Shows like Breaking Bad: 20 to watch next
If you loved Breaking Bad (2008) — a drama and crime series created by Vince Gilligan — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Breaking Bad most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like new mexico, drug dealer and narcissism. 12 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Better Call Saul 2015★ 8.7
Shares: Crime, Drama
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
Stream in India on Netflix
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Narcos: Mexico 2018★ 7.9
Shares: Drama, Crime
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Snowfall 2017★ 8.4
Shares: Drama, Crime
Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.
Stream in India on Amazon MX Player, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads
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Narcos 2015★ 8.1
Shares: Crime, Drama
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Dark Winds 2022★ 7.5
Shares: Drama, Crime
This psychological thriller follows two Navajo police officers, Leaphorn and Chee, in the 1970s Southwest as their search for clues in a grisly double murder case forces them to challenge their own spiritual beliefs and come to terms with the trauma of their pasts.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video
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Animal Kingdom 2016★ 7.8
Shares: Crime, Drama
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" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Queen of the South 2016★ 7.6
Shares: Crime, Drama
Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas, she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Hannibal 2013★ 8.3
Shares: Drama, Crime
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Mr Inbetween 2018★ 8.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
Ray Shoesmith is a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Even harder when you’re a criminal for hire.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Penguin 2024★ 8.4
Shares: Drama, Crime
With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first, Oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the Penguin."
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Good Girls 2018★ 7.8
Shares: Drama, Crime
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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Griselda 2024★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Crime
Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization shows Griselda Blanco's journey from Medellín to becoming "the Godmother" of Miami's drug empire.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Time 2021★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, Crime
Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Sneaky Pete 2015★ 7.5
Shares: Drama, Crime
A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.
Stream in India on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Pluribus 2025★ 7.9
Shares: Drama
The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
Stream in India on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel
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L.A.'s Finest 2019★ 6.9
Shares: Crime, 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 common ground when it comes to taking on the most dangerous criminals in Los Angeles.
Stream in India on Sony Pictures Amazon Channel
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Power 2014★ 7.7
Shares: Crime, Drama
A successful New York entrepreneur lives a double life as the head of a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential, all while wanting to escape the underworld and keep his family safe.
Stream in India on Netflix, Movie Sphere+
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Big Sky 2020★ 7.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
Private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt on a search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the perpetrator before another woman is taken.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Too Old to Die Young 2019★ 7.4
Shares: Crime, Drama
In one tragic night, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Martin Jones's life is blown apart, and he is forced into a deadly underground of Cartel soldiers, Yakuza assassins, and mysterious vigilantes. Soon he finds himself lost on a surreal odyssey of murder, mysticism and vengeance, as his past sins close in on him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Patient 2022★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Crime
A psychotherapist finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now