Shows Like Swarm

If you liked Swarm (2023), a crime and comedy series created by Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, 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.

1
Hannibal (2013)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and crime
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special…
2
Heathers (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crime
A pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day, as our heroine, Veronica Sawyer, deals with a very different but equally vicious group of Heathers. Based on the 1988 cult classic film.
3
Killing Eve (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also crime and drama
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
4
The End of the F***ing World (2017)
★ 8/10Also comedy and drama
James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her…
5
The Afterparty (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and crime
Nothing is as it seems in this hilarious murder mystery where each suspect's story is told through a different film genre.
6
Search Party (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama
A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.
7
Only Murders in the Building (2021)
★ 8.4/10Also comedy and crime
Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.
8
Barry (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy and crime
A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.
9
Mr Inbetween (2018)
★ 8.3/10Also crime and drama
Ray Shoesmith is a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Even harder when you’re a criminal for hire.
10
56 Days (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and crime
When 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.
11
Sweetpea (2024)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama
Rhiannon Lewis doesn't make much of an impression - people walk past her in the street without a second glance. That is until she is pushed over the edge and loses control. Rhiannon's life transforms, but can she keep…
12
Based on a True Story (2023)
★ 7/10Also comedy and drama
The lives of a realtor, a plumber and a former tennis star unexpectedly collide, exposing America’s obsession with true crime, murder and the slow-close toilet seat.
13
The Patient (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime
A psychotherapist finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges.
14
Monster: The Ed Gein Story (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama
The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood's most iconic on-screen killers.
15
Mad Dogs (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama
When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild, comedic events unfold, exposing dark secrets and a web of lies, deception and…
16
Good Behavior (2016)
★ 7/10Also drama and crime
Letty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife…
17
You (2018)
★ 8/10Also crime and drama
A dangerously charming, obsessive man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of women who fascinate him.
18
Bad Girls (1999)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime
Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout…
19
MINDHUNTER (2017)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and crime
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
20
The Following (2013)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature, escapes from death row. The FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy to…