Sanctuary

Series Similar to Sanctuary

If you enjoyed Sanctuary, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Firefly

   2002 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.9).

   Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.

2. Primeval

   2007 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.1).

   When rips in time called anomalies started opening across the UK, dangerous creatures from the past and future began appearing in the most unexpected places, endangering lives and placing the whole of humanity at risk.A crack team of specialists were appointed by the government to investigate and control "creature incursions," creating the Anomaly Research Center (ARC), which was later privatized. Matt, Abby, Connor and Becker do the field work while Jess mans the ARC control station under the leadership of government official James Lester and the mysterious scientist, Philip Burton

3. Doctor Who

   2005 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Adventures across time and space with the time travelling alien and companions.

4. Smallville

   2001 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.1).

   A retelling of Superman's early days as teenager Clark Kent growing up in Smallville, Kansas. He is guided by his adopted parents Jonathan and Martha Kent.Friends and adversaries include Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan, Pete Ross, Lois Lane and Lex Luthor and his father Lionel Luthor.

5. Eleventh Hour

   2006 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Follow the adventures of Professor Ian Hood, Special Advisor to the government's Joint Sciences Committee, who troubleshoots threats stemming from or targeting "scientific endeavour". He is joined by Rachel Young, a Special Branch operative who acts primarily as his bodyguard, as Hood has made powerful enemies through his work.

6. Kings

   2009 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8).

   Kings is a modern variation on the David-and-Goliath story, David Shepherd, a brave warrior in a city under siege, wins the gratitude of his king by rescuing the prince from enemy territory. His ensuing fame and rise through the ranks earns him the affection of the king's daughter, but David begins to realize it's getting harder and harder to tell his allies from his enemies. Although the series is loosely based on the Biblical story of King David, it is set in a kingdom that is culturally and technologically similar to the present-day United States.

7. John Doe

   2002 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8).

   A man who knows literally everything---except his own identity---helps the Seattle police solve crimes as he tries to figure out who he is and where he came from.

8. Oasis

   2017 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Set in the near future, Oasis tells the story of priest Peter Leigh, who is called to a remote planet where a mysterious multinational company is building the first permanent off-Earth human colony. The planet, Oasis, is humanity's last chance to escape from Earth's impending collapse, but it quickly becomes apparent that it may not be as hospitable to humanity as it seems…

9. Battlestar Galactica

   2003 · Drama, Science-Fiction, War · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.7), also on Syfy.

   The world ended with no warning, and all that was left… was hope.A truce between the humans of the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons—intelligent robots designed by humankind—lasts for 40 tense and silent years. Battlestar Galactica picks up just as the Cylons commit mass genocide against humanity. Only the Battlestar Galactica (an old warship about to be decommissioned and turned into a museum) and those souls fortunate enough to be aboard other starships were able to survive the attack. In the aftermath, the Galactica's commanding officer, William Adama, finds himself responsible for safeguarding the last remnants of the human race—fewer than 50,000 desperate survivors. Meanwhile, the annihilation of the Colonial government results in the succession of the Secretary of Education, Laura Roslin, to the presidency. Driven by prophetic visions and political necessity, the Galactica travels through uncharted space in hopes of finding the mythical, lost 13th colony—Earth.

10. Jericho

    2006 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended89% match

    Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

    Jericho is a drama about what happens in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion in the once peaceful town of Jericho. Following the battle with New Bern, the citizens of Jericho begin reconstruction efforts to restore the town's power and communication with the outside world. As the country's new leaders, the Cheyenne government, attempt to establish their stronghold in the region, Jericho's citizens become suspicious of their new leaders and question why their community is so important to this newly formed government.