50 Shows Like Animal Kingdom (2016) to Watch When You're Done
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If you loved Animal Kingdom (2016), here are 50 TV series that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Miami Vice, Banshee, The Shield. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Shows Similar to Animal Kingdom
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1984 · Michael Mann
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In common: Crime · Drama
Banshee
2013 · Adam Targum
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In common: Crime · Drama
The Shield
2002
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests
In common: Crime · Drama
Scorpion
2014 · Alex Kurtzman
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Blindspot
2015 · Chris Pozzebon
A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there.
In common: Crime · Drama
Mayor of Kingstown
2021 · Evan Perazzo
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In common: Crime · Drama
Knight Rider
1982 · Robert Foster
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In common: Crime · Drama
Baywatch
1989 · Gregory J. Bonann
Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.
In common: Crime · Drama
Citadel
2023 · Debra James
What if you lost your memory? What if a spy didn't know they were a spy? Years ago, the top agents of Citadel, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, had their minds wiped. But, they're called back to action as s
In common: Crime · Drama
9-1-1: Lone Star
2020 · Rob Lowe
Nearly 20 years ago, Owen Strand was the lone survivor of his Manhattan firehouse on 9/11. In the wake of the attack, Owen had the unenviable task of rebuilding his station. After a similar tragedy ha
In common: Crime · Drama
Ozark
2017 · Patrick Markey
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
In common: Crime · Drama
Justified
2010 · Timothy Olyphant
A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law.
In common: Crime · Drama
The Following
2013 · Brett Mahoney
Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature, escapes from death row. The FBI calls former ag
In common: Crime · Drama
iZombie
2015 · Diane Ruggiero-Wright
A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also
In common: Crime · Drama
Godfather of Harlem
2019 · Forest Whitaker
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 Ital
In common: Crime · Drama
The Queen of Flow
2018
Seventeen years after being wrongly imprisoned, a talented songwriter seeks justice against the men who caused her downfall and killed her family.
In common: Crime · Drama
Good Girls
2018
Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
In common: Crime · Drama
Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord
2012 · César Augusto Rodríguez
Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as h
In common: Crime · Drama
Mayans M.C.
2018 · Elgin James
Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the Cali/Mexi border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a to
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Senora Acero
2014
The adventures of Vicenta Acero, the feared coyote who now leads the dynasty of illicit dealings once under the control of her father.
In common: Crime · Drama
Gangs of London
2020 · Kim Hong-sun
When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the street
In common: Crime · Drama
Rosario Tijeras (Mexico)
2016 · Carlos Quintanilla Sakar
Worlds collide when a vengeance-obsessed young woman from the other side of the tracks captures the attention of two well-off friends.
In common: Crime · Drama
Gomorrah
2014
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the ob
In common: Crime · Drama
Locked Up
2015
Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller
In common: Crime · Drama
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
2024 · Ian Brennan
The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.
In common: Crime · Drama
Your Honor
2020 · Joey Hartstone
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.
In common: Crime · Drama
Adolescence
2025 · Stephen Graham
When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?
In common: Crime · Drama
El Chapo
2017
A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.
In common: Crime · Drama
S.W.A.T.
2017 · Kent Rotherham
A Los Angeles S.W.A.T. sergeant is assigned to lead a highly skilled unit in the community where he grew up. Torn between loyalty to the streets, where the cops are sometimes the enemy, and allegiance
In common: Crime · Drama
24
2001 · David Fury
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
In common: Crime · Drama
FBI
2018 · Peter Jankowski
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.
In common: Crime · Drama
Hawaii Five-0
2010 · David Wolkove
Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno
In common: Crime · Drama
Marvel's The Punisher
2017 · Dario Scardapane
A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.
In common: Crime · Drama
Berlin
2023 · Álex Pina
During his glory days, Berlin and a gang assembled in Paris for one of his greatest plans ever: stealing 44 million euros' worth of jewels in one night.
In common: Crime · Drama
Sons of Anarchy
2008 · John Linson
The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Re
In common: Crime · Drama
Bloodhounds
2023
Faced with ruthless foes with a violent thirst, two young boxers band together — risking life and limb to bring justice and protect their loved ones.
In common: Crime · Drama
Tulsa King
2022 · Dave Erickson
New York mafia capo Dwight "The General" Manfredi is released from prison after 25 years and exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best i
In common: Crime · Drama
Gotham
2014
Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise fro
In common: Crime · Drama
El Señor de los Cielos
2013
Set in the 1990s, these are the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juárez cartel. Nicknamed “El Señor de los Cielos” (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fl
In common: Crime · Drama
The Sinner
2017 · Nina Braddock
In a small New York town, a haunted detective hunts for answers about perplexing crimes while wrestling with his own demons.
In common: Crime · Drama
The Borgias
2011 · Neil Jordan
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amas
In common: Crime · Drama
Hunters
2020 · Phil Abraham
A diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City discover that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic t
In common: Crime · Drama
Black Bird
2022 · Dennis Lehane
As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the c
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Echo
2024 · Kevin Feige
Pursued by Wilson Fisk's criminal empire, Maya's journey brings her home and she must confront her own family and legacy.
In common: Crime · Drama
The Continental: From the World of John Wick
2023 · Derek Kolstad
The origin behind the iconic hotel-for-assassins through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott, as he's dragged into the Hell-scape of 1970's New York City to face a past he thought he'd left
In common: Crime · Drama
Narcos
2015 · Adam Fishbach
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
In common: Crime · Drama
Narcos: Mexico
2018 · Alexandra Hunter
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
In common: Crime · Drama
Dexter: New Blood
2021 · Bill Carraro
10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, we find him living under an assumed name in the small town of Iron Lake, New York. Dexter may be embracing his new life, but in the w
In common: Crime · Drama
Law & Order
1990 · Peter Jankowski
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's
In common: Crime · Drama
Castle
2009 · Terence Paul Winter
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investi
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