Love Next Door is a 2024 kdrama written by Shin Ha-eun and directed by Yoo je-won. It is a fast-paced romcom of childhood friendships, one-sided love turning into (resentful) adult love, over-bearing, over-interfering, sexist parents on one side and clueless, indifferent parents on the other.
I see you is a 2016 novel by Clare Mactintosh which is thriller with no violence (other than to your sense of being as a woman) or gore but which still sends chills down your spine.
The Glory is the 2023 revenge crime thriller that set the bar very high for the rest of kdrama series of the same genre. The series is said to be inspired by a 2016 bullying incident in Cheongju, South Korea where a group of high-schoolers bullied a girl very badly, causing her severe burns.
8 mm is a 1999 crime drama (not a thriller) on the investigation and fall-out into the existence of a “snuff film”.
Birdsong is a famous novel by Sebastian Faulks depicting the lives of British soldiers fighting the Germans in France, seen through the eyes of a British lieutenant Stephen Wraysford.
The Bear is a widely popular and generously awarded, 2022 American web-series.
The Robe is one of the most popular novels, of American novelist Lloyd C Douglas, which published in 1942, exploring the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the journey of his last robe, narrated through the life of a Roman legion, Marcellus Gallio.
The Wallander series is based on Swedish novelist Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series, adapted for BBC by Richard Cottan, Peter Harness and Richard McBrian.. Starring Kenneth Branagh and others, it is a beautiful series despite its macabre content.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a 2023 Australian mini-drama series based on Holly Ringland’s novel dealing with generational trauma suffered by women especially at the hands of men who supposedly love them.
The Virgins of the Rocks is a beautiful novel by Gabrielle D'Annunzio published in 1896, translated to English by Agatha Hughes.
