TV shows

Crime

History

Drama

Shows like Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire

2010, 2014

4.4/5

Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter and broadcast on the premium cable channel HBO. The series is set chiefly in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era of the 1920s and stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. Winter, a Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer, created the show, inspired by Nelson Johnson's 2002 non-fiction book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, about the historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson.

If you like Boardwalk Empire, you might also like Television Series About Organized Crime, Television Series Based On Actual Events, Best Drama Series Golden Globe Winners, and 2010s American Political Television Series.

Similar TV shows

Filter by:

If you like Boardwalk Empire, you might also like: The Shield, The Americans, and The Newsroom

TV shows

The Shield

2002

The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to b

TV shows

The Americans

2013

A pair of deep-cover Soviet spies masquerades as a typical DC couple whose children, neighbors, coworkers, and friends are completely unaware of their

TV shows

The Newsroom

2012

A news team attempts to create a news show that reports the news in an ethical and reasonable way. They take real, newsworthy events from our world as

TV shows

The Sopranos

2000

An innovative look at the life of fictional Mafia Capo Tony Soprano, this serial is presented largely first person, but additional perspective is conv

TV shows

Homeland

2011

The winner of 6 Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series, Homeland is an edge-of-your-seat sensation. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody is both a d

TV shows

The Wire

2002

The streets of Baltimore as a microcosm of the US's war on drugs, and of US urban decay in general. Seen not only through the eyes of a few policemen

TV shows

The West Wing

1999

Presidential advisers get their personal lives hopelessly tangled up with professional duties as they try to conduct the business of running a country

TV shows

Orange Is the New Black

2013

Piper Chapman is a public relations executive with a career and a fiance when her past suddenly catches up to her. In her mid-30s she is sentenced to

TV shows

Weeds

2005

Creator/showrunner Jenji Kohan's hit Showtime satirical drama series told of Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), a widowed mother of two boys - Silas a

TV shows

Mad Men

2008

The professional and personal lives of those who work in advertising on Madison Avenue - self-coined "mad men" - in the 1960s are presented. The stori

TV shows

Boss

2011

Mayor Tom Kane, diagnosed with a dementia disorder, struggles to keep his grip on power in Chicago.

TV shows

The Untouchables

1959

Chicago, 1930, time of the prohibition. And it is the great time for the organized crime, the so called Mafia. One of the big bosses is Al Capone. He

TV shows

Ray Donovan

2013

Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players as the go-to guy who makes the problems

TV shows

Deadwood

2004

The town of Deadwood, South Dakota in the weeks following the Custer massacre is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized out

TV shows

Snowfall

2017

A look at the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the beginning of the 1980s.

TV shows

Six Feet Under

2001

Nathaniel Fisher, his wife Ruth, and their children David and Claire run a small funeral business that offers the best care to be found anywhere close

TV shows

Breaking Bad

2008

When chemistry teacher Walter White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given only two years to live, he decides he has nothing to lose. He lives w

TV shows

House of Cards

2013

Majority House Whip Francis Underwood takes you on a long journey as he exacts his vengeance on those he feels wronged him - that is, his own cabinet

Cross-category suggestions

music

Filter by:

If you like Boardwalk Empire, you might also like: Carolina Liar, Snow Patrol, and The Raconteurs

Music

Carolina Liar

Carolina Liar is an American alternative rock band. Lead vocalist Chad Wolf is originally from Moncks Corner, South Carolina; other members origina

Music

Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol are a Scottish rock band formed in 1994 in Dundee, Scotland. They consist of Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Paul Wilson, Jonny Quinn

Music

The Raconteurs

The Raconteurs is an American rock band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 2005. The band consists of Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and

Music

Taylor Locke & The Roughs

Music

Kings of Leon

Kings of Leon is an American rock band formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1999. The band is composed of brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill,

Music

MGMT

MGMT () is an American indie rock band formed in 2002 in Middletown, Connecticut. It was founded by multi-instrumentalists Andrew VanWyngarden and

Music

Paper Tongues

Paper Tongues is an American alternative rock band from Charlotte, North Carolina. The band currently consists of Aswan North and Daniel Santell. T

Music

Jack White

John Anthony White (né Gillis; born July 9, 1975), commonly known as Jack White, is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and guitari

Music

The Constellations

The Constellations is an American hip hop/rock band formed in Atlanta, GA. They have a psychedelic soul-rock sound.

Music

Band of Skulls

Band of Skulls are an English rock band from Southampton, consisting of Russell Marsden and Emma Richardson ; Matt Hayward was previously a member.

Music

Wolfmother

Wolfmother are an Australian hard rock band formed in 2000 by vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross, and drum

The Black Keys are an American rock duo formed in Akron, Ohio, in 2001. The group consists of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney (drums). The duo bega

Music

Broken Bells

Broken Bells is an American indie rock band composed of artist-producer Brian Burton and James Mercer, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the indi

Music

Crash Kings

The Crash Kings is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 2006. The members are vocalist-keyboardist Antonio "Tony" Beliveau, h

Music

Cold War Kids

Cold War Kids is an American alternative rock band from Long Beach, California. Band members are Nathan Willett (vocals, piano, guitar), Matt Maust

Music

The Airborne Toxic Event

The Airborne Toxic Event is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2006. It consists of Mikel Jollett, Steven Chen, Adrian R

Music

Cage the Elephant

Cage the Elephant is an American rock band formed in 2006 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. They moved to England, U.K. and settled in London in 2008, sh

movies

Filter by:

If you like Boardwalk Empire, you might also like: Carlito's Way, The Town, and Rounders

Movies

Carlito's Way

1993

A Puerto Rican ex-con pledges to stay away from his former drug dealing ways but finds himself being dragged back by his past connections and the naiv

Movies

The Town

2010

The Charlestown neighborhood of Boston is renowned for churning out a high number of armed robbers, generation after generation. These robbers never l

Movies

Rounders

1998

John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private clubs devoted to high-stakes poker, with first-person narration from the film's central figure

Movies

Gone Baby Gone

2007

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt Beatrice McCready hir

Movies

The Man Who Wasn't There

2001

1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale o

Movies

Lucky Number Slevin

2006

In an airport waiting room, a man in a wheelchair tells a stranger a story about a fixed horse race in 1979 that resulted in a family's deaths. In Man

Movies

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

2007

Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores

Movies

The Boondock Saints

2000

Two Irish brothers accidentally kill mafia thugs. They turn themselves in and are released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and start k

Movies

Glengarry Glen Ross

1993

The real story behind the world of sales. This is a realistic portrayal of what it is to try making a life in high pressure sales with all its highs a

Movies

The Departed

2006

In this crime-action tour de force, the South Boston state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Co

Movies

Mystic River

2003

In the summer of 1975 in a neighborhood in Boston, three kids- Dave Boyle and his two friends, Jimmy Markum and Sean Devine- are playing on the sidewa

Movies

A History of Violence

2005

Leading a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, mild-mannered Tom Stall cherishes

Movies

The Untouchables

1987

After building an empire with bootleg alcohol, legendary crime boss

Movies

Eastern Promises

2008

THIS SUMMARY CONTAINS SPOILERS. - In London, the Russian pregnant teenager Tatiana arrives bleeding in a hospital, and the doctors save her baby only.

Movies

True Grit

2010

Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires t

Movies

No Country for Old Men

2007

In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss (

Movies

Miller's Crossing

1990

Tom Reagan (played by Gabriel Byrne) is the right-hand man, and chief adviser, to a mob boss, Leo (Albert Finney). Trouble is brewing between Leo and

Movies

Road to Perdition

2002

1931. Mike Sullivan and Connor Rooney are two henchmen of elderly downstate IL-based Irish-American mobster John Rooney, Connor's father. In many resp

games

If you like Boardwalk Empire, you might also like: Killzone 2, Fallout 3, and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Games

Killzone 2

capture the Helghast le...

Games

Fallout 3

[Metacritic's 2008 PC Game of the Year] Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to e

Games

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Guns of the Patriots features an aging and exhausted Solid Snake in the middle of a futuristic battlefield. In spite of his failing body, Sn...

Games

Grand Theft Auto IV

[Metacritic's 2008 PS3 Game of the Year; Also known as "GTA IV"] What does the American Dream mean today? For Niko Belic, fresh off the boat from Euro

Games

Red Faction: Guerrilla

Guerrilla is a 3rd person, open-world action shooter set on Mars, 50 years after the events of the original Red Faction. Players assume the role of...

Games

Resistance 2

After a valiant struggle to stop the Chimera invasion in Europe, mankind must make its last stand on the shores of the United States. Resistance 2 pla

Games

The Last of Us

Twenty years after a pandemic radically transformed known civilization, infected humans run amuck and survivors kill one another for sustenance and we

Games

Game of Thrones

Based on George R.R. Martin's best-selling 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series, Cyanide has developed games for the PC and next-gen consoles....

Games

Brutal Legend

Brütal Legend is an epic action game from visionary developer Tim Schafer. Jack Black stars as Eddie Riggs, a legendary roadie summoned to a world of

Games

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

A search for the fabled "Atlantis of the Sands" propels fortune hunter Nathan Drake on a trek into the heart of the Arabian Desert. When the terrible

Games

Resistance: Fall of Man

Fall of Man, the U.S. and Britain band together in a last-ditch effort to save Europe and Asia from a horrific scourge. In mere decades, the Chim...

Games

Red Dead Redemption

Developed by Rockstar San Diego, as a follow up to the 2004 hit game Red Dead Revolver, Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic, set at the turn of the

Games

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Among Thieves, a third-person action-adventure/shooter created by award-winning developer Naughty Dog. Down...

Games

L.A. Noire

Rockstar Games and Team Bondi are crafting a film noir-style detective thriller for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360....

Games

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

The Walking Dead is a first-person shooter based on the AMC TV show and starring the Dixon brothers....

Games

Killzone 3

Killzone 3 is a sequel to the squad-based shooter series from SCEA....

Games

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

In the struggle to achieve world peace and world dominance, rivaling governments are secretly developing weapons technology that could threaten the fu

Games

Max Payne 3

The tragedies that took Max Payne's loved ones years ago are wounds that won't heal. No longer a police, nearly washed up and addicted to pain killers

podcasts

Filter by:

If you like Boardwalk Empire, you might also like: ID10T with Chris Hardwick, Mohr Stories - JayMohr.com, and You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

Podcasts

ID10T with Chris Hardwick

ID10T with Chris Hardwick was a weekly interview show "about what it really means to be a nerd" hosted by Chris Hardwick. From its launch in 2010 u

Podcasts

Mohr Stories - JayMohr.com

Jon Ferguson "Jay" Mohr is an American actor, comedian, and radio host. He is known for his roles as film producer Peter Dragon in the TV comedy se

Podcasts

You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

You Made It Weird is a weekly comedy interview podcast, hosted by Pete Holmes. It was hosted on the Nerdist network since October 25, 2011; however

Podcasts

The Todd Glass Show

Todd Steven Glass (born December 16, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian.

Glass was born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsy

Podcasts

Superego

Superego is an improvised sketch comedy podcast by American comedians Jeremy Carter, Matt Gourley, Mark McConville, and Paul F. Tompkins.

Podcasts

How Did This Get Made?

How Did This Get Made? (HDTGM) is a podcast on the Earwolf network. It is hosted by Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas with occas

Podcasts

Comedy Film Nerds

Graham Elwood (born August 5, 1969) is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, and writer.

Born in Stoughton, Wisconsin, Elwood grew up in th

Podcasts

Doug Loves Minis

Daniel Van Kirk is an American comedian, podcast personality, and writer from Rochelle, Illinois.

Podcasts

Larry Miller Show

Lawrence John Miller is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, and columnist. He is primarily regarded as a character actor, with The A.V. Club no

Podcasts

Dining with D and K

Podcasts

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried was an American stand-up comedian and actor, known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strong New York accent, and his edgy,

Podcasts

Rock Solid

Rock Solid is the 13th studio album by the Commodores, released in 1988. At this time in the band's career, hits were no longer forthcoming, and th

Podcasts

Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast

Comedy Bang! Bang! (formerly Comedy Death-Ray Radio) is a weekly comedy audio podcast, which originally began airing as a radio show on May 1, 2009

Podcasts

No Fun with Jen Kirkman

William Frederick Burr is an American stand-up comedian, actor, filmmaker, and podcaster. He has released multiple stand-up comedy specials, most n

Podcasts

Doug Loves Movies

Douglas Steven Benson (born July 2, 1962) is an American comedian, marijuana rights advocate, television host and actor, best known for hosting the

Podcasts

Never Not Funny: The Jimmy Pardo Podcast

Podcasts

Fitzdog Radio

Gregory Sebastian Fitzsimmons (born April 5, 1966) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, producer and radio host. He hosted The Greg Fitzsimmon

Podcasts

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

WTF with Marc Maron is a weekly podcast and radio show hosted by stand-up comedian Marc Maron. The show was launched in September 2009. The show is

people

Filter by:

If you like Boardwalk Empire, you might also like: Jake Gyllenhaal, Kevin Bacon, and Jonah Hill

places

Filter by:

If you like Boardwalk Empire, you might also like: The Shrimp Farm, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, and Kokomo Toys & Collectibles