Shows like Shantaram: 20 to watch next
If you loved Shantaram (2022) — a crime, drama and action & adventure series created by Eric Warren Singer and Steve Lightfoot — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Shantaram most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like slum, corruption and based on novel or book. 15 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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American Crime Story 2016★ 7.6
Shares: Crime, Drama
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Godfather of Harlem 2019★ 8.2
Shares: Drama, Crime
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 Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Sinner 2017★ 7.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
In a small New York town, a haunted detective hunts for answers about perplexing crimes while wrestling with his own demons.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Peaky Blinders 2013★ 8.5
Shares: Drama, Crime
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.
Stream in India on Netflix
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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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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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Dalgliesh 2021★ 6.7
Shares: Crime, Drama
A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Boardwalk Empire 2010★ 8.0
Shares: Crime, Drama
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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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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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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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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The Lincoln Lawyer 2022★ 7.7
Shares: Drama, Crime
Hotshot LA defense attorney Mickey Haller will do whatever it takes to win as he navigates the criminal justice system from his trademark Lincoln.
Stream in India on Netflix
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The Wire 2002★ 8.6
Shares: Crime, Drama
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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The Alienist 2018★ 7.5
Shares: Drama, Crime
New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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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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Seven Seconds 2018★ 7.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.
Stream in India on Netflix
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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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Bad Blood 2017★ 7.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Lucky 2026★ 7.3
Shares: Drama, Crime
When a multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways, con artist Lucky is forced to go on the run. Pursued by both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss, Lucky must fight for her life—and a way out.
Stream in India on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel
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Last Seen 2026★ 7.6
Shares: Crime, Drama
When emergency dispatcher Ian Ridley receives a frantic call from a teenager he believes could be his long-missing daughter, he stops at nothing to find her.
Stream in India on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel