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18 best shows like Lightning Over Water (1980)

List of the best shows and series like Lightning Over Water (1980): Necessary Roughness, Life In Squares, Fear City: New York vs The Mafia, The Next Step, High Chaparall, Made in Chelsea, Going Deep with David Rees, Drug Lords, Underworld, Inc., Absurd Planet.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A tough, sexy Long Island divorcee, Callie Thorne, gets a job as therapist for a professional football team in order to make ends meet. Underestimated at every turn, she succeeds beyond all expectations and soon finds herself as the sought-after therapist to high-profile clients. As a newly single mom raising two teenagers, she is determined to make her new career work by striking a balance between her personal and professional worlds.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:30

The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

New York City in the 1970s was ruled with a bloody fist by five mafia families, until a group of federal agents tried the unthinkable: taking them down.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, family
CountryCanada

Follow the lives of an elite group of young dancers who train at The Next Step Studio.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, documentary
CountrySweden

High Chaparall is a Swedish television program which first aired in 2003 on the Kanal 5 network. The show is an interview/adventure series featuring the Swedish comedy duo of Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson. Although the pair continued to be provocative, this program proved to be less controversial than their previous television work and ultimately became much more successful. The team is known popularly in Sweden as simply "Filip and Fredrik."

Markimdb: 4.5
Genredocumentary, reality TV
CountryUnited Kingdom

Reality series following the lives, loves and awks of SW3's bright young things.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

Join David Rees as he shows you how to really do simple things in life.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

Witness the stories of history's most notorious kingpins, their terrifying enforcers, and the men and women who've sworn to bring them down.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredocumentary
CountryUnited Kingdom

The black market can be brutal, exploitative, corrupt. Nothing is off-limits; everything is for sale. And what you buy may not be what it seems. But it's an industry estimated to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S. alone. Join the suppliers, sellers, customers, and the law enforcement officials trying to keep it in check as they share their experience of a hidden world that touches us all.

Markimdb: 4
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

A cast of quirky critters and Mother Nature herself narrate this funny science series, which peeks into the lives of Earth's most incredible animals.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genredocumentary
CountryUnited Kingdom

Tony Robinson goes for a walk through some of Britain's beautiful and historic landscapes.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredocumentary, music
CountryUSA

A behind the scenes look at Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman Tour and the making of Sweetener and music video from “the light is coming” and “God is a woman”.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryUSA

Young teenager Jack Sullivan and a group of friends live in a decked-out tree house, playing video games, eating candy, and fighting zombies in the aftermath of a monster apocalypse.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genredocumentary, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration00:41

Influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen. The Men Who Built America is the story of a nation at the crossroads and of the people who catapulted it to prosperity.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredocumentary, military, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest and deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history. This is the stories of the engineers who designed them and how these structures sparked a technological revolution that changed warfare forever.

Markimdb: 9
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

Explore the past, present and future of Walt Disney Imagineering with noted filmmaker Leslie Iwerks. Ms. Iwerks comes from a family with deep Disney history — her grandfather was an early Disney animator and her father is a former Imagineer — and her previous work includes profiles of Pixar Animation Studios and visual effects house Industrial Light & Magic.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

Explore American cinema through the decades and the cultural, societal and political shifts that framed its evolution.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genredocumentary
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration03:56

Wonders of the Universe is a 2011 television series produced by the BBC, Discovery Channel, and Science Channel, hosted by physicist Professor Brian Cox. Wonders of the Universe was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two from 6 March 2011. The series comprises four episodes, each of which focuses on an aspect of the universe and features a 'wonder' relevant to the theme. It follows on from Cox's 2010 series for the BBC, Wonders of the Solar System.




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