If You Liked Shantaram, Watch These Next
Finished Shantaram (2022) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Shantaram, most of them are crime, drama, action & adventure.
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20 titles · updated 24th September 2026
1.American Crime Story(2016)
7.6CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.
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2.We Own This City(2022)
7.2CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.
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3.Godfather of Harlem(2019)
8.1DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
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4.The Sinner(2017)
7.5CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
In a small New York town, a haunted detective hunts for answers about perplexing crimes while wrestling with his own demons.
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5.Peaky Blinders(2013)
8.5DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
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6.Full Circle(2023)
6.4CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City.
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7.Seven Seconds(2018)
7.3CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.
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8.Power Book IV: Force(2022)
8.2CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Tommy Egan leaves New York behind and plans to take on Chicago, using his outsider status to break all the local rules and rewrite them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in the city.
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9.Dalgliesh(2021)
6.7CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.
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10.Boardwalk Empire(2010)
8.0CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
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11.Narcos(2015)
8.1CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
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12.The Act(2019)
7.6DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Gypsy Blanchard struggles to deal with the toxic relationship with her overprotective mother, but her attempts to free herself lead to murder.
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13.DCI Banks(2011)
7.1CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A thrilling drama based on the novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot.
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14.Bad Blood(2017)
7.1CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
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15.The Alienist(2018)
7.5DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
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16.L.A.'s Finest(2019)
6.9CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Syd Burnett has left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna, a working mom with an equally complex past, Syd is pushed to examine whether her unapologetic lifestyle might be masking a greater personal secret. These two women don't agree on much, but they find…
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17.Lucky(2026)
7.3DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
When a multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways, con artist Lucky is forced to go on the run. Pursued by both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss, Lucky must fight for her life—and a way out.
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18.The Responder(2022)
7.0DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Under pressure, fraying at the edges. In relentless night-time Liverpool, copper Chris is paired with a rookie. Will they save or destroy each other?
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19.The Lincoln Lawyer(2022)
7.7DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Hotshot LA defense attorney Mickey Haller will do whatever it takes to win as he navigates the criminal justice system from his trademark Lincoln.
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20.The Wire(2002)
8.6CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
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