Shows Like Z: The Beginning of Everything
If you liked Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015), 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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Wu-Tang: An American Saga (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaIn the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to…
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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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Julia (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaThrough Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women's movement, the…
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Tell Me Lies (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaWhen Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. They quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will…
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Bel-Air (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaThe journey of a book smart teen whose life is forever transformed when he moves from the streets of west Philadelphia to live with his relatives in one of LA’s wealthiest suburbs.
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Kill Jackie (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaJackie Price has been living a wealthy, luxurious life for the past 20 years after escaping a dangerous past as an international cocaine dealer. But just as life begins to feel a little boring, she discovers that The…
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The Gilded Age (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaIt’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian…
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Alias Grace (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaBased on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder…
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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 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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Mrs. America (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaThe true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka “the sweetheart of the silent majority.”
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COBRA (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaAs widespread power outages cause chaos and threaten lives across the country, the COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room) committee comprised of the UK’s leading experts and politicians, gathers to find a way to turn the…
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Matlock (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAfter achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock rejoins the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and…
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My Life with the Walter Boys (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaWhen a tragedy disrupts her life, a teen moves in with her guardian's big family in a small town and learns new lessons about love, hope and friendship.
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The Chi (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaA relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about…
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Life on Top (2009)
★ 7/10Also dramaBased on a novel by Clara Darling, about a college grad who heads to a big city looking for work and discovers her older sister, who's been living there for years, is a model.
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The Purge (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaSet in a dystopian America ruled by a totalitarian political party, the series follows several seemingly unrelated characters living in a small city. Tying them all together is a mysterious savior who’s impeccably…
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61st Street (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaMoses Johnson is a promising high-school athlete with a bright future who’s accused of murdering a police officer during a drug bust gone wrong. Swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system…
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Ambitions (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA multigenerational family saga centered around one woman who, having recently relocated and intent on revitalizing her marriage, finds herself going head to head with some of the most powerful and deceitful players in…
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The Hunting Wives (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaSophie trades New England for East Texas and falls into a wealthy socialite's magnetic orbit — where a clique of housewives hide deadly secrets.