11 Shows Like Peaky Blinders (2013) to Watch When You're Done
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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This stylish British series follows the Shelby crime family rising through post-WWI Birmingham with razor-capped menace, ambition and trauma. Swaggering, brutal and impeccably mounted, it turns a gangster saga into operatic period drama. If its style, scheming and family power struggles gripped you, seek out crime dynasties and period gangster sagas where loyalty and violence are the family business.
If you loved Peaky Blinders (2013), here are 11 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 MobLand, Power, The Penguin. 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.
11 Shows Similar to Peaky Blinders
MobLand
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In common: Crime · Drama
Power
2014
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In common: Crime · Drama
The Penguin
2024 · Colin Farrell
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La Reina del Sur
2011
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In common: Crime · Drama
Snowfall
2017 · Julie DeJoie
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In common: Crime · Drama
The Wire
2002 · Nina K. Noble
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In common: Crime · Drama
The Americans
2013 · Mary Rae Thewlis
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In common: Crime · Drama
The Alienist
2018 · Ben Rosenblatt
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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
Halt and Catch Fire
2014 · Christopher C. Rogers
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In common: 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