Shows Like Shining Girls
If you liked Shining Girls (2022), a drama and mystery series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Presumed Innocent (2024)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and mysteryA horrific murder upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime—leaving the accused fighting to keep his family together.
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Cross (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and dramaAlex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but…
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The Alienist (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crimeNew York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male…
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Sharp Objects (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also crime and dramaReporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
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56 Days (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and crimeWhen an unidentified body is found in a luxury apartment linked to Oliver Kennedy and his girlfriend Ciara Wyse, Detectives Lee Reardon and Karl Connolly reconstruct the couple's deadly romance across the past 56 days.
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Neagley (2026)
★ 8/10Also drama and mysteryFrances Neagley is a private investigator in Chicago and former military colleague of Jack Reacher in the Army's 110th Special Investigations Unit. When she learns that a beloved friend from her past has been killed in…
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Grotesquerie (2024)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and mysteryA series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.
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Anna Pigeon (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and mysteryAnna Pigeon flees city life for the solitude of America's stunning national parks following a devastating loss; while Anna tries to outrun her demons, her focus turns to solving crimes that have taken place within…
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Fool Me Once (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and crimeWhen 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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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crimeFive years after the death of schoolgirl Andie Bell, Pippa Fitz-Amobi sets out to uncover what really happened to her. Sal Singh, Andie's boyfriend, admitted to the murder before taking his own life, but Pip doesn't…
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The Devil's Hour (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery and crimeLucy wakes every night at exactly 3:33am. Nothing in her life has made sense for a long time. But the answers are out there, somewhere, at the end of a trail of brutal murders.
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Furious (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crimeFBI agent Alice Black is on the hunt for a mysterious and calculating female serial killer. Both walk their own paths toward justice, and as their lives start to intertwine, the line between right and wrong begins to…
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Nocturne (2026)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and dramaWhen a victim of notorious serial killer Jurek Walter unexpectedly turns up alive, detective Jonah Lynn races against time to find the one person still missing, while his protégé Saga Bauer goes undercover to get…
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HIS & HERS (2026)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and crimeTwo estranged spouses — one a detective, the other a news reporter — vie to solve a murder in which each believes the other is a prime suspect.
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Disclaimer (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mysteryWhen an intriguing novel appears at the bedside of a journalist whose career has been built on revealing transgressions, she is horrified to realize she's a key character in a long-buried story—one that exposes her…
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Perry Mason (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and mysterySet in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and…
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Chicago P.D. (2014)
★ 8.4/10Also crime and dramaA riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups…
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61st Street (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and crimeMoses Johnson is a promising high-school athlete with a bright future who’s accused of murdering a police officer during a drug bust gone wrong. Swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system…
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Them (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and mysteryA limited anthology series that explores terror in America.
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The Woman in the Wall (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and dramaWhen Lorna Brady, a survivor of one of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, wakes to find a corpse in her house, she has no idea who the dead woman is or if she's responsible for the apparent murder, because she has long…