Shows like Sacred Games: 20 to watch next
If you loved Sacred Games (2018) — a drama, crime and action & adventure series created by Vikramaditya Motwane — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Sacred Games most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like corruption, based on novel or book and investigation. 16 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Shantaram 2022★ 7.4
Shares: Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
Escaped convict Lin Ford flees to the teeming streets of 1980s Bombay, looking to disappear. Working as a medic for the city's poor and neglected, Lin finds unexpected love, connection, and courage on the long road to redemption.
Stream in India on Apple TV, Apple TV 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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Fool Me Once 2024★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Crime
When ex-soldier Maya sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep into the past.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Paatal Lok 2020★ 7.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
A down and out cop lands the case of a lifetime when four suspects are nabbed in the assassination attempt of a prime time journalist. The case turns out to be a devious maze where nothing is what it looks like. The pursuit of it leads him to the dark netherworld - the 'Paatal Lok', and to shocking discoveries in the past of the four suspects.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Line of Duty 2012★ 8.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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We Own This City 2022★ 7.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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The Shield 2002★ 8.2
Shares: Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
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 intact.
Stream in India on VI movies and tv
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The Night Manager 2016★ 7.7
Shares: Drama, Crime
Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Legends 2026★ 7.6
Shares: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama
As drugs flood the streets of '90s Britain, a team of civil servants is thrust undercover to topple the gangs behind it.
Stream in India on Netflix
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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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Cross 2024★ 7.1
Shares: Crime, Drama
Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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DCI Banks 2011★ 7.1
Shares: Crime, Drama
A thrilling drama based on the novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot.
Stream in India on BBC Player Amazon Channel
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Citadel 2023★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure
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 sinister forces emerge from the past. With the help of spymaster Bernard Orlick, these former lovers must remember the past to save the future.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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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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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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MobLand 2025★ 8.6
Shares: Crime, Drama
Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.
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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Strike 2017★ 7.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving complex crimes that have baffled the police. Based on the bestselling novels written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Stream in India on Shahid VIP
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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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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