Shows Like The Imperial Coroner
If you liked The Imperial Coroner (2021), a mystery and drama 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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Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty (2022)
★ 8.2/10Also mystery and dramaGeneral Lu Lingfeng and Detective Su Wuming uncover supernatural mysteries and hidden conspiracies threatening the empire during Emperor Xuanzong’s reign.
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Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and mysteryLi Lian Hua is a countryside doctor who travels dragging around a lotus tower. He accidentally becomes "famous" and gets pulled into the pugilistic world that he no longer wants to have any connections with.
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Fated Hearts (2025)
★ 9/10Also drama and mysteryAfter losing her memory in battle, skilled archer Fu Yixiao is taken in by a noble family and unexpectedly reunited with her former enemy, Prince Feng Suige—the man she once struck with an arrow. As they face the…
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Miss Scarlet (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and mysteryWhen Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the…
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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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Love Between Lines (2026)
★ 8.6/10Also drama and mysteryXiao Zhiyu and Hu Xiu are brought together by a Republic of China-themed murder mystery game. In the scripted NPC game filled with falling snow and spies in the shadows, the two ignite a fateful spark. An unexpected…
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Joy of Life (2019)
★ 8/10Also drama and comedyZhang Qing, a present-day college student in culture and history major wants to study in professor Ye's postgraduate class, so he decides to write a historical fiction to elaborate his perspective of analyzing ancient…
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The Vendetta of An (2025)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and mysteryXie Huai'an, son of the Huben Army's creator, survives his family's massacre. After ten long years in hiding, he returns to Chang'an disguised as a lowly registrar, moving step by step through jianghu clashes and…
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Tell Me Lies (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mysteryWhen Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. They quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will…
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56 Days (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and mysteryWhen 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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The Victims' Game (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mysteryAfter discovering his estranged daughter's link to mysterious murders, a forensic detective with Asperger's syndrome risks everything to solve the case.
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Harlan Coben's Shelter (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and mysteryFollow Mickey Bolitar after the death of his father leads him to start a new life in suburban New Jersey. When another new student disappears, Mickey finds himself tangled in a web of secrets. With the help of two new…
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Strike (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and mysteryA war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator…
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The Untamed (2019)
★ 8.7/10Also drama and mysteryIn a magical world of inter-clan rivalry, two soulmates face treacherous schemes and uncover a dark mystery linked to a tragic event in the past.
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High Country (2024)
★ 6/10Also mystery and dramaWhen detective Andrea 'Andie' Whitford is transferred to the Victorian High Country, she is thrust into a baffling mystery of five missing persons who have vanished into the wilderness. Through an edge-of-the-seat…
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Spider-Noir (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and mysteryBen Reilly, an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, is forced to grapple with his past life as the city's one and only superhero.
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Wallander (2008)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and mysteryThis drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the…
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Above Suspicion (2009)
★ 7/10Also mystery and dramaAbove Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the male-dominated police department by solving a trail of gruesome murders…
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The Better Sister (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and mysteryChloe moves in New York's most elite circles with her lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her side while her estranged sister Nicky tries to make ends meet and stay clean. When Adam is brutally murdered, the…
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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…