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20 best shows like Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... (1955)

List of the best shows and series like Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... (1955): A Korean Odyssey, Mr. Queen, Leyla ile Mecnun, The Secret Angel, My Girlfriend is a Gumiho, Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Gyeongiroun somun, Joy of Life, Warigami.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:15

A self-serving mythical creature's bid for invincibility backfires when he finds himself at the mercy of a woman who can see otherworldly beings.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, biography, history
CountrySouth Korea

In the present day, Jang Bong Hwan works as a chef at the President's Blue House. She has a free spirit, but her spirit somehow finds its way into the body of Queen Kim So Yong in the Joseon period.King Cheol Jong has secrets. He seems like a figurehead, who is gentle and easygoing. In fact, he hides his strong aspects. Queen Sunwon is the late King Sunjo’s wife. She wields the true power in the country and, thus, relegates King Cheol Jong as just a figurehead. Kim Jwa Geun is Queen Sunwon’s younger brother. He is extremely ambitious.

Markimdb: 9.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, detective
CountryTurkey

Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.

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Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryChina, South Korea
Duration02:30

An angel called L accidentally saves Han Si Yeong, who was meant to die, when she gives him her necklace. Now it's her mission to live on earth and protect Si Yeong for 100 days, while an angel of death tries to manipulate him into taking his own life. If she fails, she'll be banished from heaven forever and stranded without her powers. However, the more time the angels spend on earth, the more human they become, and with that come human feelings.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:06

Cha Dae Woong accidentally releases a troublesome Gumiho, a legendary fox with nine tails, sealed inside a painting. Fleeing the scene, Dae Woong suffers a life-threatening fall and is only saved by the Gumiho, who gives him her "fox bead". When Dae Woong awake and meet a mysterious pretty girl, he initially treat her as eccentric or mentally ill, before fully understanding that she is a Gumiho in disguise. He agrees to stay with her and he tries to keep her happy, while hiding her true identity as a Gumiho from others by introducing her as his friend, Mi Ho. Slowly, however, he becomes less scared of her and more protective of her, and finally admitting to himself and to her that he loves her. As the story unfolds, Mi Ho pursues her goal of becoming human and stays with Dae Woong.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:15

One day while returning home to stay with his widowed twin sister and her daughter, Kevin Finn, a self-centered man whose life brings him more trouble than he bargained for, is recruited by a celestial being named Yvette, who enlists Kevin with a new purpose in his life, which is to save the world.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryJapan

Urara Shiraishi is a model student with excellent grades. Ryu Yamada is a trouble student. One day, Urara tumbles down the stairs with Ryu. After the accident, their bodies become switched. When they tumbled down the stairs, they happened to kiss. They guess that they may have changed bodies because of the kiss. They kiss again and they get their own bodies back. Through kissing they can change bodies freely. They also learn that there are 7 witches with special abilities and that the 7 witches can use their special abilities by kissing, so Urara and Ryu set out to find the 7 witches.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, detective
CountrySouth Korea

Noodle shop employees by day and demon hunters by night, the Counters use special abilities to chase down malevolent spirits that prey on humans.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, drama
CountryChina

Zhang Qing, a present-day college student in culture and history major wants to study in professor Ye's postgraduate class, so he decides to write a historical fiction to elaborate his perspective of analyzing ancient literature history with modern concept. In the fiction, Zhang himself acts as a young man Fan Xian with mysterious life who lives in a remote seaside town of Kingdom Qing in his childhood, under the help of a mysterious mentor and a blindfolded watchman. Fan goes to the capital when he grows up, where he experiences plenty of ordeal and temper. Fan persists in adhering the rule of justice and goodness and lives his own glorious life.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy
CountryCanada, USA
Duration00:12

Wendy Ohata has just made three startling realizations: One, she has a twin brother named Vincent. Two, she’s a kami-jin - a descendent of an ancient Japanese people who can turn paper into deadly weapons. And three, there’s a kami-jin warrior named Sadako hunting her down for reasons she doesn’t understand.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryBrazil

A new guardian "angelus" uncovers a secret behind the Angelus System's bureaucracy that leads him to break its official rules about protecting humans.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, family
CountryCanada, USA
Duration00:22

Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, crime, detective
CountryNew Zealand
Duration00:45

New Zealand's capital is a hotbed of supernatural activity... so Officers Minogue and O'Leary, who featured in the vampire documentary What We Do In The Shadows, take to the streets to investigate all manner of paranormal phenomena.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, detective
CountrySouth Korea

Kim Moo-Young has been a zombie for the past 2 years. To survive, he has mimicked the mannerisms of humans in a village. He then leaves for the city. There, Kim Moo-Young opens an office to work as a private detective. He does not remember anything before he became a zombie. He struggles to live with humans and to regain his past memory. Meanwhile, Kong Sun-Ji used to be a writer of a current affairs complaint program. A witness in a case, she was working on, was attacked by an unknown man. Due to that, she quit her job. She becomes involved with Kim Moo-Young and takes a part-time position at his private detective office.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA

Middle school feels like the worst place imaginable, but for Jess, Josh, and Marco, their school may actually be the worst place in this world…or any other!

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:60

Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces to find the Antichrist and stop Armageddon.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantasy, comedy, detective
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 7
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryUSA

A comedy set in the offices of Heaven Inc. When God plans to destroy the Earth, two low-level angels must convince their boss to save humanity. They bet him they can pull off their most impossible miracle yet: help two humans fall in love.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA

A teen navigates the complexities of high school, family and her sexuality while dealing with new superpowers. Based on Charles Forsman's graphic novel.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryIndia

Series is about a reluctant pornographic writer Rajaram a small-town bank clerk who aspires to be a litterateur, is inspired by the anonymous author of popular pulp fiction and sex stories in Hindi. His litterateur aspirations are supported by none except his wife Renu. He leaves his job to become a full-time writer, but cannot find a publisher for his book. One publisher agrees only if he would add sensational elements or masala to his dull tale. He gets successful however all credits are attributed to Mastram, not Rajaram.Mastram has been a vital part of adultery content in the 80s. Where youngsters don’t have the privilege as today where many websites are stuffed sexual conveyance on the internet and easily accessible with mobile & laptop. As most of the people have seen the 2014 feature film, which pretty famous for steamy scenes & songs like ACHKO – MACHKO sung by Honey Singh. Now will be interesting to see what maker of web series has something to offer different.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, family
CountryUSA

Kelly Quinn and her two BFF's, Darbie and Hannah, stumble upon her grandmother's mysterious cookbook in the attic and discover some far from ordinary recipes. When the Shut'em Up Shortcake silences Kelly's pesky little brother and the Healing Hazelnut Tart heals Darbie's ankle, the girls discover they have the power of magic. A single-camera live-action pilot based on the popular book.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:45

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Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryUSA

A live-action workplace comedy about Gary, an associate demon, as he attempts to capture souls on earth in order to climb the corporate ladder of the underworld. Gary hopes to advance in Hell, but he may be too stupid, lazy and kind-hearted to realize his dreams of promotion. Meanwhile, Gary's intern Claude is more talented, more devious and will do whatever it takes to impress Satan.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountrySpain
Duration01:48

A soldier from the 15th century, a university student from the 19th century and a nurse from the present join the secret 'Department of Time', a secret department within the Spanish government with the ability to travel through time. Their mission is prevent changes in history.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

A ghost-hunting duo team up to uncover and film paranormal sightings across the U.K. and share their adventures on an online channel. Their supernatural experiences grow more frequent, terrifying, and even deadly as the pair begin to uncover a conspiracy that could threaten the entire human race.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

A bored young mum steps through a portal and discovers a world of incompetent knights, monks who are incapable of lying, and a race of people intent on firing the cleverest amongst them into the sun.




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