Death Note

Series Similar to Death Note

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

1. Behind Her Eyes

   2021 · Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Thriller profile.

   Since her husband walked out, Louise has made her son her world, supporting them both with her part-time job in a psychiatrist's office. Her world is thrown off kilter when she begins an affair with her new boss David and matters take an even stranger turn when she's drawn into an unlikely friendship with his wife Adele. What starts as an unconventional love triangle soon becomes a dark, psychological tale of suspense and twisted revelations, as Louise finds herself caught in a dangerous web of secrets where nothing and no-one is what they seem.

2. Thirteen

   2016 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   After thirteen years held captive by her kidnapper, Ivy Moxam escapes. Piecing back together the version of family life that existed before is no easy task.

3. The Glory

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   Moon Dong Eun had to drop out of school because of school violence. Since then, she has lived with thoughts of revenge. Years later, her main abuser got married and gave birth to a child. The former victim becomes this child's homeroom teacher when he goes to elementary school. So begins her long and difficult path of revenge. It targets not only the main offender, but also all those who watched the violence, but did nothing. Joo Ye Jung is a carefree and smiling guy. Instead of being the fairy prince Dong Eun, he decides to become the means of her revenge.

4. Squid Game

   2021 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.

5. ¿Quién mató a Sara?

   2021 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   His sister was killed in a freak "accident", for which he was blamed. While trying to find what actually happened, Alex Guzmán will uncover the darkest secrets of the Lazcano family, stopping at nothing until everyone is held accountable.

6. Absentia

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Absentia centers on an FBI agent who, while hunting one of Boston's most notorious serial killers, disappears without a trace and is declared dead. Six years later, she is found in a cabin in the woods, barely alive and with no memory of the years she was missing. Returning home to learn her husband has remarried and her son is being raised by another woman, she soon finds herself implicated in a new series of murders.

7. The Alienist

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   The Alienist, based on the Anthony Award-winning New York Times bestseller by Caleb Carr, is a fast-paced and atmospheric psychological thriller set in the fascinating and gritty world of Gilded Age New York City. After a series of haunting and gruesome murders, psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper reporter John Moore and police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt come together employing emerging disciplines of psychology and early crime investigation techniques to track down one of New York City's first serial killers.

8. Alice in Borderland

   2020 · Science-Fiction, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to survive.Every episode lists different main cast in the opening sequence (beside the two main which are there throughout the entire series).

9. You

   2018 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by.

10. El inocente

    2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

    El inocente tells the tale of Mateo who, nine years ago, interceded in a fight and ended up becoming a murderer. Now he's an ex-convict who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and both are about to get the house of their dreams. But a shocking and inexplicable call from Olivia's cell phone again destroys Mateo's life for the second time.