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1. Call the Midwife (2012– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, History
Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to late 1960s.
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Stephen McGann
Votes: 31,599
2. The Gilded Age (2022– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
The series follows the conflicts surrounding the new money Russell family and their old money neighbors, the van Rhijn family, in 1880s New York City high society.
Stars: Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton
Votes: 38,368
3. The Durrells (2016–2019)
TV-PG | 46 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Louisa Durrell raises her four children single-handedly after her husband's death. Following a financial crisis, the family moves to the Greek island of Corfu and tries to adapt to life there.
Stars: Keeley Hawes, Josh O'Connor, Milo Parker, Daisy Waterstone
Votes: 14,277
4. All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990)
TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy, Drama
The trials and misadventures of the staff of a country veterinary office in Yorkshire from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Stars: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Lynda Bellingham
Votes: 4,410
5. A Place to Call Home (2013–2018)
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama
Sarah Adams returns to Australia post World War II to start anew. She begins working in a hospital, much to the dismay of Elizabeth Bligh, a wealthy matriarch.
Stars: Marta Dusseldorp, Noni Hazlehurst, Brett Climo, Craig Hall
Votes: 6,306
6. Velvet (2013–2016)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Romance
A feel-good, compelling Spanish story of a fashion house in Madrid in the late 50's, which is scene to money, fashion, drama, entanglements, love, jealousies, plots, counter-plots involving its owners, customers and residential employees.
Stars: Paula Echevarría, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Manuela Velasco
Votes: 6,812
7. Mildred Pierce (2011)
TV-MA | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her ambitious elder daughter, Veda.
Stars: Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood, Brían F. O'Byrne
Votes: 24,147
8. Brideshead Revisited (1981)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
The life, friendships and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, Roger Milner, Phoebe Nicholls
Votes: 8,055
9. Cable Girls (2017–2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama
Set in the 1920s, this is the story of four women from different backgrounds newly hired as operators for a phone company.
Stars: Blanca Suárez, Yon González, Ana Fernández, Nadia de Santiago
Votes: 16,173
10. 20th Century Women (2016)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him among the love and freedom of Southern California of 1979.
Director: Mike Mills | Stars: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup
Votes: 49,487 | Gross: $5.66M
11. The House of Eliott (1991–1994)
50 min | Drama
Two sisters in 1920s London work to achieve success in the dressmaking business.
Stars: Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard, Aden Gillett, Cathy Murphy
Votes: 1,641
12. Indian Summers (2015–2016)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama
Drama set in 1932 during the final years of British colonial rule in India.
Stars: Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Jemima West, Julie Walters, Rick Warden
Votes: 4,551
13. This Is England '86 (2010)
TV-MA | 47 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Shaun has just finished his final exams and he realizes he is no longer a kid. It's mid 80's England, and the gang are back, looking for a laugh, a job and something that resembles a future.
Stars: Andrew Ellis, Andrew Shim, Chanel Cresswell, Danielle Watson
Votes: 14,520
14. The Restaurant (2017– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
Stockholm, the day of peace in Europe 1945. A spontaneous kiss between two strangers, during the celebration at Kungsgatan, will have major consequences.
Stars: Hedda Stiernstedt, Charlie Gustafsson, Anna Bjelkerud, Adam Lundgren
Votes: 5,703
15. The Club (2021–2023)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama
In cosmopolitan 1950s Istanbul, a mother with a troubled past works at a nightclub to reconnect with and help the rebellious daughter she couldn't raise.
Stars: Gökçe Bahadir, Baris Arduç, Asude Kalebek, Salih Bademci
Votes: 11,681
16. World Without End (2012)
TV-MA | 47 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The English town of Kingsbridge works to survive as the King leads the nation into the Hundred Years' War with France while Europe deals with the outbreak of the Black Death.
Stars: Ben Chaplin, Charlotte Riley, Nora Waldstätten, Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Votes: 9,148
17. A Suitable Boy (2020)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
A vast, panoramic tale charting the fortunes of four large families and exploring India and its rich and varied culture at a crucial point in its history.
Stars: Tanya Maniktala, Ishaan Khattar, Mahira Kakkar, Danesh Razvi
Votes: 5,697
18. White Heat (2012)
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama
A story about a group of seven London-based students from 1965 to the present day.
Stars: MyAnna Buring, Sam Claflin, Lindsay Duncan, Claire Foy
Votes: 728
19. Moonshine (II) (2021– )
TV-14 | 44 min | Comedy, Drama
Moonshine is a raucous one-hour dramedy that tells the story of the Finley-Cullens, a dysfunctional family of adult half-siblings battling to take control over the family business.
Stars: Jennifer Finnigan, Anastasia Phillips, Emma Hunter, Tom Stevens
Votes: 945
20. Our wonderful years (2020–2023)
270 min | Biography, Drama, History
The history of the Wolf family in post-war Germany in the 1940s and 1950s.
Stars: Elisa Schlott, Vanessa Loibl, Anna Maria Mühe, Katja Riemann
Votes: 784
21. The Vineyard (2021)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance
Based on the novel by María Dueñas, a romantic drama set in 1860 against the backdrop of different historic world cities.
Stars: Leonor Watling, Rafael Novoa, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Nathaniel Parker
Votes: 924
22. Our Friends in the North (1996)
TV-MA | 69 min | Drama, History
Drama examining the politics and change across Britain from the Sixties to the Nineties seen through the varying fortunes of four friends.
Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strong, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig
Votes: 2,378
23. Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Tales of love across two films highlighting the very different challenges that face the couples, With Michael and Thomas just after WWII, and Adam and Steve in the present day.
Stars: Julian Morris, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charlie Wernham
Votes: 4,607
24. Yesilçam (2021)
60 min | Drama, History, Romance
Showcasing Turkey of the 1960s, while it follows a film producer who will tell the story of survival in Yesilcam as he experiences the golden age of Turkish cinema.
Stars: Çagatay Ulusoy, Afra Saraçoglu, Selin Sekerci, Yetkin Dikinciler
Votes: 2,906
25. The Duchess of Duke Street (1976–1977)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama
Louisa Trotter works her way up from being a skivvy to being the queen of cooks, cook to the King, and owner of the Bentinck Hotel. Her life and happenings among the guests and staff of the hotel make up the 31 episodes.
Stars: Gemma Jones, Victoria Plucknett, John Welsh, John Cater
Votes: 1,547
26. Marketa Lazarová (1967)
Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, History, Romance
A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.
Director: Frantisek Vlácil | Stars: Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna, Jaroslav Moucka
Votes: 6,037
27. Love Child (2014–2017)
45 min | Drama
The lives of staff and residents at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital and Stanton House in Sydney in 1969.
Stars: Jessica Marais, Mandy McElhinney, Miranda Tapsell, Sophie Bloom
Votes: 1,580
28. Queers (2017)
TV-14 | Drama
Eight short monologues were written for this series in response to the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which decriminalized homosexual acts in private between two men aged 21 or over.
Stars: Ian Gelder, Alan Cumming, Ben Whishaw, Gemma Whelan
Votes: 623
29. Luna Park (2021)
TV-MA | Drama, Romance
In 1960s Rome, a free-spirited young woman who's grown up at her family's circus unexpectedly discovers she belongs to two very different worlds.
Stars: Lia Grieco, Guglielmo Poggi, Simona Tabasco, Alessio Lapice
Votes: 1,024
30. Velvet Colección (2017–2019)
TV-14 | 54 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Barcelona 1967. Ana Rivera returns from New York to launch her last dream: to make the leap from the exclusive business of haute couture in Madrid to a boutique in Barcelona with aspirations to become a global franchise.
Stars: Marta Hazas, Asier Etxeandia, Adrián Lastra, Diego Martín
Votes: 1,631
31. Labyrinth of Peace (2020)
45 min | Drama, History
1945. Finally, there is peace in Europe. In Switzerland too, a whole generation breathes a sigh of relief as it faces a new and hopeful future. Peacetime, although long awaited and promising, also holds unforeseen challenges.
Stars: Annina Walt, Max Hubacher, Dimitri Stapfer, Therese Affolter
Votes: 371
32. Ku'damm 56 (2016)
100 min | Drama
Generations clash when the feisty daughter of a dance studio owner defies her mother's wishes and embraces the fight for gender equality in 1950s Berlin.
Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle
Votes: 2,428
33. Acacias 38 (2015–2021)
Drama
Acacias 38' takes us to 1899 to narrate the story of a group of maids and the bourgeois families for whom they work. A story about the wealthy and the poor that reflects the meeting of two ... See full summary »
Stars: María Blanco, David Venancio Muro, Sandra Marchena, Inma Pérez-Quirós
Votes: 151
34. The Grand (1997–1998)
957 min | Drama
At the end of the First World War, the Bannerman family reopened the Grand Hôtel after a long closure and costly renovation.
Stars: Rebecca Callard, Tim Healy, Susan Hampshire, Paul Warriner
Votes: 686
35. La dama velata (2015)
55 min | Drama
Follow the story of Clara Grandi in the Trento to 900s, where this beautiful woman fakes her death and returns covered in a black veil, to find out what mystery her family is hiding.
Stars: Miriam Leone, Lino Guanciale, Andrea Bosca, Teresa Saponangelo
Votes: 334
36. South Riding (2011)
Drama
In 1930s Yorkshire, a spirited new headmistress brings inspiration and modern ideas to an all girls' school and shakes up the more conservative-minded residents of South Riding.
Stars: Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey, Penelope Wilton, Katherine McGolpin
Votes: 1,515
37. El Caso. Crónica de sucesos (2016)
TV-MA | Crime, Mystery
A fictionalized account of working life in the offices of "El Caso", Spain's most popular sensationalist newspaper in the 1960s.
Stars: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Verónica Sánchez, Antonio Garrido, Francisco Ortiz
Votes: 290
38. When We Go to War (2015– )
60 min | Drama
The story follows a New Zealand family at the outbreak of WWI, from optimism to despair as war's toll mounts. It chronicles their experiences on the homefront and battlefields of Gallipoli and Egypt.
Stars: Ido Drent, Esther Stephens, Gareth Williams, Freya Milner
Votes: 177
39. Ku'damm 59 (2018)
278 min | Drama
This is a story about a woman and her three daughters in Germany in the 1950s. One of the daughters wants more from life and becomes a part of the rock'n'roll subculture.
Stars: Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michelsen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle
Votes: 1,343
40. Lilies (2007)
60 min | Drama
Tough, sexy, funny and heartbreaking, Lillies details the lives of Iris, May and Ruby Moss - Catholic sisters coming of age in a dockland terraced house. Familial love sustains them, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Brian McCardie, Catherine Tyldesley, Kerrie Hayes, Leanne Rowe
Votes: 805
41. Arde Madrid (2018)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
A right-wing party loyalist poses as a domestic, sent to spy on Hollywood actress Ava Gardner during her wild stay in Madrid in the early 1960s.
Stars: Inma Cuesta, Paco León, Debi Mazar, Anna Castillo
Votes: 1,742
42. Australia Day (2017)
98 min | Drama
A trio of intertwined tales of racial prejudice, misunderstanding and revenge play out against the backdrop of Australia's national holiday.
Director: Kriv Stenders | Stars: Miah Madden, Elias Anton, Jenny Wu, Daniel Webber
Votes: 504
43. Bauhaus - A New Era (2019)
45 min | Drama, History, Romance
The year is 1919, the Great War is over, and Dörte Helm becomes part of a group of young artists and revolutionaries who evolve from the Lost to the Golden Generation. The series introduces... See full summary »
Stars: August Diehl, Anna Maria Mühe, Trine Dyrholm, Valerie Pachner
Votes: 574
44. A Farm Through Time (2022)
60 min | Documentary, History
Historian Ruth Goodman guides farming brothers Rob and Dave Nicholson on a trip back in time to learn what life on the farm was like in three historic periods and how old agricultural methods have shaped modern farms.
Stars: Ruth Goodman, Dave Nicholson
Votes: 14
45. Wonderful Times (2009–2013)
52 min | Comedy, Drama
A retro-series about recent Czech and Slovak history told via the microcosm of a single Czech family. A mosaic of three generations blending nostalgia with the bitter reality of the socialist regime.
Stars: Svatopluk Skopal, Veronika Freimanová, Andrea Ruzicková, Roman Vojtek
Votes: 209
46. La señora (2008–2010)
72 min | Drama
In the 1920s Victoria and Ángel fall in love in a small town, northern Spain. They are two people both from a different social class, she is the daughter of a wealthy businessman and he ... See full summary »
Stars: Adriana Ugarte, Rodolfo Sancho, Roberto Enríquez, Berta Ojea
Votes: 325
47. Behind the Burly Q (2010)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, History
Leslie Zemeckis's rousing documentary takes a behind- the-velvet-curtain peek at the golden age of burlesque, meeting the women (and men) who pushed the envelope of social propriety.
Director: Leslie Zemeckis | Stars: Bud Abbott, Alan Alda, Joan Arline, Beverly Arlynne
Votes: 376 | Gross: $0.02M
48. A Stitch in Time (2018)
30 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Fashion historian Amber Butchart fuses biography, art and the history of fashion as she explores the lives of historical figures by examining the clothes that they wore.
Stars: Amber Butchart, Ninya Mikhaila, Harriet Waterhouse, Hannah Marples
Votes: 259
49. Håbet (2018)
Adventure, Drama, Family
The young girl Marie, who lives in an orphanage with her two younger siblings, is sure her father is still alive somewhere in the world.
Stars: Anine Lindvig, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Lars Brygmann, Jon Lange
Votes: 176
50. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)
180 min | Documentary
The many ways in which Western notions of personal and political freedom are changing in the 21st Century are explored in this three-part documentary from writer and filmmaker Adam Curtis.
Stars: John Nash, Robert Spitzer, Jerome Wakefield, Paul McHugh
Votes: 2,021