Baptiste (Seasons 1–2)

Baptiste (2019) is a BBC crime series you can watch online on iFILM. A spin-off of The Missing, it follows retired French detective Julien Baptiste — played by Tchéky Karyo — a man who chases a case to the edge of obsession, no matter the cost. Tom Hollander and Fiona Shaw appear alongside him across the run.

Baptiste has hung up his badge, but the work keeps pulling him back. Season one drops him into the Amsterdam night, where a missing woman leads to human traffickers and old wounds of his own. Season two moves to Hungary, where a British diplomat's whole family vanishes and the ageing, grief-worn investigator takes the job even as it tears him apart. This isn't a clue-of-the-week procedural; it's about what solving other people's tragedies does to the man doing it.

Karyo carries the whole thing with a quiet, unshowy intensity — he alone is reason enough to press play. Expect bleak European settings, a slow burn, and resolutions that rarely comfort. It's built for fans of Nordic noir and The Missing rather than viewers wanting something brisk. Stream every season of Baptiste online on iFILM.