Jane Eyre

Series Similar to Jane Eyre

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

1. Pride and Prejudice

   1995 · Drama, Romance · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   Re-live the romance and drama of Andrew Davies' lavish adaptation, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

2. North & South

   2004 · Drama, Romance · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   Set against the backdrop of Victorian England's industrial north, it follows the fortunes of Margaret Hale, one of 19th century literature's most original heroines.

3. Sense and Sensibility

   2008 · Drama, Romance · ended98% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Widow Dashwood and her three unmarried daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, inherit only a tiny allowance. So they move out of their grand Sussex home to a more modest cottage in Devonshire. There, the prevailing ambition is to find suitable husbands for the girls. With help from wealthy neighbor Sir John Middleton, suitors for Elinor and Marianne are soon found, but not landed. They include dashing Willoughby, future vicar Edward Ferrars and retired colonial gentleman Colonel Brandon.

4. Poldark

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.3), also on BBC One.

   Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.

5. Sanditon

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Written only months before Jane Austen's death in 1817, Sanditon tells the story of the impulsive, spirited and unconventional Charlotte Heywood, played by Williams, and her spiky relationship with the charming Sidney Parker, played by James. When a chance accident transports her from her rural hometown of Willingden to a would-be coastal resort, it exposes Charlotte to the intrigues and dalliances of a seaside town on the make. The drama takes viewers from the West Indies to the rotting alleys of London and exposes the hidden agendas of each character and sees Charlotte discover herself and ultimately find love.

6. War & Peace

   2016 · Drama, Romance, History · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   In a new adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel, three young people experience life, love and loss against the epic backdrop of Russia's wars with Napoleon.

7. Little Dorrit

   2008 · Drama, Romance · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on BBC One.

   Fourteen-part adaptation of Dickens' powerful story of love, honour, debt and hope in 1820s London, written by Andrew Davies.

8. The Paradise

   2012 · Drama, Romance, History · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on BBC One.

   An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s.

9. Death Comes to Pemberley

   2013 · Drama, Romance, Mystery · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on BBC One.

   Adaptation of PD James's bestselling homage to Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married, are preparing for their annual ball when festivities are brought to an abrupt halt.

10. Indian Summers

    2015 · Drama, Romance · ended93% match

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

    Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India, from both sides of the experience. But at the heart of the story lie the implications and ramifications of the tangled web of passions, rivalries and clashes that define the lives of those brought together in this summer which will change everything.