The Black Donnellys

Series Similar to The Black Donnellys

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

1. Public Morals

   2015 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   This summer, TNT is going to take viewers to the seedy, gritty streets and the bright, seductive lights of 1960s New York with Public Morals, a powerful, buzz-generating police drama from writer, director, executive producer and star Edward Burns (Saving Private Ryan, The Brothers McMullen, TNT's Mob City). Public Morals also stars Michael Rapaport (Justified, Prison Break) and Elizabeth Masucci (The Americans, Inside Amy Schumer). The series centers on Terry Muldoon (Burns), an officer of the Public Morals Division, which investigates vice crimes in the city. Many of Muldoon's fellow cops in the division walk a thin line between morality and crime as vice-related temptations threaten to snare even the best of officers, including Muldoon's partner, Charlie Bullman (Rapoport). As Muldoon watches the Hells Kitchen streets where he grew up devoured by an escalating war within two factions of the Irish-American Mob, he becomes more determined than ever to fight back against the city's dark underbelly so he can provide a safe place where he and his wife, Christine (Masucci), can raise their family.

2. Mob City

   2013 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   The epic battle between a determined police chief and a dangerous mobster inflames 1940s Los Angeles in TNT's eagerly anticipated television event Mob City. This powerful drama comes to TNT from Frank Darabont, who wrote and directed the pilot and serves as executive producer on the series. Based on the critically acclaimed book L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City, by John Buntin, Mob City opens in post-war Los Angeles, home to glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads and returning war heroes. But it's also a city caught between a powerful and corrupt police force and an even more dangerous criminal network determined to make L.A. its West Coast base. Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker has made it his mission to free the city of criminals like Ben "Bugsy" Siegel and Mickey Cohen, the ruthless king of the Los Angeles underworld. Parker also won't hesitate to go after anyone from his own police force who sells out honor and duty for the sake of a big payout. To carry out his sweep of organized crime, Parker sets up a new mob task force within the LAPD. Headed by Det. Hal Morrison, the task force includes Det. Joe Teague, an ex-Marine who holds his cards close to his chest.

3. Copper

   2012 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Copper is an American saga set in 1865 New York City, picks-up on the brink of Lincoln's assassination - with shifts in politics and society altering the landscape for Irish immigrants and African-Americans. At the center, Detective Kevin Corcoran struggles to tame the wartime metropolis while wrestling with personal demons, including the betrayal of his wife and best friend. And when Tammany Hall's outspoken General Brendan Donovan returns from the Civil War to restore law and order in the Sixth Ward, loyalties will be bought and sold both Uptown and in the slums of the Five Points as Corcoran, and those around him, fight to find their places in an unforgiving city.

4. Damnation

   2017 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Damnation is an epic saga of the secret history of the 1930s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans and prophets. The pilot centers on Seth Davenport, who is masquerading as a small-town Iowa preacher in the hope of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo. Focused on his mission, he is unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker named Creeley Turner to stop the uprising by any means necessary. But unbeknownst to those around them, these two men already share a secret bloody past.

5. Brotherhood

   2006 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Set against the disparate worlds of politicians and mob bosses, looks at how gray good and evil can be. Placed in a fictional Irish neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island known as "The Hill," the series explores what lengths people go to achieve the elusive American dream. Focusing on two brothers on opposite sides of the law, determined to protect the neighborhood and what is theirs by whatever means necessary, the show is a gritty look at politics and the Mafia.

6. Low Winter Sun

   2013 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Low Winter Sun is a contemporary story of murder, deception, revenge and corruption in a world where the line between cops and criminals is blurred. The series begins with the murder of a cop by a fellow Detroit detective. Seemingly the perfect crime, in reality the murder activates forces that will forever alter the detective's life, and pull him into the heart of the Detroit underworld.

7. The Making of The Mob

   2015 · Drama, Crime, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   The Making of The Mob is a special event miniseries chronicling the historical roots of the original Five Families that led to the formation of the modern American Mafia.

8. Underbelly

   2008 · Drama, Crime · ended

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

   Underbelly is part review, part exposé, and part skit comedy. We delve into the seedy underbelly of gaming, movies, comics, and the internets and attack its vulnerable underbelly for massive damage.

9. Gang Related

   2014 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   The series follows RYAN LOPEZ a rising star in Los Angeles' elite Gang Task Force - led by SAM CHAPEL - who teams up with longtime Task Force member CASSIUS GREEN to take on the city's most dangerous gangs, including one that he swore an allegiance to as a boy.

10. Life

    2007 · Drama, Crime · ended

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

    A detective gets a second chance after serving twelve years in prison for a crime he did not commit.