Shows Like Gênesis (2020)

7.2 / 10 (based on 215 reviews)

Jesus is their apostles spread the peace and respect wherever they go. Performing miracles and arousing the wrath of Jewish priests until condemned to crucifixion for them.

Genre: Drama

Main Cast: Matheus Fagundes, Rafael Awi, Dudu Azevedo, Raphael Sander
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1 season, 193 episodes, 60.0-minute runtime

4.6 / 10 (based on 373 reviews)

A Brazilian telenovela that follows the people of Israel on their way out of the Egyptian captivity to their eponymous “Promised Land”. Loosely based on the Biblical narrative, the key characters and incidents are retained, but extended with fictional backstories.

Genre: Drama

Main Cast: Marcos Reis, Sidney Sampaio, Milhem Cortaz, Rafael Sardão
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1 season, 179 episodes, 60.0-minute runtime

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Genre: Drama

Main Cast: Carlo Porto, Zécarlos Machado, Adriana Garambone, Oscar Magrini
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1 season, 220 episodes

4.3 / 10 (based on 256 reviews)

Zach and Asher are Hebrews, born with the same opportunities. Which one of them will be thrown in a place of torment and which will be taken to a place of peace after death? What really matters are the choices each one will make during their lives, and this is the story we’ll tell. 600 years B.C., approximately. After the rule of several kings who distanced themselves from God, Jerusalem is immersed in idolatry. The People of God is about to lose everything that Moses and Joshua had conquered. Babylon imposes it’s power on the entire Mesopotamian region. After defeating the Egyptians, Nebuchadnezzar assumes the throne of the vast empire. During his reign, he transforms his city in the jewel of the ancient world, and builds to his wife, queen Amitis, the legendary Suspended Gardens, and other famous works, such as the Gates of Ishtar, Temples and Ziggurats. The great friendship between Zach and Asher is hurt by the love that both feel for their childhood friend, the beautiful Johanna. Unlike them, she believes in the prophecies of Jeremiah and struggles to make the Hebrew people turn to God again. Nebuchadnezzar invades Jerusalem, destroys Solomon’s Temple and enslaves thousands of Hebrews, marking the beginning of the Babylonian Captivity, which will last for seventy years. Zach and Asher are amongst the captive, and they watch the destruction of their world. Troubled by separations, encounters and losses, their journey will be marked by jealousy, guilt, sadness, danger, vengeance, struggle, sacrifice and, above all, intense dispute for Johanna’s love, which will shake their strong friendship. The saga of the two friends will feature historic characters and great biblical prophets, such as Jeremiah, Ezekiel, their fantastic prophecies, and, especially, Daniel. A prophet and an extraordinary man, Daniel is taken to the Babylonian court. After interpreting one of king Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, he becomes the capital’s governor. He will face several enemies in the tumultuous court and live through famous biblical passages, such as the Fiery Furnace, Belshazzar’s Feast and the Lion’s Den, amongst others. Asher and Zach are characters and witnesses in these historic and biblical moments. It is in this ancient world that they will live their lives and make their decisions, deal with the consequences of their actions, achieve their goals or fail.

Genre: Drama

Main Cast: Milena Toscano, Dudu Azevedo, Christine Fernandes, Igor Rickli
Creators: Paula Richard
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1 season, 182 episodes, 69.0-minute runtime

5.7 / 10 (based on 759 reviews)

Joseph, son of Israel (Jacob) and Rachel, lived in the land of Canaan with eleven brothers and one sister. He was Rachel’s firstborn and Israel’s eleventh son. Of all the sons, Joseph was loved by his father the most. Israel even arrayed Joseph with a “long coat of many colors”.[1] Israel’s favoritism toward Joseph caused his half brothers to hate him, and when Joseph was seventeen years old he had two dreams that made his brothers plot his demise. In the first dream, Joseph and his brothers gathered bundles of grain. Then, all of the grain bundles that had been prepared by the brothers gathered around Joseph’s bundle and bowed down to it. In the second dream, the sun (father), the moon (mother) and eleven stars (brothers) bowed down to Joseph himself. When he told these two dreams to his brothers, they despised him for the implications that the family would be bowing down to Joseph. They became jealous that their father would even ponder over Joseph’s words concerning these dreams. (They saw their chance when they were feeding the flocks, the brothers saw Joseph from afar and plotted to kill him. They turned on him and stripped him of the coat his father made for him, and threw him into a pit. As they pondered what to do with Joseph, the brothers saw a camel caravan of Ishmaelites coming out of Gilead, carrying spices and perfumes to Egypt, for trade. Judah, the strongest, thought twice about killing Joseph and proposed that he be sold. The traders paid twenty pieces of silver for Joseph, and the brothers took Joseph’s coat back to Jacob, who assumed Joseph had been killed by wild animals. The text of the biblical story is muddled over who sold Joseph into slavery – which of the brothers, Reuben or Judah, and whether he was sold to Midianite traders or Ishmaelite traders. What is clear is that Joseph was sold to serve Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh’s guard.[2] While serving in Potiphar’s household, Yahweh was with Joseph so that he prospered in everything he did. Joseph found favor in the sight of Potiphar and so he became his personal servant. Then Joseph was promoted to oversee Potiphar’s entire household as a superintendent. After some time, Potiphar’s wife began to desire Joseph and sought to have an affair with him. Despite her persistence, he refused to have sex with her for fear of sinning against God. After some days of begging for him, she grabbed him by his cloak, but he escaped from her leaving his garment behind. Angered by his running away from her, she took his garment and made a false claim against him by charging that he tried have sex with her. This resulted in Joseph being thrown into prison.[3] The warden put Joseph in charge of the other prisoners,[4] and soon afterward Pharaoh’s chief cup bearer and chief baker, who had offended the Pharaoh, were thrown into the prison.[5] They both had dreams, and they asked Joseph to help interpret them. The chief cup bearer had held a vine in his hand, with three branches that brought forth grapes; he took them to Pharaoh and put them in his cup. The chief baker had three baskets of bread on his head, intended for Pharaoh, but some birds came along and ate the bread. Joseph told them that within three days the chief cup bearer would be reinstated but the chief baker would be hanged.[6] Joseph requested the cup bearer to mention him to Pharaoh and secure his release from prison,[7] but the cup bearer, reinstalled in office, forgot Joseph.[8] After Joseph was in prison for two more years, Pharaoh had two dreams which disturbed him. He dreamt of seven lean cows which rose out of the river and devoured seven fat cows; and, of seven withered ears of grain which devoured seven fat ears. Pharaoh’s wise men were unable to interpret these dreams, but the chief cup bearer remembered Joseph and spoke of his skill to Pharaoh. Joseph was called for, and interpreted the dreams as foretelling that seven years of abundance would be followed by seven years of famine, and advised Pharaoh to store surplus grain during the years of abundance. When the famine came, it was so severe that people from surrounding nations “from all over the earth” came to Egypt to buy bread as this nation was the only Kingdom prepared for the seven year drought. In the second year of famine,[9] Joseph’s half brothers were sent to Egypt, by their father Israel, to buy goods. When they came to Egypt, they stood before the Vizier but did not recognize him to be their brother Joseph. However, Joseph did recognize them and did not receive them kindly, rather he disguised himself and spoke to them in the Egyptian language using an interpreter. He did not speak at all to them in his native tongue, Hebrew.[10] After questioning them as to where they came from, he accused them of being spies. They pleaded with him that their only purpose was to buy grain for their family in the land of Canaan. After they mentioned that they had left a younger brother at home, the Vizier (Joseph) demanded that he be brought to Egypt as a demonstration of their veracity. This brother was Joseph’s blood brother, Benjamin. He placed his brothers in prison for three days. On the third day, he brought them out of prison to reiterate that he wanted their youngest brother brought to Egypt to demonstrate their veracity. The brothers conferred amongst themselves speaking in Hebrew, reflecting on the wrong they had done to Joseph. Joseph understood what they were saying and removed himself from their presence because he was caught in emotion. Joseph sent the brothers back with food but kept one brother, and the remaining brothers returned to their father in Canaan, and told him all that had transpired in Egypt. They also discovered that all of their money sacks still had money in them, and they were dismayed. Then they informed their father that the Vizier demanded that Benjamin be brought before him to demonstrate that they were honest men.After they had consumed all of the grain that they brought back from Egypt, Israel told his sons to go back to Egypt for more grain. With Reuben and Judah’s persistence, they persuaded their father to let Benjamin join them for fear of Egyptian retribution.Upon their return to Egypt, the brothers were afraid because of the returned money in their money sacks. Then when they get there Joseph reveals to them that he is in fact their brother, Joseph. Then has their father Jacob brought so they are all reunited in Egypt

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Main Cast: Caio Junqueira, Maytê Piragibe, Vitor Hugo, Camila Rodrigues
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1 season, 39 episodes

7.8 / 10 (based on 27 reviews)

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Genre: Drama

Main Cast: Juliana Xavier, Victor Sparapane, Iano Salomão, Murilo Meola
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1 season, 81 episodes

5.9 / 10 (based on 341 reviews)

The story of “David” anointed as a young man to be king of Israel, an action that would give him a turbulent life until his reign was secured. Based upon the text of books of “Samuel”.

Genre: Action

Main Cast: Leonardo Brício, Gracindo Júnior, Cláudio Fontana, Renata Dominguez
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1 season, 29 episodes

5.2 / 10 (based on 805 reviews)

The story of Moses from his birth to his death, following the well known story of the Plagues and Commandments and weaving in many other stories of the Hebrews and Egyptians who touched his life.

Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Main Cast: Sergio Marone, Denise Del Vecchio, Guilherme Winter, Daniel Siwek
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2 seasons, 243 episodes

3.7 / 10 (based on 314 reviews)

Story about end of times based on Bible’s last book Apocalypse.

Genre: Drama

Main Cast: Sergio Marone, Fernando Pavão, Eduardo Lago, Juliana Silveira
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1 season, 155 episodes, 60.0-minute runtime