8 Must-Watch Shows if You Love Netflix's 'The Gentlemen'

Published Sep 12, 2026, 1:54 PM EDT

Jessica is a young writer from Brisbane, Australia. An avid consumer and lover of all things Film and TV, you will never tear her away from a screen. A tendency rooted from childhood, she once had dreams of becoming a member of the famed kids-band 'Hi-5'. Perhaps that's what pushed her to secure an education with a theater background. But now, as dreams evolved, her passions have turned to admiring performances from afar. Frankly, she's just grateful that she can put her binging skills to good use. Outside of work, Jessica recently completed her undergraduate double degree in Arts/Communications. Other than that, she spends most of her free time with family and friends, probably never forgetting to talk about the new movie or show she watched the day prior.

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Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen has a very specific kind of appeal. It takes the British criminal underworld, throws in aristocrats, gangsters, dealers, and schemers, and somehow makes all of them feel like they're part of the same gloriously messy social ecosystem. But just when one character thinks they've gained the upper hand, someone else walks into the room with a better plan, a worse attitude, or possibly even both.

Fortunately, there are plenty of shows that understand the pleasure of watching morally dubious people navigate even more morally dubious situations. So, whether you're looking for dysfunctional crime families, ruthless antiheroes, or elaborate power struggles, these shows should hit the spot—especially if you (like me) binged The Gentlemen's second season in a single day.

'Dept. Q' (2025–Present)

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After a near-fatal shooting leaves his partner paralyzed and a young officer dead, abrasive Edinburgh detective Carl Morck (Matthew Goode) is pushed into a newly created cold-case unit. But what's supposed to be little more than a PR exercise for the struggling police department soon becomes a genuine investigation when Carl takes on the disappearance of prosecutor Merritt Lingard (Chloe Pirrie).

There may be fewer aristocrats and drug dealers here, but Dept. Q scratches the same itch for characters who are far more complicated than their job descriptions suggest. Morck is cutting, emotionally damaged, and frequently a nightmare to work with, yet his intelligence makes him impossible to dismiss. The dysfunctional team dynamic at least gives the show a welcome streak of dark humor, while the cold-case mystery supplies the kind of escalating complications that The Gentlemen fans will appreciate.

'Animal Kingdom' (2016–2022)

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After his mother dies, 17-year-old Joshua "J' Cody (Finn Cole) moves in with his estranged relatives in Southern California, only to discover that his family lives off a lucrative criminal enterprise. At the center of it all is his grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody (Ellen Barkin), the fiercely protective matriarch who controls her sons and their increasingly dangerous operations—leaving J to figure out where he fits within the Codys and their business.

If The Gentlemen's combination of criminal schemes and dysfunctional families was your favorite part, Animal Kingdom takes that idea and turns the danger up by a thousand. The Codys are every bit as entertaining when they're fighting among themselves as they are brutal when they're taking on another criminal operation. But fair warning, it's darker and considerably more intense than Ritchie's show—especially when the in-family tension showcases deep-seated psychological abuse.

'Succession' (2018–2023)

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When aging media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) begins contemplating the future of his global entertainment empire, his four children immediately start positioning themselves to take over. But Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Shiv (Sarah Snook) all have very different ideas about what should happen to the company, and their father's reluctance to actually relinquish control only makes things more chaotic.

Of course, the Roys aren't gangsters, but Succession understands that billionaires can be just as ruthless as criminals when there's something valuable at stake. Unsurprisingly, the show's greatest weapon is its sharp dialogue, with characters constantly negotiating, threatening, and insulting each other under the guise of business. Better still, like The Gentlemen, this HBO show finds plenty of dark humor in watching powerful people backstab their way through ridiculous situations. Because who says wealth and influence eliminates dysfunction?

Collider Exclusive · Game of Thrones Personality Quiz Which Game of Thrones House Do You Belong To? Stark · Lannister · Targaryen · Baratheon · Tyrell

Five great houses. Five completely different answers to the same question: how do you hold power in a world that will take it from you the moment you stop paying attention? Eight questions will determine where your loyalties — and your nature — truly lie.

🐺Stark

🦁Lannister

🐉Targaryen

🦌Baratheon

🌹Tyrell

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01

Someone powerful is acting dishonourably and everyone knows it. What do you do? In Westeros, the answer to this question has ended more than one great house.

ACall it out, openly and on the record. If honour means anything, it has to mean something when it's costly. BUse it. Information about someone else's dishonour is leverage — and leverage is power. CAct decisively to correct it — with or without the approval of those around me. DChallenge them directly. Strength settles disputes more honestly than courtroom manoeuvring. ENavigate carefully — build alliances, apply quiet pressure, and create a situation where the right outcome becomes inevitable.

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02

What is the source of your power? Every house endures because of something. What is it for yours?

AThe loyalty of people who trust me — earned over generations, not bought with gold. BWealth, intelligence, and the willingness to use both without sentiment. CA legacy so fearsome and a vision so total that opposition becomes unthinkable. DPhysical strength, military force, and the respect that comes from being the kind of person nobody wants to fight. ECharm, connection, and the ability to make powerful people feel that my success is also theirs.

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03

Who do you truly fight for? Strip away the banners and the words. The honest answer tells you everything.

AMy family and my people — those who depend on me and have kept faith with me through everything. BMy family — the ones who share my blood, even when they exhaust me, even when they disappoint me. CMy cause — a vision larger than any single person, including me. DMyself, and those few who've proven themselves worth fighting beside. EMy house — its name, its future, the position I intend to leave it in when I'm gone.

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04

How do you deal with your enemies? A house's method reveals its character as clearly as its words ever could.

AHonestly — I face them directly, and I give quarter when it's warranted. BThoroughly — I don't leave loose ends, and I don't make the same enemy twice. CDecisively — fire answers questions that diplomacy only delays. DHead-on — I'd rather meet a threat on the battlefield than behind closed doors. EElegantly — I prefer to make former enemies into allies, or at least into people who owe me something.

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05

What kind of ruler do you believe in? Westeros is full of answers to this question. Most of them end badly.

AA just one — someone who serves the realm rather than using it, who leads by example rather than fear. BA capable one — someone smart enough to navigate the game, ruthless enough to win it, and realistic about what winning costs. CA transformative one — someone who doesn't just rule what exists but reshapes what's possible. DA strong one — someone whose authority is beyond question because the alternative is obviously worse. EA wise one — someone who understands that the realm is fed by more than armies, and that a full stomach keeps more peace than a sharp sword.

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06

You suffer a devastating loss. How does your house respond? How a house handles defeat tells you more about it than how it handles victory.

AWe grieve, properly and together — and then we endure, because endurance is what we do. BWe adapt. We reassess. And we ensure that whoever caused this loss comes to regret it completely. CWe burn hotter. Setbacks don't soften us — they clarify what needs to happen next. DWe hit back. Grief and revenge are the same motion in our house. EWe regroup quietly, rebuild our position, and return when we're ready — on our terms, not theirs.

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07

Which of these truths about Westeros do you most believe? Every house has a philosophy. This is yours.

AThe lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. Nothing matters more than the people you protect. BA Lannister always pays their debts — in gold or in kind. Reputation is built on consistency. CI am the blood of the dragon. Some destinies are written before the person who carries them is born. DOurs is the fury. When we move, we move completely — and we don't stop until it's done. EGrowing strong means knowing when to bloom and when to wait. Patience is its own kind of power.

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08

The Iron Throne is within reach. What do you do? The answer reveals not just your ambition — but your character.

AClaim it only if the realm needs me to — and rule in a way that makes it worth having. BEnsure someone who owes us sits in it. The power behind the throne is safer than the throne itself. CTake it. It was always meant to be mine — I feel that in my bones and in my blood. DSeize it — with both hands, without hesitation. Opportunity in Westeros does not wait to be asked. EPosition my house to be indispensable to whoever sits there — influence outlasts any single reign.

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The Maester Has Spoken Your House Is…

Your answers point to the great house whose words, values, and way of surviving in Westeros match your own. Bend the knee — or don't. That's very much up to you.

🐺 House Stark

Winter is Coming — and you have always known it. You prepare not out of fear but out of duty, because the people who depend on you deserve someone who takes the long view.

• You lead with honour even when it costs you, because you understand that a reputation built on integrity is the only one worth having.
• Your loyalty to family and people runs deep — not as sentiment but as a code that doesn't bend when things get difficult.
• The North endures because Starks endure — not by being the cleverest players in the game, but by being the kind of people others are willing to follow into the cold.
• You are that kind of person. The pack survives. The lone wolf dies. You already know which one you are.

🦁 House Lannister

You understand the game — its rules, its exceptions, and exactly when the rules become the exception. You play it without illusions and without apology.

• You are sharper than most people realise, and you have learned to use that gap to your advantage.
• A Lannister always pays their debts — and you always keep your word, because your word is an instrument of power, and instruments must be kept in working order.
• You love your family with a ferocity that sometimes blinds you, and you know it, and you do it anyway.
• The lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. Neither, in the end, do you.

🐉 House Targaryen

You carry a sense of destiny that is difficult to explain and impossible to ignore — the feeling that you are not simply participating in the world but meant to reshape it.

• You are capable of extraordinary things, and you know it, and that knowledge is both your greatest strength and your most dangerous quality.
• Fire and blood are not just words to you — they are a philosophy about what change requires and what it costs.
• The Targaryens at their best were transformative rulers who broke chains and defied the limits of what anyone thought possible.
• At your best, so are you. The dragon has three heads. You are one of them.

🦌 House Baratheon

You are a force — direct, powerful, and difficult to ignore when you enter a room or a conflict. You do not negotiate with challenges. You meet them.

• Ours is the fury — and yours is a kind of intensity that commands attention, respect, and occasionally fear from those who underestimate what's behind it.
• You value strength and straight dealing. You'd rather know where you stand in a fight than navigate a web of courtly whispers.
• The Baratheons built their house on the back of one of the greatest military victories in Westerosi history — and then struggled with what came after.
• The lesson of your house is that winning is not the end of the story. Governing is. You are learning that too.

🌹 House Tyrell

You understand that power does not always announce itself — that sometimes it arrives with flowers, good wine, and a smile that doesn't quite reach the eyes.

• Growing strong is your house's motto, and you live it: patiently, strategically, always investing in the relationships and resources that will matter most when it counts.
• You are charming by choice and calculating by nature — a combination that makes you one of the most effective players in any room you enter.
• The Tyrells fed King's Landing and shaped its politics without ever sitting on the Iron Throne — and they were arguably more powerful for it.
• You know that the person who controls the food controls the kingdom. And you always know where the food is.

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'Mr Inbetween' (2018–2021)

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Ray Shoesmith (Scott Ryan) is a father, boyfriend, ex-husband, friend, and, unfortunately for everyone around him, a criminal for hire—whether that be by collecting debts, intimidation, or killing people when a situation calls for it. The challenge is keeping his work separate from his personal life, particularly as he tries to maintain a relationship with his loved ones.

Where The Gentlemen makes crime look slick and occasionally absurd, Mr Inbetween strips away much of the glamor (even as it retains much of its dark humor). Ray can be charming one minute and terrifying the next, and the show is at its best when it refuses to make those two sides of him feel incompatible. Ryan's wonderfully understated performance gives the show its own peculiar rhythm, making Ray the kind of questionable protagonist you somehow end up rooting for anyway. It's Australian television at its best.

'Lock, Stock...' (2000)

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Four friends attempt to make money in London's criminal underworld, only for them to routinely find themselves in much deeper trouble than they expected. With dodgy schemes, debts, gangsters, and double-crosses piling up around them, the group has to find increasingly creative ways to survive their own bad decisions.

As the story some would argue as the predecessor to Guy Ritchie's Gentlemen universe, Lock, Stock... showcases just where his signature style took shape. Based on his own film, this show features rapid-fire dialogue, eccentric characters, elaborate plots, along with a particular brand of British swagger that would later become so recognizable in Richie's work. Sure, it may not have the posh polish of The Gentlemen, but that's part of the fun. Lock, Stock... feels like the blueprint for the wonderfully chaotic crime storytelling he'd keep refining for years.

'The Americans' (2013–2018)

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Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) appear to be an ordinary married couple raising their children in suburban Washington, D.C. during the 1980s. In reality, they are highly trained KGB spies operating undercover in the United States, carrying out increasingly dangerous missions while maintaining the illusion of a normal family life. Of course, that becomes more difficult as they discover their new neighbor is an FBI agent.

The connection to The Gentlemen is less about the setting and more about watching highly capable people navigate a world where everyone has an angle. Philip and Elizabeth are constantly manipulating, negotiating, and calculating their next move. Yet, their biggest complications often come from the people closest to them. It's another show that's considerably more serious than Ritchie's crime romp, but The Americans delivers the same addictive pleasures of watching characters who are very good at playing dangerous games—until their own relationships become the thing they cannot control.

'The Brothers Sun' (2024)

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When the head of a powerful Taiwanese triad is shot by a mysterious assassin, his son—and legendary killer—Charles Sun (Justin Chien) heads to Los Angeles to protect his mother, Eileen (Michelle Yeoh), and younger brother, Bruce (Sam Li). The problem? Bruce has been deliberately kept away from the family's criminal business and has no idea what his relatives actually do.

The Brothers Sun has almost everything a Gentlemen fan could want: organized crime, colorful characters, outrageous violence, a dysfunctional family, and a healthy amount of dark comedy. Charles is a particularly entertaining addition to the genre, effortlessly switching between terrifying hitman and overprotective older brother, while Yeoh brings a formidable presence as the family's matriarch. Better still, the show knows exactly how to make its criminal world feel absurd without taking the danger out of it, giving the action a playful energy that makes it an easy binge for anyone craving another stylish crime story.

'Peaky Blinders' (2013–2022)

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After returning from WWI, Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy) takes control of the Peaky Blinders, a Birmingham gang that makes its money through illegal betting and other criminal enterprises. Determined to transform the family business into something far more powerful, Tommy gradually expands the Shelbys' influence while becoming entangled with rival gangs, politicians, law enforcement, and figures within the British establishment.

Peaky Blinders is a little more grandiose than The Gentlemen, but the two shows share a love of stylish criminals, sharp suits, ruthless power plays, and characters who are never quite as respectable as they look. Like Eddie Halstead (Theo James), Tommy Shelby is exactly the kind of calculating antihero who can carry an entire crime saga, with Murphy giving him a coolness that makes even his most questionable decisions fascinating to watch. Throw in the Shelby family's constant internal conflicts and a sprawling criminal empire, and Peaky Blinders becomes an obvious pick for anyone who loves their gangster dramas.

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