Shows Like Broadchurch

The Short Answer

1. 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. (BritBox)
2. 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. (BritBox)
3. 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. (BritBox)
4. 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. (BritBox)
5. 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. (PBS Masterpiece)
6. 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. (PBS Masterpiece)