Shows Like The Tripods
If you liked The Tripods (1984), a 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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Star-Crossed (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasyPassion and politics threaten the peace and an epic romance ignites between a human girl and an alien boy when he and eight others of his kind (The Orion 9) are integrated into a suburban high school 10 years after…
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Ben 10: Alien Force (2008)
★ 8.3/10Also sci-fi & fantasy15-year-old Ben Tennyson chooses to once again put on the Omnitrix and discovers that it has recalibrated and can now transform him into 10 brand-new aliens. Joined by his super-powered cousin Gwen Tennyson and his…
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The Invaders (1967)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasyThe Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a…
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Naomi (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also sci-fi & fantasyFollow 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…
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WondLa (2024)
★ 7.4/10Also sci-fi & fantasyForced to flee her underground sanctuary for Earth’s surface, Eva discovers a world unlike anything she expected. As she journeys across perilous terrain and unknown civilizations, Eva searches to answer the ultimate…
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My Favorite Martian (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasyNewspaper reporter Tim O'Hara finds a crashed alien spaceship that contains one live alien. Not wanting to be discovered by the authorities, the Martian assumes the identity of Tim's Uncle Martin and begins to repair…
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Earth: Final Conflict (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasyYears ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.
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Invader ZIM (2001)
★ 8.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasyZim dreams of greatness. Unfortunately, though, he's hopelessly inept as a space invader. Desperate to be rid of the annoying Zim, his planet's leaders send him on a mission to infiltrate Earth, providing him with…
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Ben 10 (2005)
★ 8.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasyWhen 10-year-old Ben Tennyson discovers a mysterious device, he gains the power to change into ten different alien heroes, each with uniquely awesome powers. With such abilities at his disposal, Ben realizes a greater…
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Ben 10: Omniverse (2012)
★ 8.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasyA year after the events that took place during the "Final Battle" and equipped with an all-new completed Omnitrix, 16-year-old Ben Tennyson has to face new enemies.
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Taken (2002)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasyThe 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…
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Roswell (1999)
★ 7.7/10Also sci-fi & fantasyBizarre 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…
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Star Trek: Prodigy (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasyA motley crew of young rebellious aliens commandeer an old Starfleet ship and must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search for a better future. These six young outcasts know nothing…
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My Adventures with Superman (2023)
★ 8.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasyTwenty-somethings Clark Kent, the bright and driven Lois Lane, and their best friend Jimmy Olsen begin to discover who they are and everything they can accomplish together as an investigative reporting team at the…
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Nowhere Boys (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasyFour 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.
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Dark Skies (1996)
★ 7.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasyDark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a two-hour pilot episode. The success of The X-Files on Fox proved there was…
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The War of the Worlds (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasyIn Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life together as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their…
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Debris (2021)
★ 7/10Also sci-fi & fantasyTwo 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.
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Childhood's End (2015)
★ 7/10Also sci-fi & fantasyThe peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious “Overlords,” whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
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Gabby Duran and the Unsittables (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasyGabby Duran, who constantly feels like she’s living in the shadows of her mother and younger sister, finally finds her moment to shine when she inadvertently lands an out-of-this-world job to babysit an unruly group of…