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20 best shows like City Lights (1931)


List of the best shows and series like City Lights (1931): Off the Map, Over There, Quicksand, The Knick, The Mire, SMILF, Dororo, The Red Tent, Immortals, Bleak House.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

La Ciudad de las Estrellas, a tiny town in the South American jungle, is home to an understaffed, understocked medical clinic where three idealistic doctors come looking for change.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

Gritty, intense, evocative and emotional, "Over There" takes you to the front lines of battle and explores the effects of war on a U.S. Army unit sent to Iraq on their first tour of duty, as well as the equally powerful effects felt at home by their families and loved ones.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountrySweden
Duration00:38

Maja, a student in Stockholm, finds herself on trial for murder after a tragedy at her school. More doubts and suspicions arise when new revelations are made.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredrama, history
CountryUSA
Duration00:45

    Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. John Thackery is a brilliant surgeon pioneering new methods in the field, despite his secret addiction to cocaine. He leads a team of doctors including his protégé Dr. Everett Gallinger; the young Dr. Bertie Chickering Jr. and Dr. Algernon Edwards, a promising surgeon who's been recently thrust upon him. The lively cast of characters at the hospital also includes Cornelia Robertson, the daughter of its benefactor, Captain August Robertson; surly ambulance driver Tom Cleary; Lucy Elkins; a fresh-faced nurse from the country; the crooked hospital administrator Herman Barrow; and Sister Harriet, a nun who isn't afraid to speak her mind.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryPoland

    The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:19

    A raw and honest comedic look at a single, 20-something from Southie whose desires for relationships, sex, and a career collide with the realities of young, single motherhood.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:00

    A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryUSA

    Her name is Dinah. In the Bible her life is only hinted at during a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons in the Book of Genesis. Told through Dinah's eloquent voice, this sweeping miniseries reveals the traditions and turmoil of ancient womanhood. Dinah's tale begins with the story of her mothers: Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah, the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that are to sustain her through a hard-working youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah tells us of the world of the red tent, the place where women were sequestered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and illness; of her initiations into the religious and sexual practices of her tribe; of Jacob's courtship with his four wives; of the mystery and wonder of caravans, farmers, shepherds, and slaves; of love and death in the city of Shechem; of her half-brother Joseph's rise in Egypt, and of course her marriage to Shechem and it's bloody consequences.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure
    CountryTurkey

    Driven by revenge, human-turned-vampire Mia sets out to vanquish Dmitry, a ruthless vampire leader who seeks an artifact that grants immortality.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration08:30

    Bleak House is a fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House, which was originally published in 1852–53. Produced with an all-star cast, the serial was shown on BBC One from October to December 2005, and drew much critical and popular praise. It has been reported that the total cost of the production was in the region of £8 million.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration06:16

    The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year-old DeAndre McCullough, his mother Fran Boyd, and his father Gary McCullough, as well as other addicts and low-level drug dealers caught up in the twin-engine economy of heroin and cocaine.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    Nearly 20 years ago, Owen Strand was the lone survivor of his Manhattan firehouse on 9/11. In the wake of the attack, Owen had the unenviable task of rebuilding his station. After a similar tragedy happens to a firehouse in Austin, Owen, along with his troubled firefighter son, T.K., takes his progressive philosophies of life and firefighting down to Texas, where he helps them start anew. On the surface, Owen is all about big-city style and swagger, but underneath he struggles with a secret he hides from the world - one that could very well end his life.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration04:00

    The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration02:16

    Chise Hatori, 15 years old. Lost, without hope, and without family, she is bought for money – not by another person, but by a non-human sorcerer named Elias. Though she hesitates, she begins life anew as his apprentice and future wife.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryBrazil
    Duration02:14

    In a future where the elite inhabit an island paradise far from the crowded slums, you get one chance to join the 3% saved from squalor.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration00:59

    France, 1815. Jean Valjean, a common thief, is released from prison after having lived a hell in life for 19 years, but a small mistake puts the law again on his trail. Ruthless Inspector Javert pursues him thorough years, driven by a twisted sense of justice, while Valjean reforms himself, thrives and dedicates his life to good deeds. In 1832, while the revolution ravages the streets of Paris, Valjean and Javert cross their paths for the last time.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:24

    Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the 19th century.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:42

    Nakano is an employee of an exploitative "black" company, who meets a divine fox spirit named Senko. While she looks like a young girl, Senko is in fact 800 years old. She offers to spoil Nakano as much as possible, and begins looking after him.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:46

    When day becomes night, a strict curfew forces ordinary people to go pedal to the metal in a deadly race for freedom. During this contest, alliances and friendships are both made and lost.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:33

    When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration00:30

    Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Consumed by the mystery surrounding the donor heart that saved her life, a young patient starts taking on sinister characteristics of the deceased.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySpain

    It is the year 1967. After five happy years of marriage in New York with Alberto and their young son, Anna Ribera returns to Spain to take her project Velvet to the next level. She and Alberto had been managing all things Velvet from across the ocean and, together with their best friends and partners, had made a name for Velvet as the number one address in the world of fashion and innovation. Now they decide to take the next step and turn their reputation into a franchise, first at home, then abroad. The first step is opening shop in the other great Spanish city, Barcelona, on its world famous promenade, the Passeig de Gracia. There, the second Velvet Fashion Store is about to open its gates, managed by Ana's good friend Clara who had made it up the career ladder from seamstress to directorial assistant in the Madrid Velvet years.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    An ensemble workplace comedy about a group of underdogs trying to find their place in the world, set on the Friday night flight from LAX to Vegas and the returning flight on Sunday, who all share the same goal: to come back a winner in the casino of life.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:05

    A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist’s harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryColombia

    A young 17th-century witch time travels to the future to save the man she loves, but first must adjust to present-day Cartagena and defeat a dark rival.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genredrama
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration02:02

    When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:52

      Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama, detective
      CountrySpain
      Duration01:40

      Marco Mur is an attractive, successful businessman, but a trauma from his past prevents him from getting emotionally involved with women. Instead, he has intimate encounters in a club where no one knows anyone else. But his past returns and now Marco must face it and all the other conflicts of his life.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryItaly

      Leonardo Cagliostro, a policeman, dies and decides to stay on Earth in order to find out more about the circumstances of his death and to save his wife, Anna, who's in danger.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      In the first year of uni, childhood best friends Holly and Georgia find themselves drawn to an elite clique. When Holly begins to suspect darkness lurks beneath the glamour, she will do anything to save her soulmate.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire in 1934 after twenty years teaching in London and the Empire. After a fiery interview with a conservative interview panel, outspoken Sarah takes up her first headmistress-ship at Kiplington High School for Girls, determined to demonstrate to her new pupils that the future is theirs for the taking.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure, cartoon, anime
      CountryJapan

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      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama
      CountryItaly, France, Spain, Lithuania
      Duration03:20

      Anna and Kitty. Two lives. One of desperate passion that ends in tragedy, the other, an existence made real through love. Two destinies that interweave, giving rise to two, so very different stories, yet lived in pursuit of the same desire- to find a love that lets them fully be themselves, to live without having to conform to society’s pretenses.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:46

      On the cusp of 19th century in Delhi, we following the fortunes of the residents of the titular mansion. The story begins as handsome and soulful former English soldier, John Beecham, has acquired the house to start a new life for his family and a business as a trader.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrecomedy
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:40

      High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they'll sort out their problems. Their school friends also decide to do the same with their parents to solve their respective problems

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      The wild story of young William Shakespeare's arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London -- the seductive, violent world where his raw talent faced rioting audiences, religious fanatics and raucous side-shows. It's a contemporary version of Shakespeare's life, played to a modern soundtrack that exposes all his recklessness, lustful temptations and brilliance.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      The relationship between Arthur, the gruff owner of a small donut shop, his enterprising new young employee, Franco, and their loyal patrons in a quickly gentrifying Chicago neighborhood.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genredrama, detective, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather's involvement in the final years of Palestine under the British mandate.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genredrama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the characters find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world. By banding together as the Great Paxford Women’s Institute, they help maintain the nation’s fabric in its darkest hour, and discover inner resources that will change their lives forever.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing to be built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics.

      Markimdb: 8.8
      Genremelodrama
      CountrySouth Korea

      A paragliding mishap drops a South Korean heiress in North Korea -- and into the life of an army officer, who decides he will help her hide.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:43

      Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryRussia
      Duration02:16

      Experienced Moscow police officer Maksim Pokrovskiy is sent to Northern Russia to investigate the murder of the local Oligarch's daughter.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:30

      The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:28

      A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, history
      CountrySouth Korea

      Set during the turbulent time of the fall of Goryeo and the founding of Joseon, two former friends face-off against one another over a woman and the future shape of the nation.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama
      CountryItaly
      Duration01:42

      Fed up with their families and classmates, two teen girls from a wealthy part of Rome are drawn to the city's underworld and start leading double lives.




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