Shows Like The Forsytes
If you liked The Forsytes (2025), 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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Downton Abbey (2010)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaA chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
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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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A Gentleman in Moscow (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaCount Alexander Rostov finds himself going from riches to rags following the Russian revolution. A Soviet tribunal banishes him to the attic room of an opulent hotel, where, oblivious to the world outside, he discovers…
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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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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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Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
★ 7.6/10Also 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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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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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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The Rainmaker (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaFresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head to head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend, Sarah. Rudy, along with his boss, Bruiser, and her disheveled paralegal, Deck, uncovers two…
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Parenthood (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaThe trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
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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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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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Tyler Perry's The Oval (2019)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaA 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.
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Anne with an E (2017)
★ 8.7/10Also dramaA coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s, who…
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Murdoch Mysteries (2008)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books…
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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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North & South (2004)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaMargaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of…
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Wolf Hall (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The…
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Gossip Girl (2007)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaAn exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.
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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…