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Shows that feel likeRosario Tijeras (Mexico) (2016–)

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

If you loved Rosario Tijeras (Mexico), the closest series we have are Rosario Tijeras (2010), El Capo (2009) and Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord (2012). All three share Rosario Tijeras (Mexico)'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 Mayans M.C. (2018).

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

The original Colombian Rosario — same doomed love across class lines

The difference: Rawer and closer to the novel, but one short season

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

The underworld's cost paid in loyalty, love and blood

The difference: A kingpin's war story — no romance driving the engine

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

A rise from poverty into violence that corrodes everything near it

The difference: A true-crime biography — history's outcome is never in doubt

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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Without Breasts There Is No Paradise
2008 · 1 season · Telemundo
★ 6.9action & adventure · drama · crime

A young woman gambling her body and soul to escape poverty

The difference: Blunter and pulpier — its heroine has far less steel

The tragic story of Catalina Santana, whose ambition is so strong that she will risk her life due to her obsession with having bigger breasts to attract drug lords and have all the luxuries in the world.

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La Reina del Sur
2011– · 3 seasons · Telemundo
★ 7.8drama · crimeNetflix

A woman from nothing hardening into a legend of the underworld

The difference: An empire-building epic — vengeance isn't the fuel here

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

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The Queen of Flow
2018– · 3 seasons · Caracol TV
★ 7.5drama · crimeNetflix

Revenge served patiently, seventeen years in the making

The difference: Music-business setting — reggaeton softens the street grit

Seventeen years after being wrongly imprisoned, a talented songwriter seeks justice against the men who caused her downfall and killed her family.

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Atrévete a Soñar
2009–2010 · 1 season · Las Estrellas
★ 5.8drama

Telenovela storytelling with an outsider heroine at its center

The difference: A bubbly teen musical novela — no crime, no bite

Danna Paola stars as Patito, Eleazar Gómez as Mateo, Violeta Isfel and Cynthia Klitbo, play antagonist roles as Antonella and Bianca. The telenovela features adult protagonists also, René Strickler and Vanessa Guzmán. It first aired on Sunday, 8 March 2009, as the first telenovela to debut on a Sunday in Mexico. After a year of success, becoming a major hit in Mexico, especially among children, its final episode was also on a Sunday, 7 March 2010.

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Sin senos sí hay paraíso
2016– · 3 seasons · Telemundo
★ 6.6action & adventure · crime · dramaPeacock

A wronged woman's revenge on the mafia town that broke her family

The difference: Twistier and longer — quality dips across its three seasons

A young woman born in a mafia-controlled town seeks revenge on those who wrongfully harmed and imprisoned her family.

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El Chema
2016–2017 · 2 seasons · Telemundo
★ 6.9crime · dramaPeacock

A kid from nowhere clawing up through the cartel food chain

The difference: His story, not hers — and empire matters more than love

Follow one man's epic journey as he transforms from wily underage drug smuggler to one of the world's most infamous cartel leaders.

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Mayans M.C.
2018–2023 · 5 seasons · FX
★ 7.5crime · dramaHulu

Border-town crime where the past keeps pulling people under

The difference: American prestige pacing — slower burn, no telenovela pulse

Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the Cali/Mexi border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.

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El Chapo
2017–2018 · 3 seasons · Univision
★ 7.8drama · crimeNetflix

Grimy, unglamorous cartel realism from bottom to top

The difference: Docudrama distance — you study him, you never fall for him

A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.

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

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit

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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