If You Liked Top of the Lake, Watch These Next
Finished Top of the Lake (2013) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Top of the Lake, most of them are crime, drama, mystery.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Law & Order: Special Victims Unit(1999)
8.0CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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2.Motive(2013)
6.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A team of Vancouver investigators, led by homicide detective Angie Flynn, sets out to uncover the motive of each puzzling murder by discovering the killer's connection to the victim. Viewers get a glimpse of the killer before and after the crime is committed.
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3.Prime Suspect(1991)
7.8CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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4.Last Seen(2026)
8.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
When emergency dispatcher Ian Ridley receives a frantic call from a teenager he believes could be his long-missing daughter, he stops at nothing to find her.
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5.Gone(2026)
6.6CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
When a headmaster's wife goes missing, suspicion falls on him. Is he hiding something, or is there more to this case than meets the eye?
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6.The Missing(2014)
7.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.
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7.Marcella(2016)
6.9CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Marcella is shocked to the core of her being when her husband Jason leaves her unexpectedly, confessing he no longer loves her. Heartbroken, Marcella returns to the Met’s Murder Squad. Ten years ago Marcella gave up her fast-tracked police career to marry and devote her life to her family. With the abrupt end to her…
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8.The Killing(2011)
7.8DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.
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9.Alert: Missing Persons Unit(2023)
7.5DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
When police officer Nikki Batista’s son goes missing, she joins the Philadelphia Police Department's Missing Person’s Unit (MPU) to help other people find their loved ones, even as she searches for her own. Six years later, her world is turned upside-down when her ex-husband, Jason Grant, a former police officer,…
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10.Mare of Easttown(2021)
8.2DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
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11.Crime(2021)
6.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl while battling cocaine addiction and a mental breakdown.
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12.Grotesquerie(2024)
7.3DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and mystery
A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.
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13.Miss Scarlet(2020)
7.3DramaMysteryCrimeAlso 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 Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in…
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14.Cold Case(2003)
7.7CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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15.21 Jump Street(1987)
7.3CrimeMysteryDramaAlso crime and mystery
21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.
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16.Cardinal(2017)
6.9CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation by his new partner, Lise Delorme, a tough investigator in her own right.
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17.Whitstable Pearl(2021)
6.7CrimeMysteryAlso crime and mystery
With her son grown up, single mom Pearl Nolan decides to pursue her lifelong dream and launches a private detective agency, which she runs from her family's restaurant in the coastal town of Whitstable. Drawn by her caring nature, locals soon flock to her with all manner of cases. But when an old friend dies…
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18.Waking the Dead(2001)
7.2CrimeMysteryDramaAlso crime and mystery
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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19.Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries(2019)
6.9MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and crime
In swinging 60’s Melbourne, gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea. Peregrine must prove herself brilliant enough to become a world class private detective in her own right.
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20.Shades of Blue(2016)
7.2DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Sexy New York detective and single mother Harlee Santos fell in with a tight-knit group of dirty cops, taking bribes and protection money that she uses to provide the best life for her honest, talented daughter. But when she's trapped by the FBI and forced to inform on her own "brothers," she'll have to walk the fine…
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