Shows Like Broadchurch

Happy Valley

A West Yorkshire police sergeant confronts the man who devastated her family — the same raw emotional intensity and morally complex characters that made Broadchurch more than a whodunit.

The Fall

Gillian Anderson's Belfast detective hunts a killer whose ordinary family-man facade is as unsettling as anything in Broadchurch — a tense, psychologically dense mystery with real emotional stakes.

Little Boy Blue

Stephen Graham leads this dramatization of the real 2007 murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Liverpool — perhaps the closest match here to Broadchurch's portrait of a whole community fractured by grief.

This one's a complete miniseries — four episodes.

Wallander

Kenneth Branagh's brooding Swedish detective investigates brutal crimes in a quiet coastal town — a BBC production with the same slow-burn, character-first approach and stunning, atmospheric setting as Broadchurch.

This one's ended — four series, complete.

Unforgotten

A cold case unit unravels decades-old crimes with real emotional weight — quieter than Broadchurch, but built from the same conviction that every character, however minor, deserves a full story.

Grantchester

A crime-solving vicar and his detective friend investigate murders that ripple through a small Cambridgeshire community — gentler than Broadchurch, but sharing its interest in how a crime affects everyone around it.