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Craving for Stranger Things: 15 Similar Films in Netflix

1) Dark

When two children go missing in a small German town, its shameful past is exposed. Double lives and struggling relationships are tested among the four families searching for the children. The frantic hunt unearths a mind-bending mystery that spans generations. Sounds a little like Hawkins, right?





2. Outer Range

In Outer Range, while the Abbotts are coping with the disappearance of their daughter-in-law, the neighboring family wants a piece of their ranch. Tensions begin to rise when a mysterious black void appears on the Abbotts' pasture. Could this be another Upside Down?





3. The OA

After going missing for seven years, a young woman mysteriously returns with new abilities. While the FBI are anxious to hear where she's been, she recruits five strangers for a secret mission. Think Eleven, but older!





4. Paper Girls

The 80's meet present day in Paper Girls. During the early morning hours of Halloween 1988, four paper girls are on their delivery route when they encounter a time warp that inexplicably transports them to 2019. When they come face-to-face with their adult selves, it's up to each girl to find a way back to the past all while saving the future of the world.





5. I Am Not Okay With This

A teenage girl must navigate high school, family, her sexuality...oh, and new superpowers! From the producers of Stranger Things, this coming-of-age dark comedy is like falling in love with Millie Bobby Brown's character, Eleven, all over again.

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6. Sense8

Remember how Eleven could go into other people's memories in Stranger Things? Sense8 is like that except multiplied. When 8 strangers from around the globe find themselves connected with each other's thoughts and actions, they desperately want to know how and why. As they pursue answers, a mysterious organization hunts them down with the intent to kill them all.





7. The Umbrella Academy

If you thought the dynamic between Dr. Brenner's child experiments were weird just wait until you enter the Umbrella Academy. Reunited by the death of their father, six estranged siblings with supernatural powers work to uncover shocking family secrets and have to work together to save the world in the process.





8. Locke & Key

Three siblings move to their late father's ancestral estate following his murder where they discover magical keys that unlock powers and secrets.





9. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

If it's a strong, supernatural female lead you want, then look no further. Meet Sabrina Spellman—half witch, half mortal—who must make a choice on her 16th birthday: stay in the human world with her friends or venture to the witch world of her family. Sabrina faces horrors and immortal forces as she tries to.





10. Riverdale

While navigating romance, school, and family secrets, Archie and his gang become deeply entangled in the dark mystery of their fictional town, Riverdale. Based off the comic book series, the Netflix hit takes a deep dive into the supernatural with its very own version of a Demogorgon-like creature called the Gargoyle King.





11. Silverpoint

In 1997 four kids vanished in the woods. More than two decades later, one boy aims to solve that mystery. After meeting at Silverpoint camp, four teens find something buried in the woods that send their lives and the world around them into a spiral.





12. The Twilight Zone

Hosted by Jordan Peele, this re-imagining of one of the most iconic, mind-bending series of all time will have you second-guessing what's real and what's fake.





13. Severance

If you thought the Hawkins laboratory was twisted, just wait until you take a step into an office where the workers have agreed to surgically divide their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it's a deep rabbit hole to discover the truth about their jobs.





14. The X-Files

We can't talk about Stranger Things without acknowledging the longest-running sci-fi series in history. Beginning in 1993, FBI special agents investigate unexplained, mind-bending cases and stop at nothing to prove that "the truth is out there."





15. American Horror Story: 1984

Okay, confession: we miss the 80's nostalgic feeling that Stranger Things gave us. As part of the American Horror Story anthology series, one of its latest installments follows a group of teen counselors at the newly reopened Camp Redwood. It doesn't take long for things to go south when an infamous murderer




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