The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem

Series Similar to The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem

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

1. Unorthodox

   2020 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Unorthodox tells the story of a young woman, who leaves her strict Orthodox Jewish community and an arranged marriage in New York City to live a secular life in Berlin.

2. The Promise

   2011 · Drama · ended

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

   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.

3. My Brilliant Friend

   2018 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   My Brilliant Friend tells the story of Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman who discovers the most important friend in her life, Raffaella "Lila" Cerullo, seems to have disappeared without a trace. A writer, immersed in a house full of books, Greco turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their tempestuous friendship, starting from the point when Elena met Lila their first year of primary school in 1950.Set in a dangerous and fascinating Naples, their story goes on to cover more than 60 years of their lives as she tries to describe the mystery of Lila, Elena's brilliant friend and — in a way — her best friend, and worst enemy.

4. Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

   2020 · Drama · ended

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

   Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett's masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social distancing guidelines, a new generation of Britain's finest actors star in 10 of Bennett's classic scripts, alongside two brand new Talking Heads penned by the acclaimed writer last year.Talking Heads is a London Theatre Company production for BBC One. All 12 Talking Heads will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer from the evening of Tuesday 23 June.

5. Gank Your Heart

   2019 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Their meeting was a recipe for disaster, but their romance is sweet. This is a love story between an e-sports gamer and a Tsundere live streamer.

6. Empathie

   2025 · Drama · returning

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

   Suzanne, a formerly gifted criminologist and now a psychiatrist, confronts us with our own relationship with empathy. Having had a difficult life herself, her unorthodox methods will shake things up at the Mount Royal Psychiatric Institute, where she lands after being strongly advised to leave the police force.

7. Hilda Furacão

   1998 · Drama · ended

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

8. Pachinko

   2022 · Drama · returning

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

   Told in three different languages: Korean, Japanese and English, Pachinko chronicles the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family.

9. Friends Like Her

   2024 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   The psychological drama, written by Sarah-Kate Lynch, explores a friendship that turns toxic when a surrogacy deal goes wrong between two best friends who are facing very different futures in Kaikoura when the town is already divided by a catastrophic earthquake.

10. Sorry for Your Loss

    2018 · Drama · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama profile.

    The sudden death of her husband upends and transforms every relationship in Leigh Shaw's life. It also forces her to realize there was a lot about her husband that she didn't know.