Shows Like The Boy Next World

If you liked The Boy Next World (2025), a drama 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.

1
Ticket to Heaven (2026)
★ 9/10Also drama
A grieving student pursuing priesthood faces a crisis of faith when he falls for a troubled new classmate in a world ruled by strict dogma.
2
Neverwhere (1996)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below…
3
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.
4
The Flash (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The…
5
Heartstopper (2022)
★ 8.6/10Also drama
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love.
6
My Stand-In (2024)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
Joe, a stuntman reincarnated into another's body after an accident, reconnects with Ming, who seeks answers about Joe's mysterious second chance at life.
7
The Winchesters (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Before Sam and Dean, there was John and Mary. Told from the perspective of narrator Dean Winchester, this is the epic, untold love story of how John met Mary, and how they put it all on the line to not only save their…
8
Until We Meet Again (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
Korn and Intouch’s tragiclove ends in gunfire, but years later, Pharm and Dean are drawn together by fate, unaware of their past connection.
9
Naomi (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Follow a teen girl’s journey from her small northwestern town to the heights of the multiverse. When a supernatural event shakes her hometown to the core, Naomi sets out to uncover its origins, and what she discovers…
10
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.
11
Birds of Prey (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
The series is set in New Gotham City, several years after it has been apparently abandoned by Batman. In his absence, Huntress, Oracle and Dinah are now the protectors of New Gotham: the Birds of Prey, and had taken…
12
Charmed (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
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…
13
The Heart Killers (2024)
★ 8.9/10Also drama
A mission to expose two assassin brothers spirals when Kant’s feelings for one of them threaten to blow his cover—and maybe more.
14
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…
15
Marvel's Runaways (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other must unite against a common foe – their parents.
16
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.
17
Hex (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Shy college student Cassie Hughes only wants to be accepted by others, but is only truly loved by her best friend Thelma Bates. Cassie later discovers that she possesses dangerous powers, and is being drawn into a…
18
Highlander: The Series (1992)
★ 7.4/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
19
The Rainmaker (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head to head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend, Sarah. Rudy, along with his boss, Bruiser, and her disheveled paralegal, Deck, uncovers two…
20
Police Story (1973)
★ 7/10Also drama
Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the Empire of Chaiba, a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia. He initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.