20 best shows like Bangkok Hilton (1989)

List of the best shows and series like Bangkok Hilton (1989): Conspiracy 365, Mystery Road, The Secrets She Keeps, Pine Gap, Secrets & Lies, The Code, Reckoning, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Top of the Lake, Clickbait.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, drama, family
CountryAustralia
Duration00:49

Conspiracy 365 is a 12-part Australian television miniseries based on the novels written by Gabrielle Lord. Produced by Circa Media for Family Movie Channel, the series screened from January 2012. The series is based on a series of books written by Gabrielle Lord. It follows the adventures of Callum Ormond, a 15 year old who is forced to become a fugitive as he searches for the truth behind the death of a family member. The book series is in 14 installments, telling the story from January to December, and then Callum's story following the twelfth installment and Winter's story following Callum's. The television series screens in 12 one hour episodes throughout the year, one episode each month. It is supported by an interactive website with games, puzzles, photographs, behind the scene photographs and information, messages and videos from the characters. The series airs exclusively to FMC on the first Saturday of every month in 2012, and the following day the episode is available to download on iTunes or rent from BigPond Movies. Previous episodes are already available for download or rent online. Viewers can sign up to iTunes for a complete season pass download to own all 12 episodes.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryAustralia

When there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate. Working with local cop Emma James, Jay’s investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryAustralia

A chance encounter between two pregnant women in a supermarket just outside of Sydney.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryAustralia

A team of talented Australian and American intelligence analysts work together to ensure global stability in one of the world's most important and secretive joint intelligence facilities... Pine Gap. But the relationship between the Australian and American intelligence analysts working at Pine Gap isn’t always rosy.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryAustralia

A man who finds the body of a young boy quickly becomes the prime murder suspect, putting his life and his family at risk.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryAustralia

The Code is a drama series which tells tells the story of two brothers who discover some information that those at the highest levels of political power are determined to keep secret.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryAustralia, USA

The murder of a teenager and the hunt for a serial killer in a suburban Northern California town sets two fathers on a course of mutual destruction that will reverberate through their quiet community. Starring Sam Trammell and Aden Young.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryAustralia
Duration00:30

Valentine's Day, 1900. Three schoolgirls and their governess mysteriously disappear in Hanging Rock, Australia, without a trace.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, USA
Duration05:00

A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryAustralia, USA

When family man Nick Brewer is abducted in a crime with a sinister online twist, those closest to him race to uncover who is behind it and why.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration04:27

Stephanie Harper is rich but insecure 40 year old heiress with two failed marriages behind her. Stephanie believes that she has found true love with tennis pro Greg Marsden, but after the wedding, Greg promptly begins an affair with Stephanie’s best friend Jilly Stewart. Whilst on their honeymoon, Greg pushes Stephanie into a crocodile-infested swamp, and he and Jilly watch as she is apparently mauled to death. However, Stephanie miraculously survives and goes to an island clinic where she meets Dr. Dan Marshall, a brilliant plastic surgeon who uses his talents to repair her face and body. Using her new identity and fortune, she plots her revenge on Greg and Jilly and aims to take back what is rightfully hers.

Markimdb: 8.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountrySerbia

A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryFinland, Germany, France
Duration01:29

When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom

English student Ophelia falls in love with her married lecturer, seeing in him all the answers to her needs. When their affair is interrupted by a shocking and tragic death, Ophelia finds herself trapped in a world where she can no longer trust her own mind.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryBrazil
Duration00:45

Eduardo Borges is a young man above all suspicion: handsome, smart, and sensitive. However, his perfect man appearance is simply a mask that covers up his fearsome personality: a dangerous psychopath behind a number of crimes that have caught the police’s attention. A cold, conniving, and callous criminal; a serial killer who kills purely out of pleasure.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama
CountryMexico

When a hacker begins releasing students' secrets to the entire high school, the socially isolated but observant Sofía works to uncover his/her identity.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountrySweden

Set in a parallel universe, Real Humans imagines a world where robots have become so human that they're barely distinguishable from real humans and follows the resulting emotional effects on two families as well as the trials of a group of robots who have attained free will and want their freedom from human ownership.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

A gripping drama following a tense police surveillance investigation into a tight knit Manchester community and explores whether it is ever possible to observe the lives of others with true objectivity and zero effect.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrethriller, comedy, drama
CountryUSA

To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia
Duration00:40

The disappearance of a baby from a small coastal town in Australia is the catalyst for a journey into the disintegrating psychology of a young couple as they deal with an unthinkable tragedy under both the white light of public scrutiny and behind closed doors.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, Canada

R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour anthology by R. L. Stine.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration01:30

When a dark secret from this past threatens to be exposed, unorthodox and brilliant medical examiner, Doctor Daniel Harrow, must use all his forensic skills to keep it buried forever.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:59

Max is a charismatic self-made American businessman with media outlets in London and around the world. When the self-destructive lifestyle of his 30 year-old son, Caden, spirals out of control, the devastating consequences threaten the future of the family, its empire, and a country on the brink of change.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

A three-part drama set in the trauma unit of a London hospital, a grieving father blames a high-achieving trauma consultant for the death of his teenage son.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:31

Detective dramas featuring private investigator Cormoran Strike based on the novels by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling's pen name).

Markimdb: 8.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryRomania

Relu is a family man. He has two children, a wife and a double life. Seen through the eyes of his family, Relu Oncescu appears to be an ordinary taxi driver. No one suspects that Relu works as a collector for Capitanu', a local mobster. Neither of the two worlds (his family and the mafia) knows of the other's existence. Relu manages to keep everything under control, but not for long. After accidentally killing a man, he tries to get out of the underworld, but he can't find his way back. Day by day, the secrets he keeps become increasingly oppressive and the lies begin to surface, one by one.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryGermany
Duration01:05

In 1990s Berlin, an artist and a hacker invented a new way to see the world. Years later, they reunite to sue Google for patent infringement on it.

Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA

When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.

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Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
CountryRussia, Ukraine
Duration00:49

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Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama
CountryGermany
Duration02:08

Lukas Franke finds himself a victim of a hacking attack, his online information altered to implicate him as having masterminded a cyber-attack on Berlin resulting in a city-wide blackout. Suspected as a terrorist, Lukas scrambles to find out why he's been targeted, as even his family and friends begin to doubt his innocence.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, adventure, crime
CountryEgypt

A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:58

When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:00

The journey of Jean Holloway – a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:00

Working for the FBI's Deep Cover Operations division, Martin Odum can transform himself into a different person -- whether it's an assignment as a Serbian extremist, a corrupt Chicago police officer, a British special forces colonel, or a legendary computer hacker. But when he learns that his life, itself, may be a lie, he faces the demands of his job and a desire to solve the mystery of his identity. And given the choice between the two, Odum doesn't always make the right decision. From the producers of "Homeland," "Legends" is based on Robert Littell's award-winning book.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography, history
CountryColombia

Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal is a 2012 Colombian television series produced and broadcast on Caracol TV, about the life of Pablo Escobar. It is only available in Spanish. There is a version available with English subtitles.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:00

When Washington's most powerful players are pulled into an international conspiracy, an unlikely puppeteer will bring everyone from CEOs to The President of the United States to their knees by threatening the things they hold most dear.




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