Top of the Lake (2013)

A pregnant 12-year-old disappears from the small lakeside town of Laketop in New Zealand, and Elisabeth Moss's detective Robin Griffin has to dig through a community that would rather she didn't. Jane Campion co-created and co-directed it, and the mountains and water around the town are as much a presence as any suspect. It moves slowly and gets very dark about how the men of a small town protect each other, which is exactly why the disappearance hurts. Moss won a Golden Globe for it. Watch the first season for this list; the second, China Girl, moves to Sydney and a different case.