Asian Dramas Like Criminal Minds

An elite FBI-trained detective joins Korea's first Missing Persons Crime Investigation Unit, tackling meticulously crafted disappearance cases that reveal the dark psychology behin…

Like Criminal Minds, it leans hard into case of the week. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Based on true events, Korea's first criminal profiler navigates bureaucracy to build a profiling unit in the 1990s.

Like Criminal Minds, it leans hard into profiler protagonist. The emotional territory — criminal profiling and serial killers — is the same. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A criminal profiler communicates with a detective from the past via a mysterious walkie-talkie to solve cold cases.

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Two detectives in a small town become suspects and investigators in a serial murder case linked to the past.

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

An emotionless prosecutor and an empathetic detective team up to uncover corruption within the prosecution.

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Detective Guan Hongfeng is the best in his unit — intelligent, relentless, and suffering from a rare condition that makes him unable to tolerate daylight. His twin brother, disgrac…

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A detective haunted by his wife's murder and a 112 emergency call center operator with extraordinary hearing team up to catch killers in real time. Every episode is a race against …

Like Criminal Minds, it leans hard into serial killer hunt. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Jurors in a murder trial start dying one by one, and a detective, a welfare officer, and an ambitious prosecutor must figure out whether a serial killer is targeting the jury — or …

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A detective with a rare supernatural ability to read memories by touch teams up with a cold but brilliant criminal profiler to hunt a serial killer whose methodical crimes seem imp…

Like Criminal Minds, it leans hard into serial killer hunt. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A journalist investigating a cold case involving a prominent politician's family disappears. Her younger sister, a civil servant with no investigative experience, starts pulling on…

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.