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15 Movies and Shows Like Outer Banks to Treasure with Your Crew
Need more Pogue Life in your life? Here’s a whole trove of options.
By Allie Baker
Aug. 20, 2026
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Outer Banks is the ultimate mix of high school soap, family drama, and adrenaline-packed action adventure. The teens throw keggers one day and hijack a cargo ship the next — you know, as kids do. OBX has officially returned for its fifth and final season, bringing back your favorite Pogues and Kooks for treasure-hunting hijinks, high-speed chases, and, of course, Pogue-on-Pogue macking.
If you devoured all of Season 5 without sleeping or showering (like a true Pogue), then the lack of further episodes might leave you feeling a little lost at sea. Luckily, we have a selection of movies and shows to satisfy your cravings for teen love triangles, ragtag friend groups, family mysteries, and nautical adventures. You’ll love these shows like John B loves a patterned shirt with just one button.
Blood & Water
OBX has a little bit of blood and a whole lot of water. If the mystery and family intrigue of Outer Banks drew you in, you’ll be hooked on this South African teen drama. Blood & Water follows a girl named Puleng (Ama Qamata), who transfers to an elite institution when she suspects that the school’s star swimmer is her long-lost sister who was abducted at birth. Like OBX, it’ll leave you on the edge of your seat and hitting “Next Episode” again and again.
Bloodline
Consider Bloodline a grown-up version of Outer Banks. The three seasons of this thriller drama revolve around the Rayburn siblings: local detective John (Kyle Chandler), attorney Meg (Linda Cardellini), hot-headed marina worker Kevin (Norbert Leo Butz), and Danny (Ben Mendelsohn), the black sheep of the family who stirs up mayhem when he returns to their seaside Florida town. Like Outer Banks, this show features family secrets and intrigue on the Southern coast, plus another memorable boat explosion.
Dive Club
This Australian series dives deep into all the elements Outer Banks fans love: a group of feisty teens, a fateful storm, a loved one lost at sea, and a major mystery. Teen divers Anna (Aubri Ibrag), Stevie (Sana’a Shaik), and Maddie (Miah Madden) search for their friend Izzie (Mercy Cornwall) after her mysterious disappearance, but they end up uncovering sinister secrets along the way. Scuba gear plays a big part in a few major OBX storylines too, and this show has more scuba than the My Druthers.
Elite
In this Spanish drama series, three teens from working-class backgrounds (played by Itzan Escamilla, Miguel Herrán, and Mina El Hammani) enroll in an exclusive private school and begin clashing with the wealthy students. It’s very Pogues vs. Kooks. There’s also forbidden romance and high-stakes life-and-death drama with a side of camp and pure chaos. Get schooled on all eight seasons, each of which kicks off with a mystery that’s begging to be solved.
Enola Holmes
The Pogues’ adventurous spirit is akin to that of Enola Holmes, the famous detective Sherlock’s younger sister. This action-adventure movie stars Millie Bobby Brown as the young gumshoe, alongside Henry Cavill as Sherlock. Join Enola as she looks into the mysterious disappearance of her mother (Helena Bonham Carter). Make it a marathon with Enola Holmes 2, in which the two siblings work together to solve the case of a missing girl. Then stream Enola Holmes 3, as intrigue chases the detective to sun-soaked Malta.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
To the Pogues and the Kooks, Madelyn Cline is Sarah Cameron. In this darkly funny murder mystery, Cline plays Whiskey, the girlfriend and social media maven of Duke (Dave Bautista). They travel to a remote Greek island at the invitation of a tech billionaire (Edward Norton). When one of the gathering’s wealthy guests winds up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) must sniff out the murderer. For more Cline, stream I Know What You Did Last Summer — a very different genre but similarly deadly.
Locke & Key
Much like Outer Banks, there’s no shortage of daddy issues on this show. While Locke & Key — a three-season fantasy horror show based on the comic book series of the same name — leans more heavily into the supernatural than Outer Banks, both series are grounded in family. After their dad’s mysterious death, the Locke children, Tyler (Connor Jessup), Kinsey (Emilia Jones), and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott), move to a new home in Matheson, Massachusetts, where they discover mysterious magical keys.
On My Block
A show about four tight-knit teens navigating their lifelong friendship amid romance complications, tough family situations, and the socioeconomic realities of their hometown. Sound familiar? The four-season dramedy follows best friends Ruby (Jason Genao), Cesar (Diego Tinoco), Monse (Sierra Capri), and Jamal (Brett Gray) as they embark on high school life. Like Outer Banks, it features a scrappy chosen family with a lot of heart. Jamal even has a Goonies-esque storyline in Season 1 in which he hunts for stolen money.
Pirate Gold of Adak Island
In Outer Banks, the Pogues’ ticket to going “full Kook” is finding the $400 million that went down with the Royal Merchant shipwreck. In this gritty reality docuseries, a team of expert treasure hunters led by M Jackson, Burke Mitchell, Thom Spitler, and Jay Toomoth seek to unearth $300 million in pirate gold that was buried in 1892. The catch: They have to brave the harsh Alaskan wilderness and an island riddled with live munitions. Sounds even scarier than going up against Ward and Rafe.
Riverdale
If you’re looking for attractive teens, lots of twists and turns, and a dash of Kook-y subplots (pun completely intended), you’ll find it all in Riverdale. This CW show from creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is part teen soap, part crime drama, part supernatural thriller — and all wild fun. Based on the Archie comics, it centers around classic characters Archie (K.J. Apa), Betty (Lili Reinhart), Veronica (Camila Mendes), and Jughead (Cole Sprouse) as they try to solve murders and love triangles — sometimes quadrangles — at the same time.
Stranger Things
Just as Outer Banks sees a tight-knit crew sticking together as they navigate their hometown’s ups and downs, this sci-fi series follows a curious bunch from Hawkins, Indiana, to the Upside Down. It begins with a group of friends (Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo, and Millie Bobby Brown) searching for their missing pal (Noah Schnapp). As the show progresses, they travel across state lines and dimensional planes to fight supernatural forces that threaten what matters most to them: their friends.
Summertime
You’ll swap the Carolinas for the Adriatic Coast in this dreamy Italian romance, inspired by Federico Moccia’s Three Meters Above the Sky book series. Summertime tells the story of introverted Summer (Rebecca Coco Edogamhe) and motorcycle racer Ale (Ludovico Tersigni) as they fall in love in a beautiful beachside town, despite coming from vastly different backgrounds. Their love story gives us major John B and Sarah vibes. Plus, like Outer Banks, it’s somehow always magic hour on this show.
Surviving Summer
The Pogues have to survive summer by going toe-to-toe with greedy murderers, axe-wielding old ladies, and alligators. This Australian teen soap has lower stakes but offers plenty of sudsy fun. After being expelled from an elite boarding school for riding a skateboard on fire through the school (a true JJ Maybank move), rebellious New York teen Summer (Sky Katz) is sent to a small surfing town where she immediately makes waves among the locals. Fans of OBX’s surfing scenes will want to drop in on this show, too.
Time Cut
Calling all Kie fans! See Madison Bailey go beyond Figure Eight Island to star in this slasher film as Lucy Field, a teen science whiz who discovers a time machine and decides to travel back in order to prevent the crime that’s haunted her young life: the murder of her older sister, Summer (Antonia Gentry). Come for the unbreakable bond between the two siblings; stay for the nostalgic early-2000s setting — and killer soundtrack.
Uglies
Just as Chase Stokes is the loyal and protective ringleader of the Pogues in Outer Banks, he echoes these John B characteristics in this futuristic dystopian movie as Peris, the childhood best friend of Tally Youngblood (Joey King). Based on Scott Westerfeld’s novel and set in a world with enforced beauty standards, the film follows Tally as she embarks on a quest to save her runaway friend. This journey upends everything she thought she wanted.
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Additional reporting by Ashley Lee.
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