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20 best shows like The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991)

List of the best shows and series like The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991): The End of the F***ing World, My Mad Fat Diary, Adult Material, State of the Union, Trigonometry, The Durrells, Last Tango in Halifax, The Singapore Grip, Feel Good, Misfits.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:28

James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:47

Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Adult drama that delves inside the porn industry from the perspective of poster girl Jolene Dollar, who juggles her on-set persona with motherhood and home life.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:11

Tom and Louise meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. With each successive episode we piece together how their lives were, what drew them together and what has started to pull them apart.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

In crowded and expensive London, cash-strapped couple Gemma and Kieran open their small apartment to a third person. Somehow, their new addition, Ray, makes the flat seem bigger, not smaller. Gradually, many things become easier, nicer and better with an extra pair of hands.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:05

In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom

In colonial Singapore during World War Two, this epic drama follows the schemes – both commercial and amorous – of a wealthy British family as they struggle to preserve their prosperous business amid cataclysmic world events.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Recovering addict and comedian Mae tries to control the addictive behaviors and intense romanticism that permeate every facet of her life. Life is further complicated by a new and all-consuming relationship with her new girlfriend George.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:43

When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia

The arrival of a young, well-off, eligible man named Mr. Bingley sends the Bennet household--with five girls of a marrying age--into a tizzy. But it's the introduction of Mr. Bingley's friend, Mr. Darcy, that sets in motion the fate of Elizabeth Bennet, resolved only after a labyrinth of social and personal complexities.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

The show opens with a girl who yearns to be popular and liked in her school. She wishes she was in the "in-crowd", however, she goes about unnoticed in school everyday. The only girl who truly notices her is her best friend Thelma. For some strange reason though, Cassie feels like she is being followed by a man. This is only the beginning of her problem...

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration03:38

A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friend dies unexpectedly.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration04:00

Nothing delights Emma more than meddling in the love lives of others. But when she takes protege Harriet Smith under her wing, her plans can only end in disaster...

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryTurkey
Duration01:02

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Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

Everything changes when Alex Rider learns that his uncle Ian has actually been killed in the line of duty as a British spy. The normal teen is approached by the head of The Department and pressured to help investigate his uncle's death. Alex reluctantly assumes a new identity and goes undercover in a remote boarding school called Point Blanc.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:15

The satirical comedy takes place in a four-story apartment building in the suburbs of Seoul inhabited by a number of professionals: doctors, judges, prosecutors, professors, and their wives. The wives are from prestigious and highly educated backgrounds, and part of the plot will feature their efforts to get their children admitted into universities. Some grew up in families with multiple generations of doctors or lawyers, and their ambitions will be depicted with realism and comedy.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:20

An irreverent look at the conflict, chaos and humor that defines teenage life through the eyes of 15-year-old Jenna Hamilton whose life begins to change when a simple accident becomes an epic misunderstanding and is blown way out of proportion. Narration in the first-person voice of Jenna's blog posts captures the humor within the struggles and experiences everyone can relate to from their formative years.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
CountryUSA
Duration00:22

Baby Daddy follows Ben, a young man in his early 20s living the life of a bachelor in New York City with his buddy, Tucker, and his brother, Danny. Their lives are turned upside down when they come home one day to find a baby girl left on the doorstep by an ex-girlfriend of Ben's. After much deliberation, Ben decides to raise the baby with the help of his friends and his protective and sometimes over-bearing mother, Bonnie, and his close female friend, Riley.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, sport
CountrySerbia

Two best friends and former basketball players are trying to re-establish their once successful basketball club. A nostalgic and romantic comedy about second chances, and about friendship between a Serb and a Croat.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryRussia
Duration00:55

History of residents of one of the streets of the sleeping area of a big city. Schoolchildren and students, housewives and sellers, oligarchs and simple workers - more than 30 characters of different age and social status will meet here, each of them has its own story. There are no main and secondary heroes in the “Universe” of the Street. This is a story about all of us and our neighbors.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryIndia

Four unapologetically flawed women live, love, blunder and discover what really makes them tick through friendship and tequila in millennial Mumbai.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:43

Robin Hood is a British television programme, produced by independent production company Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One, with co-funding from the BBC America cable television channel in the United States. Based on the traditional stories of legendary English folk hero Robin Hood, the programme started on 7 October 2006. Series two commenced broadcasting on 6 October 2007 with the final two episodes on 29 December 2007. Series three began airing on 28 March 2009 for a thirteen episode run. The series was axed by the BBC after series three following the departure of multiple characters, including lead actor Jonas Armstrong.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.




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