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What if you woke up one day to discover your identity, life, and even your fingerprints had been stolen? While it will probably mean that your existential crisis just got real, jokes apart, that’s actually what happens to Je Moon-jae in Mousetrap, the ill-fated protagonist of Netflix’s mind-bending K-thriller.

The Netflix K-drama follows Moon-jae, a reclusive novelist living a completely isolated life, which is upended one sudden day when his phone stops recognising his fingerprint, passwords fail, and his managing friend disappears. He discovers that a mysterious identity has taken over his entire existence, leaving Moon-jae as the imposter of his own life.

While the mystery draws from Ludovico’s Kakao Webtoon, the high-stakes tension, dark psychological edge, and identity-theft mystery certainly call for more.

So, if you’re ready to dig deeper, here are five Netflix shows to follow up with after Mousetrap.

Five Netflix shows to binge after Mousetrap:

The Frog (Mo Wan-il, 2024)

Mousetrap is essentially based on a Kakao webtoon, inspired by an old Korean folktale in which a rat eats chipped fingernails and transforms into that very person. Similarly, The Frog’s title and core premise draw on the Korean proverb “a frog dies from a carelessly thrown stone,” suggesting ordinary people suffer because of others’ thoughtless actions. Building on these blocks, both stories start with an ordinary, unassuming protagonist whose quiet routine is upended by an external, destructive force.

While The Rat is the menacing force in Mousetrap, a single unpredictable guest causes hell to break loose in The Frog, making it a must-watch follow-up to the 2026 webtoon adaptation. The 2024 psychological thriller follows two motel and vacation rental owners in different timelines whose lives are completely destroyed by unexpected, murderous guests who unwittingly trap themselves in a cycle of mistakes to save their backs.

Mask Girl (Kim Yong-hoon, 2023)

Mask Girl, like Mousetrap, has a distinct brand of dark, unsettling psychological thriller premise that deals with the terrifying fragility of a person’s identity. Based on Mae-mi and Hee-se’s Naver webtoon, the black-comedy crime thriller follows Kim Mo-mi, an ordinary police officer who, despite dreaming of performing onstage since childhood, struggles with deep insecurities as an adult. As a result, she turns to a secret double life.

By day, she juggles a mundane job while nursing an unrequited crush on her boss; by night, she puts on a mask, turning into a sensational internet camgirl called “Mask Girl,” who captivates online viewers with charm and seduction. Mask Girl and Mousetrap are both adapted from gritty webtoons; because of this origin, they share a stylised, edgy narrative structure that leans into moral ambiguity, bizarre twists, and a cynical view of modern societal obsessions, including appearance and digital footprints.

The Art of Sarah (Kim Jin-min, 2026)

Since an identity theft triggers the events of Mousetrap, The Art of Sarah enters the frame and makes itself right at home in this watchlist. The mystery thriller opens with the discovery of a body in the Seoul sewers, initially identified as Sarah Kim, the elite head of luxury bag brand Boudoir, due to an ankle tattoo and a rare designer bag. But then the real Sarah Kim walks into the police station alive and well, turning the case into a psychological chess match and raising the obvious question: what is even real?

Detective Park is assigned to the high-profile case, and doesn’t take long to figure out that Sarah Kim is nothing more than a myth. The Art of Sarah captures the unravelling of Sarah’s world as Detective Park becomes hell-bent on peeling back the layers of the glamorous façade, leaving her to turn to desperate resorts to stay afloat as the building blocks of her empire, which are nothing but lies, begin to crumble.

Bodies (Marco Kreuzpaintner and Haolu Wang, 2023)

While Bodies deals with time-travelling conspiracies and Mousetrap tackles a visceral identity theft nightmare, the miniseries share a deeply unsettling premise built around a singular, impossible mystery. In the sci-fi thriller, the core mystery is driven by the exact same corpse turning up in the exact same London location across four different eras – sounds wild, right? But no less than when the K-thriller’s protagonist wakes up to his identity and life stolen.

Bodies follows four separate detectives – Alfred Hillinghead (1890), Charles Whiteman (1941), Shahara Hasan (2023), and Iris Maplewood (2053) – as they investigate the strange turning up of a single, identical naked corpse with an eye wound and a distinct wrist tattoo at Longharvest Lane, London, uncovering a sprawling 150-year time-travel conspiracy that thrives on disorientation like the rat story.

Fool Me Once (David Moore and Nimer Rashed, 2024)

Again, if you’re looking for a thriller that plays mind games, builds on a shocking deception, and lures you in with the sheer power of the impossibility of an inciting incident, Fool Me Once is a fascinating follow-up to Mousetrap. Based on Harlan Coben’s bestselling novel, the eight-episode British limited series follows Maya, a grieving widower and former military pilot, whose husband, Joe, was supposedly shot and killed during an armed robbery.

After the funeral, as Maya returns to work and takes a friend’s suggestion to install a nanny cam in her two-year-old daughter’s room, she’s shocked to witness Joe show up, well and alive, on the hidden camera, forcing her to launch her own investigation in parallel with authorities. As Maya investigates how her husband could possibly be alive, she uncovers a web of high-society secrets, shady pharmaceutical corporations, and an unlikely connection to her own sister’s death.