Shows like CAT: 20 to watch next
If you loved CAT (2022) — a crime and drama series created by Balwinder Singh Janjua — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of CAT most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like politics. 12 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Power Book IV: Force 2022★ 8.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
Tommy Egan leaves New York behind and plans to take on Chicago, using his outsider status to break all the local rules and rewrite them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in the city.
Stream in India on Lionsgate Play, Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel, Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel
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This City Is Ours 2025★ 7.5
Shares: Drama, Crime
After trying to leave a world of crime, Michael is dragged back into the fold to answer questions. Back in Liverpool tensions continue to bubble amongst the remaining members of the gang, and a gangster who's just been let out of prison wants answers.
Stream in India on Sony Liv
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Bosch: Legacy 2022★ 7.9
Shares: Crime, Drama
Bosch is now making a living as a private investigator two years after he quit the LAPD and finds himself working with one time enemy and top-notch attorney Honey “Money” Chandler. Meanwhile, Bosch's daughter Maddie is venturing into the world of the LAPD.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Amazon MX Player
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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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Goliath 2016★ 7.6
Shares: Crime, Drama
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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S.W.A.T. Exiles 2026★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, Crime
After a high-profile mission goes sideways, Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson is pulled out of forced retirement to lead a last-chance experimental SWAT unit made up of untested, unpredictable young recruits. Hondo must bridge a generational divide, navigate clashing personalities, and turn a squad of outsiders into a team capable of protecting the city and saving the program that made him who he is.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Five Days 2007★ 5.8
Shares: Crime, Drama
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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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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Good Behavior 2016★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Crime
Letty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife, she sets out to derail the job, launching her on a collision course with the killer, entangling them in a dangerous and seductive relationship.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Vigil 2021★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Crime
The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre lead an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that goes to the very heart of Britain’s national security.
Stream in India on Lionsgate Play, Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel, Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel
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Hidden Assets 2021★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Crime
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Boat Story 2023★ 7.3
Shares: Drama, Crime
Two hard-up strangers stumble across a haul of cocaine on a shipwrecked boat. After agreeing to sell it and split the cash, they become entangled with police, masked hitmen, and a sharp-suited gangster known as 'The Tailor'.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Troppo 2022★ 6.7
Shares: Crime, Drama
An eccentric private investigator with a criminal past recruits a disgraced ex-cop to help solve the disappearance of a Korean tech pioneer in the wilds of Far North Queensland.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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McMafia 2018★ 7.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family's past to return to threaten them, Alex is drawn into the criminal underworld and must confront his values to protect those he loves.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Criminal Record 2024★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
In the heart of London, an anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives—a young woman in the early stages of her career and a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy—into a fight to correct an old miscarriage of justice.
Stream in India on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel
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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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Painkiller 2023★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Crime
The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Matlock 2024★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Crime
After achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock rejoins the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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The Hitchhiker 1983★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, Crime
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Kill Jackie 2026★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Crime
Jackie Price has been living a wealthy, luxurious life for the past 20 years after escaping a dangerous past as an international cocaine dealer. But just as life begins to feel a little boring, she discovers that The Seven Demons, a group of the world’s most terrifying hitmen, have been hired to kill her.
Stream in India on BBC Player Amazon Channel