From 2016 to 2025, everyone’s favourite Netflix show, ‘Stranger Things’, has come a long way. Watching the characters grow on the show and in real life has been a surreal experience. Right from the first episode at Hawkins to the season four finale with Vecna, the friend group has gone through so much together. Fans are super excited to watch the fifth season of this sci-fi show from November 27, 2025, onwards. This fifth and final season will be released in three different parts. For fans who are looking for shows to binge-watch while waiting for the final season to drop, we have a list of the perfect shows and movies for you. Let’s dive in to find out five shows and movies to watch while waiting for Stranger Things season five!
If you are waiting for all the episodes of ‘Stranger Things’ season five to drop so that you can binge-watch them, you will be left waiting for over a month. In the meantime, you can stream these five shows and movies while waiting for ‘Stranger Things’ season five!
This is a time-travelling mystery show which follows the disappearance of children in a small German town. The disappearances expose secrets and complicated relationships among four families and lead to the discovery of a wormhole in a cave system. The story spans over multiple time periods—1953, 1986, and 2019—and involves characters travelling between them, creating complex, circular paradoxes.
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The story of this popular movie follows Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), who is suffering from the case of writer’s block. He decides to become a winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorising his family.
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Before ‘Stranger Things’ had an unforgettable theme song, The X-Files had an unforgettable synth theme song that is engraved in people’s memories. This show features FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The duo investigates unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena.
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Just like Eleven, the main character of this show, Sydney, also has telekinetic powers. Sydney juggles between the complexities of high school, her father's recent suicide, her budding sexuality while also struggling to understand her newfound telekinesis powers.
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‘Stranger Things’ actress Sadie Sink, aka Max, stars in this horror mystery movie, ‘Fear Street Part Two: 1978’. The IMDb gist for this movie reads as “Shadyside, 1978. School's out for summer, and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.”
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Binge these shows and movies while you wait for the ‘Stranger Things’ season five to drop all episodes. Join Eleven and her friends for one last adventure to save everyone from Vecna!
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