Queer As Folk

Series Similar to Queer As Folk

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

1. The L Word

   2004 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   An intimate drama series about a group of lesbian friends struggling with romance and careers in Los Angeles.

2. Lip Service

   2010 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Lesbian drama series with irreverent humour as a group of friends search for happiness.

3. Heartbreak High

   2022 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   An incendiary mural exposes everyone's secret hook-ups at Hartley High. Its author, Amerie, has to grapple with the messy fallouts as a total outcast.

4. North & South

   2004 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   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.

5. Sex Education

   2019 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Insecure Otis has all the answers when it comes to sex advice, thanks to his therapist mom. So rebel Maeve proposes a school sex-therapy clinic.

6. Pride and Prejudice

   1995 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

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

7. Indian Summers

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   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.

8. Sense and Sensibility

   2008 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   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.

9. Single Father

   2010 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   When Dave's wife dies unexpectedly, he is forced to try to raise his four children on his own. He begins to question his own judgment when he begins to fall in love with his wife's best friend, Sarah.

10. Poldark

    2015 · Drama, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.3).

    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.