Shows Like The Leftovers

If you liked The Leftovers (2014), 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
Wayward Pines (2015)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're…
2
American Rust (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
A compelling family drama and a timeless story told through the eyes of complicated and compromised chief of police Del Harris of a Pennsylvania Rust Belt town full of good people making bad choices.
3
FROM (2022)
★ 8.5/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of…
4
Glitch (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
A police officer and a doctor face an emotionally charged mystery when seven local residents inexplicably return from the dead in peak physical form.
5
Last Seen (2026)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
When emergency dispatcher Ian Ridley receives a frantic call from a teenager he believes could be his long-missing daughter, he stops at nothing to find her.
6
The Institute (2025)
★ 7.5/10Also 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…
7
Wolf Pack (2023)
★ 7.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When a raging wildfire releases a supernatural creature, four young adults find themselves drawn together under a full moon.
8
The OA (2016)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for a secret mission.
9
NOS4A2 (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
A young Victoria "Vic" McQueen discovers she has the power to unlock portals that help her find lost objects. As she delves further into this hidden universe, she encounters many other "inscape travelers" - some…
10
Aquarius (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
In the late 1960s, a Los Angeles police sergeant with a complicated personal life starts tracking a small-time criminal and budding cult leader seeking out vulnerable women to join his “cause.” The name of that man is…
11
Long Bright River (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
A police officer patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders begins in the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her personal history might be related to the case.
12
The Stand (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
In a world mostly wiped out by the plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors…
13
Harlan Coben's Shelter (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
Follow Mickey Bolitar after the death of his father leads him to start a new life in suburban New Jersey. When another new student disappears, Mickey finds himself tangled in a web of secrets. With the help of two new…
14
IT: Welcome to Derry (2025)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising…
15
The Mist (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
A small town family is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other.
16
Tales from the Loop (2020)
★ 7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.
17
Y: The Last Man (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Traverse a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. Follow the survivors in this new world as they struggle with their…
18
The Society (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
19
Sharp Objects (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also drama
Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
20
Doom Patrol (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities — but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who…