Shows Like Captive

If you liked Captive (2026), 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.

1
Bad Girls (1999)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime
Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout…
2
Unspeakable Sins (2025)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
A woman starts an affair with a male escort to get revenge on her controlling husband, but the plan spirals into a dangerous fight for survival when it leads to a crime scene with her husband missing and her lover on…
3
La piloto (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
Yolanda dreamed her entire life of being a pilot. She found a stewardess job, and an unexpected role in drug smuggling.
4
La jauría (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and crime
Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their…
5
The Patient (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime
A psychotherapist finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges.
6
The Red Line (2019)
★ 7/10Also drama and crime
A heart-in-your-throat drama, Red Line begins with the mistaken shooting of a black doctor at the hands of a white cop and unfolds from the perspective of each of the families connected to the tragedy. It's a…
7
El Inmortal: Gangs of Madrid (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and crime
Consists of the fictionalization of the story of 'Los Miami's', a criminal organization led by 'El inmortal' that controlled the cocaine trade in Madrid in the 1990s.
8
Broken Promises (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and crime
Persuaded by promises of a better life, three young women are sold into prostitution and must risk their lives and their families to escape.
9
Caught (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and crime
Known for catching criminals, famed reporter Ema Garay faces a dilemma when the suspect in a teen's disappearance turns out to be someone close to her.
10
Metástasis (2014)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama
A Colombian remake of the U.S. TV show Breaking Bad. After he is diagnosed with cancer, Walter Blanco teams up with José Miguel Rosas in order to sell crystal meth.
11
Rosario Tijeras (Mexico) (2016)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and crime
Worlds collide when a vengeance-obsessed young woman from the other side of the tracks captures the attention of two well-off friends.
12
Good Behavior (2016)
★ 7/10Also drama and crime
Letty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife…
13
Painkiller (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and crime
The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.
14
Capadocia (2008)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and crime
Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series. It started on March 2, 2008 and its second season was planned for 2010.
15
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…
16
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…
17
Hidden Assets (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and crime
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in…
18
Wentworth (2013)
★ 8/10Also drama and crime
Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
19
El Chema (2016)
★ 7.7/10Also crime and drama
Follow one man's epic journey as he transforms from wily underage drug smuggler to one of the world's most infamous cartel leaders.
20
Suspicion (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
Four ordinary Brits are accused of kidnapping the son of a prominent U.S. media mogul. They embark on a desperate race against time to prove their innocence, but will anyone believe them—and are they telling the truth?