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Top 10 Series like The Bear

2022SeriesDrama, Comedy

These picks mirror The Bear with Drama, Comedy energy while adding fresh angles. Expect balanced pacing, curated availability, and spoiler-free highlights.

About The Bear: Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.

Why you'll enjoy this line-up

This list balances Series that echo The Bear's core energy with fresher angles. Expect highlights like Drama, Comedy, Family and releases spanning 1990–2024.

Most picks are streamable on Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel — check the availability badges for direct links and regional options.

We leaned into themes such as Drama, Comedy, Family, Crime, Thriller to keep the experience coherent while still surfacing a few wildcard surprises.

Curated recommendations

Generated with Recomeai’s hybrid AI pipeline — semantic vectors, full-text search, reranking, and diversity balancing.

Suspicious FamilySeries
Match 48%

Suspicious Family

2012SeriesPopularity 66
  • Vibe: Drama
  • Audience reach ≈ 66 / 100
  • Why it fits: If you enjoyed The Bear, this serialized pick balances drama themes with comedy accents, maintains steady pacing, and delivers inventive imagery that feels rem…

A comedic family drama about the director of a postnatal care center whose 4 children fight over the right to inherit their father's insurance money. However, they soon find out that only one of them is his biological h…

Where to find it

  • youtube.comYouTube
  • primevideo.comAmazon Prime Video
Source: TMDb
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PandaSeries
Match 48%

Panda

2023SeriesPopularity 81
  • Vibe: Comedy
  • Audience reach ≈ 81 / 100
  • Why it fits: If you enjoyed The Bear, this serialized pick balances comedy with crime elements and delivers surprising narrative turns that keeps every act purposeful.

Relaxed pacifist, matcha addict, and convinced vegan, Panda runs a small shack in a remote corner of the Camargue. No phone, no computer, no car; he lives with his 16-year-old in this perfect cocoon of peace and serenit…

Where to find it

  • amazon.comPBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel
  • youtube.comYouTube
  • primevideo.comAmazon Prime Video
Source: TMDb
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Animal KingdomSeries
Match 46%

Animal Kingdom

2016SeriesPopularity 77
  • Vibe: Crime
  • Audience reach ≈ 77 / 100
  • Why it fits: If you enjoyed The Bear, this serialized pick balances drama with crime elements and delivers layered character work that rewards attentive viewers.

17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-h…

Where to find it

  • netflix.comNetflix
  • primevideo.comAmazon Prime Video
  • youtube.comYouTube
  • apple.comApple TV
  • play.google.comGoogle Play
Source: TMDb
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BoundMovie
Match 44%

Bound

1996MoviePopularity 76
  • Vibe: Drama
  • Audience reach ≈ 76 / 100
  • Why it fits: If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances drama with thriller elements and delivers layered character work that rewards attentive viewers.

Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted…

Where to find it

  • youtube.comYouTube
  • google.comKanopy
  • primevideo.comAmazon Prime Video
  • apple.comApple TV
  • play.google.comGoogle Play
Source: TMDb
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Raudy's StoryMovie
Match 44%

Raudy's Story

2017MoviePopularity 51
  • Vibe: Comedy
  • Audience reach ≈ 51 / 100
  • Why it fits: If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances comedy themes with drama accents, maintains steady pacing, and delivers rich worldbuilding that sparks fr…

Where to find it

  • youtube.comYouTube
  • primevideo.comAmazon Prime Video
Source: TMDb
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promise? promise.Movie
Match 44%

promise? promise.

2024MoviePopularity 50
  • Vibe: Drama
  • Audience reach ≈ 50 / 100
  • Why it fits: If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances drama themes with comedy accents, maintains steady pacing, and delivers inventive imagery that feels rema…

Longtime friends Cyrus & Kit face the trials and tribulations of growing old.

Where to find it

  • youtube.comYouTube
  • primevideo.comAmazon Prime Video
Source: TMDb
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The BearMovie
Match 42%

The Bear

1998MoviePopularity 5
  • Vibe: Animation
  • Audience reach ≈ 5 / 100
  • Why it fits: If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances comedy with animation elements and delivers a resonant character arc that stays with you afterward.

A polar bear breaks out of his enclosure to bring a little girl's teddy bear back to her. While she cares for him, the bear takes her on a magical journey. Based on Raymond Briggs' best selling storybook, this enchantin…

Where to find it

  • youtube.comYouTube
  • primevideo.comAmazon Prime Video
Source: TMDb
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The Sum of UsMovie
Match 42%

The Sum of Us

1994MoviePopularity 52
  • Vibe: Comedy
  • Audience reach ≈ 52 / 100
  • Why it fits: If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances comedy with drama elements and delivers surprising narrative turns that keeps every act purposeful.

A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."

Where to find it

  • primevideo.comAmazon Prime Video
  • amazon.comAmazon Prime Video Free
  • youtube.comYouTube
Source: TMDb
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Family DayMovie
Match 41%

Family Day

1990MoviePopularity 51
  • Vibe: Drama
  • Audience reach ≈ 51 / 100
  • Why it fits: If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances drama with comedy elements and delivers playful pacing shifts that adds unexpected warmth.

Struggling to support a wife a son and his sick mother a kind-hearted man is forced to work the streets as a pickpocket.

Where to find it

  • youtube.comYouTube
  • primevideo.comAmazon Prime Video
Source: TMDb
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Little BoxesMovie
Match 40%

Little Boxes

2017MoviePopularity 40
  • Vibe: Comedy
  • Audience reach ≈ 40 / 100
  • Why it fits: If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances comedy with drama elements and delivers layered character work that rewards attentive viewers.

It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual pare…

Where to find it

  • youtube.comYouTube
  • therokuchannel.roku.comThe Roku Channel
  • google.comKanopy
  • tubitv.comTubi TV
  • google.comPluto TV
Source: TMDb
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Why these titles work

  1. 1. Suspicious Family

    If you enjoyed The Bear, this serialized pick balances drama themes with comedy accents, maintains steady pacing, and delivers inventive imagery that feels remarkably personal.

  2. 2. Panda

    If you enjoyed The Bear, this serialized pick balances comedy with crime elements and delivers surprising narrative turns that keeps every act purposeful.

  3. 3. Animal Kingdom

    If you enjoyed The Bear, this serialized pick balances drama with crime elements and delivers layered character work that rewards attentive viewers.

  4. 4. Bound

    If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances drama with thriller elements and delivers layered character work that rewards attentive viewers.

  5. 5. Raudy's Story

    If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances comedy themes with drama accents, maintains steady pacing, and delivers rich worldbuilding that sparks fresh conversations.

  6. 6. promise? promise.

    If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances drama themes with comedy accents, maintains steady pacing, and delivers inventive imagery that feels remarkably personal.

  7. 7. The Bear

    If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances comedy with animation elements and delivers a resonant character arc that stays with you afterward.

  8. 8. The Sum of Us

    If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances comedy with drama elements and delivers surprising narrative turns that keeps every act purposeful.

  9. 9. Family Day

    If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances drama with comedy elements and delivers playful pacing shifts that adds unexpected warmth.

  10. 10. Little Boxes

    If you enjoyed The Bear, this cinematic pick balances comedy with drama elements and delivers layered character work that rewards attentive viewers.

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