Shows Like When the Streetlights Go On

If you liked When the Streetlights Go On (2020), a drama and crime 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
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.
2
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…
3
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
Five 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…
4
How to Get Away with Murder (2014)
★ 7.8/10Also crime and drama
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and…
5
Gone (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama
When 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?
6
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.
7
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.
8
HIS & HERS (2026)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and crime
Two 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.
9
One of Us Is Lying (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
The 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.
10
The Irrational (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and 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…
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 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.
13
Riverdale (2017)
★ 8.4/10Also crime and drama
Set 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…
14
Grotesquerie (2024)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and crime
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
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
A chronicle of the two major police investigations by LAPD Detective Greg Kading into the deaths of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
16
The Bay (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime
Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is…
17
The Better Sister (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime
Chloe 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…
18
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…
19
The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama
An intense and fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie’s life after her controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892.
20
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…