Shows like Once and Again: 20 to watch next
If you loved Once and Again (1999) — a drama series created by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Once and Again most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like family and blended family. 9 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Parenthood 2010★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
Stream in India on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Ambitions 2019★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
A multigenerational family saga centered around one woman who, having recently relocated and intent on revitalizing her marriage, finds herself going head to head with some of the most powerful and deceitful players in the city.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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Brothers and Sisters 2006★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The House of the Spirits 2026★ 8.5
Shares: Drama
The epic tale of a proud and passionate family, secret loves, and bloody revolution. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that hurls the proud, tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter towards opposite sides of the fence.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Tyler Perry's The Oval 2019★ 8.0
Shares: Drama
A seemingly perfect interracial first family becomes the White House's newest residents. But behind closed doors they unleash a torrent of lies, cheating and corruption.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Here and Now 2018★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia and their sole biological child — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Offspring 2010★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Fosters 2013★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when Lena meets Callie, a hardened teen with an abusive past who has spent her life in and out of foster homes. Lena and Stef welcome Callie and her brother, Jude, into their home thinking it's just for a few weeks, until a more permanent placement can be found. But life has something else in store for the Fosters.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Way Home 2023★ 7.4
Shares: Drama
When three generations of women reunite after being estranged for more than two decades, they embark on an enlightening – and surprising – journey toward healing none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Road to Avonlea 1990★ 8.1
Shares: Drama
In the fictional small town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in the early 20th century, 10-year-old Montreal heiress Sara Stanley is sent by her wealthy father to live with her two maiden aunts, Hetty and Olivia King, to be near her late mother's side of the family.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Greenleaf 2016★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
The unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, where scandalous secrets and lies are as numerous as the faithful. Born of the church, the Greenleaf family love and care for each other, but beneath the surface lies a den of iniquity—greed, adultery, sibling rivalry and conflicting values—that threatens to tear apart the very core of their faith that holds them together.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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The Young and the Restless 1973★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters families.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Tyler Perry's Ruthless 2020★ 8.4
Shares: Drama
A spinoff of "The Oval," follows Ruth Truesdale as she's forced to play nice with a scandalous religious cult of powerful sex crazed fanatics in the hopes of freeing herself and her daughter.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Chesapeake Shores 2016★ 7.8
Shares: Drama
A divorced mom deals with an old romance and complicated family issues when she returns to her hometown with her twin daughters.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong 2014★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
Follow the relationships of a group of husbands and wives that live and love on the same street. While the neighbors come from very different backgrounds, their lives are similar – raising children, dealing with exes, worrying about money and keeping romance in their relationships. But just below the surface — secrets, lies and deception threaten to destroy what they have built.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Girlfriend 2025★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
Laura has it all: a glittering career, a loving husband, and her precious son, Daniel. But her perfect life unravels when Daniel brings home Cherry, a girlfriend who changes everything. After a tense introduction, Laura becomes convinced Cherry is hiding something. Is she a manipulative social climber, or is Laura just paranoid? The truth is a matter of perspective.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Rich Man, Poor Man 1976★ 7.9
Shares: Drama
Based on the best-selling 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw, the series follows the divergent career courses of the impoverished German American Jordache brothers.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Kill Jackie 2026★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
Jackie Price has been living a wealthy, luxurious life for the past 20 years after escaping a dangerous past as an international cocaine dealer. But just as life begins to feel a little boring, she discovers that The Seven Demons, a group of the world’s most terrifying hitmen, have been hired to kill her.
Stream in India on BBC Player Amazon Channel
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Smother 2021★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.
Stream in India on BBC Player Amazon Channel
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My Life with the Walter Boys 2023★ 7.8
Shares: Drama
When a tragedy disrupts her life, a teen moves in with her guardian's big family in a small town and learns new lessons about love, hope and friendship.
Stream in India on Netflix