Stranger Things
2016 Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery, DramaWhen a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
TV Shows like Stranger Things
Discover a curated list of captivating tv shows similar to Stranger Things. Explore films such as Supernatural, Dark, and The X-Files, around the themes of government conspiracy, 1980s, friendship. Other notable keywords include telekinesis and single mother.
#1
Supernatural
Synopsis:
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling e…
Starring:
Jensen Ackles,
Jared Padalecki,
Alexander Calvert
#2
Dark
Synopsis:
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.
Starring:
Louis Hofmann,
Karoline Eichhorn
#3
The X-Files
Synopsis:
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 make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
Starring:
Gillian Anderson,
David Duchovny,
Mitch Pileggi
#4
Black Mirror
Synopsis:
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
Starring:
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#5
It
Synopsis:
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.
Starring:
Jack Dylan Grazer,
Nicholas Hamilton,
Jake Sim
#6
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Synopsis:
Miles Morales is juggling his life between being a high school student and being a spider-man. When Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk uses a super collider, others from across the Spider-Verse are transported to this dimension.
Starring:
Jake Johnson,
Zoë Kravitz,
Mahershala Ali
#7
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Synopsis:
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government interventi…
Starring:
David M. O'Dell,
Peter Coyote,
Drew Barrymore
Plot:
alien,
friendship,
extraterrestrial,
friendly alien,
california,
bicycle,
halloween,
suburb,
1980s,
empathy
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#8
Power Rangers
Synopsis:
Saban's Power Rangers follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our heroes quickly discover they are the only ones who can save the planet. But to do so, they will have to overcome their real-life issues and before it’s too la…
Starring:
David Denman,
Naomi Scott,
Ludi Lin
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#9
Super 8
Synopsis:
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 accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrify…
Starring:
Elle Fanning,
Bruce Greenwood,
Kyle Chandler
#10
The Goonies
Synopsis:
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.
Starring:
Joe Pantoliano,
Corey Feldman,
Josh Brolin
Plot:
treasure hunt,
group of friends,
treasure map,
teen comedy,
treasure,
map,
pirate,
teen movie,
outlaw,
hiking
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#11
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Synopsis:
It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with their dreams. Too bad Freddy's decided to herald his return by invading the kids' dreams and scaring them into committing suicide.
Starring:
Heather Langenkamp,
Robert Englund,
Laurence Fishburne
#12
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Synopsis:
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
Starring:
Gil Bellows,
Austin Abrams,
Dean Norris
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#13
The Ring
Synopsis:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better …
Starring:
Naomi Watts,
Martin Henderson,
Daveigh Chase
#14
Halloween
Synopsis:
Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Starring:
Judy Greer,
Dylan Arnold,
Virginia Gardner
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#15
Slender Man
Synopsis:
In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
Starring:
Joey King,
Kevin Chapman,
Javier Botet
#16
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Synopsis:
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devis…
Starring:
Johnny Depp,
Heather Langenkamp,
Robert Englund
#17
X-Men: Apocalypse
Synopsis:
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Starring:
Michael Fassbender,
Oscar Isaac,
James McAvoy
Plot:
mutant,
x men,
superhero team,
superhero,
year 1983,
1980s,
based on comic book,
marvel comics,
comic book,
good versus evil
...
#18
The Dark Tower
Synopsis:
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
Starring:
Jackie Earle Haley,
Dennis Haysbert,
Idris Elba
Plot:
gunslinger,
based on novel,
parallel dimension,
science fantasy,
evil wizard,
shotgun,
gun store,
gun duel,
bullet time,
gun fu
...
#19
The Last Picture Show
Synopsis:
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures. Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhe…
Starring:
Randy Quaid,
Cloris Leachman,
Ellen Burstyn
#20
House of Wax
Synopsis:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Starring:
Jared Padalecki,
Elisha Cuthbert,
Chad Michael Murray