Best tv shows like The Returned
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Plot Summary:
In the shadow of an enormous hydraulic dam, the lives of the residents of a small French town are changed to their core when hundreds of previously dead relatives all return home on the same day.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: mind bending, atmospheric, surreal, captivating, touching, suspenseful, serious, exciting, enigmatic, sexy
Best tv shows and movies like The Returned (2012):
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They Came Back (2004)
Plot Summary:
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychedelic, surreal, scary, contemplative, spooky, weird
Similar in 79%
The Kingdom (1994)
Plot Summary:
The first part of a Danish miniseries that has been edited into two massive films, "Riget" is set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget". The show follows a number of characters, both staff and patients, as they encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Italy, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 865 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, suspense, disturbing, creepy, cult classic, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, stylized
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Elise's Secret (2015)
Plot Summary:
The death of a young girl in 1969 haunts a house inhabited throughout the years by three different generations of people.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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Proof (2015)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant surgeon searches for proof of life after death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, mystical
Similar in 81%
The Fades (2011)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year old Paul can see the spirits of the dead. When one of these restless spirits crosses back into the living world, he is forced into a fight to prevent the apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, stylized, captivating, spooky, cliffhanger, apocalyptic, crime drama, scary, teen horror
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The Returned (2015)
Plot Summary:
A small town that is turned upside down when several local people, who have long been presumed dead, suddenly reappear; their presence creates both positive and negative consequences. As families are reunited, the lives of those who were left behind are challenged both physically and emotionally.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, mind bending, tense, touching, surreal, atmospheric, sitcom, serious
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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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Midnight Mass (2021)
Plot Summary:
An unsettlling omen washes ashore in the wake of the storm. Later, when the locals gather for a potluck, tragedy strikes - and a miracle occurs.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 450 min
Plot tags: mystical, scary, suspense, mysterious, spiritual, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019)
Plot Summary:
This three-part, self-contained limited series is about the newest member of the Midnight Society, her first scary tale, and what happens to the group when the terrifying events of her story start to actually happen in their small town.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, anthology, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fairy tale, spooky, serious, bleak
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Jordskott (2015)
Plot Summary:
Detective Inspector Eva Thörnblad returns to Silver Height seven years after her daughter Josefine disappeared by a lake in the woods. The body was never found and the girl was believed to have drowned. Now a boy has vanished without a trace and Thörnblad wants to find out if there is a link to her daughter's disappearance. At the same time , she will take care of the legacy of her father, the great entrepreneur Johan Thörnblad, who built an empire of timber and timber processing on the large forest owned by his ancestors. As the plot deepens more children are kidnapped and what initially seems like a police drama takes a more sinister and stranger twist with each episode.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland, UK, Norway
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, gloomy, enigmatic, detective, noir, stylized, bleak, realistic
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Afterlife (2005)
Plot Summary:
University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense, mind bending, psychological horror
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House of Voices (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan , Judith, left behind because of her mental problems, and they become closer when Anna find that Judith also hear voices and footsteps of children.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, surprise ending, atmospheric, serious, gloomy
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666 Park Avenue (2012)
Plot Summary:
What would you do to have everything you desire? Step inside 666 Park Avenue, New York's most seductive address. We all have some burning needs, desires and ambitions. For the residents of The Drake, the premier apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, these will all be met – for a price – courtesy of the building's mysterious owner, Gavin Doran. But be careful what you wish for, because the price you have to pay is your soul.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, surreal, stylized, exciting, grindhouse, spooky
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Resurrection (2013)
Plot Summary:
Resurrection is an American fantasy drama television series based on the book The Returned by Jason Mott that follows the residents of Arcadia, Missouri, whose lives are upended when their loved ones return from the dead, unaged since their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, captivating, mind bending, tense, touching, surprise ending, teen, spooky
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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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Ghost Wars (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces, the series focuses on local outcast Roman Mercer who must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that’s threatening to destroy them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, captivating, dark, psychological thriller
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Glitch (2015)
Plot Summary:
A police officer and a doctor face an emotionally charged mystery when seven local residents inexplicably return from the dead in peak physical form.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, atmospheric, sitcom, mind blowing, melancholic, captivating, suspense
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Awake (2012)
Plot Summary:
Michael lives in two separate realities after a car accident. In one reality, his wife Hannah survives the accident; in the other reality, his son Rex survives. Michael does not know which reality is "real", and uses the wristbands to differentiate the two. He sees two therapists: Dr. Jonathan Lee in the "red reality" and Dr. Judith Evans in the "green reality". At work, Michael's erratic behavior triggers clashes with his team; they do not know about Michael's uncanny ability to solve crimes using details from both realities.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, detective, serious, emotional, suspenseful, mysterious, dramatic, allegory, spooky
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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 Leftovers (2014)
Plot Summary:
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't make the cut. Based on the bestselling novel by Tom Perrotta, 'The Leftovers' follows Kevin Garvey, a father of two and the chief of police in a small New York suburb, as he tries to maintain some semblance of normalcy when the notion no longer applies.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, mind bending, offbeat, serious, touching, stylized, surreal, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, spooky
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Flashforward (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person's life, destinies will be changed.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspenseful, stylized, surreal, apocalyptic, tense, thought provoking, captivating, futuristic, cliffhanger
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The Originals (2013)
Plot Summary:
A spin-off from The Vampire Diaries and set in New Orleans, The Originals centers on the Mikaelson siblings, otherwise known as the world's original vampires: Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah. Now Klaus must take down his protégé, Marcel, who is now in charge of New Orleans, in order to re-take his city, as he originally built New Orleans. Klaus departed from the city after being chased down by his father Mikael, while it was being constructed and Marcel took charge. As Klaus has returned after many years, his ego has provoked him to become the king of the city. "Every King needs an heir" says Klaus, accepting the unborn child. The child is a first to be born to a hybrid and a werewolf.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, stylized, gothic, supernatural thriller, gloomy, humorous, bloody, grindhouse
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The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Crains, a fractured family, confront haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 279000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 572 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, disturbing, surreal, non-linear, tense, emotional, supernatural thriller, slasher, spooky
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Witches of East End (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on Melissa de la Cruz's best-selling novel, "Witches of East End" centers on the adventures of Joanna Beauchamp and her two adult daughters Freya and Ingrid -- both of whom unknowingly are their family's next generation of witches -- who lead seemingly quiet, uneventful modern day lives in Long Island's secluded seaside town of East Haven. When Freya becomes engaged to a young, wealthy newcomer, a series of events forces Joanna to admit to her daughters they are, in fact, powerful and immortal witches.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious, feel good, fairy tale, anime, grindhouse, detective
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Haven (2010)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, detective, suspenseful, supernatural thriller, bleak, scary, mystic, grindhouse, spooky
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Grimm (2011)
Plot Summary:
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, exciting, scary, suspenseful, serious, detective, neo noir, dread, atmospheric
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Twin Peaks (2017)
Plot Summary:
Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1032 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, mind bending, captivating, tense, offbeat, atmospheric, disturbing, experimental, esoteric
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Enter the Void (2009)
Plot Summary:
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, art house, visually stunning, philosophical, atmospheric, meditative, disturbing, surreal, cerebral, mindfuck
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Bates Motel (2013)
Plot Summary:
A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, slasher, psychological thriller, spooky, realistic, thrilling
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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