Shows Like Cranford
If you liked Cranford (2007), 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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Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)
★ 8.4/10Also dramaSet in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to…
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Pride and Prejudice (1995)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaSet in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved…
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The Paradise (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaAn intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the…
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Little Dorrit (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaAmy 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…
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Dickensian (2015)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaDickensian 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…
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The Hardacres (2024)
★ 8/10Also dramaThe sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacres, a working-class family in 1890s Yorkshire who strike it rich and move from a grimy fish dock to a vast estate.
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Poldark (2015)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaBritain 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…
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaThe story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
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Sanditon (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaThe 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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Jericho (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaIn the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.
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The Village (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaThe Village is a BBC television drama created and written by Peter Moffat. Consisting of two six-episode series—the project intended as a 42-hour televised epic—the first series covers 1914 to 1920; the second…
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Sense and Sensibility (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaSense 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…
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Doctor Thorne (2016)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaThe story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
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Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaSet in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous…
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Jane Eyre (2006)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaCharlotte Bronte's classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess in a gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Rochester.
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Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaUpstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving…
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Belgravia (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA tale of secrets and scandals set in 1840s London. When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in…
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Offspring (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAn 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.
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The Forsytes (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaChronicles the lives of four generations of an upper-class family of stockbrokers, set against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving late-Victorian world.
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Dawson's Creek (1998)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaDawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.