Shows Like Tipping the Velvet

If you liked Tipping the Velvet (2002), a drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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Sense and Sensibility (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
Sense and Sensibility is a 2008 British television drama, based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies, who said that the aim of the series was to make viewers forget…
2
Daniel Deronda (2002)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
In 1870s England, idealist Daniel Deronda seeks his mysterious origins and becomes entangled in the lives of the self-centered Gwendolen Harleth, who is trapped in a loveless marriage, and Jewish singer Mirah Lapidoth.
3
Heartstopper (2022)
★ 8.6/10Also drama
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love.
4
North & South (2004)
★ 8.1/10Also drama
Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of…
5
Sanditon (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
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Poldark (2015)
★ 7.8/10Also drama
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved…
7
Dickensian (2015)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity…
8
Lady Chatterley (1993)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
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Scarlett (1994)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Scarlett is a 1994 American television miniseries loosely based on Alexandra Ripley's eponymous 1991 book of the same name, a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone with the Wind' (1936). Filmed across the United States…
10
Downton Abbey (2010)
★ 8.1/10Also drama
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
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Fingersmith (2005)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
A young woman is hired as a maid to an heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle. But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a…
13
Little Dorrit (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her…
14
Murdoch Mysteries (2008)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books…
15
The Way We Live Now (2001)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
Anthony Trollope’s epic tale of Victorian power and corruption, set in the 1870s. Within weeks of his arrival in London, financier Augustus Melmotte announces a railway is to be built from Salt Lake City to the Gulf of…
16
When We Rise (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
The personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th…
17
Offspring (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.
18
Wolf Hall (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The…
19
Neverwhere (1996)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below…
20
The Rainmaker (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head to head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend, Sarah. Rudy, along with his boss, Bruiser, and her disheveled paralegal, Deck, uncovers two…