Shows Like The Buccaneers
If you liked The Buccaneers (2023), 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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Harlots (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaBrothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
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Belgravia: The Next Chapter (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaBelgravia, 1871. When Lord Frederick Trenchard meets Clara Dunn, their courtship is full of passion. But after they marry, the scandalous world of high society and a long-buried family secret threaten to unravel their…
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Jamestown (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaThe early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.
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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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The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaInspector John Marlott investigates a series of crimes in 19th century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.
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Desperate Romantics (2009)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaSix-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
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The Gilded Age (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaIt’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian…
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A Thousand Blows (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaHezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and…
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The Halcyon (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaThe story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.
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Howards End (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaThe social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
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TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaThe story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
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The Hollow Crown (2012)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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The Last Tycoon (2017)
★ 7/10Also dramaFrom F. Scott Fitzgerald's last work, The Last Tycoon follows Monroe Stahr, Hollywood's Golden Boy as he battles father figure and boss Pat Brady for the soul of their studio. In a world darkened by the Depression and…
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Miss Scarlet (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaWhen Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the…
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Mary & George (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaIn 17th century England, Mary Villiers molds her beautiful son, George, to seduce King James I, intending to gain riches and influence through outrageous schemes.
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Bridgerton (2020)
★ 8/10Also dramaWealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
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Life on Top (2009)
★ 7/10Also dramaBased on a novel by Clara Darling, about a college grad who heads to a big city looking for work and discovers her older sister, who's been living there for years, is a model.
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Dancing on the Edge (2013)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAn explosive 1930s drama following a jazz band in London at a time of huge change.
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Indian Summers (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaEpic drama set in the summer of 1932 where India dreams of independence, but the British are clinging to power. Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells…
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Taboo (2017)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaAdventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.