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Plot Summary:
The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone was an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show, credited as "based on characters" from Stephen King's 1979 novel of the same name, first aired in 2002, and was produced by Lionsgate Television and CBS Paramount Network Television for the USA Network. The show was originally commissioned for UPN, but the network later dropped the show and it was picked up instead by USA. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for its first five seasons. The sixth and last season was billed as "The season that changes everything" and production was moved to Montreal. The Dead Zone was expected to be renewed for a seventh season, however due to low ratings and high production cost the series was canceled in December 2007, without a proper series finale. Some rumors spread that Syfy would pick up the series after it was canceled by USA, but it did not happen. Rumors of a made for TV movie have all but faded with time.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, atmospheric, scary, bad ending, gloomy, suspenseful
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Riley Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl named Riley has the ability to travel back in time and uses this power to save her friend who commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, offbeat
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Tru Calling (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tru Calling is an American television supernatural drama series that was shown on the Fox Network from 2003 to 2005. Created by Jon Harmon Feldman, the series was produced by Original Film, Oh That Gus!, Inc., and 20th Century Fox Television. The show starred Eliza Dushku as Tru Davies, a woman who works at the city morgue. In the course of her job, the bodies of dead people start talking to Tru, asking her for help. Tru then finds herself reliving their last day alive, trying to keep their death from happening.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, touching, detective, thrilling, sincere, suspenseful
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Carnivàle (2003)
Plot Summary:
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, surreal, erotic, psychedelic, dramatic, apocalyptic, period piece, costume drama
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The InBetween (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cassie Bedford has visions... whether she likes it or not. Sometimes she encounters unsettled spirits who need her help. When her father, Detective Tom Hackett, and his new partner, former FBI agent Damien Asante, need assistance, Cassie reluctantly uses her abilities and helps solve some of the city’s most challenging cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, bleak, detective, suspenseful
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American Gods (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about an ex-con who becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, psychedelic, serious, supernatural thriller, erotic, atmospheric, spiritual, absurd, anime, dread
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The Collector (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Collector is a Canadian supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil. After over 600 years of "collecting" the souls of people at the end of their 10-year deals, Morgan Pym negotiates with the Devil for the ability to aid the damned in redeeming themselves rather than sending them to Hell. Under the Devil's mocking gaze, Morgan assists his "clients" in undoing the damage their deals have done because of the devil shifting good luck towards the client and away from others. The series is set in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where it was also filmed. CHUM cancelled the program after three seasons.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, gloomy, demonic, tense, atmospheric, serious
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Early Edition (1996)
Plot Summary:
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news? While his best friend Chuck sees the newspaper as a ticket to personal gain, co-worker Marissa convinces Gary that the "early edition" should be used to better peoples' lives. So each day Gary begins anew the struggle to make sense of a world turned upside-down by the changing course of events that come from reading the "early edition.".
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, clever, retro
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Journeyman (2007)
Plot Summary:
This mystery-drama revolves around a newspaper reporter named Dan Vasser who suddenly begins to travel through time to change the lives of those around him. When his travels reunite him with his long-lost fiancée Livia, life with his present-day wife gets very interesting.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, psychological, suspense, sweet, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful
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The Dead Zone (1983)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, suspense, dark, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric, scary, cerebral
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The Dead Zone (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young man awakens from a six-year coma with the ability to see into peoples futures. This is the first two episodes of the television series.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic
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Kingdom Hospital (2004)
Plot Summary:
Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 608 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, medical horror, anthology, cult classic, mind bending, offbeat, serious
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Heroes Reborn (2015)
Plot Summary:
The supernatural phenomenon begins again with a fresh crop of inspiring heroes who take on the ultimate struggle between those with extraordinary abilities and those with nefarious motives to hunt and harness their powers. Epic adventures await these newly empowered allies as they cross paths with some of the original characters, unlocking the mysterious fate of the universe and their place within it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, saga, cult classic
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The Dresden Files (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, detective, anime, mystic, spooky, suspenseful, urban fantasy
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Believe (2014)
Plot Summary:
Believe is about an unlikely relationship between a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her from the evil elements that hunt her power.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, spooky, stylized
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Frequency (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detective Raimy Sullivan is stunned when a voice suddenly crackles through her father’s old, long-broken ham radio – it’s Frank Sullivan, somehow transmitting over the airwaves and through the decades from 1996. Separated by twenty years, father and daughter have reunited on a frequency only they can hear, but can they rewrite the story of their lives without risking everyone they love?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, detective, suspense, atmospheric, spiritual, sitcom
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Hemlock Grove (2013)
Plot Summary:
One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, scary, erotic, bloody, avant garde, grindhouse, spooky
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The Tomorrow People (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of several young people from around the world who represent the next stage in human evolution, possessing special powers, including the ability to teleport and communicate with each other telepathically. Together they work to defeat the forces of evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, teen
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Manifest (2018)
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After landing from a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers of Montego Air Flight 828 discover five years have passed in what seemed like a few hours. As their new realities become clear, a deeper mystery unfolds and some of the returned passengers soon realize they may be meant for something greater than they ever thought possible.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: mysterious, suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, intense, psychological, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, serious
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Medium (2005)
Plot Summary:
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, stylized, captivating, detective, spiritual, bad ending, thrilling, crime drama
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Kyle XY (2006)
Plot Summary:
A suburban family that takes in a mysterious teen naive to the world around him. As Kyle begins to show signs of brilliance, solving the mystery of his origin and potential abilities becomes the family's mission.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, entertaining, suspenseful, atmospheric, intellectual, teen, thrilling, serious, spiritual
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Ghost Whisperer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, 'but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing.' Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over. The sentimental drama is 'inspired by the work of medium James Van Praagh.'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, atmospheric, serious, spiritual, dread, thrilling, suspenseful, whimsical, nostalgic
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The Listener (2009)
Plot Summary:
Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares with no one, has made him a bit of a loner. Until now, Toby has kept his ability hidden, exploring its possibilities only with his long time mentor and confidante Dr. Ray Mercer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, serious, emotional, suspenseful, detective
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The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Plot Summary:
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 395000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric, clever, satanic, scary, serious, ambiguous ending
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Dragonfly (2002)
Plot Summary:
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, scary, tear jerker, serious, mystical, spiritual, exciting
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Unbreakable (2000)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 435000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, suspense, twisted, atmospheric, gloomy, suspenseful, mindfuck, bleak
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Quantum Leap (1989)
Plot Summary:
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, stylized, touching, witty, scary, cliffhanger, retro, bad ending, anthology
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Phenomenon (1996)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, sentimental, emotional, light, sincere, romantic, sad, twisted, philosophical
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The Twilight Zone (1985)
Plot Summary:
The Twilight Zone is the first of two revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series of the same name. It ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, anthology, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, intellectual, dark, mysterious, tripping
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Forever (2014)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Henry Morgan, New York City’s star medical examiner, has a secret. He doesn't just study the dead to solve criminal cases, he does it to solve the mystery that has eluded him for 200 years—the answer to his own inexplicable immortality. This long life has given Henry remarkable observation skills which impresses his new partner, Detective Jo Martinez. Each week, a new case and their budding friendship will reveal layers of Henry’s long and colorful past. Only his best friend and confidant, Abe knows Henry’s secret.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, exciting, sad, anime, smart
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Supernatural (2005)
Plot Summary:
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 473000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, dark fantasy, suspense, gothic horror, spooky, funny, romantic