Glass Heart

Series Similar to Glass Heart

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

1. The Get Down

   2016 · Drama, Music · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Music profile, hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   1970s New York City - broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped - dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them - except each other, armed only with verbal games, improvised dance steps, some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements, to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the just-built World Trade Center, The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop, punk and disco - told through the lives and music of the South Bronx kids who changed the city, and the world... forever.

2. The Queen's Gambit

   2020 · Drama · ended90% match

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

   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.

3. The Eddy

   2020 · Drama, Music · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Music profile, also on Netflix.

   The story is about a Paris jazz club and focuses on the owner, the band, and the city. It's set in present day and deals heavily with the relationship between the American and French-Arab co-owners of the club.

4. Dirty Business

   2026 · Drama · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (9).

   Based on a decade-long investigation into England's water companies, and telling the real stories of whistleblowers and victims who believe their lives have been destroyed after encountering sewage polluted water, Dirty Business is a major new factual drama investigating one of the biggest potential corporate scandals in British history.Dirty Business follows the story of two unlikely detectives, who notice that the fish in the river running through their idyllic Oxfordshire hamlet are dying. They contact their water company to find out why, and the company's strange and evasive reply sparks an investigation that remains ongoing to this day.

5. This Town

   2024 · Drama, Music · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Music profile.

   This Town tells the story of an extended family and four young people who are drawn into the world of ska and two-tone music, which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, uniting black, white and Asian youths.

6. Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

   2020 · Drama · ended89% match

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

   Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett's masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social distancing guidelines, a new generation of Britain's finest actors star in 10 of Bennett's classic scripts, alongside two brand new Talking Heads penned by the acclaimed writer last year.Talking Heads is a London Theatre Company production for BBC One. All 12 Talking Heads will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer from the evening of Tuesday 23 June.

7. Mother

   2018 · Drama · ended88% match

   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.

8. Page Turner

   2016 · Drama, Music · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Music profile, hidden gem.

   Yoo Yoon Seul is a student of the school of arts, a talented pianist, who won various contests, but is always under the control of her mother, who herself wanted to become a pianist. One day Yoo Seul loses everything in an accident, and now she can no longer play the piano. With the help of her friend Cha Shik and rival Jin-Mok, Yoo Seul begins to live a new life.

9. Empathie

   2025 · Drama · returning88% match

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

   Suzanne, a formerly gifted criminologist and now a psychiatrist, confronts us with our own relationship with empathy. Having had a difficult life herself, her unorthodox methods will shake things up at the Mount Royal Psychiatric Institute, where she lands after being strongly advised to leave the police force.

10. Lessons in Chemistry

    2023 · Drama · ended88% match

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

    Set in the early 1950s, Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott, whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a society deeming that women belong in the domestic sphere, not the professional one. When Elizabeth finds herself pregnant, alone and fired from her lab, she musters the ingenuity only a single mother has. She accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives - and the men who are suddenly listening - a lot more than recipes... all the while craving a return to her true love: science.