Mother
2018 · 95% matchRecommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).
Το Νησί
Drama
Alexis knows little about her family's past. She knows only that her mother, Sophia, grew up in Plaka, a small Cretan village, before moving to London. Making her first visit to Crete to see the village, she discovers that Plaka faces the small, now deserted island of Spinalonga, which was Greece's leper colony for much of the 20th century. She meets an old friend of her mother's, Fotini, who is prepared to tell her the entire tragic story of her family, a family torn apart by war and passion. The adaption of the best-selling novel, "The Island", by Victoria Hislop.
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- Greek
- Premiered
- October 11, 2010
- Ended
- May 23, 2011
If you liked Το Νησί, try these
The Newsroom
2012 · 94% matchRecommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.4).
Reckless
2014 · 94% matchRecommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).
Providence
1999 · 94% matchRecommended for similar Drama profile.
The Queen's Gambit
2020 · 93% matchRecommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).
State of Play
2003 · 93% matchRecommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).
Dirty Business
2026 · 92% matchRecommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (9).
Olive Kitteridge
2014 · 92% matchRecommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).
Manhattan
2014 · 92% matchRecommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).
The Promise
2011 · 92% matchRecommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).
Series Similar to Το Νησί
If you enjoyed Το Νησί, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.
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.
Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.4).
The Newsroom follows the members of a cable news team on their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of a fickle audience, corporate mandates and tangled personal relationships.
Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).
Reckless is set in Charleston, S.C., where a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a charming southern attorney must hide their intense mutual attraction as a police sex scandal threatens to tear the city apart.
Recommended for similar Drama profile.
Plastic surgeon Dr. Sydney Hansen returns to her hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, to attend her pregnant sister Joanie's wedding, but realizes that her emotionally distant veterinarian father, her rascal of a baby brother and her high maintenance sister need her more than her glitzy Beverly Hills patients. In Providence, Sydney finds work in a low-income medical clinic.
Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).
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.
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.
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.
Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).
Based on Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Olive Kitteridge tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of a woman whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and a staunch moral center.
Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).
Set in Los Alamos, N.M., at the Manhattan Project during the race to build the world's first atomic bomb, Manhattan explores the cost of secrets and the corrosive effect they have on individuals, families and their relationships.
Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).
Claire Foy and Christian Cooke star in Peter Kosminsky's four-part drama serial. Eighteen-year-old Erin sets out on an emotional journey when she retraces her grandfather's footsteps.