Ripley

Series Similar to Ripley

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

1. Clickbait

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on Netflix.

   Told from eight different points of view, this series examines the murder of a self-confessed victimizer and the role social media played in the crime.

2. The Alienist

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / 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.

3. Absentia

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / 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.

4. El inocente

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on Netflix.

   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.

5. Black Bird

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

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

   Inspired by actual events, when high school football hero, decorated policeman's son and convicted drug dealer Jimmy Keene is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime — enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall, or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole. Keene quickly realizes his only way out is to elicit a confession and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall's appeal goes through. But is this suspected killer telling the truth? Or is it just another tale from a serial liar? 

6. The Widower

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

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

   The Widower is a three-part drama from ITV Studios based on the crimes of convicted murderer, Malcolm Webster, played by Reece Shearsmith (Psychoville, The League of Gentlemen, A Field in England).The Widower tells how, over a 13 year period Malcolm Webster set about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée.

7. The Sinner

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   A blend of thrilling murder investigation and raw character drama, anthology series The Sinner follows the investigation of a chilling new homicide each season. Detective Harry Ambrose employs unusual tactics and a deep capacity for empathy to solve his cases … with a boundless dedication driven by his own dark past. Departing from the traditional "whodunnit," the series delves into the "why" -- exploring the buried traumas, psychological factors and philosophical reasons that might compel a seemingly "normal" person to commit unspeakable acts.

8. The Following

   2013 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   The FBI estimates there are currently over 300 active serial killers in the United States. What would happen if these killers had a way of communicating and connecting with each other? What if they were able to work together and form alliances across the country? What if one brilliant psychotic serial killer was able to bring them all together and activate a following? Welcome to The Following, a terrifying new thriller.

9. Devils

   2020 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Devils is set in the London office of a big US bank, where the ruthless Head of Trading, Massimo Ruggero from Italy has been welcomed and introduced to the world of finance by Dominic Morgan, CEO of the bank. When he ends up involved in an intercontinental financial war rocking Europe, he will have to choose whether to ally himself with his mentor or fight him.

10. The Glory

    2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile, also on Netflix.

    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.