Shows Like The Frankenstein Chronicles

If you liked The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015), 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.

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The Nevers (2021)
★ 7.9/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious…
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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…
3
Fantasy Island (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
This contemporary version of the classic drama series delves into the “what if” questions that keep us awake at night. Each episode tells emotional, provocative stories about people who walk in with a desire, but end…
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Miss Scarlet (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the…
5
The Buccaneers (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama
A group of fun-loving American girls burst onto the scene in tightly corseted 1870s London, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and status, the buccaneers' hearts are set on much more…
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Desperate Romantics (2009)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
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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…
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Penny Dreadful (2014)
★ 7.8/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a…
9
The Hollow Crown (2012)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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A Thousand Blows (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and…
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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.
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Heroes (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
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Sense8 (2015)
★ 7.7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people…
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Superstition (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
The Mosley family keeps the secrets and dark history of a town located on the outskirts of New Orleans that is also a landing patch for the world's darkest manifestations of fear, guided into the world by a mysterious…
15
Tell Me Lies (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
When Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. They quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will…
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12 Monkeys (2015)
★ 7.4/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a…
17
The Vampire Lestat (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
The Vampire Lestat goes on tour while being haunted by "muses" from his past. As the band's popularity grows, so does Lestat's influence over vampires & humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat's power in…
18
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.
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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…
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Bloom (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with the power to restore their youth.