Asian Dramas Like Only Murders in the Building

A former profiler turned fake shaman runs a cafe that secretly solves crimes, pursued by a tenacious detective.

Like Only Murders in the Building, it leans hard into comedy crime. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp and witty — you'll miss lines if you look away.

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

Both are built around an obsession that consumes a character completely and thrillingly. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

A former detective who drinks and slacks off matches wits against a brilliant serial killer disguised as a college student.

The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

A webtoon writer and a music teacher become neighbors in an apartment building and grow closer over the Christmas season through a series of small but meaningful encounters.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: loneliness and community. Same cozy energy throughout.

When two people are murdered on the same night, a magical marble resurrects them — but in new bodies. A lonely prosecutor wakes up as an averagely-looking man. His beautiful neighb…

The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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 …

Both are built around an obsession that consumes a character completely and thrillingly. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

A detective with no past, a secret government agent, and a tenacious FBI officer converge on a string of murders linked to a mysterious experiment conducted on children at an isola…

Like Only Murders in the Building, it leans hard into unlikely trio. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

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…

Both are built around an obsession that consumes a character completely and thrillingly.

A film producer creates a club for his ex-girlfriends to help them succeed while dealing with their past relationships.

Both are built around a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp and witty — you'll miss lines if you look away.

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…

Both are built around an obsession that consumes a character completely and thrillingly. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.