Shows Like Desperate Romantics
If you liked Desperate Romantics (2009), 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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The Buccaneers (2023)
★ 7/10Also dramaA group of fun-loving American girls burst onto the scene in tightly corseted 1870s London, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and status, the buccaneers' hearts are set on much more…
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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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The Essex Serpent (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaLondon widow Cora Seaborne moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms a surprising bond of science and skepticism with the local vicar—but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of…
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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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The White Princess (2017)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaThe story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name.
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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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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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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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The Hollow Crown (2012)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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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 Survivors (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaFifteen years ago, the loss of three young people tore this sleepy seaside town apart. Now, the mysterious death of a young woman dredges up the past.
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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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Dracula (2020)
★ 7/10Also dramaTransylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
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The White Queen (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaSet against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the series is the story of the women caught up in the protracted conflict for the throne of England.
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The Book of Negroes (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaKidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in…
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The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)
★ 7/10Also dramaFollow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.
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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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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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The Crown (2016)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaThe gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the…
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Small Axe (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAn anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.