Movies and TV shows like The Dresden Files
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The Dresden Files (2007)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.
Style:
exciting, serious, stylized, anime, spooky, suspenseful, urban fantasy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, magic, investigation, magical, private detective, wizards, paranormal activity, wizards and magicians, investigator, victim, supernatural ability, police, police officer, suspicion, superhero, witch, beast, occult, super powers, tv show, ghost, magician, bodies, reluctant, tough cop ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, illinois
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Most similar movies to The Dresden Files
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting and captivating films and TV series with plots about supernatural, supernatural ability, magic, danger, superhero, investigation and supernatural power mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Dresden Files: Warehouse 13 (2009), Sanctuary (2008), Haven (2010), The Listener (2009), Constantine (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical ...
Style:
exciting, serious, humorous, funny, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, artifact, ancient mystery, secret place, riddles and clues, top secret, partners, investigation, legends and myths, undercover, paranormal activity, secret agents ...
Place:
usa, south dakota
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
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The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals - a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, monster, rescue, secret organization, werewolf, experiment, scientist, mutant, research, fate of humanity, transformation ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, bleak, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural ability, female protagonist, investigation, surprising revelation, fbi, small town, paranormal activity, small town life, social relations, death, special agents ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa, new england
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89%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
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Story:
Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares with no one, has made him a bit of a loner. Until now, Toby ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, serious, emotional, suspenseful
Plot:
supernatural ability, investigation, supernatural, telepathy, supernatural power, uncover truth, psychic power, psychic, paramedic, haunted by the past, save the day, super powers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A man struggling with his faith is haunted by the sins of his past but is suddenly thrust into the role of defending humanity from the gathering forces of darkness.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary, supernatural thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, angel, supernatural power, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, demon, save the world, rescue, demonic possession, good versus evil, superhero, possession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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TV series similar to The Mentalist
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, exciting, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, werewolf, monster, legends and myths, creature, supernatural ability, police detective, partners against crime, good versus evil, peril, hunt down, protector ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
portland oregon, oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Mick St. John is a captivating, charming and immortal private investigator from Los Angeles, who defies the traditional blood-sucking norms of his vampire tendencies by using his wit and powerful supernatural abilities to help the living.
Style:
light, witty, suspenseful, serious, neo noir
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, investigation, dangerous attraction, reporter, supernatural ability, fall in love, vampire human love, immortality, supernatural romance, impossible love, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
When ordinary teenager Kyra touches a mysterious book, she is transformed into a Tri-ling-–part-human, part-fairy and part-elf. In addition to acquiring amazing magical powers, Kyra discovers a secret world of magic all around her.
Style:
feel good, exciting, captivating, light
Audience:
teen fantasy
Plot:
magic, friendship, magical power, elf, parallel world, fairy, research, magical creature, teenager, magical, temple, wizards and magicians ...
Place:
asia, vietnam, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone was an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show, credited as "based ...
Style:
serious, psychological, atmospheric, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
psychic, time travel, psychic power, supernatural, twists and turns, friendship, hopes, supernatural ability, small town life, changing the past or future, destiny, acceptance ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.
Style:
gothic, scary, atmospheric, serious, bloody ...
Plot:
supernatural, characters in danger, ghost, legends and myths, victim, investigator, determination, fate of humanity, curses spells and rituals, murder, time travel, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Films like Lucifer
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
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Lost Girl focuses on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who ...
Style:
sexy, exciting, serious, captivating, supernatural thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, lgbt, supernatural ability, succubus, female protagonist, werewolf, victim, love triangle, private detective, seduction, evil force, femme fatale ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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60%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
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Blood Ties is a Canadian television series based on the Blood Books by Tanya Huff; the show was created by Peter Mohan. It is set in Toronto, Canada and has a similar premise to an earlier series also set in Toronto, Forever Knight, in which a ...
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, serious, rough
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, investigation, private detective, vampire human love, love triangle, love and romance, murder, immortality, romancing partners, vampirism, supernatural romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Witchblade is an American television series that aired on TNT from 2001 to 2002. The series is based on the Witchblade comic book series, and followed a pilot film which debuted in August 2000. Some of the episodes were written by Ralph Hemecker, ...
Style:
exciting, serious, stylized, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
superhero, magical object, superheroine, policewoman, heroes, superhuman powers, female protagonist, fighting crime, heroic mission, supernatural ability, police detective, supernatural ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 441 min.
TV show
Story:
Chloe King is looking forward to celebrating her birthday with her friends and single mother, just like every other year... that is until she starts developing heightened abilities and discovers she's being pursued by a mysterious figure. Chloe ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, exciting, enigmatic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, high school, supernatural ability, life turned upside down, teenage life, supernatural power, superhuman powers, chase, youth, mysterious character, disorder, super strength ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, UK
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Story:
The coming-of-age journey of five fairies attending Alfea, a magical boarding school in the Otherworld where they must learn to master their powers while navigating love, rivalries, and the monsters that threaten their very existence.
Style:
captivating, exciting, light, supernatural thriller, stylized
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
magic, fairy, magical power, imaginary kingdom, magical, good versus evil, wizards and magicians, supernatural ability, teenage life, witch, love and romance, adventure hero ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Supernatural
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Collector is a Canadian supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil. After over 600 years of "collecting" the souls of people at the end of their 10-year ...
Style:
thought provoking, gloomy, tense, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
deal with the devil, haunted by the past, unfulfillment, negotiation, hopes, escapades, unfulfilled love, lifesaver, crime and punishment, redemption, devil, mythical creature ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, stylized, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, psychic, strong female lead, supernatural ability, who done it, family relations, prophecy, parents and children, a vision, fighting crime, supportive spouse, female protagonist ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, phoenix arizona, arizona
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
Kelly Quinn and her two BFF's, Darbie and Hannah, stumble upon her grandmother's mysterious cookbook in the attic and discover some far from ordinary recipes. When the Shut'em Up Shortcake silences Kelly's pesky little brother ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, feel good, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, friends, wizards and magicians, magic spell, magic, friendship, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, best friends, disorder, halloween, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with ...
Style:
witty, talky, suspenseful, serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, sherlock holmes, talented, female partner, unconventional method, prodigy, mastermind, partners, riddles and clues, private detective, resourceful, law enforcement ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A preacher sets out on a mission to make the almighty himself confess his sin of abandoning the world. With his best friend Cassidy, an alcoholic Irish vampire, his love Tulip, a red blooded gun towing Texan, and the power of genesis, an unholy ...
Style:
mystical, funny, biblical, semi serious, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, preacher, god, dark humor, supernatural power, twists and turns, angel, heaven and hell, sin, dark hero, superhero ...
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Criminal Minds
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The coastal town of Bristol Cove is known for its legend of once being home to mermaids. When the arrival of a mysterious girl proves this folklore all too true, the battle between man and sea takes a very vicious turn as these predatory beings ...
Style:
exciting, enigmatic, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
mermaid, boat, legend, sea, suburban life, investigation, myth, suspense, magical creature, fisherman, small town, harbor ...
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100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
When Clary Fray's mother has disappeared, Clary joins a band of Shadowhunters; demon killing hunters, and gets caught up in a plan to save the world.
Style:
captivating, tense, dark fantasy, serious, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, demon, magic, supernatural being, female protagonist, werewolf, supernatural power, good versus evil, friendship, gay, family secret ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Melissa de la Cruz's best-selling novel, "Witches of East End" centers on the adventures of Joanna Beauchamp and her two adult daughters Freya and Ingrid -- both of whom unknowingly are their family's next generation of ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
witch, supernatural, magic, family secret, curses spells and rituals, spell, supernatural ability, creature, immortality, magical, evil force, siblings relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
long island, new york, usa
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32%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Believe is about an unlikely relationship between a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her from the evil elements that hunt her power.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
telekinesis, young heroes, heroes, protector, supernatural, supernatural ability, orphan, escapades, on the run, good versus evil, graphic violence, foreknowledge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Like most families that settle inside The Gates, the Monahans are unmoored from a complicated life they abandoned in Chicago. There's something very different about this place, almost... haunting. Named the new police chief of The Gates, Nick ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, youth, family in danger, witch, lifestyle, werewolf, female werewolf, supernatural power, vampirism, neighbor, suburban life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Films like Grimm
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, disturbing, fairy tale, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
magic, fantasy world, supernatural ability, magician, wizards and magicians, supernatural power, studying, wizards, school, magic spell, college, betrayal ...
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Set in the fictional college town of Hilltowne, Charmed follows the lives of three sisters, Macy, Mel and Maggie Vera who, after the tragic death of their mother, discover they are three of the most powerful witches of all time.
Style:
captivating, enigmatic, gothic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
witch, magic, hereditary gift of witchcraft, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, demon, witchcraft, friendship, family relations, twists and turns, supernatural ...
Place:
usa, michigan
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30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, are assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, referred to as “Powers.” Set amidst today’s paparazzi culture, Powers asks the questions, what if the ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, scenic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
superhero, supernatural, supernatural ability, heroes, life is a bitch, youth, rivalry, destiny, superhuman powers, law enforcement, fighting crime, police detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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50%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Ian Archer wakes up one morning to find himself at a mysterious academy for teens with special abilities. Unable to find answers to his questions from the school’s faculty and cut off from any kind of outside contact or means of escape, Ian forms ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, serious, heroic, stylized
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, investigation, supernatural ability, teenager, boarding school, isolation, suspicion, teenage life, supernatural power, high school hunk, high school, rebelliousness ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Case Histories is a British drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie detective novels by Kate Atkinson. It stars Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, investigator, uncover truth, missing person, haunted by the past, suspicion, disappearance, murder mystery, bbc, murder, riddles and clues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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