23 Best Shows Like Dirk Gently ...

23 Best Shows Like Dirk Gently ...

If you liked this film , you will probably love these too! In this selection we highlight some of the best films that share a very similar mood to '', and are worth checking out.

1. Pushing Daisies (2007)

42m Comedy Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy Crime

A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.

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2. People of Earth (2016)

22m Comedy

Skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham investigates a support group for alien abductees to write about the members' supposed encounters. The more he digs into their oddball claims, the more he realizes there is truth in their stories and possibly even signs that point to his own alien abduction.

3. Doctor Who (1996)

1h 29m TV Movie Adventure Science Fiction

The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.

4. The Lost Room (2006)

1h Mystery Sci-Fi & Fantasy

A detective investigates a mysterious motel room, which acts as a portal to an alternate universe.

5. Miracle Workers (2019)

23m Comedy

The first season of this comedy anthology is set in the offices of Heaven Inc. When God plans to destroy the Earth, two low-level angels must convince their boss to save humanity. They bet him they can pull off their most impossible miracle yet: help two humans fall in love.

6. The Umbrella Academy (2019)

55m Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama

A dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father's death, the threat of the apocalypse and more.

7. Frequency (2016)

42m Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama

Detective Raimy Sullivan is stunned when a voice suddenly crackles through her father’s old, long-broken ham radio – it’s Frank Sullivan, somehow transmitting over the airwaves and through the decades from 1996. Separated by twenty years, father and daughter have reunited on a frequency only they can hear, but can they rewrite the story of their lives without risking everyone they love?

8. Journeyman (2007)

1h Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy

This mystery-drama revolves around a newspaper reporter named Dan Vasser who suddenly begins to travel through time to change the lives of those around him. When his travels reunite him with his long-lost fiancée Livia, life with his present-day wife gets very interesting.

9. Lost (2004)

45m Action & Adventure Mystery

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

10. Devs (2020)

52m Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama Mystery

Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.

11. Loki (2021)

12. Doom Patrol (2019)

49m Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comedy Drama

The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities — but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who brought them together to investigate the weirdest phenomena in existence — and to protect Earth from what they find.

13. The Time Tunnel (1966)

1h Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.

14. Amazing Stories (2020)

55m Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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.

15. Relic Hunter (1999)

45m Sci-Fi & Fantasy Mystery Action & Adventure Drama

Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.

16. A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017)

45m Action & Adventure Family Comedy Drama

The orphaned Baudelaire children face trials, tribulations and the evil Count Olaf, all in their quest to uncover the secret of their parents' death.

17. The Flight Attendant (2020)

48m Drama Mystery Comedy

Flight attendant Cassandra Bowden wakes in her hotel room hungover from the night before in Dubai with a dead body lying next to her. Afraid to call the police, she continues her morning as if nothing happened. In New York, she is met by FBI agents who question her about her recent layover in Bangkok. Still unable to piece the night together, she begins to wonder if she could be the killer.

18. A Knight in Camelot (1998)

1h 30m Adventure Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Family TV Movie

Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.

19. The Witches of Oz (2011)

2h 47m Action & Adventure Comedy Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Witches of Oz follows the exploits of the grown Dorothy Gale, now a successful children's book author, as she moves from Kansas to present day New York City. Dorothy quickly learns that her popular books are based on repressed childhood memories, and that the wonders of Oz are very, very real. When the Wicked Witch of the West shows up in Times Square, Dorothy must find the inner courage to stop her.

20. Dimension 404 (2017)

1h Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Inspired by the Internet’s “404” error code, Dimension 404 aims to evoke that 3 AM feeling of wandering onto the weird side of the web, stumbling upon stories that cannot be explained in the world that we know.

21. Terriers (2010)

45m Crime Drama Comedy

Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business. The series is set in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, although it is portrayed as a distinct town, with Dolworth having once been a member of the fictional Ocean Beach Police Department.

22. Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators (2018)

45m Comedy Drama Mystery

Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.

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