Shows Like L.U.C.A.: The Beginning

If you liked L.U.C.A.: The Beginning (2021), a mystery and sci-fi & fantasy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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The Rook (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and sci-fi & fantasy
After waking in a park with total amnesia — and surrounded by dead bodies, all wearing latex gloves — a young woman must fight to uncover her past, and resume her position at the head of Britain’s most secret…
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Sisyphus (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and mystery
An unfathomable incident introduces a genius engineer to dangerous secrets of the world — and to a woman from the future who's come looking for him.
3
Bodies (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also mystery and sci-fi & fantasy
One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.
4
The Institute (2025)
★ 7.5/10Also mystery and sci-fi & fantasy
When 14 year old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities. In a nearby town, haunted…
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Grid (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and mystery
In 1997, a mysterious ghost saved humankind and then disappeared. The mysterious ghost appears again 24 years later and helps a serial killer escape. Kim Sae-ha, Jung Sae-byeok and Song Eo-jin pursue the ghost for…
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Impulse (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
16-year-old Henry Coles is an outsider in her new town of Reston, New York. With a major chip on her shoulder and no friends, she remains withdrawn and isolated, but everything changes when a traumatic encounter with a…
7
The Umbrella Academy (2019)
★ 8.4/10Also action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
Reunited by their father's death, estranged siblings with extraordinary powers uncover shocking family secrets — and a looming threat to humanity.
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Titans (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.
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Signal (2016)
★ 8.2/10Also mystery and sci-fi & fantasy
Detectives from the present and a detective from the past communicate via walkie-talkie to solve a long-time unsolved case.
10
The East Palace (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also mystery and action & adventure
A man who walks the spirit world and a court lady who hears the dead enter the East Palace by the king's orders — can they unravel its dark secrets?
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Lazarus (2025)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
In 2052, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist develops a drug called Hapna — a cure-all that has the unexpected side-effect of causing death three years later. In response to this threat, a special force of…
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Emergence (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery and sci-fi & fantasy
A police chief takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the…
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Touch (2012)
★ 6.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and mystery
Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted…
14
Intruders (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and sci-fi & fantasy
Members of a secret society chase immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others.
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Tru Calling (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and mystery
A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.
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Legion (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow…
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Marvel's Cloak & Dagger (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
Two teenagers from very different backgrounds awaken to newly acquired superpowers which mysteriously link them to one another.
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Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also action & adventure and mystery
The early adventures of young Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.
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The Imperfects (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
After an experimental gene therapy turns them into monsters, three twenty-somethings band together to hunt down the scientist responsible and force him to make them human again.
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Lost (2004)
★ 8/10Also mystery and action & adventure
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.