Shows Like Based on a True Story

Only Murders in the Building is an American mystery-comedy television series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman. It follows three strangers played by Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez who share an obsession with a true-crime podcast. After a murder in their affluent Upper West Side apartment building, the three neighbors decide to start their own program covering their investigation of the murder.

A series about a powerful friendship that blossoms between a tightly wound widow and a free spirit with a shocking secret.

Eve's life as a spy is not adding up to what she had hoped it would be when she started. She is a bored, very smart, MI5 security officer who is very desk-bound. Villanelle is a very talented killer, mercurial in mood, who clings to the luxuries of her job. Eve and Villanelle go head to head in a fierce game of cat and mouse, each woman equally obsessed with the other as Eve is tasked with hunting down the psychopathic assassin.

After an incident in a parking lot, road rage ensues resulting in a bitter feud between the two antagonists. The vendetta between them and the lengths they'll go to to avenge themselves on the other spirals out of control, jeopardising everything and everyone in their lives.

Flight attendant Cassandra Bowden wakes in her hotel room in Bangkok, hungover from the night before, with a dead body lying next to her. Afraid to call the police, she continues her morning as if nothing happened, joining the other flight attendants and pilots traveling to the airport. In New York, she is met by FBI agents who question her about her recent layover in Bangkok. Still unable to piece the night together, she wonders if she could be the killer.

A multi-generational, coming-of-age love story disguised as a fast-paced mystery about the disappointment of time. An anniversary trip puts a marriage to the test when the couple finds themselves embroiled in one of the Mayan Riviera's most bizarre unsolved mysteries that took place fifteen years prior.

Explores how a young woman's mysterious death creates a traumatic ripple effect that ultimately pulls her surviving sister into a dangerous pursuit of the truth.

About the residents of a small town called Deerfield, who one day discover a magical, destiny-predicting machine in their grocery store.

An English department chairman at an underfunded college, Professor Hank Devereaux toes the line between midlife crisis and full-blown meltdown, navigating the offbeat chaos in his personal and professional life.

Charlie has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can't help but investigate and solve.

A young woman is thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets.

Follows Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, who decided not to enter the afterlife to stay on earth and investigate crimes that involve supernatural stuff.

Follows Samantha Fink who, after a spectacularly embarrassing public breakdown, is forced to move back home with her overbearing mother to sober up and avoid jail time.