Dekalog

Series Similar to Dekalog

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

1. Broken

   2017 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Drama series about a well-respected Catholic priest presiding over a large parish on the outskirts of a major city in northern England.

2. Our Friends in the North

   1996 · Drama · ended

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

   A nine part series depicting the varying fortunes of four friends - Nicky, Geordie, Mary and Tosker - from the optimistic times of 1964 to the uncertainties of 1995. Taking nine pivotal years (1964, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1987, 1995) the personal lives of the characters become intertwined with the political struggles of their home town of Newcastle, and the capital, London. We also see the machinations behind the scenes that affect their lives, often for the worse: slum housing projects, police corruption, the rise of Thatcherism, political sleaze, and specific events like the 1984 Miners' Strike.

3. The Virtues

   2019 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   The Virtues is a drama series that's equal parts unlikely love story and an exploration of the conflict between sin and virtue. The story revolves around Joseph, a moral yet troubled man who's lost everything. He finds himself compelled to travel to Ireland to confront demons from a childhood spent in the care system, resulting in savage and brutal consequences. He also crosses paths with a fiery, yet guarded woman, Dinah, who's hiding a secret.

4. Big Love

   2006 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Bill Henrickson seems like a typical suburban husband and father, except for the fact that he has three wives, seven kids and three homes to maintain. The Salt Lake City polygamist has to juggle his families' needs while overseeing his growing chain of home-improvement stores and attempting to reconnect with his fundamentalist relatives.

5. Cucumber

   2015 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   The hour-long Cucumber will explore the lives and misadventures of Henry Best and his long-suffering boyfriend of nine years, Lance Sullivan.

6. The Colbys

   1985 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.2), hidden gem.

   A spin-off from the television phenomenon, Dynasty, The Colbys explores the lives and loves of a fabulously wealthy California family as they confront challenges from both outsiders and within their own lineage. To maintain power and control over their empire, The Colbys will stop at nothing… and you will love them for every juicy scheme and shocking betrayal they enact.

7. Brideshead Revisited

   1981 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.1), hidden gem.

   Based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh, two years in the making, and the equivalent of seven feature films back-to-back, this epic drama tells a story of romantic yearning and loss in the glittering but fading world of the British aristocracy between the wars.

8. 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.

9. State of Play

   2003 · Drama · ended

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

   The serial begins with the murder of a young man, in what appears to be a drug-related killing, and the apparently coincidental death of Sonia Baker, the young researcher for MP Stephen Collins (Morrissey). As the deaths are investigated by journalist Cal McCaffrey of The Herald (Simm) and his colleagues (including Kelly Macdonald as Della Smith and Bill Nighy as editor Cameron Foster) it appears that not only were the deaths connected, but that a conspiracy links them with oil industry-backed corruption of high-ranking British government ministers.

10. 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.