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Salón de té La Moderna(2023-)

FSK: 12+ years
| Soap / Telenovela, Drama

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Directed by Liliana Bocanegra - With Almagro San Miguel, Miryam Gallego, José Luis García Pérez, Teresa Hurtado de Ory, Sara Rivero, Berta Galo, ...

Agatha Christie's Poirot(1989-2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 50min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.1/5 (with 210 votes)

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Call the Midwife(2012-)

FSK: 18+ years
| 52min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 97 votes)

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman(1993-1998)

FSK: 16+ years
| 47min per episode | Western, Drama
3.8/5 (with 201 votes)

Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.

Little House on the Prairie(1974-1983)

FSK: 12+ years
| 45min per episode | Western, Drama, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 422 votes)

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.

Downton Abbey(2010-2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 6min per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 456 votes)

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel(2017-2023)

FSK: 16+ years
| Comedy, Drama
4.0/5 (with 344 votes)

It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown talent - one that will take her all the way from the comedy clubs of Greenwich Village to a spot on Johnny Carson’s couch.

Sherlock Holmes(1984-1994)

52min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 100 votes)

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

Peaky Blinders(2013-2022)

FSK: 16+ years
| Drama, Crime
4.3/5 (with 4,625 votes)

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

Endeavour(2013-2023)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 30min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 106 votes)

The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.

Hell on Wheels(2011-2016)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Western
3.8/5 (with 194 votes)

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

Murdoch Mysteries(2008-)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h per episode | Mystery, Drama
3.9/5 (with 114 votes)

A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

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The Americans(2013-2018)

FSK: 16+ years
| 48min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 407 votes)

Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.

Lark Rise to Candleford(2008-2011)

1h per episode | Drama
4.2/5 (with 13 votes)

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.

Jeeves and Wooster(1990-1993)

55min per episode | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 50 votes)

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.

Bridgerton(2020-)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 1,061 votes)

Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.

Carnivàle(2003-2005)

FSK: 16+ years
| 54min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama
4.0/5 (with 183 votes)

Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.

Halt and Catch Fire(2014-2017)

FSK: 16+ years
| 43min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 215 votes)

During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.

The Doctor Blake Mysteries(2013-2017)

54min per episode | Mystery, Drama
3.9/5 (with 20 votes)

Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is afoot, nothing is sacred, and no one is safe.

The Gilded Age(2022-)

FSK: 12+ years
| Drama
4.0/5 (with 74 votes)

It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her rich neighbors as she struggles to decide between adhering to the rules or forging her own path.

Anne with an E(2017-2019)

FSK: 12+ years
| 47min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family
4.3/5 (with 2,240 votes)

A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.

The Durrells(2016-2019)

FSK: 12+ years
| 46min per episode | Drama, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 45 votes)

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.

Our Flag Means Death(2022-2023)

FSK: 18+ years
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Action & Adventure, Drama
4.0/5 (with 96 votes)

After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Stede and crew attempt to get their ship together and survive life on the high seas.

I'll Fly Away(1991-1993)

1h per episode | Drama
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

I'll Fly Away is an American drama television series set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, in an unspecified Southern U.S. state. It aired on NBC from 1991 to 1993 and starred Regina Taylor as Lilly Harper, a black housekeeper for the family of district attorney Forrest Bedford, whose name is an ironic reference to Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. As the show progressed, Lilly became increasingly involved in the Civil Rights Movement, with events eventually drawing in Forrest as well. I'll Fly Away won two 1992 Emmy Awards, and 23 nominations in total. It won three Humanitas Prizes, two Golden Globe Awards, two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, and a Peabody Award. However, the series was never a ratings blockbuster, and it was canceled by NBC in 1993, despite widespread protests by critics and viewer organizations. After the program's cancellation, a two-hour movie, I'll Fly Away: Then and Now, was produced, in order to resolve dangling storylines from Season 2, and provide the series with a true finale. The movie aired on October 11, 1993 on PBS. Its major storyline closely paralleled the true story of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. Thereafter, PBS began airing repeats of the original episodes, ceasing after one complete showing of the entire series.

The Knick(2014-2015)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 199 votes)

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.

TURN: Washington's Spies(2014-2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| War & Politics, Drama
3.6/5 (with 102 votes)

The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie(2009-)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 30min per episode | Crime, Mystery, Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 23 votes)

French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

Charité(2017-)

FSK: 18+ years
| 45min per episode | Drama, Documentary
3.7/5 (with 55 votes)

Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young woman discovers her passion for medicine.

Charité(2017-)

FSK: 12+ years
| 45min per episode | Drama
3.7/5 (with 41 votes)

Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young woman discovers her passion for medicine.

Lessons in Chemistry(2023)

FSK: 16+ years
| Drama
4.2/5 (with 54 votes)

In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives way more than recipes.

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