TV Shows like The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
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The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
8.4
TV-MA
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Original Language: en
Plot: The series describes a future world severely polluted, with a precipitous decline in the birth rate, and a male-only totalitarian country called Gilead created following a bloody revolt in portions of the United States. Fertile women are referred to as "maids" and made to serve as the ruling class's reproductive instruments. The authorities also practice polygamy and treat women as state-owned property. One of them is the heroine Offred.
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Ann Dowd, Madeline Brewer, Max Minghella
Keywords: based on novel, dystopia, infertility
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No Escape (2023)
6.7
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2023-05-18
Duration: 30min
Country: TH
Cast: Abigail Lawrie, Rhianne Barreto, Sean Keenan, Jay Ryan, Colette Dalal Tchantcho
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Washington Black (1)
5.5
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 0001-01-01
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Cast: Ernest Kingsley Jr., Sterling K. Brown, Iola Evans, Edward Bluemel, Sharon Duncan-Brewster
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Nowhere Boys (2013)
7
TV-Y
Release Date: 2013-11-07
Duration: 30min
Country: AU
Cast: Kamil Ellis, Joe Klocek, Jordie Race-Coldrey, Luca Sardelis, William McKenna
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The Long Song (2018)
7.3
TV-14
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2018-12-18
Duration: 30min
Country: GB
Cast: Tamara Lawrance, Hayley Atwell, Jack Lowden, Leo Bill, Doña Croll
Altered Carbon (2018)
7.9
TV-MA
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: In the future, memories and consciousness are "re-sleeved" onto new bodies, enabling humanity to escape physical death. Consciousness is digitally encoded and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine. The plot centers on Takeshi Kovacs, an exceptionally trained "Envoy" soldier who, at the request of powerful nobleman Laurens Bancroft, is downloaded from an off-world jail and outfitted for war. Bancroft was murdered, and the final automated backup of his stack was created just hours before he passed away. Thus, he did not know his murderer or the reason for it. Bancroft is sure he was murdered, even though the police said it was a suicide, and he wants Kovacs to investigate.
Cast: Anthony Mackie, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Chris Conner, Lela Loren, Simone Missick
Homeland (2011)
8.3
TV-MA
Release Date: 2011-10-02
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: A captive American soldier is preparing a terrorist strike on US soil, according to Carrie, a CIA counterterrorism specialist who is on duty in the Middle East. Sgt. Nicholas Brody was kept hostage in Afghanistan for over nine years before U.S. Marines, responding to a tip, located him a few months later. They welcomed Brody like a hero. Meanwhile, the CIA sends Carrie back to work, and she starts an inquiry since she thinks Brody is the soldier who deserted. When Brody finds out that Jessica, his wife, is having sex with her best friend, Carrie, out of jealousy, becomes involved as well. Though she is wary of him, Carrie also loves him.
Cast: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Maury Sterling, Numan Acar, Nimrat Kaur
The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
8.5
TV-MA
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: A group of siblings reminisces about their tormented upbringing in a well-known mansion. They rejoin as adults owing to a crisis, confronting their former ghosts—some haunting their minds, others maybe lurking in Hill House's shadows. They face the mysteries and terrors of their upbringing together for the first time, confronting the lingering pain and odd recollections, reliving old wounds while navigating the present-day upheaval, and revealing the unsettling secrets of their family and the fabled Hill House.
Cast: Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Siegel, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Victoria Pedretti
Shooter (2016)
7.5
TV-14
Release Date: 2016-11-15
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Renowned army veteran Bob Lee Swagger, who leads a reclusive existence, is enticed back into action by a request to do some security work before the president visits Seattle to foil an assassination plan. Swagger is set up for murder after his old leader approaches him for his knowledge of covert operations. He needs to clear his identity and defend his family at any cost.
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Shantel VanSanten, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Omar Epps, Jesse Bradford
The Crown (2016)
8.6
TV-MA
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2016-11-04
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten wed Princess Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey at the age of twenty-one after giving up his Greek and Danish titles. Following their marriage, King George VI, Elizabeth's father, passed away, and the youthful Elizabeth II took the throne. At just twenty-five, she was tasked with bringing Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the then-dominant United Kingdom into amicable collaboration. Princess Margaret, 23, and Peter Townsend, 38, have finally revealed themselves to be in a romantic relationship.
Cast: Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce, Lesley Manville, Dominic West, Claudia Harrison
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015)
7.5
TV-14
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 2015-03-06
Duration: 30min
Country: US
Plot: After being freed from the fifteen-year-old subterranean bunker in which she had been living, Kimmy Schmidt decided to go to New York City and lead a regular life. She works as a nanny for Jacqueline Voorhees, the troubled billionaire's wife, and makes friends with Titus, her new roommate. Jimmy makes the best of her new existence despite her numerous challenges while adjusting to her new surroundings.
Cast: Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Jane Krakowski, Carol Kane