The L Word

Series Similar to The L Word

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

1. Lip Service

   2010 · Drama, Romance · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

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

2. North & South

   2004 · Drama, Romance · ended97% 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.

3. Sense and Sensibility

   2008 · Drama, Romance · ended94% 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.

4. Knots Landing

   1979 · Drama, Romance · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Knots Landing follows the lives and loves of four married couples who live in the fictional but always interesting upper-middle class southern California cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle.

5. Indian Summers

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended93% 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.

6. Poldark

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended93% 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.

7. Pride and Prejudice

   1995 · Drama, Romance · ended93% match

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

   Re-live the romance and drama of Andrew Davies' lavish adaptation, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

8. Queer As Folk

   2000 · Drama, Romance · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Brash humor and genuine emotion make up this original series revolving around the lives, loves, ambitions, careers and friendships of a group of gay men and women living on Liberty Avenue in contemporary Pittsburgh, PA. The show offers an unapologetic look at modern, urban gay and lesbian lives while addressing the most critical health and political issues affecting the community. Sometimes racy, sometimes sensitive and always straight to the heart, Queer As Folk is groundbreaking television at its best.

9. The Beautiful Lie

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   A contemporary re-imagining of Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina' that explores over six episodes the different kinds of love and all that goes with it; family and loyalty, marriage and seduction, passion and obligation, jealousy and envy. This is a timeless love story that asks the questions; is there such thing as a soul mate? And would you destroy your life to be together? But it is more than a great love story. It's a sprawling saga of adultery, scandal, manners and mayhem — about the fates of three enmeshed families across three generations. (6 x 60min)

10. Jane Eyre

    2006 · Drama, Romance · ended91% match

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    Dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel.