The Borgias

Series Similar to The Borgias

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

1. The Tudors

   2007 · Drama, History · ended

   Recommended for similar History profile, highly rated (8), also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars in this original, history-based drama series as the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.

2. Versailles

   2015 · Drama, History · ended

   Recommended for similar History profile, hidden gem.

   Versailles, 1667. Louis XIV was 28 years old. To rise to the heights of the nobility and wield its absolute power, he launched the construction of Versailles... it proved to be a snare. Louis XIV is a young King haunted by childhood trauma, the Fronde civil, a rebellion of the nobility against his father, Louis XIII... It will prove be a strategic policy out of the ordinary, manipulative, Machiavellian, and he will "invent" Versailles for the nobles of Paris, to keep them under control, and gradually transform the castle into a golden prison. But how will Louis live as the greatest King in the world?Historical fiction of the court figures and the more humble villagers, guiding us in a world of betrayals and secrets, politicking and declarations of love.

3. War & Peace

   2016 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

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

   In a new adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel, three young people experience life, love and loss against the epic backdrop of Russia's wars with Napoleon.

4. Medici

   2016 · Drama, Mystery, History · ended

   Recommended for similar History profile.

   After his father's murder, banking heir Cosimo Medici battles opponents of his artistic, economic and political visions for 15th-century Florence.

5. Rome

   2005 · Drama, Action, Adventure · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world. The Republic was founded on principals of shared power, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling...and two soldiers unwittingly become entwined in the historical events of ancient Rome. A drama of love and betrayal, masters and slaves, husbands and wives, Rome chronicles a turbulent era that saw the death of a republic and the birth of an empire.

6. Marco Polo

   2014 · Drama, Action, Adventure · ended

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

   In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, Marco Polo is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in 13th century China.

7. Peaky Blinders

   2013 · Drama, Crime, History · returning

   Recommended for similar History profile, highly rated (8.5).

   An epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham.

8. The Paradise

   2012 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / History profile.

   An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s.

9. Boardwalk Empire

   2010 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.4).

   As the country struggles to cope with the Great Depression and the end of Prohibition looms, Nucky Thompson looks to legitimize himself through alliances with liquor producers, while rivals Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky seek to consolidate their power in the wake of Arnold Rothstein's death and eliminate all competition - by any means necessary on Boardwalk Empire.

10. The Pillars of the Earth

    2010 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance / History profile.

    The Pillars of the Earth is a sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty. This sensuous, spirited and passionate story is set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart. In that time, there rises a magnificent Cathedral in Kingsbridge.