Shows Like Time Goes By

If you liked Time Goes By (2010), 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
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.
2
Yalı Çapkını (2022)
★ 8.4/10Also family and drama
When Istanbul playboy Ferit Korhan's exasperated grandfather arranges his marriage to a girl from Gaziantep, fate intervenes — Ferit falls for Seyran, the younger sister of his intended bride, upending both families.
3
Resurrection: Ertugrul (2014)
★ 8/10Also war & politics and drama
Ertuğrul Bey and the Knights Templar in the 13th century Alba and step and step with the struggle against brutal Mongols depicts the process of establishing the Ottoman principality.
4
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…
5
Bitter Lands (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also family and drama
The love story of Zuleyha, who grew up without a father and works with Yilmaz as an auxiliary weaver in order to earn money for her brother, a gambler. The lives of these two young people blinded by the love of one…
6
Pearson (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also war & politics and drama
Powerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson adjusts to the dirty world of Chicago politics.
7
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…
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
Foyle's War (2002)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and war & politics
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the…
10
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.
11
The Winds of War (1983)
★ 7.3/10Also war & politics and drama
Against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor 'Pug' Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous…
12
Everwood (2002)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and family
After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly…
13
Combat! (1962)
★ 8/10Also war & politics and drama
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The…
14
A Small Light (2023)
★ 8/10Also drama and war & politics
Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the…
15
What is Fatmagul's Fault? (2010)
★ 8.1/10Also family and drama
Fatmagul, a simple happy village girl, is violated by 4 drunk rich young men, the extreme hardship she faces forced to marry a rapist and the great remorse felt by others for their inaction when innocence was violated…
16
The State Within (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and war & politics
The State Within is a six-part British television political thriller serial written and created by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival, broadcast on BBC One from 2 November to 7 December 2006. After a plane explodes…
17
I, Claudius (1976)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and war & politics
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
18
12 O'Clock High (1964)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and war & politics
This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and later by Colonel Joe…
19
Shōgun (1980)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and war & politics
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
20
The Crimson Field (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and war & politics
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.