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List of Drama TV Shows

The Originals

The Originals

📅 Years: 2013 - 2018
🎭 Genre: DramaFantasyFamily
📺 Network: CW
🎬 Starring: Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Claire Holt, Phoebe Tonkin, Charles Michael Davis, Daniella Pineda, Leah Pipes, Jason Dohring, Danielle Campbell, Christina Moses, Neil Jackson, Yusuf Gatewood, Riley Voelkel, Jaime Murray
📖 Synopsis:

Family is power. The Original Vampire family swore it to each other a thousand years ago. They pledged to remain together, always and forever. Now, centuries have passed, and the bonds of family are broken. Time, tragedy and hunger for power have torn the Original Family apart...

The Orville

The Orville

📅 Years: 2017 - Now
🎭 Genre: DramaComedyFantasy
📺 Network: Hulu, FOX
🎬 Starring: Seth MacFarlane, Chad L. Coleman, Larry Joe Campbell, Adrianne Palicki, Scott Grimes, Penny Johnson Jerald, Peter Macon, Mark Jackson, J. Lee, Halston Sage, Norm Macdonald, Jessica Szohr
📖 Synopsis:

From Emmy Award-winning executive producer and creator Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY, "Ted") and directed by Jon Favreau ("The Jungle Book", "Iron Man"), THE ORVILLE is a one-hour science fiction series set 400 years in the future that follows the adventures of the U.S.S. Orvil...
The Outsider

The Outsider

📅 Years: 2020 - Now
🎭 Genre: DramaMysteryThriller
📺 Network: HBO
🎬 Starring: Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, Jason Bateman, Bill Camp, Mare Winningham, Paddy Considine, Julianne Nicholson, Yul Vazquez, Jeremy Bobb, Marc Menchaca, Hettienne Park, Michael Esper, Derek Cecil, Max Beesley
📖 Synopsis:

When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.

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The Pacific

The Pacific

📅 Years: 2010
🎭 Genre: DramaWar
📺 Network: HBO
🎬 Starring: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Akos Armont, Ashton Holmes, Rami Malek, Joshua Bitton, Jon Bernthal
📖 Synopsis:

Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

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The Pale Horse

The Pale Horse

📅 Years: 2020
🎭 Genre: DramaMysteryThriller
📺 Network: Amazon
🎬 Starring: Rufus Sewell, Kaya Scodelario, Bertie Carvel, Sean Pertwee, Rita Tushingham, Sheila Atim, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, James Fleet, Georgina Campbell, Madeleine Bowyer, Claire Skinner, Poppy Gilbert, Ellen Robertson, Sarah Woodward,
📖 Synopsis:

When a murder investigation is launched into the death of a young woman, a mysterious list of names is discovered in her shoe, prompting an inquiry not only to find the killer, but also to understand the list of names. Who wrote the list, and who do these names refer to?

The Passage

The Passage

📅 Years: 2019
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
📺 Network: FOX
🎬 Starring: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Saniyya Sidney, Jamie McShane, Caroline Chikezie, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Brianne Howey, McKinley Belcher III, Henry Ian Cusick, Vincent Piazza
📖 Synopsis:

A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing crisis.

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The Path

The Path

📅 Years: 2016 - 2018
🎭 Genre: DramaMystery
📺 Network: Hulu
🎬 Starring: Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, Sarah Jones, Freida Pinto, Hugh Dancy, Rockmond Dunbar, Kyle Allen, Amy Forsyth, Emma Greenwell, James Remar, Leven Rambin, Paul James
📖 Synopsis:

"The Path" examines a family at the center of a controversial movement struggling with relationships, marriage and power, with each episode taking an in depth look at what it means to choose between the life we live and the life we want.

In its second season, The Path fo...

The Patient

The Patient

📅 Years: 2022 - Present
🎭 Genre: Drama,Thriller
📺 Network: FX, Hulu
🎬 Starring: Steve Carell, Domhnall Gleeson, Linda Emond, David Alan Grier, Laura Niemi, Andrew Leeds
📖 Synopsis:

"The Patient" is a psychological thriller from the minds of Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg ("The Americans") about a therapist, Alan Strauss (Steve Carell), who's held prisoner by a patient, Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson), who reveals himself to be a serial killer. Sam has an un...

The Peripheral

The Peripheral

📅 Years: 2022 - Present
🎭 Genre: Drama,Sci-Fi,Thriller
📺 Network: Amazon
🎬 Starring: Chloe Moretz, Jack Reynor, Gary Carr, Charlotte Riley, JJ Feild, Alex Hernandez, T'Nia Miller, Adelind Horan
📖 Synopsis:

Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks all of her dreams of f...

The Pillars Of The Earth

The Pillars Of The Earth

📅 Years: 2010
🎭 Genre: Drama
📺 Network: Starz
🎬 Starring: Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell, Donald Sutherland, Alison Pill
📖 Synopsis:

This epic tale of passion and greed begins when a mysterious secret disrupts the succession to the English crown and an unlikely member of King Henry's family takes the throne. A power struggle between Henry's daughter, Maud, and nephew, Stephen, causes England to be torn by w...

The Pitt

The Pitt

📅 Years: 2025 - Present
🎭 Genre: Drama
📺 Network: MAX
🎬 Starring: Noah Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, Shabana Azeez, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Kristin Villanueva
📖 Synopsis:

The staff of Pittsburgh's Trauma Medical Center work around the clock to save lives in an overcrowded and underfunded emergency department.

The Playboy Club

The Playboy Club

📅 Years: 2011
🎭 Genre: Drama
📺 Network: NBC
🎬 Starring: Eddie Cibrian, Amber Heard, Laura Benanti, Jenna Dewan, Naturi Naughton, Leah Renee, David Krumholtz, Wes Ramsey
📖 Synopsis:

It's the early '60s, and the legendary Playboy Club in Chicago is the door to all your fantasies... and the key is the most sought-after status symbol of its time.

Step inside the seductive world of the Bunny, the epitome of beauty and service, and rub shoulders with the...

The Player

The Player

📅 Years: 2015
🎭 Genre: DramaActionCrime
📺 Network: NBC
🎬 Starring: Wesley Snipes, Philip Winchester, Charity Wakefield, Daisy Betts, Courtney Grosbeck, Damon Gupton, Nick Wechsler
📖 Synopsis:

An action-packed Las Vegas thriller about a former military operative turned security expert who is drawn into a high-stakes game where an organization of wealthy individuals gamble on his ability to stop some of the biggest crimes imaginable from playing out. Can he take them...

The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America

📅 Years: 2020 - Now
🎭 Genre: Drama
📺 Network: HBO
🎬 Starring: Winona Ryder, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Anthony Boyle, Azhy Robertson, Caleb Malis, John Turturro
📖 Synopsis:

An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.

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The Politician

The Politician

📅 Years: 2019 - Now
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: R
📺 Network: Netflix
🎬 Starring: Ben Platt, Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Bob Balaban, David Corenswet, Julia Schlaepfer, Laura Dreyfuss, Theo Germaine, Rahne Jones, Benjamin Barrett, Dylan McDermott, January Jones
📖 Synopsis:

Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), a wealthy student from Santa Barbara, California, has known since age seven that he's going to be President of the United States. But first he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School. To get el...

The Power

The Power

📅 Years: 2023 - Present
🎭 Genre: Drama,Thriller,Sci-Fi
📺 Network: Amazon
🎬 Starring: Toni Collette, Auli'i Cravalho, John Leguizamo, Toheeb Jimoh, Ria Zmitrowicz, Halle Bush, Heather Agyepong, Nico Hiraga, Daniela Vega, Eddie Marsan, Rob Delaney, Alice Eve, Edwina Findley
📖 Synopsis:

In "The Power" based on Naomi Alderman's feminist sci-fi book, all teenage girls in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. It's hereditary, it's inbuilt, and it can't be taken away from them. Coming alive to the thrill of pure power: the ability to hurt or...

The Premise

The Premise

📅 Years: 2021 - Now
🎭 Genre: Drama
📺 Network: FX
🎬 Starring: Lucas Hedges, Kaitlyn Dever, Jon Bernthal, Ben Platt, Tracee Ellis Ross, Daniel Dae Kim, Lola Kirke, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Soko, Ed Asner, George Wallace, Jermaine Fowler, Ayo Edebiri, Boyd Holbrook, Eric Lange, Beau Bridges
📖 Synopsis:

The half-hour anthology series created and hosted by B.J. Novak, "The Premise" is described as a collection of character-driven stories that challenge our shared morality tales, choosing art over argument, as it engages with the most relevant and meaningful issues of the moder...

The Prisoner

The Prisoner

📅 Years: 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaSci-Fi
📺 Network: AMC
🎬 Starring: James Caviezel, Ian McKellen, Hayley Atwell, Ruth Wilson, Lennie James, Jamie Campbell Bower
📖 Synopsis:

AMC presents "The Prisoner" miniseries, a reinterpretation of the British 1960s cult hit series starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan.

A man, known as "Six," finds himself inexplicably trapped in "The Village" with no memory of how he arrived. As he explores his en...

The Professionals

The Professionals

📅 Years: 2022 - Present
🎭 Genre: Drama,Action,Thriller
📺 Network: The CW, Viaplay
🎬 Starring: Brendan Fraser, Tom Welling, Elena Anaya, Said Taghmaoui, Ken Duken, Lisa Loven Kongsli, August Wittgenstein
📖 Synopsis:

A loose remake of the Christian Slater-fronted action movie "Soldiers of Fortune", set against a backdrop of international espionage and corporate sabotage in the 21st century's privately-funded space race, the ten-part series, "The Professionals" follow a hardened former coun...

The Protector

The Protector

📅 Years: 2011
🎭 Genre: Drama
📺 Network: Lifetime
🎬 Starring: Ally Walker, Tisha Campbell, Miguel Ferrer, Chris Payne Gilbert, Terrell Tilford, Sage Ryan, Thomas Robinson, Emmanuelle Vaugier
📖 Synopsis:

Gloria Sheppard is an intuitive LAPD homicide detective who juggles her demanding personal and professional lives while raising two sons with the help of her troubled younger brother, Davey.