Shows Like The Private School
If you liked The Private School (2011), 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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Gossip Girl (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and mysteryEight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl.
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Bad Behaviour (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaAt the Silver Creek boarding school for girls in the Australian outback, students are largely left to their own devices in their spare time. This series tells the gripping and unsparing story of how the desire to…
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The Shards (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and mystery17-year-old Bret Easton Ellis is in his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending his world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the…
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Pretty Little Liars (2010)
★ 8/10Also drama and mysteryBased 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…
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School Spirits (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also mystery and dramaMaddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own mysterious disappearance, goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory, but the closer she gets to discovering the truth, the more…
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Riverdale (2017)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and mysterySet in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome…
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One of Us Is Lying (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and mysteryThe story of what happens when five high schoolers walk into detention and only four make it out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.
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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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Wayward (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and mysteryA small-town cop suspects that the local school for troubled teens — and its dangerously charismatic founder — may not be all it seems.
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Sterling Point (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also mystery and dramaAfter discovering she's inherited a remote island in Canada from the estranged grandfather she was never allowed to meet, 17-year-old Annie Jacobson decides to investigate, pulling her into a world of buried secrets…
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13 Reasons Why (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mysteryHigh school student Clay Jensen lands in the center of a series of heartbreaking mysteries set in motion by a friend's tragic suicide.
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Russian Affairs (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mysteryMoscow, present day. The city of big money, passion, gorgeous women and wealthy men, receptions and dangerous intrigue. Dasha, an art historian from the province, who came to the capital, dreams of a new, better life…
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Fisher (2023)
★ 7.7/10Also mystery and drama1986. Teenagers are killed one by one in the area of the government dachas on Rublevskoye Shosse. Intelligent investigator Valery Kozyrev, his audacious partner from Rostov Evgeny Bokov and very young investigator…
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Bet (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and mysteryAt a private school where gambling determines social status, a skillful new student with a mysterious past is shaking things up — and betting on revenge.
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Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (2022)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and mysteryTwenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a group of disparate teen girls finds themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to…
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The Midnight Club (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery and dramaInside a hospice for terminally ill teens, members of an exclusive club make a chilling pact: The first to die must send a sign from beyond the grave.
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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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The Society (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaWhen everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
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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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Gone (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaWhen a headmaster's wife goes missing, suspicion falls on him. Is he hiding something, or is there more to this case than meets the eye?