Shows Like Adolescence

If you liked Adolescence (2025), a drama and crime series created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, 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
Under the Bridge (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and crime
Fourteen-year old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Through the eyes of Rebecca Godfrey and a local police officer, learn the hidden world of the young girls accused of the murder…
2
Defending Jacob (2020)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and crime
A family's lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.
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
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…
5
13 Reasons Why (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
High school student Clay Jensen lands in the center of a series of heartbreaking mysteries set in motion by a friend's tragic suicide.
6
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.
7
Luther (2010)
★ 7.8/10Also crime and drama
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
8
Prime Suspect (1991)
★ 7.8/10Also crime and drama
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
9
Carrie (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also drama
After her father's sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless…
10
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022)
★ 8/10Also crime and drama
This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over…
11
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and crime
Trapped in a cruel Victorian-era household, Lizzie Borden kills her parents in a gory ax murder that shocks the nation.
12
The Society (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
13
Pretty Little Liars (2010)
★ 8/10Also drama
Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their…
14
Happy Face (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
The story of Melissa Reed, daughter of Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. After decades of no contact, Keith forces his way back into his daughter’s life, and Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going…
15
Rillington Place (2016)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama
A three-part drama about serial killer John Christie and the murders at 10 Rillington Place in the 1940s and early 1950s.
16
Painkiller (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and crime
The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.
17
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime
The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.
18
Mr. Robot (2015)
★ 8.3/10Also crime and drama
A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about…
19
The Hitchhiker (1983)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and crime
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
20
White House Farm (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama
Factual drama based on the notorious White House Farm murders, and the ensuing police investigation and court case.