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Shows Like The Gentlemen for Your Next Crime Caper
By Jordan A. · · 4 min read
Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen is back on Netflix, with season two arriving September 3, 2026 and moving Eddie and Susie's operation from a quiet cannabis farm out to Italian lakeside villas. Theo James and Kaya Scodelario still anchor it, and the appeal has not changed since season one: slick criminals, sharper suits, and dialogue that snaps. The problem with a show that good is the gap it leaves when you finish it.
So here are the series that scratch the same itch. Each one shares at least one of the things that make The Gentlemen work, whether that is the caper energy, the family-empire scale, or the sheer pleasure of watching clever crooks talk their way out of trouble.
Peaky Blinders for the empire-building
If what hooked you was Eddie inheriting a criminal operation and learning to run it, start here. Cillian Murphy plays Tommy Shelby, the head of a Birmingham crime family clawing its way up in the years after the First World War. It is grimier and more violent than The Gentlemen, but the core is the same: an outsider who is smarter than everyone around him, building an empire one calculated risk at a time. The tailoring alone is worth the entry fee, and Murphy turns Tommy into one of the great TV antiheroes of the last decade.
Top Boy for the street-level stakes
The Gentlemen loves its aristocrats, but Top Boy lives on the other end of the ladder. Set on a London estate, it follows Dushane and Sully, played by Ashley Walters and Kane Robinson, as they run a drug operation that keeps threatening to swallow them. Netflix revived the show after its original run, and the writing treats its characters as full people rather than genre types. If you want the crime without the champagne, this is the one to cue up next.
Lupin for the caper brain
Part of the fun in Ritchie's world is the con, the moment a plan clicks into place. Lupin is built entirely around that feeling. Omar Sy stars as Assane Diop, a thief who models himself on the fictional gentleman burglar Arsene Lupin and pulls off elaborate heists to settle a very personal score. It is lighter than The Gentlemen and more of a puzzle box, but the charisma of the lead and the clockwork plotting make it easy to burn through. We break down more series in this lane in our guide to shows like Slow Horses, since both reward viewers who like watching smart people outmaneuver the room.
Gomorrah for the operatic scale
Where The Gentlemen keeps things playful, Gomorrah goes dark and stays there. The Italian series, drawn from Roberto Saviano's reporting on the Naples Camorra, tracks the power struggles inside a crime clan with almost no comic relief. It is a harder watch, but if the family-dynasty side of Ritchie's show is what you love, Gomorrah is the definitive version of that story. Betrayal, succession, and consequence drive every season, and it never lets a character off the hook.
The rest of the Guy Ritchie shelf
Sometimes the best follow-up to a Guy Ritchie show is more Guy Ritchie. The Gentlemen series grew out of his 2019 film of the same name, and that movie is a natural next watch, with Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell running through a maze of double-crosses. His earlier films Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels invented the template the series runs on, so if you have somehow never seen them, they play like an origin story for everything you just watched.
How to pick your next one
Match the mood, not just the genre. Want the same wit and style with lower body count? Lupin. Want a crime family saga with real weight? Peaky Blinders or Gomorrah. Want to trade the country estate for the concrete? Top Boy. All four give you the essential Gentlemen pleasures, which are clever people, tangled schemes, and the constant sense that someone at the table is about to get played.
Crime dynasties are one of the richest corners of streaming right now, and if you want to keep going, our roundup of shows like Ozark digs into the money-laundering, family-in-over-its-head subgenre in detail. For a broader sweep of what is worth your time on one platform, the running list of the best Netflix shows of 2026 will keep the queue full long after the Shelbys and the Camorra run dry.
What ties them all together
Strip away the accents and the settings and these shows share one spine, a smart operator trying to control a world that keeps slipping out of their grip. Eddie in The Gentlemen, Tommy in Peaky Blinders, Dushane in Top Boy, they all thought they could manage the chaos and learned they were wrong. That gap between the plan and the mess is the real engine of crime television, and it is why these stories reward a little patience. The best moments are rarely the shootouts. They are the quiet conversations where two people who cannot trust each other pretend that they do. If you are new to the genre, pick the setting that appeals to you most and let the characters pull you the rest of the way in. The plots vary wildly, but the pleasure never changes, watching clever people work an angle in a world where one wrong word gets you buried.
Still not sure which one fits tonight? BingeNext takes what you loved about The Gentlemen and points you at the crime series that matches it best, whether you want the caper or the carnage. Get show recommendations built around the shows you already can't stop thinking about.
Topics covered: the gentlemen, peaky blinders, crime shows, guy ritchie, top boy
About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and writes every guide on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu, and he still tests every pick the hard way: by watching it.