Shows like Joan: 20 to watch next
If you loved Joan (2024) — a drama and crime series created by Anna Symon — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Joan most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like based on novel or book. 7 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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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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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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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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Hill Street Blues 1981★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, Crime
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
- 5
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
- 6
Smother 2021★ 6.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.
Stream in India on BBC Player Amazon Channel
- 7
Offspring 2010★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
- 8
The Couple Next Door 2023★ 5.9
Shares: Drama, Crime
Evie and Pete move into an upscale neighborhood and find themselves in a world of curtain twitching and status anxiety. They find friendship in the shape of the couple next door, alpha traffic cop Danny and his wife, glamorous yoga instructor Becka, but after Danny and Evie share a passionate night together there is trouble ahead.
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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Steal 2026★ 7.4
Shares: Drama, Crime
A typical day at Lochmill Capital is upended when armed thieves burst in and force Zara and her best friend Luke to execute their demands. In the aftermath, conflicted detective Rhys races against time to find out who stole £4 billion pounds of people's pensions and why.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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The Endgame 2022★ 7.4
Shares: Crime, Drama
A high-stakes thriller about Elena Federova, a very recently captured international arms dealer and brilliant criminal mastermind who even in captivity orchestrates a number of coordinated bank heists, and Val Turner, the principled, relentless and socially outcast FBI agent who will stop at nothing to foil her ambitious plan.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Jack Irish 2016★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Crime
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don’t want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Annika 2021★ 7.0
Shares: Crime, Drama
The sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the unexplained, brutal, and seemingly unfathomable murders.
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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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+
- 16
The Sister 2020★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, Crime
Almost a decade into his new devoted married life Nathan is rocked to the core when Bob, an unwelcome face from the past, turns up on his doorstep with shocking news, triggering a series of catastrophic decisions.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Payback 2023★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
Lexie Noble lives a great life on the outskirts of Edinburgh… until her husband is murdered. As she struggles to make sense of what happened, she learns he had been laundering money for notorious crime boss Cal Morris. As a partner in her late husband's accountancy firm, both Morris and the police will be interested in controlling her next moves.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Signora Volpe 2022★ 7.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
After years as an MI6 operative, Sylvia winds up in a village in Umbria visiting her sister Isabel and becomes involved in a murder investigation.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Parenthood 2010★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
Stream in India on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- 20
Tyler Perry's The Oval 2019★ 8.0
Shares: Drama
A seemingly perfect interracial first family becomes the White House's newest residents. But behind closed doors they unleash a torrent of lies, cheating and corruption.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now