Little Dorrit

Series Similar to Little Dorrit

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

1. North & South

   2004 · Drama, Romance · ended98% 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.

2. Poldark

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended94% 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.

3. Sense and Sensibility

   2008 · Drama, Romance · ended92% 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. Normal People

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Normal People tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell from the end of their school days in small-town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College. At school, he's well-liked and popular, while she's lonely, proud and intimidating. But when Connell comes to pick up his mother from her cleaning job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying in Dublin and Marianne has found her feet in a new social world but Connell hangs at the side lines, shy and uncertain.

5. Zac & Mia

   2017 · Drama, Romance · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Zac & Mia is a moving story about two ordinary teenagers who find hope, love and courage in exceptional circumstances. In the real world, these two 17-year-olds would have little to say to each other, but in the hospital where both are undergoing treatment for cancer, the usual rules no longer apply.

6. SKAM

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended89% match

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

   SKAM is a Norwegian teen drama television series about the daily life of teenagers at the Hartvig Nissen School, a gymnasium in the wealthy borough of Frogner in West End Oslo.

7. To My Star

   2021 · Drama, Romance · ended87% match

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

   Actor Kang Seo Joon was once one of South Korea's biggest and most popular stars, but his career is now in decline.But despite his fall in popularity, he believes he has had a change of fortune when he meets and falls for a dashing young chef named Han Ji Woo.Despite having wildly different personalities, the two begin on a relationship. But their love comes under threat when the more conservative Han Ji Woo and the free-spirited Kang Seo Joon realize that their outlook on life, love, and everything else appears irrevocably different.

8. Lovestruck in the City

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Lovestruck in the City is a realistic portrayal of young people who pursue romance and happiness while struggling to get by in a busy, competitive urban environment. 

9. Extraordinary You

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   It tells the story of a girl who realizes that she is a supporting character inside a romance manga named "Secret". She tries to change the fixed story for her love and life.

10. Thirty But Seventeen

    2018 · Drama, Romance · ended86% match

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    Gong Woo Jin is a set designer and is afraid to have a relationship due to a trauma he experienced. Woo Suh Ri is a 30-year-old female who awakes of a 13 year long coma, however due to this her mental age is still of that of a 17-year-old child. Somehow both of them get to know each other and slowly fall in love.