Shows Like The Shining

If you liked The Shining (1997), a sci-fi & fantasy and drama 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.

1
Goosebumps (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
A group of five high schoolers embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle – while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents' past.
2
Nancy Drew (2019)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery instead.
3
The Lost Room (2006)
★ 7.7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
A detective investigates a mysterious motel room, which acts as a portal to an alternate universe.
4
Storm of the Century (1999)
★ 7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When a blizzard hits an isolated island town it brings with it a mysterious stranger intent on terrorizing the people for a sinister purpose.
5
Debris (2021)
★ 7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Two federal agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
6
Resurrection (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
The people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to reappear.
7
The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985)
★ 6.9/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
8
Calls (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Interconnected phone conversations chronicle the mysterious story of a group of strangers whose lives are thrown into disarray in the lead-up to an apocalyptic event.
9
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
Beginning in a time of relative peace, we follow an ensemble cast of characters as they confront the re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of…
10
Murder in a Small Town (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his…
11
Recovery Road (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
Maddie is a teenage girl dealing with addiction who has a reputation as a party girl who doesn’t think she has a problem, until she’s confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and is forced to choose between…
12
Dark Shadows (1966)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis. The story bible, which was written…
13
Siren (2018)
★ 7.7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
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…
14
Downton Abbey (2010)
★ 8.1/10Also drama
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
15
Little Disasters (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
When Jess takes her baby to hospital with an unexplained head injury, her close friend, A&E doctor Liz, makes the excruciating decision to call social services, igniting an explosive chain of events.
16
The Secret of Crickley Hall (2012)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
A year after the disappearance of their son, Gabe and Eve Caleigh and their two daughters attempt to start anew, they head to Crickley Hall - a seemingly perfect countryside house. But when cellar doors start to open…
17
The Andromeda Strain (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
A U.S. satellite crash-lands near a small town in Utah, unleashing a deadly plague that kills virtually everyone except two survivors, who may provide clues to immunizing the population. As the military attempts to…
18
Reverie (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
A former detective specializing in human behavior is brought in when the launch of an advanced virtual reality program has dangerous and unintended consequences.
19
Roswell (1999)
★ 7.7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Bizarre things start happening in the little New Mexico town where UFOs were spotted in 1947. Cut to 1999, when a cute high-school student saves the life of a teenage waitress. Surrounded by cliques of clever…
20
Taken (2002)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
The show takes place from 1944 to 2002 and follows the lives of three families: the Crawfords, who seek to cover up the Roswell crash and the existence of aliens; the Keys, who are subject to frequent experimentation…