Shows Like Harper's Island

If you liked Harper's Island (2009), 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.

1
Midnight Mass (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also mystery and drama
The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.
2
Lost (2004)
★ 8/10Also mystery and drama
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
3
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and mystery
A bride has a feeling that something horrifying will happen at her wedding — and the closer to the altar she gets, the worse it becomes.
4
Sterling Point (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also mystery and drama
After 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…
5
Bates Motel (2013)
★ 8/10Also drama and mystery
A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting…
6
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and drama
In a sun-soaked Hawaiian town with a mysterious past, a group of friends is left with a dark secret after a tragic accident. One year later, a member of the group receives a threatening message, and the friends now…
7
The Perfect Couple (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and mystery
Amelia is about to marry into one of the wealthiest families on Nantucket, until a shocking death derails the wedding — and turns everyone into a suspect.
8
The Third Day (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and drama
A unique story told over two distinct halves, "Summer" follows Sam, a man drawn to a mysterious island off the British coast where he encounters a group of islanders set on preserving their traditions at any cost…
9
The Burning Girls (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery and drama
Follows Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter in Chapel Croft, a place for a fresh start that soon reveals its community's dark history and where ancient superstitions and mistrust of outsiders are quite common.
10
Sherlock & Daughter (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and mystery
Sherlock Holmes faces a sinister case risking friends' lives. American Amelia joins, seeking her father after her mother's murder. Despite differences, they solve a conspiracy and her mother's case.
11
The Hitchhiker (1983)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
12
Cross (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and mystery
Alex 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…
13
High Country (2024)
★ 6/10Also mystery and drama
When 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…
14
Grotesquerie (2024)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and mystery
A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.
15
The Irrational (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Alec Mercer is a world-renowned professor of behavioral psychology with a unique insight into human nature who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, corporations and law…
16
The Following (2013)
★ 6.9/10Also 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…
17
The Marlow Murder Club (2024)
★ 5.9/10Also mystery and drama
Retired archaeologist and crossword setter Judith Potts believes that a brutal murder has taken place in the sleepy town of Marlow; when the police refuse to believe her story, she kicks off a private investigation…
18
56 Days (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and mystery
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.
19
Death and Other Details (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also mystery and drama
How do you solve a murder in a post-fact world? Especially when sailing the Mediterranean on an ocean liner filled with the wealthy and powerful. Everyone on board is hiding something… but is one of them a killer?…
20
Dexter (2006)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and mystery
Dexter 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.