40 Shows Like El Señor de los Cielos (2013) to Watch When You're Done
Updated August 2026
View El Señor de los Cielos details →If you loved El Señor de los Cielos (2013), here are 40 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 Black Bird, Justified, The Following. 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.
The Best Shows Similar to El Señor de los Cielos
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the shows that share the most with El Señor de los Cielos in terms of theme, narrative tone, and cinematic style. Every recommendation goes beyond genre — we evaluate the type of conflict, pacing, dramatic context, and the experience they create for viewers.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Animal Kingdom
2016
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" C
In common: Crime · Drama
Miami Vice
1984 · Michael Mann
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first mee
In common: Crime · Drama
Banshee
2013 · Adam Targum
Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice whil
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
Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien
In common: Crime · Drama
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
In a small Michigan town where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry, the McClusky family are the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politici
In common: Crime · Drama
Knight Rider
1982 · Robert Foster
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arrang
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
Narcos
2015 · Adam Fishbach
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
In common: Crime · Drama
The 100
2014 · Kim Shumway
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime
In common: Crime · Drama
MacGyver
1985 · Stephen Downing
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items h
In common: Crime · Drama
Burn Notice
2007
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
In common: Crime · Drama
Oz
1997 · Jim Finnerty
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and t
In common: Crime · Drama
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The Godfather
1972 · Francis Ford Coppola
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his y
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011 · Quentin Tarantino
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vo
The Godfather Part II
1974 · Francis Ford Coppola
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vega
Pulp Fiction
1994 · Quentin Tarantino
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that i
The Dark Knight
2008 · Christopher Nolan
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the stree
GoodFellas
1990 · Martin Scorsese
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conw