Shows like Four Lives: 20 to watch next
If you loved Four Lives (2022) — a crime and drama series created by David Blair — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Four Lives most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like london, england, sexual abuse and based on true story. 6 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 2002★ 7.4
Shares: Crime, Drama
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Des 2020★ 7.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men, the series explores the personal and professional consequences of coming into contact with a man like Nilsen.
Stream in India on Vrott Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon MX Player
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Scream: The TV Series 2015★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Crime
What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Burden of Truth 2018★ 7.4
Shares: Drama, Crime
A big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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Murder in a Small Town 2024★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Crime
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his shore.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Tower 2021★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Crime
A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Bill 1984★ 6.8
Shares: Crime, Drama
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Dalziel and Pascoe 1996★ 6.4
Shares: Crime, Drama
In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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London Kills 2019★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Crime
With a documentary style delivery, this drama tells the story of a team of top murder detectives with each episode featuring a different murder while also following a serialized story involving the lead detective’s missing wife.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Crow Girl 2025★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Crime
DCI Jeanette Kilburn and eminent psychotherapist Dr. Sophia Craven join forces to hunt the killer of young men. The investigation takes Jeanette and Sophia into a dangerous world of historic abuse and murder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Thorne 2010★ 6.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
DI Tom Thorne finds himself dragged back into the nightmares of his past as he races against time to find a serial killer who carries out unusual attacks on young women.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Long Shadow 2023★ 7.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Murdoch Mysteries 2008★ 7.7
Shares: Drama
A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Heartstopper 2022★ 8.6
Shares: Drama
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Karen Pirie 2022★ 6.9
Shares: Crime, Drama
When a 25-year-old murder in St Andrews becomes the subject of a provocative true-crime podcast, DS Karen Pirie is tasked with heading up a review. Digging up the past, Karen uncovers fresh evidence and a potential perpetrator. But when suspects start coming under attack, the cold case turns into an active investigation. Can Karen find the killer before it’s too late?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Agatha Christie's Marple 2004★ 7.9
Shares: Drama, Crime
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
Stream in India on VI movies and tv
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Carl Weber's The Family Business 2018★ 8.5
Shares: Drama, Crime
Meet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens. By day, they’re an upstanding family; by night, they live a dangerous secret life.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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The Rainmaker 2025★ 7.8
Shares: Drama
Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head to head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend, Sarah. Rudy, along with his boss, Bruiser, and her disheveled paralegal, Deck, uncovers two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client's son.
Stream in India on Netflix, Movie Sphere+
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Castle 2009★ 8.0
Shares: Drama, Crime
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Coroner 2019★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Crime
Jenny Cooper investigates unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and quick-witted, Jenny is a newly-widowed single mother with secrets of her own to unearth.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now