Shows Like This Life
If you liked This Life (1996), 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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WAR (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaAn anthology series set in the elite world of London law following two rival firms, Cathcarts and Taylor & Byrne, as they face off in a different headline-making legal battle each season.
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Being Human (2011)
★ 7/10Also dramaThree paranormal roommates, a ghost, a vampire, and a werewolf, struggle to keep their dark secrets from the world, while helping each other navigate the complexities of living double lives.
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Fellow Travelers (2023)
★ 8.4/10Also dramaA chronicle of a decades-long volatile romance between two men — from their first meeting during the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare to the AIDS crises of the 1980s.
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Goliath (2016)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaOnce a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman…
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The L Word: Generation Q (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaIn this sequel to The L Word, we continue to follow the intermingled lives of Bette Porter, Alice Pieszecki and Shane McCutcheon, along with a new generation of diverse, self-possessed LGBTQIA+ characters experiencing…
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The L Word (2004)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.
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Reasonable Doubt (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaIn this legal drama, you’ll judge Jax Stewart for her questionable ethics and wild interpretations of the law… until you’re the one in trouble. Then you’ll see her for what she is: the most brilliant and fearless…
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Eli Stone (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaMany lawyers consider themselves prophets, but Eli Stone may be the real deal. Eli has built a successful career at a top law firm in San Francisco representing only the biggest and richest corporations that make a…
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Sense8 (2015)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaOne gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people…
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Banana (2015)
★ 7/10Also dramaThrough eight stand-alone stories, this series follows different aspects of LGBT life. Each episode focuses on the unique storyline of a diverse character dealing with life, loves and losses. Scotty is a young lesbian…
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The Newsreader (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaAn unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; a star newsreader and an ambitious bisexual reporter join forces in a ruthless 1986 newsroom, as events unfold that will change their lives.
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Killing Eve (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaA security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
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Being Human (2009)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaDeciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious…
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Mad Men (2007)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaSet in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.
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House of Guinness (2025)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaDublin, 1868. The Guinness family patriarch is dead, and his four children — each with dark secrets to hide — hold the brewery's fate in their hands.
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Grand Army (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaFive students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn take on a chaotic world as they fight to succeed, survive, break free and seize the future.
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Gypsy (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaThe journey of Jean Holloway – a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives.
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Bel-Air (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaThe journey of a book smart teen whose life is forever transformed when he moves from the streets of west Philadelphia to live with his relatives in one of LA’s wealthiest suburbs.
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Love/Hate (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaModern-day underworld characters Nidge and John Boy wrestle for control of Dublin's illicit drug trade in this forceful crime drama.