Oh, dear, you finished watching the epic crime drama, and now you are looking for the best shows like ‘Peaky Blinders.’ We guess you are into that dark, crime, family drama genera. You’re in luck! The curated list of shows below share similar categories.
Based on true characters and events, the ‘Peaky Blinders,’ series takes place in Birmingham in the early 1920s’. Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy), and his multi-faceted family, run the most powerful and intimidating gang on the rainy streets of Birmingham, making its money from illegal gambling and black market activity. Shelby’s ambitions are bigger than it seems, and when a rifle box disappears from a weapons factory and finds its way to the streets of Birmingham, he recognizes an opportunity to get an upgrade.
I’m mostly going to list gangster and family drama series, Let’s take a look at them “By order of the Peaky Blinders!”
Best Shows Like ‘Peaky Blinders’
Gangs of London (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
Series duration: 45 min
A crime melodrama for all intents and purposes. The story begins when London crime baron Finn Wallace is mysteriously murdered, creating a fierce upheaval in his organization. His youngest son Sean takes on the leadership burden after the death of his father, but it soon turns out that his lust for revenge can ruin everything – and no less, the lust for revenge of his grieving mother Marian (Michelle Fairley, “Game of Thrones”.) Opposing them are Ed and Alex Domani – a father and son, partners of the Wallace family, who pushed the family crime empire into legal and profitable business and real estate directions. If Sean still represents the tough streets where his father and Ed grew up, Alex represents the new generation – slick, scholarly, elegant, and connected in the high windows.
Why you should watch: Director Gareth Evans arrives on television with a new series, which includes some of the most spectacular and complex action scenes seen on screen. The plot is a bit corny (with inheritance wars, mob battles, undercover cops, and more), but who cares when the weeds are so miraculous? The only condition to enjoy: is a strong stomach.
Gomorrah (2014)
Genre: Crime, Family Drama
Series duration: 50 min
“Gomorrah” brings the story of Chiro, known as the “Son of Death”, the right-hand man, almost reluctantly, of the boss, Don Pietro Sebastiano. During the first season, Sebastiano is tried and sent to prison on the outskirts of Scampia and Chiro takes his place. He tries to maneuver between the horrors, the wife of the weak and spoiled white godfather, Jenny who is torn between his destiny to inherit his father and his inability to lead. Chiro’s mother sends her son to Honduras, to its drug dealers, to get stronger and establish his status as the new boss. Jenny returns to a different person, tough, threatening, and unstoppable. Chiro feels the blade around his neck and makes contact with the family’s enemies, and the great war begins. From this moment on the bodies are laid one after the other.
Why you should watch: The series has become a sensation in Italy. The show is similar in its quality to crime tv godfathers like “The Sopranos, and “Breaking Bad” but is that enough? Well, depends.
4 Blocks (2017)
Genre: Crime, Family Drama, Action
Series duration: 60 min
Lee “Tony” Hamadi heads a gang in one of Berlin’s poorer neighborhoods. His attempt to leave the criminal organization and start a new life for him and his family-run into difficulties after his brother-in-law is caught with a large delivery of Cook and forces Ali to come to his aid. Ali’s rivalry within the gang with his brother and friend from the past who suddenly emerges will continue to complicate Ali and make it difficult for him to realize his dream.
Why you should watch: An excellent crime drama that presents the dark side of the vibrant German city and the difficulties of the immigrants in the country. Winner of many TV awards in Germany.
Ozark (2017)
Genre: Crime, Family Drama, Action
Series duration: 60 min
Marty Byrd (Jason Bateman), is a financial planner living with his family in suburban Chicago. After he tangles in a money-laundering scheme that went wrong, he is forced to relocate from his hometown to a summer resort in the Ozarks, Missouri, and Toe keeps his family safe, he needs to pay a debt to a Mexican drug lord. Marty and his family, have to adjust to their new reality, they get involved with their local community and find new ways to reconnect with one another in their brand-new environment.
Why you should watch: Ozark is a small-town crime show like “Peaky Blinders” but in reverse: instead of dealing with the head of the family distancing himself, it shows an almost disintegrated family approaching the father’s entanglement (played by the excellent Jason Bateman). As the series progresses, you will understand that this is not an action or suspense series, but rather a fine family drama wrapped in suspense, murder, and drug plots.
Succession (2018)
Genre: Crime, Family Drama
Series duration: 55 min
The series tells the story of a Media Mogul, a billionaire named Logan Roy, played by veteran Scottish actor Brian Cox, and his four children who are involved in one way or another in the family business. As Logan backs away from the decision to retire, he flames the rivalry between the family members.
Why you should watch: One of the best shows today! Complex characters trapped in the barbed wire network of charged family ties and passionate business intrigues. What began as a harmless ritual of exchanging verbal stings between family members has become a weekly bloodbath.
Ripper Street (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Series duration: 59 min
A BBC crime drama series that takes place in the Whitechapel district of Victorian London in 1889, a few months after the recent murder of Jack the Ripper. In the “H” Brigade, the complicated and infamous district of the London Police, populated by troubled civilians, the police detective Edmund Reid is persecuted for a tragic mistake in his past, accompanied by investigator Bennett Drake and the military surgeon Captain Homer Jackson trying to bring order to the streets of London the Ripper.
The Irregulars (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy
Series duration: 55 min
A crime drama from Netflix. The series combines the characters of Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes, along with a supernatural fantasy story.
The protagonists of the series are a bunch of poor boys in the Victorian era. The gang is made up of two sisters who grew up in a tough and cruel orphanage. Along with them is Billy, whose father was killed in the war, and Spike, the gangster/impostor/burglar of the gang.
Why you should watch: A suspense and period fantasy, with a dash of horror. Great visuals and a compelling period remake that manages to put into the atmosphere of dark Victorian London. Although the episodes are long, the pace of plot development is satisfying. The series combines the main plotline along with investigative stories that stand on their own until they reach the final episodes, in which the main plotline grabs the front.
Taboo (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Series duration: 55 min
The “Taboo” series, or in its other name, the unofficial but no less worthy – Tom Hardy show, is an entertaining fantasy-suspense-crime series. The protagonist is James Keziah Delaney, and the time is the infancy of the United States and the decline of the British East India Company. People move around in carriages, the women wear gorgeous dresses and no policeman will be moved by random gunfire in the street.
Why you should watch: If love Peaky Blinders’ Alfie Solomons played by the one and only Tom Hardy, you’ll get a huge quantity of Hardy in Taboo.
The Frankenstein Chronicles (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Adventure
Series duration: 48 min
London, 1827. A detective tries to capture a murderer with a fondness for dissecting corpses, and his interrogation leads in much darker directions than he imagined.
Miss Scarlet and The Duke (2020)
Genre: Period Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Series duration: 54 min
Eliza Scarlet joins forces with a Scotland Yard Inspector to solve crime in 19th-century London. Eliza Scarlet joins forces with a Scotland Yard Inspector to solve crime in 19th-century London. Eliza Scarlet joins forces with a Scotland Yard Inspector to solve crime in 19th-century London.
The Alienist (2018)
Genre: Period Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Crime
Series duration: 45 min
A Sherlock Holmes detective story in the late 19th century, but – in New York, when medical science was in its infancy. An American doctor of German descent sends his friend
The illustrator of a newspaper (Luke Evans) drew in detail the body of a boy, dressed in a woman’s clothes, who has been severely abused. The case reminds him of the murder of two previous children which gives rise to a special investigation in the form of serial murders through an innovative detective force. They are joined by a pair of Jewish police brothers, who specialize in forensics (science in diapers) for racist reasons they are removed from the case. Whoever supports the investigation against the city’s rich and corrupt cops is Chief of Police, Roosevelt (later President of the United States.) He helps the gang with information through his feminist secretary.
Carnival Row (2019)
Genre: Period Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Crime
Series duration: 67 min
At the center of the series are a mystery and an attempt to solve a series of mysterious and cruel murders. Whoever is trying to find out the killer (or killers) is detective Rycroft Philostrate (played by Orlando Bloom). Against the background of the murders, we are witnessing the very fragile political fabric between those who receive the fantastic refugees with open arms, and those who call for their deportation.
Money Heist (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
Series duration: 55 min
Eight people with ‘Dali’ masks and red hoodies enter the Spanish royal mint, taking 67 hostages in order to print billions of euros and dig a tunnel out directly into the compound of the “professor” – the man who planned the robbery in detail and operated it remotely. The main purpose of the bandits is – to attract time. This will make it possible to print as much money as possible and have time to dig the tunnel before the elite units of the Spanish police break in.
Why you should watch: Probably the most binged series that has ever been on Netflix. Not groundbreaking, not terribly interesting, but it is just entertaining and fun to watch.
Warrior (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Series duration: 45 min
Based on an idea conceived by the martial arts legend, Bruce Lee.
“Warrior” takes place in Chinatown, San Francisco in the 1970s. Cruel gang wars are raging between underground associations of Chinese immigrants who are fighting for territorial control over the neighborhood and for control of the opium trade, gambling, and prostitution.
Why you should watch: “Warrior” takes a fascinating period in the history of Chinese and Americans and exhausts it into pure and trashy entertainment. High volumes of bloody violence with amplified sounds of ripping knives and cracking bones, and at the same time also intelligent enough to give an interesting and layered lesson in American history.
Startup (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Series duration: 55 min
Izzy Morales is a young, cheeky, and brilliant coder who knows she’s responsible for the next big thing in the high-tech world but finds no one to support her financially until she meets Nick. Through a series of unpleasant events, Ronald (or Roni), a member of a street gang who wants to get himself and his family out of the violent neighborhood, also joins them, and the three become colleagues.
Why you should watch: You may not have heard of this series, because it was produced by Sony streaming service Krakel, which has not yet become a content monster, but ‘Startup,’ has three seasons and attracts prominent players. It’s the kind of show that t really wants to satisfy its viewers. It is full of upheavals, cliffhangers, emotional highs, and death scenes that come out of nowhere.
Marseille (2016)
Genre: Crime, Family Drama, Politics
Series duration: 55 min
Gerard Depardieu is the mayor of Marseille. The city is full of French criminal gangs and terrorist organizations, and of course, French women and sex outside of marriage.
Why you should watch: Lots of politics and intrigue, and of course the great Gerard Depardieu!
Bad blood (2018)
Genre: Crime, Politics, Family Drama, Mafia
Series duration: 45 min
Based on a true story, the series follows the rise and fall of the Rizzuto family who ruled the Mafia in Montreal Canada, their family affairs, and law entanglements. After being sentenced due to a murder, Vito Rizzuto (Anthony LaPaglia), head of the mafia, was released from prison after 31 years and went on an avenger journey after those who killed his family and friends and put him into prison.
Why you should watch: Not the best crime shows, however very entertaining. Just disregard the “based on true events” warning, it’s pure fiction.
91 Days (2016)
Genre: Anime, Crime, Family Drama, Mafia
Series duration: 24 min
The anime series takes place in the old United States of 1921 In those years the Mafia families ruled the city. It tells the tragic story of Angelo Lagusa who one evening watched as a child how the Mafia betrays his father and murders his mother and little brother while he manages to escape the house. Seven years later Angelo receives a mysterious letter from someone listing all the names of the mafia people who murdered his family, Angelo decides to return to his hometown and embark on a campaign of revenge against the Mafia family who murdered his family.
Why you should watch: If you like the Italian mafia genre, then it’s definitely worth watching. It’s not the standard Japanese style mafia and they really captured how things work in these circles. Betrayal, murder plotting, and leverage all used in a good way
Lilyhammer (2012)
Genre: Crime, Family Drama, Comedy
Series duration: 30 min
Frank Tagliano (Steven Van Zandt ), is a former New York mobster. After he testifies in a U.S. court, he joins a witness protection program. Intrigued by the 1994 Winter Olympics, he is transferred to the city of Lillehammer in Norway. The transition from being a powerful gangster in New York, to an unemployed immigrant in Norway, is not easy on Tagliano, and he will soon find out that in order to succeed in a rural Norwegian society, he must turn to his old rotten ways.
The Sopranos (1999)
Genre: Family Drama, Action, Crime
Series duration: 50 min
The Sopranos revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), the owner, father, and head of the Italian Mafia in New Jersey. After an anxiety attack, Tony finds himself in the hands of a therapist (Lorraine Bracco), through whom he tries to survive his stressful job, his demanding family, and his domineering mother. Tony has to confront rumors about his occupation, and he is looking for a way to balance his criminal organization, his home life, and demons from the past such as his failure to become a varsity athlete.
Breaking Bad (2009)
Genre: Family Drama, Action, Crime
Series duration: 50 min
Walter White is a friendly underpaid chemistry teacher, that tries to get by for his loving family. When he finds out he got terminal cancer, and he has two years left, he needs to figure out how to provide for his family and finds himself using his chemistry skills and Geniusity, to produce Crystal Math. He teams up with Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), a former student of his, who assists him along the way to confronting violent drug dealers, money laundering, and law enforcement.
Sons Of Anarchy (2008)
Genre: Crime, Family Drama
Series duration: 55 min
Based on a true story about a motorcycle club, the series follows the violent, infamous biker club “Sons of Anarchy”, that rules the small town of Charming. Jackson “Jax” Teller (Charlie Hunnam), runs the club and tries to maintain family and community life alongside conducting a variety of crimes, and confrontations with drug dealers, corrupt corporations, and law enforcement. He has to deal with troubles outside and inside his own home, among other things, he has to deal with his widowed dominant mother Gemma (Katey Sagal)
Why you should watch: An interesting combination of social morality, violent outbursts of anger, and emotional intelligence, ‘Sons of Anarchy’ expresses an important and universal morality of mind: there are no limits to the devotion of a desperate father to protect his son.
Narcos (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Series duration: 50 min
Based on a true story, Narcos follows the spread and growth of cocaine drug cartels, starting in Columbia and spreading across the globe. It follows the life story of Pablo Escobar THE Columbian drug lord, who became one of the main targets during the United States drug enforcement administration’s efforts, to prevent and stop cocaine drug dealing and usage. The series reveals the contradiction between Escobar – the vicious criminal, and Escobar – the loving family man.
Boardwalk Empire (2016)
Genre: Family Drama, Action, Crime
Series duration: 50 min
The series follows Enoch “Nucky” Thompson (Steve Buscemi), a local politician in Atlantic City during the 1920s prohibition law – the law banning alcohol consumption. Thompson decides to take advantage of the situation, and obtain alcohol for the masses. With the assistance of Jimmy, Thompsons’ foster son, who has returned from the war, Thompson kicks off a downward spiral, that will turn Atlantic City into a city of gangsters, sex, alcohol, corrupt police officers, and brutal violence. On top of that, along the way, Thompson meets a woman who changes his life.
Weeds (2005)
Genre: Crime, Family Drama
Series duration: 55 min
Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), is a suburban mom who turns into a widow after her husband Judah, passes away from a heart attack he got while running with their younger son. In order to maintain their standard of living and get by, Nancy begins to trade Marijuana. Nancy’s brother-in-law, Judah’s younger brother, moves in with the family, in order to assist Nancy to overcome the obstacles she is facing and running her newly founded business.
Why you should watch: A subversive comedy series, something between a soap opera and a scathing slap.
