Cross-media picks for Greg Berlanti fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
Fans of Greg Berlanti's work tend to gravitate toward stories where the emotional stakes outweigh the plot mechanics — ensemble casts, outsiders finding their people, and genre backdrops that exist to serve human feeling. These picks share that sensibility: superpowered families on the run, androids waking up to selfhood, communities holding together under pressure, and quieter dramas about grief, loyalty, and the cost of belonging.
Film
2046
A science fiction author drifts between women and memories after losing the one he considers his true love.
Film
The Black Balloon
A tender portrait of a teenage boy navigating adolescence alongside his autistic brother in a new town.
Film
We Can Be Heroes
Kids with powers must team up to rescue their superhero parents — ensemble heart with real family stakes.
Film
Outerlands
Cass juggles multiple jobs and a developing crush while scraping by in San Francisco.
Film
Waves
A controlling father's ambitions for his children buckle under grief and unexpected tragedy.
Film
Code 8 Part II
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed, an ex-con and a drug lord protect a teenager from a corrupt cop.
Film
Testosterone
A graphic novelist blocked on his follow-up loses himself searching for a vanished lover.
Film
Anniversary
A son's new girlfriend at a 25th anniversary party unravels secrets that shatter the family's happiness.
Series
Love Endures
Seven childhood friends bound by a shared promise navigate life and ambition across years apart.
Series
Special Lady
A woman trying to escape her family's shadow meets a womanizer who upends all her plans.
Series
The Gifted
A family with mutant children flees a hostile government and joins an underground network of mutants.
Series
Joey
Joey moves to Hollywood alone and works to turn his actual family into the found-family he needs.
Series
Heroes
Ordinary people discover superpowers and must work together to prevent a devastating event.
Series
The Penguin
Oz Cobb maneuvers through Gotham's power vacuum, driven by a promise to his mother and ruthless ambition.
Series
Hotman
A school art teacher holds together an unconventional patchwork family of siblings and a young daughter.
Series
Our Movie
A director with no future and an actress with no tomorrow fall into a love story that cannot wait.
Game
Detroit: Become Human
Three androids with converging storylines begin to think, feel, and make choices of their own.
Game
No More Money - Season 1
After an upheaval forces a move, a 20-year-old navigates job choices and a fresh start from scratch.
Game
Sunrider Academy
An ordinary student is appointed to run every school club at once — relationships and responsibility pile up.
Game
Lake
A career woman returns to her hometown and fills in for her father as the local mail carrier.
Game
Blues and Bullets
Eliot Ness, retired to a diner, is pulled back into the corruption of his city.
Game
Come Home
Returning home after a father's disappearance reopens old feelings and forges unexpected new connections.
Game
1000xResist
A big-idea science fiction story wrapped around a coming-of-age drama — cerebral and emotionally grounded.
Game
Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards
Five beloved animated shows — Family Guy, Futurama, Bob's Burgers and more — meet in one card game.
Book
The X Factor
An outcast who has never fit in steals a spaceship and finds unexpected purpose among the stars.
Book
Ace in the Hole
Powered individuals fight for civil rights at a political convention, with a religious leader as the villain.
Book
Second Best
The Wakefield twins navigate a party, an essay contest, and the pressure to stand out in their own right.
Book
Your Basic Nightmare
High school allegiances shift as mutual attraction between Elizabeth and Conner draws everyone into the fallout.
Book
Under One Roof
One summer for a doctor and his rebellious daughter to sort out their relationship before it's too late.
Book
The Fifth Season
A world-ending rift tears the continent apart — and a mother searches for a murdered son and missing daughter.
Book
Good Time Man
A devil-may-care charmer resurfaces in a woman's life, leaving her uncertain whether she's still just a kid to him.
Book
Last light
America loses all power and infrastructure overnight — a neighborhood of strangers must figure out who they are to each other.
Start with Heroes for an ensemble drama about ordinary people suddenly discovering superpowers, or The Gifted for a tighter family-in-danger take on mutant politics. The Penguin delivers morally complex character work in a comic-book world.
Detroit: Become Human is the closest match — three characters with converging storylines, high emotional stakes, and questions about identity and civil rights. 1000xResist pairs coming-of-age drama with ambitious science fiction.
Ace in the Hole from the Wild Cards series puts powered individuals at the centre of real political conflict. The Fifth Season goes darker — a world-ending catastrophe and a mother's grief — but rewards the same appetite for emotionally grounded genre fiction.