The Beautiful Lie

Series Similar to The Beautiful Lie

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

1. Indian Summers

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended95% 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.

2. Poldark

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended95% match

   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.

3. From Scratch

   2022 · Drama, Romance · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   From Scratch is an autobiographical romance that follows an American woman as she falls in love with a Sicilian man while studying abroad in Italy then builds a life with him in the United States. When she unexpectedly loses him to illness, she is challenged to pull herself through grief so she can raise their daughter as they would have raised her together: with hope, joy and infinite love.

4. North & South

   2004 · Drama, Romance · ended92% match

   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. Sense and Sensibility

   2008 · Drama, Romance · ended92% match

   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.

6. Mistresses

   2013 · Drama, Romance · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on ABC.

   Based on the hit UK television series of the same name, Mistresses is a provocative and thrilling drama about the scandalous lives of a sexy and sassy group of four girlfriends, each on her own path to self-discovery. These four friends find support and guidance with each other as they brave their turbulent journeys and life's storms of excitement, secrecy and betrayal, all the while bound by the complex relationships they've created.

7. Lip Service

   2010 · Drama, Romance · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

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

8. Mr. Plankton

   2024 · Drama, Romance · ended90% match

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

   Lee Yoo Mi stars as a bride-to-be whose medical conditions threatens her marriage to a family obsessed with continuing their grand lineage.

9. Looking for Alaska

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Looking for Alaska thrusts us into the perspective of Miles "Pudge" Halter who is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . After. Nothing is ever the same.

10. Мотыльки

    2013 · Drama, Romance · ended90% match

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    April, 1986. Pripyat, Ukraine. A core meltdown occurred at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Power Plant. Over thirty people died during the blast but the estimated death toll as a result of the radiation fallout will reach a four-digit number. This accident will be considered the world's largest ecological disaster. Set at ground zero of a catastrophe, this film will reveal the details of the Chernobyl event. The shocking news of the explosion at the nuclear plant has spread, as the world watched the tragedy in fear and confusion. Hearts went out to those who displayed selfless courage and integrity in the initial efforts to stabilize the reactor power. But some were too busy being in love to notice what had just happened in nearby Chernobyl. The disaster has faded into the background...