Movies and TV shows like Stranger Things
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Stranger Things (2016)
1.7M
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, psychological thriller, disturbing, mysterious, saga, period piece, spectacular ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot:
supernatural, monster, small town, telekinesis, parallel universe, friendship, parallel world, super powers, supernatural power, government conspiracy, group of friends, fear, boy, experiment, parents and children, paranormal phenomena, missing person, middle school, teenage boy, investigation, alternate dimension, secret experiment, propaganda, teenage girl, group of teenagers ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, future, year 1985, year 1986, 20th century, year 1987 ...
Place:
indiana, chicago, usa, soviet union, ussr, united states of america, russian
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Most similar movies to Stranger Things
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychotronic, suspenseful, spooky and atmospheric films and TV series with plots about supernatural, supernatural power, magic, investigation, teenager, small town and supernatural horror mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Stranger Things: Locke & Key (2020), It (2017), Dark (2017), Nowhere Boys (2013), Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
107K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Three siblings who move into their ancestral estate after their father's gruesome murder discover their new home's magical keys, which must be used in their stand against an evil creature who wants the keys and their powers.
Style:
captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, spooky ...
Audience:
teen fantasy, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
supernatural, magic, siblings, family bonds, small town, supernatural power, demon, puzzle, old dark house, father, murder, good versus evil ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
nova scotia, massachusetts
Similarity:
89%
687K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Style:
scary, suspense, spooky, horrifying, epic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
killer clown, clown, supernatural horror, coming of age, fear, small town, monster, evil clown, stephen king, villain, missing person, murderer ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, year 1988, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
maine
Similarity:
78%
531K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
Style:
mysterious, mind bending, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time loop, investigation, mysterious past, time machine, cave, missing child, time portal, deja vu, small town, disappearance, alternate dimension ...
Time:
year 1986, year 2019, 50s, 80s, year 1953 ...
Place:
germany, chernobyl, europe
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
Four teenage boys get lost in the forest and discover, when they return home, that they are in an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference - they were never born.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspense, serious, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
young heroes, friendship, youth, parallel world, good versus evil, supernatural ability, teenage boy, foe turned friend, lost, supernatural, friends, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
As her 16th birthday nears, Sabrina must choose between the witch world of her family and the human world of her friends. Based on the Archie comic.
Style:
satanic, dark, atmospheric, stylized, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
witch, witchcraft, high school, half breed, coming of age, teenager, black magic, devil worship, dedication, teenage love, satanism, teenage protagonist ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
65%
166K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
forest, small town, trapped, supernatural, creature, supernatural horror, struggle for survival, survival horror, secret, fictional city, trap, undercover ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a joint Canadian-American horror/fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was a joint production between the Canadian company Cinar and the American company Nickelodeon. The show was filmed in ...
Style:
scary, spooky, semi serious, suspenseful, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family friendly, boys' night, family outing ...
Plot:
halloween, paranormal, youth, surrealism, woods, ghost, danger, supernatural, escapades, alien encounter, mischievous children, fear ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
67%
177K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day ...
Style:
touching, suspenseful, serious, humorous, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, supernatural ability, high school, lycanthropy, youth, high school life, high school student, peril, friends, life turned upside down, team ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, mexico, idaho, california, japan ...
Similarity:
78%
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243K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, neo noir, mind bending, surreal ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, surrealism, small town, nightmare, murder, investigation, mysterious villain, hallucination, supernatural, mysterious death, small town life, mysterious place ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1990, 90s, year 1989
Place:
washington state, hawaii, washington d.c., usa, canada
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
Style:
suspense, ambiguous ending, mysterious, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, murder, small town, death, society, friendship, survival, trapped, fantasy world, separation, showdown, sex scene ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
68%
152K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story:
A series of murders prompts Mike Hanlon to suspect that the supernatural menace that he and a group of friends battled as children has returned. He begins to call his friends to remind them of the oath they swore: if It returned again, they would ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspense, demonic, spooky ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children
Plot:
stephen king, friendship, fear, killer clown, clown, children, childhood, supernatural, villain, monster, asthma, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 60s, year 1960, 80s
Place:
maine, usa, new york
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. ...
Style:
gothic, light, spooky, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, high school, supernatural, female protagonist, superhuman powers, supernatural ability, chosen one, vampire slayer, coming of age, strong female lead, vampire human love, teenager ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, 20th century, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
379K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, exciting, entertaining, retro ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
childhood, small town, monster, ufo, creature, alien, friendship, coming of age, train crash, young heroes, investigation, youth ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, year 1979, future, year 2011 ...
Place:
ohio, usa
Similarity:
78%
268K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, surreal, thrilling ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, investigation, mad scientist, parallel universe, alternate dimension, time travel, fbi, top secret, alternate reality, experiment, danger, paranormal activity ...
Time:
2000s, future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston, massachusetts, harvard university, canada
Similarity:
59%
126K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
Style:
enigmatic, mysterious, sensual, erotic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
parallel universe, alternate dimension, captive, disappearance, mysticism, alternate reality, supernatural power, blindness, forbidden love, mysterious disappearance, ritual, supernatural ...
Time:
future
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Goosebumps is a Canadian-American children's horror anthology television series based on R. L. Stine's Goosebumps books. It was one of the two popular television horror anthology children's series in the 1990s.
Style:
anthology, dark fairy tale, dark, sitcom, epic fantasy ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, family outing, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot:
children, scared, middle school, childhood love, goose, haunting, clairvoyant, insect, magic, shape shifting, generation y, lycanthropy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The Twilight Zone is the first of two revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series of the same name. It ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication.
Style:
anthology, psychological, atmospheric, scary, thought provoking ...
Plot:
supernatural, stephen king, supernatural ability, hidden truth, nobody believes, investigation, twists and turns, nightmare comes true, society, imaginary, abduction, vietnam war ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
71%
139K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
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:
captivating, exciting, fairy tale, detective, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, werewolf, legends and myths, creature, monster, supernatural ability, police detective, partners against crime, good versus evil, peril, protector, hunt down ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
portland oregon, oregon, usa
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story:
Sydney is a teenage girl navigating the trials and tribulations of high school while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.
Style:
feel good, captivating, light, humorous, anime ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, teenager, youth, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, lesbian lead character, telekinesis, high school, love, friendship, lgbt teen, lgbt ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Similarity:
60%
270K
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, mind bending, atmospheric, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens
Plot:
ufo, supernatural, investigation, conspiracy, fbi, paranormal investigation, top secret, paranormal activity, alien contact, alien abduction, space and aliens, female fbi agent ...
Time:
2010s, jurassic, future, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, phoenix arizona, arizona
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, anthology, enigmatic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
stephen king, murder, violence, danger, death, investigation, paranormal phenomena, small town, blood, supernatural power, mysticism, interracial adoption ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
Carrie is a mysterious warrior who escaped from a cult-like colony that guards the world from monsters hidden behind a secret door in the woods.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
supernatural, monster, forest, woods, lesbian, struggle for survival, good versus evil, teenager, supernatural power, protector, survival, paranoia ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Eerie, Indiana is an American television series that originally aired on NBC from 1991 to 1992. The series was created by José Rivera and Karl Schaefer, with Joe Dante serving as creative consultant.
A total of nineteen episodes were produced. The ...
Style:
spooky, scary, anthology, detective, sitcom ...
Audience:
kids, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, suburbs, youth, paranormal, teenager, magic, town, halloween, teenage boy, small town, investigation, urban legend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
indiana, usa
Similarity:
60%
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48K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, quarantine, missing person, disappearance, murderer, paranormal activity, investigation, foreknowledge, cure, supernatural power, danger, psychic ...
Time:
2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., seattle
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the government to fight for their country, the series follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into early deployment.
Style:
captivating, suspense, supernatural thriller, sad, deep ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
witch, lesbian, female protagonist, lgbt, magic, sorceress, military service, public service, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, female soldier, sapphic, military ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
usa, salem massachusetts
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspired by Brian Russell’s Creepypasta tale, Channel Zero: No-End House tells the story of a young woman named Margot Sleator, who visits the No End House, a bizarre house of horrors that consists of a series of increasingly disturbing rooms. ...
Style:
anthology, spooky, suspense, enigmatic, tense ...
Plot:
missing person, supernatural, small town, kidnapping, private investigation, child in peril, abduction, mysterious disappearance, investigation, family problems, getting home, mysticism ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
50%
44K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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, detective, suspenseful, supernatural thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural ability, female protagonist, surprising revelation, investigation, small town, stephen king, danger, fbi, mysterious place, paranormal activity, small town life ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
maine, usa, new england, nova scotia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the IDW Comic, Wynonna Earp follows Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures. With her unique abilities, and a posse of dysfunctional allies, she's the only thing that can bring the paranormal to ...
Style:
captivating, enigmatic, exciting, dark, supernatural thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lgbt, supernatural, sapphic, lgbtq, lesbian, paranormal, sister sister relationship, blood, justice, lesbian relationship, supernatural ability, demon ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
After a sceptical haematologist is plunged into a series of inexplicable events, he unwillingly becomes the go-to-guy for paranormal investigations.
Style:
suspense, captivating, scary, contemplative, bleak ...
Plot:
fear, religion and supernatural, paranormal activity, nightmare, exorcism, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, murder, paranormal, mummy, demon, haunted house ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1969
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
100%
207K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A wizard attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. Fearful for his safety, the wizard kept him imprisoned in a glass bottle for decades. After his escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on ...
Style:
dark fantasy, gothic, dark, fairy tale, supernatural thriller ...
Plot:
nightmare, spell, dreaming, kingdom, death, witchery, mythical creature, mythology, heroes, dream, ancient, terror ...
Similarity:
100%
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