The Beast in Me

Series Similar to The Beast in Me

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

1. Harlan Coben's Fool Me Once

   2024 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · ended93% match

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

   Fool Me Once follows Maya Stern who is trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of her husband, Joe. But when Maya installs a nanny-cam to keep an eye on her young daughter, she is shocked to see a man she recognises in her house. Her husband, who she thought was dead.Detective Sergeant Sami Kierce leads the homicide investigation into Joe's death while grappling with secrets of his own. Meanwhile, Maya's niece and nephew, Abby and Daniel, are trying to find the truth about their mother's murder, several months earlier. Are the two cases connected? Fool Me Once follows these characters on a thrilling hunt for the truth that will reveal shocking secrets and change their lives forever.

2. Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue

   2025 · Thriller, Mystery · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   When a small plane traveling from Guatemala carrying a small group of passengers, crew and a pilot crashes in the Mexican jungle, all the bodies are recovered and placed in a morgue. But it turns out that only one of them died in the crash. The other passengers were murdered afterwards, each one in a unique way. But by whom? And why? As the story unfolds in flashback, we meet the survivors as they fight against the heat, a shortage of supplies, the many dangers of the jungle…and each other. The setting becomes increasingly tense and claustrophobic as, one by one, they are dispatched with a series of shocks that bring us ever closer to the truth and – at the very end – a jaw-dropping reveal.

3. Историк

   2021 · Thriller, Mystery · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Andrey Viktorovich Izvorin is a very creative person. He draws comics and publishes them under the pseudonym Hunter, and the rest of the time he teaches history at university and sincerely loves his subject. Izvorin came up with a theory according to which every unsolved crime, including if an innocent person was punished for it, inevitably repeats. The ability to draw and think with pictures, as well as knowledge of history, help him and investigator Anna Rybakova to follow the trail of the most unusual maniacs and solve the most complicated murders.‎

4. Bloodline

   2015 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended91% 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. Behind Her Eyes

   2021 · Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery · ended90% match

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

   Since her husband walked out, Louise has made her son her world, supporting them both with her part-time job in a psychiatrist's office. Her world is thrown off kilter when she begins an affair with her new boss David and matters take an even stranger turn when she's drawn into an unlikely friendship with his wife Adele. What starts as an unconventional love triangle soon becomes a dark, psychological tale of suspense and twisted revelations, as Louise finds herself caught in a dangerous web of secrets where nothing and no-one is what they seem.

6. The Expanse

   2015 · Science-Fiction, Thriller, Mystery · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, highly rated (8.7).

   A thriller set two hundred years in the future, The Expanse follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

7. Thirteen

   2016 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended90% 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.

8. Cross

   2024 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · returning90% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   Based on NY Times Bestselling author James Patterson's #1 hero, Cross is a crime thriller that follows the investigations of brilliant forensic psychologist and DC Metro Detective Alex Cross. Together with his best friend and partner Detective John Sampson, Cross delves into the psyches of America's most insidious killers while fighting to protect his family from the dangers of the criminal world.

9. The Night Agent

   2023 · Action, Thriller, Mystery · returning90% match

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

   The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low-level FBI Agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast-moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office.

10. Untamed

    2025 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · returning90% match

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

    Untamed follows Kyle Turner, a special agent for the National Parks Service who works to enforce human law in nature's vast wilderness. The investigation of a brutal death sends Turner on a collision course with the dark secrets within the park, and in his own past.