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Shows that feel likeLa Reina del Sur (2011–)

After years of blood, sweat and tears, a woman of humble origin ends up becoming a drug trafficking legend, with all that that means...

If you loved La Reina del Sur, the closest series we have are El Capo (2009), Rosario Tijeras (2010) and The Penguin (2024). All three share La Reina del Sur's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Snowfall (2017).

★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗3 seasons · Telemundocreated by Roberto Stopellocontemplativegritty
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If La Reina del Sur hit the spot, these will too

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El Capo
2009–2014 · 3 seasons · RCN
★ 7.2crime · drama

One thread runs through both: telenovela

El Capo, the most wanted drug dealer in Mexico, has been intercepted while hiding with his trusted men, his wife and his lover. During his escape, he declares war on the government and his own past.

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Rosario Tijeras
2010 · 1 season · RCN
★ 8action & adventure · crime · drama

The same preoccupation in both: telenovela

The difference: Sits closer to action & adventure than La Reina del Sur does

This is the story of the legendary Rosario Tijeras, the beautiful warrior from a slum who fell in love with Antonio and Emilio, two handsome and wealthy young men. Antonio, a young architect, desperately rushes the dying Rosario Tijeras to a nearby hospital. The beautiful Rosario has been shot four times by a hitman. While he waits for his beloved Rosario to be saved from her wounds, Antonio recalls how Rosario, a beautiful teenager, became the murderer Rosario Tijeras. And how he, a dashing young man, makes her his obsession. The woman of his dreams.

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The Penguin
2024 · 1 season · HBO
★ 8.6drama · crimeMax

The same two preoccupations: drug trafficking, and gangster

With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first, Oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the Penguin."

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MobLand
2025– · 2 seasons · Paramount+
★ 8.3crime · dramaParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: drug trafficking

Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.

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Surviving Escobar - Alias JJ
2017 · 1 season · Caracol TV
★ 7.8drama · crime

Common ground: drug cartel

As the Medellín Cartel crumbles, Pablo Escobar's No. 1 hit man struggles to stay alive and gain respect in the prison hierarchy.

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Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord
2012 · 1 season · Caracol TV
★ 8.4crime · dramaNetflix

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit

Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Congressman and a drug lord collide. Pablo has his enemies executed, but not before the United States activates its own war on the Medellin cartel.

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Rosario Tijeras (Mexico)
2016– · 5 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.2drama · crimeNetflix

Contemplative drama in both cases

Worlds collide when a vengeance-obsessed young woman from the other side of the tracks captures the attention of two well-off friends.

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Power
2014–2020 · 6 seasons · STARZ
★ 8.1crime · dramaHuluStarz

Both are built on the same subject: gangster

A successful New York entrepreneur lives a double life as the head of a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential, all while wanting to escape the underworld and keep his family safe.

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Boardwalk Empire
2010–2014 · 5 seasons · HBO
★ 8.5crime · dramaMax

Both lean on grit more than on crime

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

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Narcos: Mexico
2018–2021 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.3drama · crimeNetflix

Same instincts, 7 years apart

See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.

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Ozark
2017–2022 · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.4crime · dramaNetflix

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.

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Snowfall
2017–2023 · 6 seasons · FX
★ 8.5drama · crimeHuluDisney+

One thread runs through both: drug crime

Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

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