Asian Dramas Like Gone Girl

A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a method of sending messages to the past using a microwave. What starts as gleeful tinkering becomes a nightmare when he realiz…

If you loved Gone Girl's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Steins;Gate delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A woman tells a small lie to impress someone, and that lie spirals into an entirely fabricated identity — a stolen name, stolen credentials, stolen life. Anna is a slow-burn psycho…

Both are built around a web of deception where everyone is hiding something and no one is safe. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A genius high school student finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it. He decides to use it to cleanse the world of criminals, becoming a god-like figure call…

If you loved Gone Girl's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Death Note delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a web of deception where everyone is hiding something and no one is safe. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A Korean-American woman builds an elaborate false identity as a high-society luxury brand executive, targeting the ultra-wealthy elite of Seoul. When her fabricated persona — and t…

If you loved Gone Girl's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, The Art of Sarah delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a web of deception where everyone is hiding something and no one is safe. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A poor family cons their way into employment with a wealthy household. When a dark secret is revealed beneath the mansion, the class war turns deadly.

If you loved Gone Girl's rug-pull ending that reframes everything you thought you knew, Parasite delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a web of deception where everyone is hiding something and no one is safe. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A man is imprisoned without explanation for 15 years and released without reason. He has five days to uncover who imprisoned him and why.

If you loved Gone Girl's rug-pull ending that reframes everything you thought you knew, Oldboy delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A bumbling policeman investigates mysterious deaths in a village after a Japanese stranger arrives, as the situation spirals into supernatural horror.

If you loved Gone Girl's rug-pull ending that reframes everything you thought you knew, The Wailing delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

In colonial Korea, a con man devises a plot to defraud a Japanese heiress using her new handmaiden — but unexpected feelings change everything.

If you loved Gone Girl's rug-pull ending that reframes everything you thought you knew, The Handmaiden delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a web of deception where everyone is hiding something and no one is safe. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A former genius detective, now a reclusive puzzle constructor, is pulled back into an active case when a series of murders with perfectly crafted puzzles left at each scene seems d…

If you loved Gone Girl's relentless game of predator and prey where the tables keep turning, Nine Puzzles delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Two families become entangled when a school bullying incident triggers a collapse of carefully maintained facades. As the truth unravels through the perspectives of mothers, father…

If you loved Gone Girl's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Red Balloon delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — marriage — is the same. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.