The Collection

Series Similar to The Collection

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

1. This Life

   2015 · Drama, Family, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   What would you do if you were diagnosed with terminal cancer? In This Life, one woman finds out.Set in contemporary Montreal, This Life is a funny, honest, heartfelt series about a regular family whose world turns upside down overnight. Like its French-language counterpart, Nouvelle adresse, this is a family saga focusing on Natalie Lawson, a lifestyle columnist and single mother in her early forties whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends her on a quest to help her three teenage children get ready for the future, while trying her best to live in the now.Natalie's diagnosis is a life-changer for everyone she loves. Faced with the uncertainty of life, each Lawson does their best to embrace the absurdity of the journey, while confronting the drama that comes with all of their choices, big and small. To get through all this Natalie leans on her two brothers, her sister and her parents, a close-knit, charmingly imperfect clan who each have their own unpredictable personal and professional hills to climb. Through a mix of drama and humour, This Life explores the many ups and downs of life in a touching, relatable and deeply human story that is positioned to resonate with Canadians across the country.

2. Army Wives

   2007 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

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

   Army Wives follows the struggles, dreams and friendships of a diverse group of women—and one man—living with their spouses and families on an active Army post.

3. Downton Abbey

   2010 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, highly rated (8.7).

   The Downton Abbey estate stands a splendid example of confidence and mettle, its family enduring for generations and its staff a well-oiled machine of propriety. But change is afoot at Downton--change far surpassing the new electric lights and telephone. A crisis of inheritance threatens to displace the resident Crawley family, in spite of the best efforts of the noble and compassionate Earl, Robert Crawley; his American heiress wife, Cora his comically implacable, opinionated mother, Violet and his beautiful, eldest daughter, Mary, intent on charting her own course. Reluctantly, the family is forced to welcome its heir apparent, the self-made and proudly modern Matthew Crawley himself none too happy about the new arrangements. As Matthew's bristly relationship with Mary begins to crackle with electricity, hope for the future of Downton's dynasty takes shape. But when petty jealousies and ambitions grow among the family and the staff, scheming and secrets--both delicious and dangerous--threaten to derail the scramble to preserve Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey offers a spot-on portrait of a vanishing way of life.

4. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

   2023 · Drama, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile, highly rated (8), also on Prime Video.

   The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the compelling story of a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult life. After a family tragedy in which she loses both her abusive father and beloved mother in a mysterious fire, 9-year-old Alice is taken to live with her grandmother June on a flower farm, where she learns that there are secrets within secrets about her and her family's past. Set against Australia's breathtaking, natural landscape, and with native wildflowers and plants providing a way to express the inexpressible, this enthralling family drama spans decades, as Alice grows from a child into a woman. Her journey is epic and visceral, building to an emotional climax as Alice finds herself fighting for her life against a man she loves.

5. Karen Kingsbury's The Bridge

   2015 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Molly and Ryan share a profound friendship their first semester in college. At their favorite bookstore and coffee shop, The Bridge, they spend countless hours studying and inspiring the other to dream. But can Molly and Ryan's unspoken love survive the expectations of others as to what their lives should ultimately be?Based on #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury's "The Bridge: A Novel".

6. The Heritage of Lancaster County

   2011 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

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

   Journey into the fascinating world of the Amish with the three-part story of a young woman who must face her past in order to discover her future.

7. Haru ga Kita

   2018 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Naoko Kishikawa works in the undergarment counter at a department store. She is a 31-year-old single woman, leading a boring life. She lives her father Shuji, mother Sue and younger sister Junko.One day, Naoko happens to meet Lee Ji Won. He is a cameraman from South Korea. Lee Ji Won causes Naoko and her family to change slowly.

8. Mask

   2015 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Byun Ji Sook has always had a hard life with her father constantly going into debt and being chased by loan sharks. She desperately wants to know what life is like if she was born into a better family and didn't have to worry about money all the time. When a series of circumstances brings Ji Sook to Eun Ha, a woman from a wealthy family who strongly resembles Ji Sook, she grabs hold of the chance for a better life and assumes Eun Ha's identity and begins to live her elite life. She meets Min Woo, a chaebol heir who is mistrusting of the people around him. But when he realizes that Ji Sook is not like the other women he has met, he is drawn to her. How long can Ji Sook keep up the charade and hide her true identity?

9. The Legendary Witch

   2014 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Soo In, Bok Nyeo, Poong Geum, and Mi Oh were cellmates in an all-women's prison. Though they all came from different backgrounds and had their own reasons for being in jail which later turn out to have a common thread intertwined, they were able to come together as friends through bakery lessons offered by the prison. As they grow closer like sisters, forge a bond based on their common grievances and lean on each other for support and become more talented bakers they make plans together for life after prison: to open their own bakery and challenge a big conglomerate, Shinhwa Bakery, for an exact revenge.

10. Offspring

    2010 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile.

    Offspring follows Nina's quest to manage the intensity of her job delivering babies along with the challenges of raising her daughter Zoe in the midst of the fabulously unpredictable Proudman family - all while trying to establish a decent love life for herself.