Shows Like When the Phone Rings

If you liked When the Phone Rings (2024), a drama and mystery 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.

1
Steal (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
A 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…
2
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…
3
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…
4
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and crime
The 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…
5
Nancy Drew (2019)
★ 7.7/10Also mystery and drama
Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery instead.
6
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to…
7
McMillan & Wife (1971)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered in 90-minute…
8
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013)
★ 7.8/10Also mystery and drama
Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is…
9
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
★ 7.8/10Also mystery and drama
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
10
Smother (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama
On 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.
11
All Her Fault (2025)
★ 8/10Also mystery and crime
In Chicago, Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognizes…
12
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.
13
Annika (2021)
★ 7/10Also mystery and crime
The sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the unexplained, brutal, and seemingly unfathomable murders.
14
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…
15
The Prisoner (1967)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and mystery
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
16
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials (2026)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and crime
England, 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths—the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent—to…
17
Seven Types of Ambiguity (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and drama
The shifting perspective of six characters following a complicated chain of events triggered when a child is taken and relationships are thrown into crisis.
18
The Crow Girl (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime
DCI Jeanette Kilburn and eminent psychotherapist Dr. Sophia Craven join forces to hunt the killer of young men. The investigation takes Jeanette and Sophia into a dangerous world of historic abuse and murder.
19
Nowhere Man (1995)
★ 7.8/10Also mystery and drama
Thomas Veil is a documentary photographer who, in the course of one evening, seemingly has his whole existence erased...
20
A Touch of Frost (1992)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman…