Shows Like Taboo

If you liked Taboo (2017), 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.

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Miss Scarlet (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and mystery
When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the…
2
Peaky Blinders (2013)
★ 8.5/10Also drama
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
3
MobLand (2025)
★ 8.6/10Also drama
Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.
4
Strike (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and mystery
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…
5
Ripper Street (2012)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and mystery
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in…
6
Revenge (2011)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mystery
When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's…
7
Killing Eve (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
8
Indian Summers (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
Epic drama set in the summer of 1932 where India dreams of independence, but the British are clinging to power. Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells…
9
State of Play (2003)
★ 7.5/10Also mystery and drama
The murder of Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to uncover complex links between government and big business.
10
Harlots (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
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Vigil (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre…
12
Black Sails (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking…
13
A Thousand Blows (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and…
14
Black Doves (2024)
★ 7/10Also mystery
When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.
15
Dracula (2020)
★ 7/10Also drama
Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
16
Sterling Point (2026)
★ 8.2/10Also mystery and drama
After discovering she's inherited a remote island in Canada from the estranged grandfather she was never allowed to meet, 17-year-old Annie Jacobson decides to investigate, pulling her into a world of buried secrets…
17
City on Fire (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery
A college student is shot in Central Park on July 4, 2003. The investigation connects a series of mysterious citywide fires, the downtown music scene, and a wealthy uptown real estate family fraying under the strain of…
18
Down Cemetery Road (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and mystery
When a child goes missing in the aftermath of a house explosion, a concerned neighbor teams up with a private investigator to find them. As secrets unravel and a military conspiracy emerges, all hell is unleashed on…
19
Above Suspicion (2009)
★ 7/10Also mystery and drama
Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the male-dominated police department by solving a trail of gruesome murders…
20
The Buccaneers (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama
A group of fun-loving American girls burst onto the scene in tightly corseted 1870s London, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and status, the buccaneers' hearts are set on much more…