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20 best shows like The Heavy (2010)

List of the best shows and series like The Heavy (2010): How to Get Away with Murder, Marvel's The Punisher, The Nevers, Mr. Robot, Utopia, Collateral, Sherlock, The Night Manager, Baptiste, Taboo.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair, a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:50

The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:59

When a pizza delivery driver is shot dead in south London, a tenacious detective goes after the people traffickers behind his murder and unravels a conspiracy that goes to the top.

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: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:37

    Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Julien Baptiste delves into the criminal underworld of Amsterdam's red light district and uncovers a complex web of deceit and lies.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:43

    Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:19

    To escape reality 17-year-old Leila turns to a secret virtual paradise. Her real journey begins when this digital Eden turns dark.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:42

    Freddie Jackson is released from prison in 1984 having served a four-year sentence for armed robbery. His wife Jackie, who has been waiting for him on the outside in the mistaken belief that that he wants to go straight, soon finds herself disappointed: Freddie is in fact raring to get back into the game and has set his sights on becoming top dog in the East End underworld.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:00

    Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family's past to return to threaten them, Alex is drawn into the criminal underworld and must confront his values to protect those he loves.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration00:22

    House of Anubis is a jointly Nickelodeon British, American, and Belgian mystery television series based on the Dutch-Belgian television series Het Huis Anubis aired in the Netherlands and Belgium. The series was created by Hans Bourlon and Gert Verhulst and premiered on Nickelodeon on New Year's Day 2011 in the United States and on 25 February 2011 in the United Kingdom. The series is the first Nickelodeon series to be filmed overseas, the first soap opera created by Nickelodeon and the channel's first soap opera aimed at children and teenagers. As of 25 February, the program will be broadcast on TeenNick. The show has since concluded its third season and as of 28 September 2013 Nickelodeon has not announced a fourth season.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    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 going to make them pay.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration03:06

    Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration00:30

    The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now a man shows up on their doorstep claiming Jack’s innocence. The family must come to terms with this news and the fact that the real killer might still be among them.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:46

    The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:02

    Fresh out of prison, world-class thief Daisy ”Jett” Kowalski is forced back into doing what she does best by dangerous and eccentric criminals determined to exploit her skills for their own ends.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada

    Grace, a morally and emotionally-conflicted undercover detective, is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s death. Grace’s search for the truth is further complicated by her forbidden relationship with Jimmy, the crime boss who may have played a hand in the crime.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and must find the real killer to clear his name.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:30

    Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts -- the improbably named Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen -- the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilization. Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die -- one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys' -- a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: '... and then there were none.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    The true story of a decades-long conflict between the Los Angeles Police Department, under the determined leadership of Police Chief William Parker, and ruthless criminal elements led by Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of L.A.'s criminal world. The series is a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and '50s. It's a world of glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads, returning war heroes, a powerful and corrupt police force and an even more dangerous criminal network determined to make L.A. its West Coast base.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:42

    Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the Cali/Mexi border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:29

    A serial killer thriller told in reverse, unravelling the truth behind a series of murders as DCI Gabriel Markham hunts down a brutal killer.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration00:45

    Members of a secret society chase immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Consumed by the mystery surrounding the donor heart that saved her life, a young patient starts taking on sinister characteristics of the deceased.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:29

    Comedy thriller about two well-meaning idiots who become entangled in a hideous world of crime, conspiracy and corruption.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    Horror stories told from the perspectives of multiple characters whose lives are affected by the Birch, a bloodthirsty monster deep in the woods. Once you summon her protection, you never escape.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:55

    CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:00

    Three-part crime thriller. When detective Marcus Farrow looks into a seemingly forgotten case, he has no idea of the chaos and heartache that will soon follow. He is found at the scene of a murder, and with all the evidence pointing towards him, he is arrested and charged.

    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
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
    Duration01:01

    The story of Jim Worth, an expat British police officer starting a new life with his family as police chief in Little Big Bear, an idyllic town near the Rocky Mountains. When his small town is overrun by migrant workers from a massive new oil refinery – the wave of drugs, prostitution and organised crime that follows them threatens to sweep away everything in its wake.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Soulful thriller set in Tokyo and London, exploring the butterfly effect of a single murder across two cities. A dark, witty and daring examination of morality and redemption.

    Markimdb: 8.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration00:53

    A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    On the surface Kitty, Margot, Bree and Olivia appear to have nothing in common - but there’s one passion which unites them: to expose injustice. They form their own secret society, DGM - they Don’t Get Mad, they Get Even - playing anonymous pranks to expose bullies.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A dedicated forensic psychiatrist, Emma Robertson, is assigned to assess the sanity of Connie Mortensen, a “yummy mummy” accused of a despicable crime.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration01:00

    The plot follows detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wasserman working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between France and the UK. They later learn that the killer—who comes to be nicknamed the "Truth Terrorist"—is on a moral crusade to highlight many social problems, terrorising both countries in the process

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryIsrael, USA, United Kingdom, Greece

    A Mossad agent embarks on her first mission as a computer hacker in her home town of Tehran.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration05:00

    On the surface William Travers is a picture of success. An accomplished criminal barrister happily living with his wife in rural Suffolk. However, Travers is still recovering from a traumatic series of events that have shaken his belief in the legal system.Reluctantly, he is drawn into a case that involves his old friend Martin Newall who faces conspiracy and murder charges while at the same time being investigated by a vicious and vengeful detective DS Mark Wenborn.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:55

    The beautiful Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, navigates the royal lineage of England with an eye on the throne.

    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: 8.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:00

    A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Italy
    Duration01:08

    A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Based on the Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    In the near future, an undercover Detective Inspector gunned down and killed during a botched sting is brought back via an experimental Artificial Intelligence project. Full of glitches, he’s got to track down the person who shot him, prove himself as a cop so as not to get shut down, and save his marriage and his friendship, all with his partner Carver to boot.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:58

    Daniel Demoys has gone from being an idealistic young man with a burning desire to make the world a better place, to a disillusioned and corrupt council official. His alcoholism has driven a wedge between him and his family. When Daniel wakes up after another drunken night, he realizes that he might be responsible for a murder. A dramatic act of redemption buys him public adoration, so much so that he has become a candidate in the race for Mayor, but as his public star rises ever higher and he tries to repair the damage done to his private life, he is painfully aware that it could all come crashing down at any moment.




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