Shining Girls

Series Similar to Shining Girls

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

1. Presumed Innocent

   2024 · Crime, Thriller, Legal · returning91% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on Apple TV.

   The story of a horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime. An exploration of obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.

2. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

   2024 · Crime, Thriller · returning88% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. Case closed. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But Pippa Fitz-Amobi - our insatiably smart, slightly square heroine - isn't so sure and she's determined to prove it. But if Sal Singh isn't a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pippa from the truth?

3. Black Bird

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended85% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), also on Apple TV.

   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? 

4. Inside Man

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended85% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   A vicar's life begins to intertwine with that of a prisoner on death row and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar.

5. The Alienist

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended83% match

   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.

6. Payback

   2023 · Crime, Thriller · returning82% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   With an idyllic family lifestyle in the suburbs of Edinburgh, Lexie is unaware her husband, Jared, has been laundering Cal Morris' illegal earnings on a vast scale. Jared's every move is being monitored by financial investigators DC Jibran Khan and DCI Adam Guthrie, who are determined to use the Noble family to bring Cal Morris to justice. A partner in Jared's business, Lexie is forced into working for Cal, at the same time as the police net inexorably tightens. Soon Lexie finds herself walking a treacherous tightrope between Cal and the police in which her safety, and even her life, are in grave danger.

7. MINDHUNTER

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended81% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.4).

   MINDHUNTER is based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, by former special agent John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. For years, Douglas pursued some of the most notorious serial killers and rapists, developing profiling techniques to catch them. The book goes behind the scenes of some of his highest-profile cases, including the man who hunted prostitutes in Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer. To hone in his profiling methods Douglas interviewed and studied a skew of serial killers. Several book and TV characters have been based in part on him, including Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs, Will Graham on Hannibal and Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds.

8. Unbelievable

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended81% match

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

   The true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.

9. Code of Silence

   2025 · Crime, Thriller · returning81% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   Code of Silence introduces us to Deaf catering worker, Alison Woods. She's struggling to make ends meet, juggling two jobs, in a police canteen and a local bar, while also doing her best to support her Deaf mum, Julie. When DC Ashleigh Francis calls on Alison to lip read the conversations of some dangerous criminals, she is plunged into a new and exhilarating world.

10. D.P.

    2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended80% match

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

    A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.