Shows Like Days of Our Lives
If you liked Days of Our Lives (1965), 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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The Young and the Restless (1973)
★ 7/10Also soap and dramaThe 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…
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Guiding Light (1952)
★ 5.9/10Also soap and dramaGuiding Light is an American television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded by a 15-year…
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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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Sullivan's Crossing (2023)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaAfter Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan’s personal and professional life are thrown into turmoil she returns home to Sullivan’s Crossing. While there, Maggie is forced to navigate her complicated present while confronting…
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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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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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The Couple Next Door (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaEvie and Pete move into an upscale neighborhood and find themselves in a world of curtain twitching and status anxiety. They find friendship in the shape of the couple next door, alpha traffic cop Danny and his wife…
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Degrassi (2001)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and soapThe life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.
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Chicago Hope (1994)
★ 7.2/10Also soap and dramaChicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago…
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The Rainmaker (2025)
★ 7.8/10Also 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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SkyMed (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaLife, death and drama at 20,000 feet. The series weaves together intense character journeys and high-stakes medical rescues, as we follow the triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations of budding nurses and pilots flying…
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Hill Street Blues (1981)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaA realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Home and Away (1988)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and soapHome and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher…
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Empire (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and soapA powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.
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Brothers and Sisters (2006)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaThe close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.
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Smother (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaOn the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.
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Casualty (1986)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and soapDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Carl Weber's The Family Business (2018)
★ 8.5/10Also dramaMeet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens. By day, they’re an upstanding family; by night, they live a dangerous secret life.
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Felicity (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and soapFelicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things…
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Dawson's Creek (1998)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and soapDawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.