Shows Like El Chema

If you liked El Chema (2016), a crime and drama 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
Power Book IV: Force (2022)
★ 8.2/10Also crime and 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.
2
El Inmortal: Gangs of Madrid (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and crime
Consists of the fictionalization of the story of 'Los Miami's', a criminal organization led by 'El inmortal' that controlled the cocaine trade in Madrid in the 1990s.
3
Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord (2012)
★ 7.7/10Also crime and drama
Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his…
4
Queen of the South (2016)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and 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.
5
El Chapo (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.
6
This City Is Ours (2025)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
Notorious gang boss Ronnie steps back from his criminal empire, triggering a violent power struggle between his volatile son Jamie and trusted lieutenant Michael, who sees his chance to seize control. As rivalries…
7
Metástasis (2014)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama
A Colombian remake of the U.S. TV show Breaking Bad. After he is diagnosed with cancer, Walter Blanco teams up with José Miguel Rosas in order to sell crystal meth.
8
L.A.'s Finest (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and 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…
9
Five Days (2007)
★ 5.8/10Also crime and drama
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
10
La piloto (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
Yolanda dreamed her entire life of being a pilot. She found a stewardess job, and an unexpected role in drug smuggling.
11
Bad Blood (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama
A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
12
The Snitch Cartel: Origins (2022)
★ 7.9/10Also crime and drama
Over four decades, two brothers in Cali juggle family duties, multiple romances and illicit businesses, transforming from poor kids to cocaine kingpins.
13
Belascoaran, PI (2022)
★ 8/10Also crime and drama
Héctor Belascoarán leaves his corporate job and dull marriage to become an independent detective and tackle shocking criminal cases in 1970s Mexico City.
14
Express (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
Barbara is a criminal psychologist who becomes the victim of an express kidnapping. After her abduction, she works as a negotiator in cases like hers to find the people who almost took her life.
15
La jauría (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and crime
Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their…
16
Here on Earth (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama
Follows the life of Carlos, a member of one of the most powerful families in Mexico and whose life takes an "U" turn when his father is found dead.
17
McMafia (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and 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…
18
Sneaky Pete (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and 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…
19
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
A chronicle of the two major police investigations by LAPD Detective Greg Kading into the deaths of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
20
Hidden Assets (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and 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…