Best European suspense series

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

  • Poster for The Irregulars

    The Irregulars 2021

    In Victorian London, a gang of troubled street teens are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.

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  • Poster for The Åre Murders

    The Åre Murders 2025

    A Stockholm detective under internal investigation heads to a ski resort to unwind, until a young girl's disappearance compels her back to work.

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  • Poster for Nightsleeper

    Nightsleeper 2024

    Set on a sleeper train traveling from Glasgow to London, a government agency desperately tries to intervene in the rapidly-escalating events onboard. Can two people who've never met, one on the train and one not, work together to save the lives of its disparate group of passengers as the Heart of Britain service hurtles towards what might quite literally be its final destination?

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  • Poster for Fifteen-Love

    Fifteen-Love 2023

    A former tennis prodigy makes an explosive allegation against her former coach. After the allegation, everyone is forced to reconsider what they thought they knew about their past success.

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  • Poster for Dead Hot

    Dead Hot 2024

    5 years ago, Elliot came home to find his soulmate Peter had vanished—with nothing left behind but his finger in a puddle of blood. Still living with Peter's twin Jess, they don't know if he ran away, was kidnapped or worse. Elliot tries moving on, and after a magical date with wonderful Will, that seems possible. But when shit hits the fan, Elliot and Jess know they need to find out the truth.

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  • Poster for Blindspot

    Blindspot 2023

    Hannah Quinn, who works monitoring the CCTV on a rough estate, sets off to solve a murder that she witnesses.

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  • Black Spot 2017

    A police chief and an eccentric new prosecutor investigate a string of grisly crimes and eerie phenomena in an isolated town at the edge of a forest.

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  • Poster for Secret Smile

    Secret Smile 2005

    After Miranda Cotton breaks off her affair with the manipulative Brendan Block, she and her family become targets of his depraved revenge scheme.

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  • Los Archivos del Cardenal 2011

    Los Archivos del Cardenal is a fictional series, but based on real events.The series tells the story of lawyer Ramon Sarmiento (Benjamin Vicuna) and the social worker Laura Pedregal (Daniel Ramirez), both employees of the Vicariate of Solidarity, an organization founded by Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez and whose mission was to defend the human rights during the military dictatorship in Chile, between 1973 and 1990. In this institution social workers were tasked with receiving political refugees and their family members, especially the disappeared. Subsequently, the lawyers had the job of bringing legal action as habeas corpus which sought to protect people.The series starts with Ramon Sarmiento, a lawyer and member of an upper class family who had suffered expropriation of their farms during the Agrarian Reform of Eduardo Frei. Researching for the occurrence of bones on a farm near you, Pedregal meets Laura Sarmiento, who works at the Vicarage with his father, Carlos Pedregal (Alejandro Trejo). Together they begin to engage in the stories of those persecuted by the security agents of the dictatorship, as the National Intelligence Agency, under the leadership of Christian vicar (Francisco Melo), inspiring role in the story of Father Cristián Precht.

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  • Ant Middleton & Liam Payne: Straight Talking 2019

    Former Special Forces soldier Ant Middleton invites pop star Liam Payne to take part in the journey - and interview - of a lifetime in Namibia.

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  • Delook & Sharpy 1999

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  • The Hunt for the Hidden Relic 2002

    During some excavations in Israel, some archaeologists found the skeleton of a man who according to early indications are 2000 years.But the finding is even more surprising when found in the tomb also buried a bag containing a video camera manual.Everything indicates that the skeleton is of course a time traveler with a mission to shoot a video of Jesus of Nazareth.

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  • 15 Days 2018

    This Drama starts with a brutal murder - before rewinding back the 15 Days to find out why, how, and most importantly, who was responsible.

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  • Zé Gato 1979

    Zé Gato is a tough cop who tries to catch the various criminals, for this task he has the help of his boss an ex-con and a retired cop.

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  • Mafia Game In Prison 2019

    Mafia Game in Prison is a variety show where the cast members will divide themselves into different teams and play various games to find the hidden “mafia” member. Cast: Kim Tae Jin, Lee Soo Geun, Jung Hyung Don, Hwang Jae Sung, Jang Do Yeon, Lee Sang Yeob, Kim Jong Min, SEVENTEEN’s Seungkwan, IZ*ONE’s Choi Ye Na and GOT7's JB

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  • Whines & Spirits 2008

    Karl Beattie and Stuart Torevell hunt far and wide in search of Britain’s creepiest and most haunted pubs and hostelries. There are spooky goings on with terrifying outcomes in which one venue shall be crowned ‘Britain’s Scariest Pub’.

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  • Kokkino Nifiko 2017

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  • 99 lugares donde pasar miedo 2019

    Los pasadizos oscuros, los cementerios y los castillos suelen dar lugar a historias fantasmales que se transmiten de generación en generación. Lorenzo Fernández Bueno recorrerá los lugares más terroríficos del planeta en compañía de rostros conocidos como el cómico Dani Rovira, los cantantes Ana Guerra y Roi Méndez y el actor Fernando Tejero.

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  • Poster for Die nettesten Menschen der Welt

    Die nettesten Menschen der Welt 2023

    Inspired by popular suspense short stories and anthology series like "The Twilight Zone," "The Nicest People in the World" confronts us with the supernatural and tackles the issues of our time in an exciting, frightening and satirical way. The teenager Lill runs like a ghostly thread through the four seemingly self-contained stories. But what do a crossbow, a manga comic and a video game have to do with it?

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  • Kattenoog 2015

    Kattenoog, a small and characteristic village on the edge of a mysterious lake. A horror mystery has reigned in the village for years, for which the Horror Club was created. Their job is clear: to protect the village and its inhabitants from witches, vampires, werewolves and other scum that are after the Cat's Eye, a mysterious witch stone with magical powers hidden on the Cat's Eye Island. But that doesn't go without a fight… The Cat's Eye legend is keeping Max, the star of the online horror channel BOE tv, busy. Together with his cameraman Boris and brand new co-host Daphne, he heads to the mysterious village to unravel the secret of the magical stone… Is the legend true or false?

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  • Kommissar Marthaler 2012

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  • Malika 2018

    One girl who attends her cousin wedding, and a loud explosion, one of them dies and the other takes on her personality and lives in tension and anxiety.

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  • The Mind Beyond 1976

    The Mind Beyond was a BBC2 supernatural anthology television series which ran from September to November 1976. An anthology of plays looking at paranormal phenomena from different perspectives

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  • Crime College 2019

    In 'Crime College', the investigative leaders of the police, the prosecutors and forensic specialists led by Rick Nieman explain in detail for once how they managed to solve a sensational case, and answer questions from the public. The program shows many never-before-seen photos and evidence from the police file, including original parts from the bombs.

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  • Sweet Swan of Avon: Shakespeare's Hidden Codes 2009

    Was William Shakespeare really one of the greatest authors of the times? The Norwegian organist Petter Amundsen has found a system of codes that can change everything we know about William Shakespeare.

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  • Mystery in Paris 2011

    Follows a series of ghastly murders that occur in the most iconic places in the City of Light, centering around the women of the Belle-époque.

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  • Vid Vintergatans slut 2010

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  • Jakten På En Mördare 1998

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  • The Forbidden Files 1988

    Les Documents Interdits (The Forbidden Files) is a series of 13 short films written, directed, and produced by Jean-Teddy Filippe. These short films are among the first precursors of what is commonly known today as found footage. Distributed by MBA Films and ARTE France/La Sept. The broadcast of the pilot was on Antenne 2. See more at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Documents_interdits

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  • Murder Must Advertise 1974

    When one of the copy writers of Pym's Advertising Agency meets his death by falling down a spiral staircase, a new "writer" joins the staff to investigate the matter. His name: "Death Bredon." His true name: Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey.

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  • The Stone Tape 1972

    A team of research scientists moves into an old house and uses its scientific equipment to try and record and analyse the strange phenomena that seem to affect a particular room in the building.Television drama about a team of scientists eager to discover a new recording medium who take over a brooding, Gothic mansion recently bought and renovated by their employers, Ryan Electrics. On moving in, they find that one vital room remains unfinished, as the builders refuse to work there because of strange noises and feelings of acute unease.

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  • Five Red Herrings 1975

    Hailed by critics as the finest mystery series ever filmed, this original BBC adaptation of the Dorothy L. Sayers novel stars Ian Carmichael as aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Wimsey goes on holiday in Scotland, hoping to relax and catch some trout, but he is soon called on to catch more than fish when Campbell, an unpopular local artist, is found dead. Campbell appears to have taken an accidental fall, but his hot-tempered behavior and ongoing feuds with several local men suggest murder. Wimsey feels certain of this when a key piece of evidence is missing from the seaside spot where Campbell was found. With six possible suspects, Wimsey must use his skills to determine the five red herrings and expose the murderer. In the dramatic conclusion, Wimsey reenacts the crime, casting himself as the murderer and Bunter as the victim.

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  • The Doll 1975

    Returning from Geneva, publisher Peter Matty encounters Phyllis du Salle and is instantly captivated by her beauty, charm and air of continental mystery. On a seaside trip, he gets more than he bargained for when Phyllis mysteriously disappears and Matty's car, which she borrowed, is returned unoccupied by the local police.

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  • The time-capsule 1963

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  • Madame et ses flics 1985

    Lorraine Valence jeune commissaire dirige la 7ème brigade territoriale de Paris. Sous ses ordres des policiers masculins qui ont du mal à accepter une femme commissaire et jeune de surcroît

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  • The Black Triangle 1981

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  • Storie maledette 1994

    Storie Maledette è un programma televisivo italiano nato nel 1994. L'ideatrice e la conduttrice del programma è Franca Leosini.Lo scopo della trasmissione, inserita nel palinsesto di Rai 3, è quello di raccontare storie di personaggi della vita comune diventati noti per avvenimenti di cronaca nera e, quindi, di casi giudiziari. Gli intervistati sono tutti condannati al carcere, da dove viene registrata la puntata, che ha lo scopo di ricostruire le vicende, l'analisi dei moventi, e il successivo iter processuale.

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  • Monty Halls' Dive Mysteries 2013

    Exciting evidence emerges of civilizations lost under the waves. But are these ancient cities the long sought-after Atlantis or accidents of geology?

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  • Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories for Christmas 2000

    Christopher Lee reads the disturbing Victorian ghost stories of writer MR James.

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  • Helena 1988

    Helena Rosselli is very captivating character. A very dynamic journalist-detective, alert, shrewd, but also very fragile and sensitive. After all, she is a simple and gentle girl, who tries to get close to others and understand them. Often she remains involved in the stories and lives "yellow" situations that make the story always full of suspense and interest. The series is based on a comic book written and illustrated by Robin Wood and Garda Seijas.

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  • Pepe Carvalho 1999

    Poor TV series based on crime novels of the famous Catalan writer Manuel Vasquez Montalban. It is an Italian-French-Spanish co-production in six episodes, and two products made in France, two in Spain and two in Italy

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  • Hacker 2004

    Going by the idea of ​​the inadequacy of young people to the world in which they live, the screenwriters discover the dramatic dimensions of this inadequacy, the consequences, sometimes irreversible, of trying to make a pact with the world. Two generations appear in the series: parents and children. The parents (three families, from three different backgrounds) lived much of their lives before 1989; they come with their habits, mentalities, beliefs. But they see themselves set aside by the hectic pace of the new Romanian society. Children have new role models. In the world full of aggression, unscrupulous and in which only money rules, young people become violent. "This series aims to portray in images the moral and spiritual portrait of the young generation, to detect the contradictions between generations, today's Romanian society, to define certain current concerns of adolescence, as well as the profession that gives the film its title" - Calin Caliman

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  • Mafia Game in Prison 2019

    Game variety show where the cast members will divide themselves into different teams and play various games to find the hidden “mafia” member.MC: Kim Tae JinCasts: Lee Soo Geun, Jung Hyung Don, Hwang Jae Sung, Jang Do Yeon, Lee Sang Yeob, Kim Jong Min (Koyote), SEVENTEEN’s Seungkwan, GOT7's JB and IZ ONE’s Choi Ye Na.Director: Park Sung Jae (Amazing Saturday, Comedy Big League), Yoon In Hee.

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  • Times of War 2017

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  • Poster for Travel for Ghosts

    Travel for Ghosts 2024

    Travel for Ghosts is a paranormal investigation series where paranormal investigator Vega and guests explore some of the most haunted spots in the world, seeking for the truth.

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  • Næturgestir 2019

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  • Mindmagic 2017

    German adaptation of the Dutch street magic format "MINDF * CK". The illusionist and physician Victor Mids combines psychology, hypnosis and illusion in his tricks, impressing passers-by on the street as well as celebrity guests. Far away from old-fashioned wizarding stereotypes, Mids is also supposed to explain the psychological background of some of his illusions, so that the audience can also learn something about themselves.

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  • Karma 2018

    Real crimes that shocked Cyprus in the 20th Century.

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  • Poster for Phantom

    Phantom 2019

    This is a story about a man who doesn’t know himself. He is not aware how he will behave in an extreme situation and doesn’t know what he is capable of. Actually, this is a story about a person sorting oneself out… It seems to me we don’t know many things about ourselves, and it is better to remain ignorant about some of those things.

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