town, investigative journalist Edie Hansen gets caught up in the ugly underbelly that lies beneath the picturesque beauty of the city, dragging her back to a…
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Steal (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crimeA typical day at Lochmill Capital is upended when armed thieves burst in and force Zara and her best friend Luke to execute their demands. In the aftermath, conflicted detective Rhys races against time to find out who…
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Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and crimeThe adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious…
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Hill Street Blues (1981)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crimeA realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Walker (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and dramaCordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there's harder work to be done at home.
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The Couple Next Door (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and crimeEvie and Pete move into an upscale neighborhood and find themselves in a world of curtain twitching and status anxiety. They find friendship in the shape of the couple next door, alpha traffic cop Danny and his wife…
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Burden of Truth (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and crimeA big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness.
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The Sweeney (1975)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and crimeJack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
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Karen Pirie (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and dramaWhen a 25-year-old murder in St Andrews becomes the subject of a provocative true-crime podcast, DS Karen Pirie is tasked with heading up a review. Digging up the past, Karen uncovers fresh evidence and a potential…
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Gone (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and crimeThe survivor of a famous child-abduction case joins a special task force dedicated to solving abductions and missing person cases.