The Rainmaker

Series Similar to The Rainmaker

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

1. The Lincoln Lawyer

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Legal · returning

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

   Mickey Haller, an iconoclastic idealist, runs his law practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, as he takes on cases big and small across the expansive city of Los Angeles.

2. Burden of Truth

   2018 · Drama, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Legal profile.

   Burden of Truth is an investigative drama about life-altering legal cases. Fast-rising corporate attorney Joanna Hanley returns to her small hometown of Millwood - a prairie town with an industrial past and uncertain future - to represent a major client in a case against some sick high school girls. She dispatches her case quickly and efficiently, crushing the girls and their small-town lawyer - her former high school classmate Billy Crawford. After winning her case, she discovers the girls are sicker than anyone thought. Otherwise healthy young women have been overcome with uncontrollable twitches and seizures, making life unlivable. They need help. Joanna also realizes she may have unresolved personal business in town. Even though she's a successful partner in a big law firm, she can't ignore the feeling that something in her life is not right. She becomes convinced all the answers she's seeking about her broken life can be found in her old hometown. And if she's going to fix herself, she has to start where it all began - with uncovering all of her family's deepest secrets.

3. Murder One

   1995 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Theodore Hoffman is a prominent defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. After successfully defending the wealthy but suspicious Richard Cross in a lurid murder trial, he is now involved in the defense of Neil Avedon. Neil is a famous young actor who has had severe drug and alcohol problems and was subsequently charged with the murder, after Cross was acquitted. This single case will run an entire television season (interspersed with bits from other cases that the firm is involved in).

4. Raising the Bar

   2008 · Drama, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Legal profile.

   A group of young lawyers, all former classmates, find themselves going up against one another as public defenders trying to help the down and out.

5. Perry Mason

   2020 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile.

   1932, Los Angeles. While the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression, this city is booming! Oil! Olympic Games! Talking Pictures! Evangelical Fervor! And a child kidnapping gone very, very wrong! Based on characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner, this limited series follows the origins of American Fiction's most legendary criminal defense lawyer, Perry Mason. When the case of the decade breaks down his door, Mason's relentless pursuit of the truth reveals a fractured city and just maybe, a pathway to redemption for himself.

6. For Life

   2020 · Drama, Family, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Legal profile, hidden gem.

   Legal and family drama inspired by the life of Isaac Wright, Jr. about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn't commit.

7. The Night Of

   2016 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended

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

   The Night Of is an eight-part limited series that delves into the intricate story of a fictitious murder case in New York City. The series follows the police investigation and legal proceedings, all the while examining the criminal justice system and the purgatory of Rikers Island, where the accused awaits his trial.Filmed in and around Manhattan, the HBO series is based on the BBC's Criminal Justice, created by Peter Moffat.

8. The Guardian

   2001 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile.

   Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultra successful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick. Arrested for drug use, he's sentenced to do 1,500 hours of community service, somehow to be squeezed into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions and board meetings. Reluctantly, he's now The Guardian - a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of kids caught up in difficult circumstances.

9. Presumed Innocent

   2024 · Crime, Thriller, Legal · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile.

   The story of a horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime. An exploration of obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.

10. Silk

    2011 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended

    Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

    Series about life at the Bar, the dilemmas and problems that modern day barristers have to face, and what it means to become a silk.