The Fades

Series Similar to The Fades

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

1. The Exorcist

   2016 · Drama, Horror, Supernatural · ended96% match

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

   The Exorcist is a propulsive psychological thriller following two very different priests tackling one family's case of horrifying demonic possession. Father Tomas Ortega is the new face of the Catholic Church: progressive, ambitious and compassionate. He runs a small, but loyal, parish in the suburbs of Chicago. He has no idea that his quiet life is about to change forever. Deep in the slums of Mexico City, another priest has found himself locked in a life-and-death struggle with evil. Father Marcus Keane is a modern-day Templar Knight, an orphan raised since childhood by the Vatican to wage war against its enemies. Father Marcus is everything Father Tomas is not: relentless, abrasive and utterly consumed by his mission - and he constantly butts heads with his adversary within the church, Father Bennett.

2. In the Flesh

   2013 · Drama, Horror, Supernatural · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Supernatural profile, also on BBC Three.

   Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?

3. Outcast

   2016 · Drama, Horror, Supernatural · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Supernatural profile.

   Outcast follows Kyle Barnes, a young man who has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a journey to find answers but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.

4. Zero Hour

   2013 · Drama, Thriller, Supernatural · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Supernatural profile, hidden gem.

   Zero Hour follows Hank Galliston, who has spent his life debunking myths, only to be drawn into one of the most compelling mysteries in human history after his wife's shocking disappearance.

5. Trickster

   2020 · Drama, Thriller, Supernatural · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Supernatural profile.

   Jared, an Indigenous teen, is struggling to keep his family above water when a mysterious stranger, Wade, blows into town and turns his already chaotic life inside out. And when weird things start happening, it becomes clear that he's also the mythic magical being the Trickster. What begins as an unnerving slow burn of strange events in Jared's already-messy life crescendos to an epic clash of magic, monsters and mayhem.Adapted from the Son of a Trickster trilogy of books by award-winning author Eden Robinson.

6. The Rook

   2019 · Drama, Thriller, Supernatural · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Supernatural profile.

   The Rook follows Myfanwy Thomas, a young woman who wakes up in a London park suffering total amnesia and pursued by shadowy paranormal adversaries. Grappling with supernatural abilities of her own, she must fight to uncover her past and resume her position within Britain's secret service, the Checquy, before the traitors who stole her memory can finish what they started.

7. Forever

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Supernatural · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Supernatural profile, highly rated (8.1).

   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.

8. Penny Dreadful

   2014 · Horror, Thriller, Supernatural · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Supernatural profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. They are joined by a core of original characters in a complex, frightening new narrative. Penny Dreadful is a psychological thriller filled with dark mystery and suspense, where personal demons from the past can be stronger than vampires, evil spirits and immortal beasts.

9. Grimm

   2011 · Drama, Crime, Supernatural · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Supernatural profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Grimm is a drama series inspired by the classic Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales. 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.

10. Tale of the Nine Tailed

    2020 · Drama, Thriller, Supernatural · ended89% match

    Recommended for similar Thriller / Supernatural profile.

    Tale of the Nine Tailed follows the life of the gumiho, who once ruled as a living god of the Baekdudaegan Mountain Range but now works as a sort of public official between this world and the underworld. His main job is to clean up the mess left behind by those who disturb the world of the living while hiding behind the guise of ghost tales.