Shows Like South Riding
If you liked South Riding (2011), 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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Waterloo Road (2006)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaWaterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in…
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Pride and Prejudice (1995)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaSet in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved…
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Grange Hill (1978)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaChildren's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.
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When Calls the Heart (2014)
★ 8.3/10Also dramaElizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
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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…
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The Teacher (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaA thriller anthology series detailing the separate stories of teachers.
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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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Cranford (2007)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaA rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
★ 7.8/10Also 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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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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Jane Eyre (1983)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaAfter a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester…
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Jane Eyre (2006)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaCharlotte Bronte's classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess in a gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Rochester.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by the BBC. A mysterious young woman arrives at Wildfell Hall, an old house of the Elizabethan era, with a young…
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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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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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Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)
★ 8.4/10Also dramaSet in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to…
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Silk (2011)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaPassionate defence barrister Martha Costello faces challenging cases and surprising clients, which test her faith in the criminal justice system. Gifted colleague Clive Reader is called to the bar with her. They work…
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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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A Touch of Frost (1992)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaJack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman…
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Call the Midwife (2012)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaDrama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.