Strangers from Hell

Series Similar to Strangers from Hell

If you enjoyed Strangers from Hell, 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 · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery 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.

2. Voice

   2017 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, hidden gem, also on OCN.

   Two detectives teamed up to catch a serial killer who murdered their family. Moo Jin Hyuk's life spiraled out of control after his wife was murdered. He starts to put himself together after he meets Kang Kwon Joo, US-graduated voice-profiler, who lost her police father to the same serial killer years before.

3. Law School

   2021 · Thriller, Mystery, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery 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.

4. Reborn Rich

   2022 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended

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

   After ten years, a loyal employee is framed for embezzlement, then murdered by his employers, only to be reborn as their youngest son, with a yearn for revenge guiding his hostile takeover.

5. Signal

   2016 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · returning

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

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

6. Twinkling Watermelon

   2023 · Fantasy, Music, Romance · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   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.

7. Tunnel

   2017 · Crime, Fantasy, Thriller · ended

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

   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.

8. Alchemy of Souls

   2022 · Action, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8.1).

   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. 

9. Psychopath Diary

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

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

   Psychopath Diary is about a man named Yook Dong Shik, who coincidentally witnesses a murder and loses his memory after an accident that occurs while fleeing the scene. He wakes up with no sense of identity and mistakes himself as the killer when he finds the murderer's diary in his hands.

10. 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.