Shows Like The Beast in Me
If you liked The Beast in Me (2025), 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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HIS & HERS (2026)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and mysteryTwo 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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Sugar (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and mysteryJohn Sugar is a dashing private eye navigating the dark corners of sunny LA. Though he sees only the good in humanity, Sugar is haunted by a secret too dangerous to expose.
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The Undoing (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and mysteryGrace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public…
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Defending Jacob (2020)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and mysteryA family's lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.
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You (2018)
★ 8/10Also mystery and dramaA dangerously charming, obsessive man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of women who fascinate him.
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The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)
★ 7.5/10Also mystery and dramaTo secure their fortune — and future — two ruthless siblings build a family dynasty that begins to crumble when their heirs mysteriously die, one by one.
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Dexter (2006)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and mysteryDexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
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Fool Me Once (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and mysteryWhen 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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The Stolen Girl (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mysteryMother of two, Elisa, allows her daughter, Lucia, to go on an impromptu sleepover with her new best friend Josephine after meeting Josephine's mother, Rebecca, at her beautiful home. But when Elisa arrives to collect…
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Shining Girls (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and mysteryYears after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns that a recent murder is linked to her assault. She teams with veteran reporter Dan Velazquez to understand her ever-changing…
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The Crowded Room (2023)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and mysteryIn 1979 Manhattan, a young man is arrested for a shocking crime — and an unlikely investigator must solve the mystery behind it.
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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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Cross (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and mysteryAlex 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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Harlan Coben's Lazarus (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also mysteryForensic psychiatrist Dr Joel 'Laz' Lazarus is forced to confront long-buried demons after his father Dr L dies in suspicious circumstances. At first assured his dad's death is a suicide, Laz is soon sucked into a…
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The Stranger (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also mysteryWhen a stranger makes a shocking claim about his wife, Adam Price's life upends as he becomes entangled in a web of secrets.
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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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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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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mysteryFive 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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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.