20 best shows like Cryptid (2020)

List of the best shows and series like Cryptid (2020): Light as a Feather, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Sløborn, Legacies, Channel Zero, American Horror Story, Ares, The Birch, Cruel Summer, Elite.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Five teen girls deal with the supernatural fallout stemming from an innocent game of “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board.” When the girls start dying off in the exact way that was predicted, the survivors must figure out why they’re being targeted — and whether the evil force hunting them down is one of their own.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family, detective
CountryCanada

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.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryGermany, Denmark, Poland

A deadly virus hits a small community living on an island in the North Sea.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
CountryUSA

In a place where young witches, vampires, and werewolves are nurtured to be their best selves in spite of their worst impulses, Klaus Mikaelson’s daughter, 17-year-old Hope Mikaelson, Alaric Saltzman’s twins, Lizzie and Josie Saltzman, among others, come of age into heroes and villains at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration00:45

A horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.

Markimdb: 8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

American Horror Story is an anthology horror drama series.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryNetherlands

When her friend suffers a bizarre accident, Rosa realizes the secret student society they've just joined is built on demonic secrets from Dutch history.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

Horror stories told from the perspectives of multiple characters whose lives are affected by the Birch, a bloodthirsty monster deep in the woods. Once you summon her protection, you never escape.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

An unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers — 1993-95 — in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountrySpain
Duration02:33

When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

In the year 2093, a team of scientists aboard the Nightflyer, the most advanced ship ever built, embarks on a journey to find other life forms. Their mission takes them to the edge of the solar system, and to the edge of insanity, as they realize true horror isn't waiting for them in outer space—it's already on their ship.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

    Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.

    Markimdb: 8.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:09

    When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada

    A masked figure known as "The Curious" collects tales of dark magic, otherworldly encounters and twisted technology in this kids anthology series.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Consumed by the mystery surrounding the donor heart that saved her life, a young patient starts taking on sinister characteristics of the deceased.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountrySweden

    Vera, a mother of two children, is left by her husband and looses her job all at once. She gets a job offer in another town, grabs her children and their belongings and moves there for a fresh new start in life. Before she gets there she hits a boy with her car. In chock, she assumes the boy to be dead. But is it really Vera who killed him?

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration00:43

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:42

    Young Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college after high school graduation, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration00:43

      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.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      A family’s lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Three-part contemporary ghost story set in Yorkshire. Tom Parfitt's arrival at a local retirement home leads to an eerie unexpected death.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:05

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
      CountrySpain
      Duration00:56

      The disastrous meltdown of a nuclear power plant in Northern Spain created a contaminated no-go zone and left the nearby provincial city and inhabitants in a state of shock and mourning. Three years later, while the city prepares for the commemoration ceremony, a mutilated body is found in a warehouse. Police inspector Hector Uria's search for the murderer takes him deep into the no-go zone and into his own past.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration04:17

      Storm of the Century, alternatively known as Stephen King's Storm of the Century, is a 1999 horror TV miniseries written by Stephen King and directed by Craig R. Baxley. Unlike many other King mini-series, Storm of the Century was not based upon a Stephen King novel—King wrote it as a screenplay from the beginning. The screenplay was published in February 1999.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      A teen navigates the complexities of high school, family and her sexuality while dealing with new superpowers. Based on Charles Forsman's graphic novel.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryFrance
      Duration00:52

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:42

      When a teenage couple runs away to be together, the extraordinary gift they possess unleashes powerful forces intent on dividing them forever.

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      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUkraine

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      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      Set in a single room of an average American motel, each episode tells a different story of the assorted characters who pass through it.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, family, detective
      CountryCanada
      Duration00:22

      Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a joint Canadian-American horror/fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was a joint production between the Canadian company Cinar and the American company Nickelodeon.The episode "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" was aired as a pilot on the evening of October 31, 1991 in the USA and in October 1990 in Canada. Are You Afraid of the Dark? was aired from August 15, 1992 to April 20, 1996 on Nickelodeon's SNICK. The series also aired on the Canadian television network YTV from October 30, 1990 until June 11, 2000.A revived series with new directors, writers, and cast was produced by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000 and also aired on SNICK. The sole member from the original lineup to return for the sixth and seventh seasons was Tucker, although Ross Hull returned for the concluding miniseries, which notably broke from the show's established format by blurring the line between story and "reality".

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountrySpain

      Father Vergara—an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict—lives in a remote village in Spain. Hoping to be lost and forgotten, Vergara’s demons catch up to him.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountrySweden, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Belgium, United Kingdom

      During a snowy Christmas season in Sweden, psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only herself but also her autistic daughter drawn into the investigation of a number of disturbing deaths, through which she meets detective Ingvar Nyman of “Rikskrim,” a Swedish national police force.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:07

      An intense and fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie’s life after her controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:41

      In the dark, early days of a zombie apocalypse, complete strangers band together to find the strength they need to survive and get back to loved ones.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:06

      Out to avenge his mother's death, a college student pledges a secret order and lands in a war between werewolves and practitioners of dark magic.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryMexico

      A young priest enlists the help of a demon hunter and a paranormal expert to search for a kidnapped girl in the underworld of Mexico City.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      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.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      A limited anthology series that explores terror in America.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:50

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      The River follows the story of wildlife expert and TV personality Emmet Cole. Emmet set course around the world with his wife, Tess, and son, Lincoln, while filming what would become one of the most popular shows in television. After he goes missing deep in the Amazon, his family, friends and crew set out on a mysterious and deadly journey to find him.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil, this saga explores an exciting mix of the supernatural and the combustible reality of 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA

      Each episode transports the audience to worlds of wonder through the lens of today’s most imaginative filmmakers, directors and writers. A reimagining of the original anthology series by Steven Spielberg.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration00:45

      Members of a secret society chase immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySweden

      Police detective Peter Wendel leads a cold case group. Based on an original idea by Leif GW Persson, one of Sweden’s most recognized criminologists.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:40

      After newlywed Georgina's billionaire husband Constantine is killed in a yacht explosion, she is shocked to discover the fortune and lifestyle he maintained was surrounded by violence, lies and murder. She soon must step out of her comfort zone to protect the family...and herself.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:59

      When a pizza delivery driver is shot dead in south London, a tenacious detective goes after the people traffickers behind his murder and unravels a conspiracy that goes to the top.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:01

      Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.




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