10 Shows to Watch If You Loved  The Sopranos  (Streaming in the UAE)

If you’ve finished The Sopranos and miss hanging out with complicated criminals, you’re not alone. Tony Soprano helped launch the whole “TV antihero” era, and a lot of great shows followed in his wake. The good news: many of the best mob, crime and antihero dramas are officially streaming in the UAE across OSN+, Netflix, Disney+ and STARZPLAY.

If you still need to start Tony’s story, hit our where to watch The Sopranos in the UAE guide. For everything else on your list, keep our hubs open in another tab: What to Watch This Week UAE, New on OSN+ UAE, New on Netflix UAE and New on Disney+ UAE.

1. The Wire – OSN+

If The Sopranos made you want more grounded crime storytelling, The Wire is essential. Set in Baltimore, each season looks at a different part of the city’s ecosystem – street dealers, police, unions, schools, politics and media. 

It’s less about one antihero and more about how whole systems trap everyone. The writing is dense but brilliant, and it’s regularly ranked alongside The Sopranos as one of the best shows ever made. All five seasons are streaming on OSN+ in the UAE. 

2. Boardwalk Empire – OSN+

If you liked the mix of mob politics and family drama, Boardwalk Empire gives you that in Prohibition-era Atlantic City. It follows corrupt treasurer and fixer Nucky Thompson as he runs bootlegging, patronage and deals with gangsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano. 

You get rich production design, big ensemble storytelling and plenty of betrayals, with an HBO feel that will be very familiar to Sopranos fans. All seasons stream on OSN+, often highlighted under its “Best Series” / HBO sections. 

3. Breaking Bad – Netflix

Walter White isn’t a mob boss, but if you enjoyed watching Tony slide further into the dark, Breaking Bad is your next stop. A high-school chemistry teacher with cancer turns to cooking meth with his former student Jesse Pinkman, and everything spirals from there. 

It offers the same mix of family life, crime politics and “how far will he go?” tension. All five seasons are available on Netflix UAE, with full offline download support. 

For more detail, you can also check our where to watch Breaking Bad in the UAE guide.

4. Better Call Saul – Netflix

If you like Sopranos because it spends time with flawed, funny side characters, Better Call Saul will hit the spot. This prequel to Breaking Bad follows small-time lawyer Jimmy McGill as he turns into morally flexible attorney Saul Goodman. 

The show shares Sopranos’ love of slow character work and dark humour. It’s less explosive early on, but builds into a devastating crime drama with cartel plots, family tension and some of TV’s best supporting performances. All seasons are on Netflix UAE. 

5. Gomorrah – OSN+

Want something even grimmer than the New Jersey mob? Gomorrah dives into the Neapolitan crime organisation Camorra, focusing on enforcer Ciro Di Marzio and the Savastano clan. 

It has almost no glamour – just concrete estates, brutal violence and ruthless power plays. Think Sopranos with less therapy and more blood. OSN+ carries multiple seasons of Gomorrah in the region, including the later run labelled as Season 5 on its series page. 

6. Peaky Blinders – Netflix

Swap New Jersey for 1919 Birmingham and the mob for razor-cap gangs, and you get Peaky Blinders. Tommy Shelby leads the Peaky Blinders as they move from street-level betting scams into bigger political and criminal power. 

Like The Sopranos, it’s about family, loyalty and ambition, just with more period style and British accents. All six seasons are streaming on Netflix UAE, and a follow-up movie (Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man) is set to hit cinemas and Netflix in 2026, so now is a good time to catch up. 

7. Snowfall – Disney+

If what you loved most about The Sopranos was seeing how crime reshapes a whole community, Snowfall is a strong follow-up. Set in 1980s Los Angeles, it tracks the early crack cocaine epidemic and its impact on a young dealer, a CIA operative and others pulled into the trade. 

It blends street-level grind with government involvement and family fallout, in the same “crime meets real-world systems” way The Sopranos often hinted at. All six seasons are streaming on Disney+ UAE under the Star/general-entertainment side. 

8. Sons of Anarchy – Disney+

Sons of Anarchy is basically a biker-club cousin to The Sopranos. The show follows Jax Teller, a member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, as he questions the club’s growing brutality while trying to protect his family. 

It has the same mix of loyalty, violence, family dinners and internal power struggles – just with Harleys instead of Cadillacs. In the UAE, Sons of Anarchy is available on Disney+, listed with multiple seasons and the familiar FX branding. 

9. Mayans M.C. – Disney+

If you end up liking Sons of Anarchy, Mayans M.C. is the logical next step. Set after Jax’s story, it focuses on EZ Reyes, a former golden boy turned prospect in the Mayans motorcycle club on the California–Mexico border. 

The tone is darker and more tragic, with politics, cartel deals and family secrets woven through. Disney+ lists five seasons of Mayans M.C. in the UAE catalog, with Arabic and English support. 

10. The Power Universe – STARZPLAY

If you want a modern crime saga with heavy emphasis on money and image, the Power universe on STARZPLAY is a good fit. The original Power follows New York club owner and drug boss James “Ghost” St. Patrick, while spin-offs like Power Book II: Ghost and Power Book IV: Force expand the story through his son and ally Tommy Egan. 

STARZPLAY carries the Power spin-offs exclusively in MENA, with new episodes often dropping close to US timings, and the service is easily accessible in the UAE via web, apps and telco bundles. 

If you enjoy the business side of Tony’s operations and the idea of crime as “a company”, Power and its spin-offs lean hard into that angle.

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