20 best shows like A Small Light (2023)

List of the best shows and series like A Small Light (2023): Laurel Canyon, Saving Legacy, Shadowplay, Hunters, Aleks Ljutyj, Genius, The Law According to Lidia Poët, The Underground Railroad, Mrs. America, The Terrible.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredocumentary, music, history
CountryUSA

Featuring all-new, original interviews with Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Michelle Phillips, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Roger McGuinn and more, this uniquely immersive and experiential two-part docuseries takes us back in time to a place where a rustic canyon in the heart of Los Angeles became a musical petri dish.

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Genredrama, military
CountryRussia

The place where the great poet Pushkin crafted his works. The fascist forces occupied Mikhailovskoye. Each of the local residents “follows his own path”. Some join the partisans, some collaborate with the occupiers. Among them — Sergey. A professor of literature, Frau Shiller comes to Mikhailovskoe from Germany. The front line is getting closer, and soon an order comes from Berlin to transfer all historical values out of Mikhailovskoe. Neither the partisans, nor Sergey, who’s fallen into a relationship with Frau Shiller, can allow this to happen. Sergey decides to save the country’s heritage.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, military
CountryFrance, Canada, Germany

Max McLaughlin is an American cop who arrives in Berlin in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City discover that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredetective, history
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

Anthology series about famous geniuses with the first season charting how Albert Einstein unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe, and the second exploring the passionate nature and relentless creative drive of Pablo Picasso.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, crime, detective, biography, history
CountryItaly

Forbidden from practicing law, a woman prepares an appeal to overturn the court’s decision in this true story of Lidia Poët, Italy’s first female lawyer.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUSA

Follow young Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA

The true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka “the sweetheart of the silent majority.”

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Genredrama, history
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA

Inspired by actual events — and the love story at the center of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its valuation dropped $40 billion. What happened?

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom

Shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi ex-policeman Muhsin al-Khafaji has lost everything and is battling daily to keep himself and his sick daughter, Mrouj safe. But when he learns that his estranged elder daughter Sawsan is missing Khafaji is forced into a desperate search to find her.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, military
CountryIsrael

On October 6th 1973, the Middle East was shaken by the biggest war it had ever seen. A war that should have been the last one, and that forever changed the region.

"Sisi" follows the extraordinary life of empress Elisabeth of Austria. Modern, honest, and authentic. Told from the perspective of her closest confidants, the series takes a new look at the empress' life and reveals a multi-layered woman.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, history
CountryUSA

Enslaved teenager Henry Shackleford, aka Little Onion, becomes a member in abolitionist John Brown’s motley family during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryUSA

Inspired by the true story of Michelle Carter's unprecedented "texting-suicide" case. Explores Carter's relationship with Conrad Roy III and the events that led to his death and, later, her conviction of involuntary manslaughter.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

We arrive with New York heiress Lucy Savage fresh off the transatlantic steamer and ready for love and marriage in exotic climes. But when her husband Hugo does not receive her in the way she expected, she spins off into the surprising, diverse and degenerate world of Tangier in 1955.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryGermany

Mia goes to medical school to get close to a professor she suspects had a hand in her past family tragedy and gets tangled in the world of biohacking.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryUSA

Moonhaven focuses on Bella Sway, a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven’s miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth’s last hope before they are destroyed themselves.

Genredrama

A genius doctor who's the star doctor at a hospital falls into a coma. As his spirit leaves the body, he meets a 20-year old ghost doctor with great skills who once helped him process a surgery.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredrama
CountryChina

A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

The terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a flourishing Dallas neurosurgeon whose patients suddenly begin becoming permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow physicians set out to stop him.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama, adventure
CountryGermany

In the midst of the impassable landscape at the foot of the Alps, a young group of serious offenders is undergoing an experiential educational program intended to rehabilitate them. All of a sudden, a member of the program dies a violent death. Nobody knows exactly what happened, and the youths face a difficult decision. Should they wait for the authorities to recover the body and investigate the crime? Or, escape and take their fate into their own hands? The group doesn't have much in common with each other, though one thing unites them; all of them have had really bad experiences with the authorities and don‘t expect to be treated fairly. Since they don't know who the perpetrator is, they only have one option: to run. Up the mountains, up the highest peaks of the Alps. It seems hopeless until they stumble onto a complex cave system where they can find shelter from wind, weather, and their pursuers.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryUSA

The harrowing true story of the Broberg family, whose daughter Jan was kidnapped multiple times over a period of years in the 1970s by a charismatic, obsessed family "friend."

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryBelgium

When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA

In this contemporary take on the beloved book series, five best friends launch a baby-sitting business that's big on fun and adventure.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Poland, USA

A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw. A classic tale of spying, intrigue, and romance, based on the novels of Alan Furst and adapted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryTurkey

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Markimdb: 7.4
Genredocumentary, crime, detective, history
CountryIndia

Suicide, murder or something else? This docuseries examines chilling truths and theories around the deaths of 11 members of a Delhi family.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA

Five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn take on a chaotic world as they fight to succeed, survive, break free and seize the future.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountryUSA

A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world receive a message that inspires them to leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to find the one man who can possibly save the world.

Genrethriller, drama
CountryRussia

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Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

Seven strangers from different walks of life - people who would never normally interact - are forced to work together to renovate a derelict community centre. They resent the menial physical labour and they resent each other. But when one of their number gets dragged into a dangerous world of organised crime, they unite in ways none of them thought possible.




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