Criminal Minds

Series Similar to Criminal Minds

If you enjoyed Criminal Minds, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Luther

   2010 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · returning99% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.4).

   A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

2. The Blacklist

   2013 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.1).

   The Blacklist is a crime drama involving a former government agent who turned into a high-profile criminal turning himself in to the FBI offering to help catch criminals.

3. Breaking Bad

   2008 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended98% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (9.2).

   Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White, a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife and teenage son who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family's financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White's releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.

4. True Detective

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · returning96% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Touch darkness and darkness touches you back. True Detective centers on troubled cops and the investigations that drive them to the edge. Each season features a new cast and a new case.True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto. 

5. Southland

   2009 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.1).

   From Emmy Award winners John Wells, Ann Biderman and Chris Chulack comes a raw and authentic look at the police unit in Los Angeles. From the beaches of Malibu to the streets of East LA, Southland is a fast moving drama that will take you inside the lives of cops, criminals, victims and their families.John Cooper is a seasoned Los Angeles cop, assigned to train young rookie Ben Sherman. Cooper's honest, no nonsense approach to the job leaves Sherman questioning whether or not he has what it takes to become a police officer.

6. The Killing

   2011 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.2).

   The Killing follows Seattle homicide detectives Stephen Holder and Sarah Linden and their work as detectives investigating murders. Sarah Linden takes cases very seriously and has issues keeping her work and family separate, as she pairs up with recovering addict Stephen Holder to solve dark murders.

7. MINDHUNTER

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.4).

   MINDHUNTER is based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, by former special agent John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. For years, Douglas pursued some of the most notorious serial killers and rapists, developing profiling techniques to catch them. The book goes behind the scenes of some of his highest-profile cases, including the man who hunted prostitutes in Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer. To hone in his profiling methods Douglas interviewed and studied a skew of serial killers. Several book and TV characters have been based in part on him, including Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs, Will Graham on Hannibal and Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds.

8. The Missing

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8).

   Thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community.

9. Bodyguard

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Set in and around the corridors of power, Bodyguard tells the fictional story of David Budd, a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch (RaSP) of London's Metropolitan Police Service.When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics stand for everything he despises, Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, is he actually her biggest threat?

10. Profiler

    1996 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended95% match

    Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

    A crime drama following a criminal profiler working with the F.B.I.