Defendant

Series Similar to Defendant

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

1. Law School

   2021 · Thriller, Mystery, Legal · ended

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

   Law School is about the students and professors of South Korea's top law school who get caught up in an unusual case.It follows the case of a murder of a professor at a prestigious law school. Professors and students become suspects in the murder, and the drama will feature its characters making realizations about the law and justice as they search for the killer.

2. Big Mouth

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Legal profile.

   Big Mouth tells the story of an underperforming lawyer who gets caught up in a murder case. In order to survive and protect his family, he digs into a huge conspiracy among the privileged upper classes.

3. Flower of Evil

   2020 · Crime, Romance, Thriller · ended

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

   Flower of Evil is a suspenseful drama about a psychopath who changes his identity to conceal his cruel past and his homicide detective wife who tries to track down the truth. This thriller will draw the extremes of this couple, from their harmonious family life to crime scenes. 

4. Remember: War of the Son

   2015 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem, also on SBS.

   Seo Jin Woo remembers almost every day in perfect detail due to his condition of Hyperthymesia. Jin Woo becomes a lawyer to prove the innocence of his father, although it becomes a struggle to prove it as he is in his beginning stages of Alzheimer.

5. The Victim

   2019 · Drama, Thriller, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Legal profile, hidden gem.

   The Victim is a gripping, contemporary legal thriller told through the eyes of the plaintiff and the accused. Set in Edinburgh, within Scotland's unique legal system, the show offers a constantly surprising and twisting perspective on who is really ‘the victim'.

6. Stranger

   2017 · Crime, Mystery, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Legal profile.

   Though he is rational, a childhood brain surgery leaves prosecutor Hwang Shi Mok to lack emotion. Cold and lonely, he's one of the only prosecutors not involved in corruption. When he meets Police Lieutenant Han Yeo Jin at a murder crime scene, they join forces to eradicate corruption at the prosecutor's office and solve a serial murder case.

7. The Devil Judge

   2021 · Drama, Mystery, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Legal profile.

   Kang Yo Han is a head trial judge who punishes the dishonest in the courtroom with no mercy, turning it into a reality show, and thus has earned the nickname "devil judge"; however, his mysterious aura conceals his true identity and ambitions.

8. Defending Jacob

   2020 · Drama, Thriller, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Legal profile.

   Defending Jacob unfolds around a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town and one family in particular, forcing an assistant district attorney to choose between his sworn duty to uphold justice and his unconditional love for his son.

9. The Escape Artist

   2013 · Drama, Thriller, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Legal profile, hidden gem.

   A chilling and bloody legal thriller that explores the line between law and justice.

10. How to Get Away with Murder

    2014 · Drama, Thriller, Legal · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller / Legal profile.

    The brilliant, charismatic and seductive Professor Annalise Keating gets entangled with four law students from her class, How to Get Away with Murder. Little do they know that they will have to apply what they learned to real life, in this masterful, sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller.