Beautiful Mind

Series Similar to Beautiful Mind

If you enjoyed Beautiful Mind, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Complications

   2015 · Drama, Thriller, Medical · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Medical profile.

   Complications centers on disillusioned suburban doctor John Ellison who, while still dealing with the emotional effects of his daughter's death, unexpectedly becomes a vigilante hero when he intervenes in a drive-by shooting, saving a young boy's life. When John learns the boy is still marked for death, he's compelled to save him at any cost. Through this journey, he must compromise his morals, often doing the wrong thing for all the right reasons.The series also features Gretchen, a reckless but capable nurse; John's wife, Samantha, who while attempting to support her husband is struggling with her own issues; and John's by-the-book coworker, Dr. Bridget O'Neill, who finds herself dealing with the aftermath of his actions.

2. Chance

   2016 · Drama, Thriller, Medical · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Medical profile.

   Based on Kem Nunn's novel, Chance is described as a provocative psychological thriller that focuses on Eldon Chance, a San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist who reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness. After an ill-advised decision regarding an alluring patient who may or may not be struggling with a multiple personality disorder, Chance finds himself in the crosshairs of her abusive spouse, who also happens to be a ruthless police detective. In over his head, Chance's descent into the city's shadowy underbelly, all while navigating the waters of a contentious divorce and the tribulations of his teenage daughter, soon spirals into an ever deepening exploration of one of mankind's final frontiers — the shadowy, undiscovered country of the human mind.

3. Descendants of the Sun

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Medical · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Medical profile, highly rated (8), also on KBS2.

   This story tells of doctors stationed in the fictional war zone of Urk, and follows the love story that develops between a surgeon and a special forces officer, both elite in their respective fields. The story tracks both their personal and professional struggles while exploring issues about the value of life.

4. A Poem a Day

   2018 · Drama, Medical · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Medical profile, hidden gem.

   Ye Jae Wook works as a physical therapist and also teaches in the same field. He begins to work as a team leader at a hospital. Woo Bo Young has been working as a physical therapist for 3 years. She wanted to become a poet, but due to her poor family background she studied to become a physical therapist. Shin Min Ho is a trainee, but he isn't interested in physical therapy. His grades weren't good enough for medical school and his parents, who are both doctors, made him study physical therapy.

5. Secret Love

   2013 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8), also on KBS2.

   Everyone has their own secrets. Secrets can help people succeed and even fall in love; but secrets can also destroy people. Secrets can sometimes make us happy, worried, or even blind us to reality. This drama is about secrets. It is an exploration into the trials and tribulations of people who live with secrets. These secrets drive the four characters desire to find love and exact revenge.

6. Our Zoo

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Our Zoo is a drama series based on the true story of the Mottershead family who, in the face of staunch opposition and huge personal sacrifice, founded Chester Zoo in the 1930s.

7. The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call

   2025 · Drama, Medical · returning90% match

   Recommended for similar Medical profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   To create a top-tier trauma center, a war-seasoned doctor arrives bringing his blunt but skilled ways to transform his team into life-saving mavericks.

8. High School Return of a Gangster

   2024 · Drama, Thriller · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   A middle-aged gangster finds himself body-swapped into the body of a bullied teen. Now inhabited by a tough-as-nails gangster, the teen starts to fight back against the power structure at his school and change his miserable existence.

9. The Knick

   2014 · Drama, Medical · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Medical profile, highly rated (8.3).

   New York City, 1900: The Knickerbocker Hospital is home to groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who push the boundaries of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. The newly appointed leader of the surgery staff is the brilliant, arrogant renegade Dr. John Thackery, whose addiction to cocaine and opium is trumped only by his ambition for medical discovery and renown among his peers. Into the all-white staff and patient hospital comes the equally gifted Harvard graduate Dr. Algernon Edwards, who must fight for respect while trying to navigate the racially charged city. Trying to maintain its reputation for quality care while realizing a profit, the Knickerbocker makes an effort to attract wealthy clientele, while literally struggling to keep the lights on.

10. Momgap

    2022 · Drama, Thriller · ended89% match

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

    A disaster-thriller that unfolds after a major earthquake hits a building where ransom bargaining for various reasons took place. It depicts the merciless struggle of human beings to survive in the chaos created by complete disconnection from the outside world.