Shows Like Forbidden Love

If you liked Forbidden Love (2008), a family and 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.

1
Falling Leaves (2006)
★ 5.9/10Also family and drama
Yaprak Dökümü is an award-winning Turkish television series based on the novel of the same name by Reşat Nuri Güntekin. The series premiered on 13 September 2005 on Kanal D, and endеd its fifth and final season on 29…
2
Mother (2016)
★ 8.3/10Also family and drama
Anne (Mother), a 2016–2017 Turkish drama, follows Zeynep, a substitute teacher who discovers her 7-year-old student, Melek, is being severely abused and neglected by her mother, Sule. To save her, Zeynep kidnaps Melek…
3
This Sea Will Overflow (2025)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and family
In a land where people are accustomed to battling fierce waves and constant storms, the story of a woman who stands tall on her feet, with all her emotional strength, resilience and endurance, and a man who is…
4
Road to Avonlea (1990)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and family
In the fictional small town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in the early 20th century, 10-year-old Montreal heiress Sara Stanley is sent by her wealthy father to live with her two maiden aunts, Hetty and Olivia King…
5
Legacy (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and family
The story of Yaman, a successful businessman who is incapable of love because of his traumatic childhood. There is only one person that he feels something for, his young nephew Yusuf. When Yusuf's mother dies…
6
Tyler Perry's The Oval (2019)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and family
A seemingly perfect interracial first family becomes the White House's newest residents. But behind closed doors they unleash a torrent of lies, cheating and corruption.
7
Holly Hobbie (2018)
★ 8.4/10Also family and drama
Holly's a 13-year-old singer-songwriter who's got her best friends and close-knit family by her side, but she's dreaming of ways to save the world - even if it's starting in her own backyard.
8
My Brilliant Career (2026)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and family
Restless, razor-sharp and refusing to conform, 17-year-old Sybylla Melvyn is dead set on writing her own story in an era that expects her to find a man and settle down.
9
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour (2010)
★ 8.2/10Also family and drama
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books…
10
Free Rein (2017)
★ 8/10Also family and drama
A 15-year-old from LA spends the summer at her mom's childhood home on an island off the coast of England, where she bonds with a mysterious horse.
11
Family Secrets (2021)
★ 8.7/10Also family and drama
Ceylin is a fierce, rule-bending defence attorney whose father was wrongly imprisoned — for her, justice always comes before the law. Ilgaz is a by-the-book prosecutor who believes the two are the same thing. When his…
12
The Next Step (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also family and drama
Follow the lives of an elite group of young dancers who train at The Next Step Studio.
13
Chicken Girls (2017)
★ 7/10Also drama and family
Rhyme and her friends - known by their 'ship name, "The Chicken Girls" - have been dancing together forever. But this year, everything's changing.
14
Eşref Rüya (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
A reckless wealthy man named Esref becomes captivated by an unknown love. He meets Nisan, a young musician who makes his heart race.
15
Lost & Found Music Studios (2015)
★ 8/10Also family and drama
Teen singers-songwriters in an elite music program form bonds of friendship, creativity and romance while turning their passion into their profession.
16
Parenthood (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
17
Woman (2017)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
The story of mother Bahar, who carries the weight and love of two children in their hearts with enthusiasm in their hearts. Bahar, abandoned by her mother when she was eight years old, later lost her grandma and her…
18
Far Away (2024)
★ 8.5/10Also drama and family
Alya Albora arrives in Mardin with her late husband’s funeral and their five-year-old son to fulfill her husband’s last will. However, this arrival marks a point of no return, and there is no way out of Albora. The…
19
Smother (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.
20
My Little Girl (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
Eight-year-old Öykü is an exceptional little girl, who unlike her peers is very empathetic and perceptive of the world around her. When her aunt, who has been her caregiver since birth, abandons her, Öykü will have to…