Series about whalers

Series about whalers
List of the best TV series about whalers selected by visitors of our site: The North Water, Who Killed Sara?, The Magicians, Into the Night, Rise of Empires: Ottoman, Most Dangerous Game, Chikatilo, Snowpiercer, The English Game, The Terror.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, adventure, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada

Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryMexico

Hell-bent on exacting revenge and proving he was framed for his sister's murder, Álex sets out to unearth much more than the crime's real culprit.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:33

Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryBelgium

When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredrama, documentary, military, history

Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUSA

Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he soon discovers that he’s not the hunter… but the prey.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 7
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
CountryUSA

Set more than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, history, sport
CountryUnited Kingdom

Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide navigate professional and personal turmoil to change the game — and England — forever.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:37

The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil, this saga explores an exciting mix of the supernatural and the combustible reality of 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension.

Markimdb: 9.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:30

    A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:52

    Spartacus is an American television series inspired by the historical figure of Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who from 73 to 71 BCE led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic departing from Capua.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA

    A group of teen girls from different backgrounds must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep, and the traumas they've all endured. But there’s just one twist… these girls did not end up on this island by accident.

    Markimdb: 8.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA, Colombia, Mexico
    Duration02:13

    The true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    The story of Ben Clemens, who after 32 years as a border patrol agent is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of the United States. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question his black and white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryItaly, USA, United Kingdom, France, Spain

    A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    When a seemingly perfect and happy family is murdered by someone they knew and trusted, cracks appear on the surface of a supposedly idyllic community.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their regimented society on a collision course with forbidden love and revolution.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A family’s lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.

    Markimdb: 8.7
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    A psychopath’s ruthless serial murders have left the entire nation gripped with fear and chaos. A honest and justice-seeking rookie police officer and a veteran detective with tragic past, face against the killer. After the encounter with the psychopath, their lives totally change.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, crime, detective, history
    CountryFrance

    Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    The parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th century America.

    Markimdb: 8.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:00

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryGermany, Denmark, Poland

    A deadly virus hits a small community living on an island in the North Sea.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:00

    Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryIsrael, USA

    A happily married man's life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident in Tel Aviv. Grief-stricken and confused, he searches for his wife's killers, who have fled to the U.S. With the help of an ex-lover, he uncovers disturbing truths about his beloved wife and the secrets she kept from him.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryBrazil

    An environmental police officer uncovers a hidden world of mythological entities from Brazilian folklore when he finds a connection between the mysterious appearance of a dead river dolphin on a Rio de Janeiro beach and the death of his beloved wife.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life. The following characters are instrumental to his struggle: Stiles, his best friend; Allison, his love interest who comes from a family of werewolf hunters; and Derek, a mysterious werewolf with a dark past. Throughout the series, he strives to keep his loved ones safe while maintaining normal relationships with them.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    With better luck, better choices, better posture...Josh Corman could’ve been a rock star. Now he teaches fifth grade, and though he loves his students, he still struggles to find happiness and meaning in a world that sometimes feels short on both.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryRussia

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    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredocumentary, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    An exploration of the case of the Golden State Killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s, committing 50 sexual assaults and 10 murders, and true crime author Michelle McNamara's obsessive quest to find justice on behalf of his victims.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecrime, detective
    CountryAustria, Germany

    Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does, he begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his mission and asking the big life questions like: “Are human beings worth saving?” and “Why do they fold their pizza before eating it?”

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryRussia

    After faking his own death, notorious gangster Volkov (Wolf) retires overseas with a new identity. When his parents die in a car accident 20 years later, he secretly returns to his hometown and learns that the nephew of a local mobster is responsible for his parents’ death. After killing the man, a battle between the old-newcomer and local crime bosses unfolds.

    Markimdb: 8.8
    Genreaction, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration05:59

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    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    The terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a flourishing Dallas neurosurgeon whose patients suddenly begin becoming permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow physicians set out to stop him.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA

    In a close-knit Georgia community, a family-owned wrestling promotion finds two brothers and rivals war over their late father’s legacy. In the ring, somebody must play the good guy and somebody must play their nemesis, the heel. But in the real world, those characters can be hard to live up to (and just as hard to leave behind).

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, action, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    An unfathomable incident introduces a genius engineer to dangerous secrets of the world — and to a woman from the future who's come looking for him.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryItaly, France, United Kingdom

    After being implicated in a deadly scandal, a trader at a leading London bank fights to clear his name, but instead uncovers an intercontinental conspiracy masterminded by powerful forces operating in the shadows.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins investigating and is drawn to the The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumored witches living in a small village. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using dark arts.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration00:43

      When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecrime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage. L.A. is booming while the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression — but a kidnapping gone very wrong leads to Mason exposing a fractured city as he uncovers the truth of the crime.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountrySouth Korea

      Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games—with high stakes. But, a tempting prize awaits the victor.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
      CountryIsrael, USA

      Daniel Garcia is working in the family bakery and doing everything that his loving Cuban parents and siblings expect him to do. But on a wild Miami night he meets Noa Hamilton, an international superstar and fashion mogul, and his life moves into the spotlight. Will this unlikely couple upend their lives to be together and pull their families into a culture clash?




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