Shows Like Lark Rise to Candleford
If you liked Lark Rise to Candleford (2008), 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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Cranford (2007)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaA rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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Pride and Prejudice (1995)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaSet in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved…
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The Hardacres (2024)
★ 8/10Also dramaThe sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacres, a working-class family in 1890s Yorkshire who strike it rich and move from a grimy fish dock to a vast estate.
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Little Dorrit (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaAmy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her…
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Poldark (2015)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaBritain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved…
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The Village (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaThe Village is a BBC television drama created and written by Peter Moffat. Consisting of two six-episode series—the project intended as a 42-hour televised epic—the first series covers 1914 to 1920; the second…
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The Paradise (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaAn intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the…
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Dickensian (2015)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaDickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity…
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Jericho (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaIn the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaThe story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
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Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaUpstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving…
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Sense and Sensibility (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaSense and Sensibility is a 2008 British television drama, based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies, who said that the aim of the series was to make viewers forget…
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The Waltons (1972)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaThe Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Doctor Thorne (2016)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaThe story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
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The Forsytes (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaChronicles the lives of four generations of an upper-class family of stockbrokers, set against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving late-Victorian world.
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Offspring (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAn exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.
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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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Parenthood (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaThe trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
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Road to Avonlea (1990)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaIn the fictional small town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in the early 20th century, 10-year-old Montreal heiress Sara Stanley is sent by her wealthy father to live with her two maiden aunts, Hetty and Olivia King…
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Victoria (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaThe story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having…