Best tv shows like Keeping Up with the Joneses
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Plot Summary:
After the death of patriarch Theodore Jones, his second wife Robin and Theodore's daughters work to protect their family and business after they are threatened.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like Keeping Up with the Joneses (2021):
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Vildanden (1989)
Plot Summary:
Based on Ibsen play.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags:
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The A Word (2016)
Plot Summary:
The various generations of the Hughes family, who all love, work and fight like any other clan, find they must learn to communicate all over again when the youngest member is diagnosed with autism.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: social, psychological, uplifting, touching, compassionate
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Land of Desire (2023)
Plot Summary:
The saga of a woman, guided by the power of love and moved by the desire for justice, who crosses paths with a family divided by ambition and many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Rain Shadow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Rain Shadow is an Australian television drama series which premiered on 7 October 2007 on ABC TV. It aired on Sundays at 8.30 pm. The six-part series was produced by Southern Star. Music from The Audreys features in the soundtrack for the show, including the main theme. Rain Shadow was shot in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia and is set in the fictional district of Paringa, a dry land farming area in a rain shadow. It tells the story of two characters who become the means of each other's future. It stars Rachel Ward as district vet Kate McDonald and Victoria Thaine as new veterinary assistant Jill Blake.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Small-Time Traders (2016)
Plot Summary:
It's a story about strong women of the mid 1990s in post-soviet Russia. About the women who had to carry on their shoulders all the hardships of providing for families during the period of «original accumulation of capital».
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: realistic, inspirational, captivating, emotional, sincere
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Bromance (2015)
Plot Summary:
Could anyone be more excited to reach her 25th birthday? Pi Ya Nuo had an inauspicious start to her life. Doomed to live her life as a boy, Ya Nuo is shy and always tries to keep her distance to people to hide her true identity, and the mysterious aloofness makes her irresistible to the girls around her. With her 26th birthday fast approaching, will Ya Nuo find her much-anticipated return to being a female will be as easy as she had hoped?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, romantic, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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Child (2019)
Plot Summary:
Being the daughter of a prostitute mother, Akca gives up her motherhood in order to give her child a better future. The bride of a wealthy family, Sule promises to be a mother to Akca's baby for a lifetime. She looks at the baby she named Efe and raises him. Things change with the birth of Sule's own child.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic
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Beecham House (2019)
Plot Summary:
On the cusp of 19th century in Delhi, we following the fortunes of the residents of the titular mansion. The story begins as handsome and soulful former English soldier, John Beecham, has acquired the house to start a new life for his family and a business as a trader.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, period piece, costume drama, historical drama, period drama, interesting
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La Desalmada (2021)
Plot Summary:
Fernanda Linares (Livia Brito) is a woman thirsty for revenge after the murder of her husband on their wedding night, where in addition, Fernanda was a victim of rape after the event occurred. However, Fernanda's life will change when she meets Rafael Toscano (José Ron), a handsome young man who recently just received his university degree with whom she will empathize and return to Fernanda the opportunity to love again.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Boys Over Flowers 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Hana Yori Dango Returns is a Japanese television drama series, broadcast on TBS in 2007. It is the sequel to 2005 Hana Yori Dango TV series, based on Japanese shōjo manga series, Boys Over Flowers, written by Yoko Kamio, and followed by movie adaptation Hana Yori Dango Final.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, romantic, humorous, cynical, shoujo, anime, comic
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Samurai Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
This story follows Heaven, who at six months old was the sole survivor of a deadly plane crash. The press had named her Heaven, because it seemed that she fell from the sky. Soon after, she was adopted by the powerful Kogo Family and lived a very privileged life. But then, 19 years later, things take an unexpected turn, when her wedding is attacked and her brother, Ohiko, is killed trying to save her, not before warning her that the Yakuza have infiltrated her family. So she breaks free from her family and begins training to be a samurai and fight back against the Yakuza.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, emotional, teen, serious, suspenseful
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Secret Boutique (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jenny Jang is poor and works at bathhouse in Gangnam, Seoul. She starts a new job as a housemaid for a conglomerate family. She becomes successful and then runs J Boutique. She also begins work as a lobbyist. Jenny Jang gets involved in an international city development project.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, non-linear, disturbing, depressing
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Six sisters (2015)
Plot Summary:
The series is about the life of six sisters of a high class Spanish family, and the difficulties of taking over the family's fabrics' business after the death of their father, in 1913.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, period drama
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Bad Mothers (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sarah’s perfect life as a GP, wife and mother is shattered when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Then her best friend is found murdered and Sarah’s husband, Anton, is arrested. She finds unlikely sisterhood and support in a ragtag group of outsiders.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Bel-Air (2022)
Plot Summary:
The 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.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, sitcom, psychological
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We Are Who We Are (2020)
Plot Summary:
Plot unknown.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 462 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, thought provoking, sentimental, uplifting, touching, sweet, funny, educational, cute
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Soul Food (2000)
Plot Summary:
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of his successful 1997 film of the same name. Having aired for 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly black cast in the history of North American prime-time television.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sincere, touching, realistic, talky, sitcom, black cinema
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Strong Medicine (2000)
Plot Summary:
The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, emotional, medical drama
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UnREAL (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of a hit dating competition show, "UnREAL" is led by Rachel, a young staffer whose sole job is to manipulate her relationships with and among the contestants to get the vital dramatic and outrageous footage the program's dispassionate executive producer demands. What ensues is a humorous, yet vexing, look at what happens in the world of unscripted television, where being a contestant can be vicious and producing it is a whole other reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: biting, realistic, semi serious, captivating, erotic, sexy, grindhouse, hilarious, tense, touching
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Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Plot Summary:
Brothers & Sisters is an American television drama series that centers on the Walker family and their lives in Pasadena, California. The series premiered on ABC on September 24, 2006, and aired its final episode on May 8, 2011. It aired, for its entire run, in a Sunday night timeslot after Desperate Housewives. The cast included a collection of award-winning actors, including Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths, Calista Flockhart, Rob Lowe, and Patricia Wettig. Sally Field received both a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance throughout the series. Rachel Griffiths was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her work on the show. In May 2011, the show completed its fifth and final season on ABC. On May 13, 2011, it was announced that ABC had decided to end the show.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic, captivating, entertaining, stylized, telenovela, queer cinema
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Mysterious Personal Shopper (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hong Se Yeon works as a personal shopper. She is outgoing and a positive person, but she is betrayed by people whom she loved. She begins to take revenge on those who betrayed her. Meanwhile, Eun Kyung Hye is the only child of a CEO. Her life looks perfect, but she has a fear that she will get abandoned. Because of her fear, she has an impulse control disorder and gets compulsive.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lies of Lies (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ji Eun-Soo is a daughter-in-law of a powerful chaebol family. She suddenly she becomes a murderer, who killed her husband. After she is released from prison, she tries to get her daughter back. She approaches Kang Ji-Min, who has adopted her daughter. He is a cool as ice reporter. Ji Eun-Soo pretends to fall in love with him and attempts to marry him to become the stepmother of her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Women of Brewster Place (1989)
Plot Summary:
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: retro, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, black cinema
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Great Expectations (2011)
Plot Summary:
'Great Expectations' opens with Pip as a boy (played as an young man by newcomer Douglas Booth, 'The Pillars of the Earth') on the marshes near his home, where he encounters the desperate escapee Magwitch (Winstone). Pip is coerced into stealing a metal file to break Magwitch's chains, but the boy willingly snares a piece of meat pie to feed the famished man. So begins a classic coming-of-age story about innate kindness and learned indifference. Young Pip expects no more from life than to join his brother-in-law Joe at the blacksmith's forge. But fate intervenes when the neighboring rich eccentric Miss Havisham (Anderson) seeks Pip out as a playmate for her adopted daughter, Estella (Vanessa Kirby, 'The Hour'). This sets Pip on a course that sees him tested in many ways, not least in being thrown into a wish-fulfillment paradise for a young man, where he has the pleasures of London at his disposal and true love - and great expectations - in his future. Or so he thinks.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, historical drama, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, costume drama, period piece, gothic, stylized
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The Gilded Age (2022)
Plot Summary:
It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, 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 gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her rich neighbors as she struggles to decide between adhering to the rules or forging her own path.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: captivating, costume drama, suspense, disturbing, period piece, exciting, deep, historical drama, psychological, period drama
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Mildred Pierce (2011)
Plot Summary:
A newly divorced, uniquely independent woman struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family in Depression-era California.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 336 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, costume drama, atmospheric, period piece, thought provoking, romantic, social, cute, clever
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Reign (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: sexy, stylized, serious, historical drama, costume drama, tense, suspenseful, realistic, period piece, erotic
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Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the early 1980s, and about a fictional visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations confronts the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the changing culture in Texas' Silicon Prairie.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: clever, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic, retro, emotional, dramatic, crying, cerebral
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House of Cards (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex and corruption in modern D.C. House of Cards is an adaptation of a previous BBC miniseries of the same name, which is based on the novel by Michael Dobbs.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 524000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 3804 min
Plot tags: political, serious, clever, captivating, tense, talky, postmodern, cynical, intellectual, exciting
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The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s, a young girl discovers an astonishing talent for chess while struggling with addiction.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 525000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 397 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, period piece, historical drama, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, inspirational, thought provoking