Shows Like Prisoner
If you liked Prisoner (1979), a soap 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.
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Wentworth (2013)
★ 8/10Also dramaBea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
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Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots (2013)
★ 7.5/10Also soap and dramaFollow the complicated dynamic between the rich and powerful Cryer family and the hired help who work in their opulent Savannah, Georgia, mansion.
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Escape at Dannemora (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaThe stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison…
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Queens (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also soap and dramaEstranged and out-of-touch, four women in their 40s reunite for a chance to recapture their fame and regain the swagger they had as the Nasty Bitches—their ‘90s group that made them legends in the hip-hop world.
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Bad Girls (1999)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaBad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout…
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Goliath (2016)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaOnce a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman…
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Oz (1997)
★ 8/10Also dramaThe daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their…
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I Will Find You (2026)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaWrongfully imprisoned for murdering his own son, a father sets out on a desperate rescue mission after learning the boy may still be alive.
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Time (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaGuilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.
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Shades of Blue (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaSexy New York detective and single mother Harlee Santos fell in with a tight-knit group of dirty cops, taking bribes and protection money that she uses to provide the best life for her honest, talented daughter. But…
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Good Behavior (2016)
★ 7/10Also dramaLetty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife…
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The Patient (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA psychotherapist finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges.
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Inside Man (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA prisoner on death row in the US, a vicar in a quiet English town, and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar cross paths in the most unexpected way.
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American Gigolo (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaJulian Kaye has always been an object of desire, so much so that people are willing to destroy him in order to have him. Exonerated, after 15 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, he now faces the challenge of…
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The Hitchhiker (1983)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
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L.A.'s Finest (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaSyd Burnett has left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna, a working mom with an equally complex past, Syd is pushed to examine whether her unapologetic…
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Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
★ 8/10Also dramaIn a small Michigan town where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry, the McClusky family are the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians in a city…
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Knots Landing (1979)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and soapThe domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
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Vigil (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaThe mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre…
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Good Girls (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaThree "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.