Squid Game

Series Similar to Squid Game

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

1. Through the Darkness

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended93% match

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

   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.

2. The Glory

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery 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.

3. De 12 van Oldenheim

   2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended90% match

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

   In 'The Oldenheim 12' we follow the lives of the residents of the extremely traditional Dutch village of Oldenheim. The locals are shaken to the core when they suddenly face a series of mysterious disappearances. Continuation series 'The Schouwendam 12' http://www.tvmaze.com/shows/43665/de-12-van-schouwendam

4. Bloodline

   2015 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended89% match

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

   Bloodline is a dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty.

5. Thirteen

   2016 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   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.

6. D.P.

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended87% match

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

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

7. Strangers from Hell

   2019 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   Strangers from Hell tells the story of a young man in his 20's, who moves to Seoul for a new job and decides to stay in an ominous dormitory. It is the residents of the dormitory that would creep you out.

8. Monster

   2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   In the north of Norway, a young girl disappears from an isolated religious community. Detective Hedda Gilbert returns to her place of birth where she is forced to work with special agent Dreyer.

9. Перевал Дятлова

   2020 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   January 1959, Soviet Union. In the icy Ural Mountains, a group of nine students sets out on a ski trek. Even though they all are well-experienced hikers, they never reach their destination. As their bodies turn up a month later, it leaves local investigators puzzled. Their tent was cut open from the inside, they are found frozen stiff in their underwear spread around the camp, some are even partially mangled. Whom or what did they run from? Why did they die, and how? When Oleg, a KGB major, arrives in the province, his inquiry is to be held strictly confidential. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. With the help of Katya, the local medical examiner, Oleg is hell-bent on finding the truth. But the more he learns, the more it becomes clear: The reason the students died will never see the light of day. No one can ever know what really happened. No one. Except him.

10. BORDER

    2014 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended86% match

    Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

    Ishikawa Ango is a detective with smarts and a keen sense of observation. He's in a great physical shape and also highly ambitious. Ango also only focuses on his work and his personal life is pretty much non-existent.One day, a former police officer is killed by a gun shot. Ango goes to the scene of the crime, but is shot in the head by the killer who is lurking at the crime scene. Ango hovers between life and death. At that time, he thinks to himself "where do people go after they die?" and then "I don't want to die." A miracle then happens. Ango survives with the bullet still lodged in his head. He goes back to work.A new murder case takes place. When Ango goes to the crime scene he notices a boy who looks like he is about to cry, but only Ango is able to see the boy. The boy is the one who was killed. Since Ango was shot, he can now see and talk with the dead.