Shows Like Boardwalk Empire

Prestige HBO mob drama set in New Jersey with Cosa Nostra politics and morally complex anti-heroes — closest tonal and thematic peer.

1920s post-war gangster epic with bootlegging, political corruption and a fierce crime boss climbing the ranks — same era and same DNA.

Prohibition-era organized crime in 1930s Chicago — the direct genre cousin to Nucky's Atlantic City.

Period mob drama about a real crime boss reclaiming territory amid Italian mafia rivals — same true-crime period framing.

Same-era prestige American historical drama about lawless frontier capitalism, corruption and ambition — period sibling to Boardwalk.

Mafia/mobster drama with dark humor and money-laundering schemes — the wiseguy thread without the period setting.

Period (1960s) cop-vs-mobster saga tracking organized crime — strong genre and tonal sibling.

Dramatized true mob-boss biography (Sicilian mafia in Montreal) — mirrors Boardwalk's real-history mob storytelling.

Long-form organized-crime saga with a charismatic boss balancing family and outlaw enterprise.

Crime kingpin leading a double life with politics and organized crime — modern echo of Nucky's politician/gangster duality.

Crime-family saga with a powerful matriarch and morally compromised relatives — family-of-criminals throughline.

Lawless period epic with brutal politics, alliances and outlaw enterprise — same prestige period-drama register.

Gritty historical drama built on warlords, shifting alliances and political maneuvering — period-drama appeal.

Political corruption and ruthless power-grabs — taps Boardwalk's politician-as-criminal angle without the period setting.

Systemic corruption and rotten institutional power — strong corruption-drama overlap.

Period (1990s) crime drama centered on entrenched corruption and uneasy cop/criminal alliances.

Kingpin building a drug empire in a new city — modern crime saga with similar audience overlap.

HBO period crime drama where a frontier town's politicians, lawmen and gangsters are indistinguishable — closest stylistic cousin to Boardwalk.

Early-20th-century New York period drama with corruption, vice and institutional rot — same prestige-period tone.