20 best shows like Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020)

List of the best shows and series like Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020): The Outsider, Supernatural, Sherlock, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, The Pembrokeshire Murders, Bloodlands, Briarpatch, Defending Jacob, The Pale Horse, The Mentalist.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.

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: 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: 6.1
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:40

      Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is a drama about the specialized International Division of the FBI tasked with solving crimes and coming to the rescue of Americans who find themselves in danger while abroad.

      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: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Dogged investigator Allegra Dill returns to her border-town Texas home after her sister is murdered. What begins as a search for a killer turns into an all-consuming fight to bring her corrupt hometown to its knees.

      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: 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: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryRussia

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      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryRussia

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      Markimdb: 8.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:00

      An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

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

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      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: 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: 7.5
      Genrecrime, detective
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom

      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 Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

      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: 8.5
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      In 1993, six months after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.

      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: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Factual drama based on the notorious White House Farm murders, and the ensuing police investigation and court case.

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      Genredrama
      CountryRussia

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      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, drama, crime, detective
      CountryFrance, USA

      Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, fantasy, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea

      When Dong Baek was a high school student, he suddenly gained a supernatural power. Whenever he touches somebody, he can read that person's memory. Dong Baek reveals his memory reading ability to people and he becomes a detective. He is gung-ho to catch as many criminals as possible. He encounters a mysterious serial murder case.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantasy, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      In Victorian London, a gang of troubled street teens are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySpain

      An accidental killing leads a man down a dark hole of intrigue and murder. Just as he finds love and freedom, one phone call brings back the nightmare.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain

      Zoe Walker leaves her quiet life behind to investigate her brother's disappearance in Ibiza, where she quickly heads down a decadent and dangerous path.

      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: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Two federal agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryPoland, USA

      Paul Copeland is looking to solve the murder of his sister back in 1994.

      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: 7.2
      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: 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: 7.4
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

      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: 6.6
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      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 want her nowhere near the case.

      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: 6.8
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySpain, Japan

      Ten scientists trapped in a mobile science laboratory at the South Pole realize that one among them is a killer.

      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: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Explore the intoxication of sexual attraction, the dangerous power of emotional manipulation, and how finding a volatile form of solace in another can have dire consequences as two conflicted coppers track down a pair of deadly killers.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      Resurrection is an American fantasy drama television series based on the book The Returned by Jason Mott that follows the residents of Arcadia, Missouri, whose lives are upended when their loved ones return from the dead, unaged since their deaths.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea

      The eccentric Oh Hyun Jae was a peerless criminal profiler until a bomb planted by a serial killer took the life of his young fiancée, causing him to become a recluse. When a serial killer long thought dead returns to terrorize the city, rising star of the police, Hwang Hwa Young, resolves to outwit the killer. To do so, she teams up with both Oh and the remarkable rookie cop Cha Soo Young, whose photographic memory may prove to be a powerful crime-fighting weapon.




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