Shows Like The Barrier

If you liked The Barrier (2020), 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
Billionaires' Bunker (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When a group of billionaires takes shelter in a luxury bunker, an old feud between two families resurfaces amid an unprecedented global conflict.
2
Colony (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
In the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. They live in Los Angeles, which has been occupied by a force of outside intruders. While some people…
3
Silo (2023)
★ 8.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth…
4
Fallout (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape…
5
Years and Years (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and war & politics
As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives…
6
The Man in the High Castle (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.
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The Passage (2019)
★ 7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing…
8
The Walking Dead (2010)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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Snowpiercer (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of…
10
Falling Skies (2011)
★ 7.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside…
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The 100 (2014)
★ 7.9/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100…
12
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
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War of the Worlds (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait…
14
The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world receive a message that inspires them to leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to…
15
Z Nation (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery and drama
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his…
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See (2019)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.
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Utopia Falls (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
In a genre bending take on a coming of age story, a group of teens in a distant future colony uncover an ancient forbidden archive of historical, cultural and musical relics. This discovery forces them to question…
18
The Wheel of Time (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and drama
The lives of five young villagers change forever when a strange and powerful woman arrives, claiming one of them is the child of an ancient prophecy with the power to tip the balance between Light and Dark forever…
19
Sweet Tooth (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and sci-fi & fantasy
On an epic adventure across a postapocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's part human and part deer searches for family and home with a gruff protector.
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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…