The Virus

Series Similar to The Virus

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

1. God's Gift: 14 Days

   2014 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

   Kim Soo Hyun experiences the unfathomable when her daughter is kidnapped and murdered. Discovering a miraculous ability to go back in time exactly two weeks before the event, Soo Hyun races against the clock to unravel the plot and save her daughter. But when a private investigator sheds new light on the crime, Soo Hyun uncovers a secret far more treacherous than she could have ever imagined.

2. 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.

3. Time

   2021 · Drama, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

4. Strangers from Hell

   2019 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

   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.

5. BORDER

   2014 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   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.

6. Liar Game

   2014 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Various contestants take part in a game show with a prize of 10 billion won. The contestants who can cheat the others wins the prize. Contestants include genius swindler Cha Woo Jin and naive college student Nam Da Jung.

7. The Glory

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   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.

8. Monster

   2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   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. Day and Night

   2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

   The usually carefree Guan Hong Yu gets accused of having murdered a whole family. To clear his younger twin brother's charge, the team leader of the criminal investigation department Guan Hong Feng wants to take on this case, but since he's a relative, he's not allowed to participate in the investigation. A new team leader named Zhou Xun is assigned and ends up seeking Hong Feng's help. Zhou Xun and Hong Feng as his "consultant" uncover a number of cases together. However, Hong Feng has a secret: one of the twin brothers has fear of the dark phobia, so the "Hong Feng" appearing at the police station during the day and at night is actually not the same person. Together, the twins secretely try to find out the truth about the "family extinction murder case".

10. Missing Nine

    2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

    Missing Nine will be set in a deserted island and cover all the things that happen when a plane crash lands there, inside carrying a fallen boy band member dealing with a plagiarism scandal, a girl group, an actor, a bodyguard, an entertainment reporter, and a flight attendant. They will have to deal with how they survive in the wild, and through the adventure and adversity they learn the meaning of love.