NYPD Blue

Series Similar to NYPD Blue

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

1. Southland

   2009 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime 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.

2. Hill Street Blues

   1981 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended95% match

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

   The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct.

3. The Shield

   2002 · Drama, Crime · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8.6).

   Detective Vic Mackey is the leader of an elite Strike Team unit, a group of cops effective at eliminating crime but also operating under Vic's own set of rules. But his rules sometimes cross the fine line between legal and illegal. Now the precinct has a new captain who doesn't like Vic's tactics and wants to bust him off the force - even as the captain finds himself going to Vic for help whenever the going gets rough.

4. Sons of Anarchy

   2008 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama series created by Kurt Sutter, about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley. The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam), initially the vice president of the club, who begins questioning the club and himself.

5. The Deuce

   2017 · Drama, Crime · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   The Deuce was inspired in part by the career of twin brothers who were players in the Times Square world and became fronts for Mob control of the volatile and lucrative sex industry from its origins. This drama will chronicle the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York's Times Square from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s

6. Homicide: Life on the Street

   1993 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   One of the most critically acclaimed shows in TV history, Homicide: Life on the Street reinvigorated a tired genre by focusing on the grueling work of solving murders instead of an endless succession of bloody crimes and car chases. Inspired by David Simon's Edgar Award-winning account of Baltimore homicide detectives and brought to television by writer Paul Attanasio and director Barry Levinson, Homicide boasted a powerhouse ensemble cast featuring Ned Beatty, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Belzer, and breakout star Andre Braugher.

7. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

   2000 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended94% match

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

   CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a drama about a team of forensic investigators trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.

8. 4 Blocks

   2017 · Drama, Crime · ended94% match

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

   Based in Neukölln, Berlin Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arabic gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, its never that simple.

9. Ripper Street

   2012 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8.1), hidden gem.

   The Whitechapel police fight to bring law to the lawless in the wake of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror.

10. Escape at Dannemora

    2018 · Drama, Crime · ended93% match

    Recommended for similar Crime profile.

    Escape at Dannemora is based on the stranger-than-fiction prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015 which spawned a statewide manhunt for two convicted murderers, aided in their escape by a married female prison employee who carried on months-long affairs with both men.