Psychopath Diary

Series Similar to Psychopath Diary

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

1. Flower of Evil

   2020 · Crime, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on tvN.

   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. 

2. Beyond Evil

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   Beyond Evil will tell the story of two fearless men who are willing to go through extreme lengths in their pursuit of a returning serial killer. In the course of uncovering the murderer's identity, the two are forced to look deeper than what the evidence seems to suggest and constantly question the innocence of all the people involved in the case, including themselves.

3. Tunnel

   2017 · Crime, Fantasy, Thriller · ended

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

   In 1986, Park Kwang Ho works an excellent and enthusiastic detective. To save his daughter, he travels in time to the present day. Wherever he goes, he causes trouble and creates problems, but his antics are funny and bizarre because he is an old-fashioned detective from the past trying to adjust to life in modern day.

4. Through the Darkness

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

   Through the Darkness is about a criminal profiler who struggles to read the minds of serial killers. Song Ha Young is a criminal profiler. He is calm and has charisma. He digs up cases and looks deeply into the human mind.

5. Signal

   2016 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Detectives from the present and a detective from the past communicate via walkie-talkie to solve a long-time unsolved case.

6. W

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

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

   After being pulled into the webtoon world created by her father, a surgical resident gets entangled in a murder mystery involving the story's hero.

7. Twinkling Watermelon

   2023 · Fantasy, Music, Romance · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Twinkling Watermelon follows a story about CODA, (a deaf child born under deaf parents) a boy born of natural talent for music, and Eun Gyul, crash-landing into an unfamiliar space through a suspicious musical instrument store. Eun Gyul forms the band Watermelon Sugar with the youth he met there and communicates with them through music.

8. Secret Love

   2013 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

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

   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.

9. Alchemy of Souls

   2022 · Action, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8.1), also on tvN.

   Set in a fictional country called Daeho that does not exist in history or on maps, it is about the love and growth of young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to a magic spell known as the "alchemy of souls", which allows souls to switch bodies. It follows the story of an elite assassin named Naksu, whose soul is accidentally trapped inside the weak body of Moo Duk—Jang Wook's servant from a powerful and noble family in the country. The young master of the Jang Family, Jang Wook, holds a dark secret about his scandalous birth. He wants the formidable assassin to help change his destiny. 

10. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

    2018 · Drama, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on tvN.

    Lee Young's family runs a large firm in which Lee Young Joon works as vice-president. He is known to be rich, smart and handsome, but is known to be very arrogant. His secretary Kim Mi So, who works for them for many years, makes a decision which shocks him...