Best European drama series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch drama shows from Europe, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

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    Sherlock 2010

    A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

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  • Poster for Black Mirror

    Black Mirror 2011

    Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

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  • Poster for Dark

    Dark 2017

    A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.

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  • Poster for Peaky Blinders

    Peaky Blinders 2013

    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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  • Poster for Money Heist

    Money Heist 2017

    To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.

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  • Poster for Doctor Who

    Doctor Who 2005

    The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

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  • Poster for Sex Education

    Sex Education 2019

    Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.

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  • Poster for The End of the F***ing World

    The End of the F***ing World 2017

    James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.

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  • Poster for Fleabag

    Fleabag 2016

    A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.

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  • Poster for Adolescence

    Adolescence 2025

    When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?

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  • Poster for The Crown

    The Crown 2016

    The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

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  • Poster for Downton Abbey

    Downton Abbey 2010

    A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

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  • Poster for Misfits

    Misfits 2009

    When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.

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  • Poster for Luther

    Luther 2010

    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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  • Poster for Lupin

    Lupin 2021

    Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.

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  • Poster for Bodyguard

    Bodyguard 2018

    A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.

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  • Poster for The Last Kingdom

    The Last Kingdom 2015

    A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.

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  • Poster for Merlin

    Merlin 2008

    The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.

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  • Poster for Broadchurch

    Broadchurch 2013

    The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

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  • Poster for Baby Reindeer

    Baby Reindeer 2024

    When a struggling comedian shows one act of kindness to a vulnerable woman, it sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their lives.

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  • Poster for Taboo

    Taboo 2017

    Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

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  • Poster for After Life

    After Life 2019

    Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.

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  • Poster for His Dark Materials

    His Dark Materials 2019

    Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.

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  • Poster for Slow Horses

    Slow Horses 2022

    Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

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  • Poster for The Night Manager

    The Night Manager 2016

    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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  • Poster for The Gentlemen

    The Gentlemen 2024

    When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to an enormous weed empire — and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.

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  • Poster for The Fall

    The Fall 2013

    When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.

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  • Poster for Elite

    Elite 2018

    When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

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  • Poster for Skins

    Skins 2007

    Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

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  • Poster for The Day of the Jackal

    The Day of the Jackal 2024

    An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.

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  • Poster for 1899

    1899 2022

    When mysterious events change the course of an immigrant ship headed for New York in 1899, a mind-bending riddle unfolds for its bewildered passengers.

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  • Poster for Utopia

    Utopia 2013

    The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.

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  • Poster for Torchwood

    Torchwood 2006

    The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

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  • Poster for Heartstopper

    Heartstopper 2022

    Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.

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  • Poster for Humans

    Humans 2015

    In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.

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  • Poster for Hijack

    Hijack 2023

    When Flight KA29 is hijacked during its seven-hour journey from Dubai to London, Sam Nelson—an accomplished corporate negotiator—tries using his professional skills to save everyone on board. Will this high-risk strategy be his undoing?

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  • Poster for Derry Girls

    Derry Girls 2018

    Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.

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  • Poster for Normal People

    Normal People 2020

    Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.

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  • Poster for Fate: The Winx Saga

    Fate: The Winx Saga 2021

    The coming-of-age journey of five fairies attending Alfea, a magical boarding school in the Otherworld where they must learn to master their powers while navigating love, rivalries, and the monsters that threaten their very existence.

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  • Poster for A Discovery of Witches

    A Discovery of Witches 2018

    Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.

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  • Poster for How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)

    How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) 2019

    To win back his ex-girlfriend, a nerdy teen starts selling ecstasy online out of his bedroom -- and becomes one of Europe's biggest dealers.

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  • Poster for The Bridge

    The Bridge 2011

    When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

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  • Poster for The Rain

    The Rain 2018

    After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.

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  • Poster for Dracula

    Dracula 2020

    Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.

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  • Poster for Bodies

    Bodies 2023

    One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.

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  • Poster for Ragnarok

    Ragnarok 2020

    A small Norwegian town experiencing warm winters and violent downpours seems to be headed for another Ragnarök -- unless someone intervenes in time.

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  • Poster for Line of Duty

    Line of Duty 2012

    A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

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  • Poster for Gangs of London

    Gangs of London 2020

    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 responsible for killing his father.

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  • Poster for Behind Her Eyes

    Behind Her Eyes 2021

    A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.

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  • Poster for Unorthodox

    Unorthodox 2020

    A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians -- until her past comes calling.

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  • Poster for Dept. Q

    Dept. Q 2025

    A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

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  • Poster for Strike Back

    Strike Back 2010

    The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

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  • Poster for Fool Me Once

    Fool Me Once 2024

    When ex-soldier Maya sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep into the past.

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  • Poster for Happy Valley

    Happy Valley 2014

    Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.

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  • Poster for The Young Pope

    The Young Pope 2016

    Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.

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  • Poster for Doctor Who

    Doctor Who 1963

    The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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  • Poster for KAOS

    KAOS 2024

    As discord reigns on Mount Olympus and almighty Zeus spirals into paranoia, three mortals are destined to reshape the future of humankind.

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  • Poster for Safe

    Safe 2018

    After his daughter goes missing, a widower begins uncovering the dark secrets of the people closest to him.

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  • Poster for And Then There Were None

    And Then There Were None 2015

    Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts -- the improbably named Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen -- the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilization. Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die -- one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys' -- a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: '... and then there were none.

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  • Poster for Gomorra

    Gomorra 2014

    Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of the clan's godfather, Pietro Savastano.

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  • Poster for Years and Years

    Years and Years 2019

    As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could change the world.

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  • Poster for Young Royals

    Young Royals 2021

    Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.

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  • Poster for Berlin

    Berlin 2023

    During his glory days, Berlin and a gang assembled in Paris for one of his greatest plans ever: stealing 44 million euros' worth of jewels in one night.

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  • Poster for My Mad Fat Diary

    My Mad Fat Diary 2013

    Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.

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  • Poster for The Chestnut Man

    The Chestnut Man 2021

    At a grisly murder scene sits a figurine made of chestnuts. From this creepy clue, two detectives hunt a killer linked to a politician's missing child.

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  • Poster for Locked Up

    Locked Up 2015

    Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.

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