Shows Like I, Claudius
If you liked I, Claudius (1976), a drama and war & politics 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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Pearson (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also war & politics and dramaPowerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson adjusts to the dirty world of Chicago politics.
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The State Within (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and war & politicsThe 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…
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Sanditon (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaThe spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
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The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.
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Lady Chatterley (1993)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaAfter a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
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Restless (2012)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and war & politicsA young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
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Under the Dome (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA small town is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. While military forces, the government and the media positioned outside of this surrounding barrier…
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A Small Light (2023)
★ 8/10Also drama and war & politicsMiep 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…
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The Winds of War (1983)
★ 7.3/10Also war & politics and dramaAgainst 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…
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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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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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Shōgun (1980)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and war & politicsAn English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
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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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Walker (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaCordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there's harder work to be done at home.
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The Crimson Field (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and war & politicsIn 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.
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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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Nuremberg (2000)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and war & politicsJustice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.
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Joan (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA penniless mother makes an impulsive decision in the jewellery shop where she works, and is propelled into a different world.
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Days of Our Lives (1965)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaThe Horton and Brady broods endure the romantic trials of life in Salem, a Midwestern hamlet filled with evil geniuses, star-crossed lovers and a rich family history.
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Neverwhere (1996)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaRichard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below…