Arvingerne

Series Similar to Arvingerne

If you enjoyed Arvingerne, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Providence

   1999 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Plastic surgeon Dr. Sydney Hansen returns to her hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, to attend her pregnant sister Joanie's wedding, but realizes that her emotionally distant veterinarian father, her rascal of a baby brother and her high maintenance sister need her more than her glitzy Beverly Hills patients. In Providence, Sydney finds work in a low-income medical clinic.

2. Borgen - Riget, Magten og Æren

   2022 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Birgitte Nyborg is the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, when oil is suddenly found in Greenland. But Nyborg has gone to the polls on a green agenda, and for her there is no doubt that the oil project must be shut down as soon as possible. Voices in Greenland - led by the Greenlandic Minister, Hans Eliassen - are, however, of a completely different opinion.

3. Mother

   2018 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

   This is the story of a woman becoming a mother. Soo Jin is a teacher at an elementary school. She plans to go abroad to study and teaching is just a temporary job. However, she notices that one of her student, Hye Na, is being abused by her mother and uncle at home. Soo Jin or the police cannot do anything because Hye Na doesn't know that she is being abused and says it's all good to people. As Soo Jin meets Ja Young and Seol Ak, the mother and uncle, she decides to save her from those horrible people. She makes an impulsive but sincere decision to become Hye Na's mother. Their story begins unexpectedly, but as Soo Jin and Hye Na start to believe and depend on each other, they become a real mother and daughter.

4. Borgen

   2010 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on DR1.

   Danish Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg wins a shocking victory and ushers in a wave of political struggles.

5. Olive Kitteridge

   2014 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).

   Based on Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Olive Kitteridge tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of a woman whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and a staunch moral center.

6. Reckless

   2014 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).

   Reckless is set in Charleston, S.C., where a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a charming southern attorney must hide their intense mutual attraction as a police sex scandal threatens to tear the city apart.

7. The Newsroom

   2012 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.4).

   The Newsroom follows the members of a cable news team on their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of a fickle audience, corporate mandates and tangled personal relationships.

8. Το Νησί

   2010 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Alexis knows little about her family's past. She knows only that her mother, Sophia, grew up in Plaka, a small Cretan village, before moving to London. Making her first visit to Crete to see the village, she discovers that Plaka faces the small, now deserted island of Spinalonga, which was Greece's leper colony for much of the 20th century. She meets an old friend of her mother's, Fotini, who is prepared to tell her the entire tragic story of her family, a family torn apart by war and passion. The adaption of the best-selling novel, "The Island", by Victoria Hislop.

9. The Queen's Gambit

   2020 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

   Chronicling the life of an orphan chess prodigy, the story - set during the Cold War era - follows Beth Harmon from the age of eight to twenty-two, as she struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world.

10. Manhattan

    2014 · Drama · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).

    Set in Los Alamos, N.M., at the Manhattan Project during the race to build the world's first atomic bomb, Manhattan explores the cost of secrets and the corrosive effect they have on individuals, families and their relationships.