Shows Like Empire

If you liked Empire (2014), 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.

1
The Slave Isaura (2004)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and soap
Isaura was born in 1835, in the farm of Commender Almeida. She is the daughter of the slave Juliana and the tenant of the farm, Miguel. Juliana dies right after the birth, because she denied going to bed with the…
2
Genesis (2021)
★ 8/10Also soap and drama
The story of the first 2,300 years of humanity and recounts events exclusively from that period. The plot begins by giving us a greater understanding of why we exist and how we turned from perfection to imperfection…
3
Land of Desire (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also soap and drama
When her husband is killed in a land grabbing attempt, Aline takes charge of cultivating his land and protecting his family. Facing the powerful Antonio La Selva, responsible for the death of her husband and the…
4
Crazy About You (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also soap and drama
The story begins with the ambiguous relationship between friends Viola and Luma, who seem predestined to literally enter each other's lives. Born on the same day, in very different situations, they meet years later…
5
The Young and the Restless (1973)
★ 7/10Also soap and drama
The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman…
6
Rebirth (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also soap and drama
After making a pact with Jequitibá, José Inocêncio becomes a mythical figure, known as the most successful cocoa farmer in the region. While still young, he wins the heart of Maria Santa. Their intense passion results…
7
Days of Our Lives (1965)
★ 6.2/10Also soap and drama
The 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.
8
Jezabel (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
The story of Phoenician princess Jezebel, an idol worshipper who marries King Ahab and uses her beauty and wickedness to try to impose on the Israelite people the worship of her pagan gods.
9
Kings (2022)
★ 9.3/10Also drama
Kings will tell the story of the nation of Israel, from the moment when the last judge, the prophet Samuel, is used by God to guide His people, to the sad fall of Jerusalem, caused by the armies of Babylon.
10
Trail of Lies (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also soap and drama
Paloma is a willful woman whose newborn baby is kidnapped by her own brother, Félix, who plans to become sole heir to the family’s fortune. Bruno is an honest man who, during the same night, loses his wife and son in…
11
Brave Woman (2012)
★ 7.2/10Also soap and drama
A moving tale of courage and resilience in the struggle for freedom – this is the role that life has cast for headstrong Morena in Brave Woman. Raised in a poor neighborhood in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, this…
12
Family Ties (2000)
★ 6.7/10Also soap and drama
A mature and successful woman, Helena becomes involved with Edu, who is twenty years her junior. She battles prejudice in order to live her love, but their romance fizzles out when she realizes that her daughter Camila…
13
Perfect Love (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also soap and drama
A story about love and its different manifestations, told through the little boy Marcelino in search of his biggest dream: to meet his mother. Inspired by a famous book, the plot takes place in the 1940s.
14
Primeiro Amor A Mil Por Hora (2000)
★ 7.8/10Also soap and drama
The story of fifteen-year-old Jovana Luna and the obstacles she will have to overcome in her fight to find happiness with the handsome León Baldomero, the love of her life.
15
Timeless Love (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and soap
Catarina embarks on a dangerous journey to find who made her mother vanish. The Torres family seems to be the obvious suspect, but within them there's Vasco, the love of Catarina's life. Two opposed sides connected by…
16
Brazil Avenue (2012)
★ 8.1/10Also soap and drama
Brazil Avenue is a dynamic, lifelike, and modern telenovela that reveals how unrelenting ambition and inflicted cruelty can change a young girl’s destiny and lead her to seek revenge.
17
Parenthood (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
18
Chiquititas (2013)
★ 8.3/10Also soap
Based on the original version of same name created by Cris Morena, the series tells the story of a group of orphans living in a manor, known as Raio de Luz, struggling and being guided by a young woman, Carol, that…
19
Secrets of Sand (1993)
★ 7.4/10Also soap and drama
Twin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
20
Pantanal (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and soap
After the mysterious disappearance of his father, Joventino, the cowboy José Leôncio becomes a wealthy farm owner in Pantanal. Over twenty years have passed and, bitter-hearted because of his father vanishing and the…