Shows Like The Black Donnellys

If you liked The Black Donnellys (2007), a drama and crime series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Carl Weber's The Family Business (2018)
★ 8.5/10Also drama and crime
Meet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens. By day, they’re an upstanding family; by night, they live a dangerous secret life.
2
Jack Irish (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime…
3
T. J. Hooker (1982)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners…
4
Hill Street Blues (1981)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
5
The Tower (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing…
6
The Endgame (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama
A high-stakes thriller about Elena Federova, a very recently captured international arms dealer and brilliant criminal mastermind who even in captivity orchestrates a number of coordinated bank heists, and Val Turner…
7
Gone (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and crime
The survivor of a famous child-abduction case joins a special task force dedicated to solving abductions and missing person cases.
8
The Couple Next Door (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and crime
Evie and Pete move into an upscale neighborhood and find themselves in a world of curtain twitching and status anxiety. They find friendship in the shape of the couple next door, alpha traffic cop Danny and his wife…
9
The Sweeney (1975)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and crime
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
10
Murder in a Small Town (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his…
11
Simon & Simon (1981)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two…
12
Ringer (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also drama
Six months after deciding to pull herself together and get sober, Bridget witnesses a murder. Realizing her life is in danger and not trusting the FBI to protect her, she runs to her wealthy twin sister, Siobhan, in…
13
Smother (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama
On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.
14
Grace (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife…
15
Party of Five (1994)
★ 7/10Also drama
Five brothers and sisters are determined to stay together following the tragic loss of their parents.
16
White Lies (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and crime
Set in the wealthy neighbourhood of Bishopscourt, Cape Town, investigative journalist Edie Hansen gets caught up in the ugly underbelly that lies beneath the picturesque beauty of the city, dragging her back to a…
17
Castle (2009)
★ 8/10Also drama and crime
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for…
18
Crime Story (1986)
★ 8/10Also crime and drama
The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.
19
Wiseguy (1987)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the…
20
Burden of Truth (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and crime
A big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness.