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. Automata

   2018 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   The noir world of Automata is a grim place for private detectives Sam Regal and Carl Swangee. Tasked with a murder investigation, they must not only contend with the dangers of their profession, but the prejudices unearthed by a recent prohibition against sentient machines. Sentient machines like Carl...

2. The Booth at the End

   2010 · Drama, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   A mysterious Man sits at a booth at the end of a diner. People approach him because they've heard The Man has a gift. He can solve their problems: A parent with a sick child, a woman who wants to be prettier, a nun who has lost her faith. The Man can give these people what they want. For a price. The Man makes a proposition. In exchange for realizing their desires, these individuals must complete a task, return to The Man, and describe every step in detail. The trick is that these tasks are things that would normally be inconceivable to them. But The Man never forces anyone to do anything. It's always up to the individual to start - or stop. The Booth at the End asks the question: How far would you go to get what you want?

3. Project Blue Book

   2019 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Mystery profile.

   Project Blue Book is based on the true, top-secret investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1969.Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a brilliant yet underappreciated college professor, is recruited by the U.S. Air Force to spearhead a clandestine operation called Project Blue Book. Along with his partner, the debonair Air Force Captain Michael Quinn, he is summoned to investigate UFO sightings around the country and use science to discover what really happened. However, when some encounters cannot be explained away and cases remain open, Hynek begins to suspect that he has been duped by the government into a larger conspiracy to cover up the truth.

4. Outcasts

   2011 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, hidden gem.

   A group of courageous pioneers face a unique opportunity: the chance to build a new and better future on another planet.

5. The 4400

   2004 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Mystery profile.

   The 4400 explores the travails of the 4400 people who all at once returned in a ball of light to Earth; though the returnees had not aged physically, many of them reappeared with dramatic abilities ranging from enhanced reflexes to precognition. NTAC (National Threat Assessment Command) is the government agency responsible for keeping track of the returnees and investigating all things related to the 4400.

6. Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance

   2006 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   The series documents the events on New Caprica after the invasion by the Cylons at the end of the second season. It shows the activities of the resistance to Cylon occupation, and collaborators for the Cylons.

7. 11.22.63

   2016 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Mystery profile, also on Hulu.

   Imagine having the power to change history. Would you journey down the "rabbit hole"? This event series follows Jake Epping, an ordinary high school teacher, presented with the unthinkable mission of traveling back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Jake travels to the past in order to solve the most enduring mystery of the 20th century: who killed JFK, and could it have been stopped? But as Jake will learn, the past does not want to be changed. And trying to divert the course of history may prove fatal.

8. Journeyman

   2007 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Journeyman is a romantic mystery-drama about Dan Vasser, a San Francisco newspaper reporter and family man who inexplicably begins to travel through time and change the course of people's lives. Along the way, he must also deal with the difficulties and strife at work and home brought on by his sudden disappearances. His freewheeling travels through the decades reunite him with his long-lost fiance Livia--which complicates his blissful, present-day life with his vivacious wife Katie and son.

9. Warehouse 13

   2009 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Mystery profile, highly rated (8.3).

   After saving the life of the President, two Secret Service agents find themselves abruptly transferred to Warehouse 13 -- a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota that houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. The Warehouse's caretaker Artie charges Pete and Myka with chasing down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in search of new objects to cache at the Warehouse, as well as helping him to control the warehouse, itself. Rounding out the team is technology specialist Claudia and former ATF Steve Jinks.

10. Kyle XY

    2006 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

    Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Mystery profile.

    Kyle XY is an incredible mystery about a teenager with no past. The series tells the surprising journey of Kyle, a 16 year-old teenage savant who is missing instinctive human behavior such as anger, joy and love, and the family who found him. After coming out of the woods and found walking into traffic, Kyle is sent to a youth detention center where he comes into contact with his first experience of eating food and human interaction: not all of it friendly. At the center they realize that Kyle is not like any ordinary teenager, especially once they find that he is missing his belly-button. With questions of 'Who is this kid?' and 'Where did he come from?' psychologist Nicole Trager is called in to help get some much needed answers.