If You Liked Ripper Street, Watch These Next
Finished Ripper Street (2012) 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 Ripper Street, most of them are drama, mystery, crime.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Jack the Ripper(1988)
7.0DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and mystery
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.
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2.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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3.Strike(2017)
7.3CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving complex crimes that have baffled the police. Based on the bestselling…
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4.Above Suspicion(2009)
7.0MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and crime
Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the male-dominated police department by solving a trail of gruesome murders left by an unknown serial killer. Each series is based on a novel by Lynda La Plante: Above Suspicion…
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5.Whitechapel(2009)
7.3CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Detective Inspector Chandler investigates copycat killers in London's East End.
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6.Cross(2024)
7.0CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.
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7.Peaky Blinders(2013)
8.5DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
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.
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8.Sherlock(2010)
8.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
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9.The Alienist(2018)
7.5DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
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10.Inspector Morse(1987)
7.9CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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11.Dalgliesh(2021)
6.7CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.
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12.56 Days(2026)
7.4DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
When an unidentified body is found in a luxury apartment linked to Oliver Kennedy and his girlfriend Ciara Wyse, Detectives Lee Reardon and Karl Connolly reconstruct the couple's deadly romance across the past 56 days.
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13.No Offence(2015)
7.5MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and crime
Keeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie – but there’s a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town. Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious murderers are all in a day’s work for this close-knit team, led by the…
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14.Gangs of London(2020)
7.8Action & AdventureDramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
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…
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15.The Irregulars(2021)
7.1DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and mystery
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…
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16.Luther(2010)
7.9CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
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.
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17.Killing Eve(2018)
7.9CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
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18.21 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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19.A Good Girl's Guide to Murder(2024)
7.5DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
Five years after the death of schoolgirl Andie Bell, Pippa Fitz-Amobi sets out to uncover what really happened to her. Sal Singh, Andie's boyfriend, admitted to the murder before taking his own life, but Pip doesn't believe he's responsible and teams up with Sal's brother Ravi to uncover the truth. If Sal Singh isn't…
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20.The Night Manager(2016)
7.7DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and mystery
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.
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