What to Watch If You Love 'Mindhunter'

Mindhunter fans are 7X more likely to love True Detective

Television that delves into the darkest depths of the human psyche has never been more popular. True Detective deftly mixes true crime, detective procedural, and conspiracy theory to create one of the darker breakout shows in recent memory. Though most critics and viewers agree that this anthology show went off the rails during its second season, fans of Mindhunter are almost certain to love both the first season and the latest one, which stars Mahershala Ali. 

Ranker data tells us that people who like these shows and movies tend to also like True Detective:

• Patriot (10X more likely)
• Homeland (9X more likely)
• Ray Donovan (8X more likely)
• Boardwalk Empire (7X more likely)
• The Usual Suspects (6X more likely)
• Seven (5X more likely)
• True Grit (5X more likely)

Mindhunter fans are 5X more likely to love The Silence of the Lambs

It's hardly shocking that people who like Mindhunter tend to also like The Silence of the Lambs, one of the first and best movies to focus on the psyche of a highly intelligent, highly disturbed killer. Much like Detective Ford, FBI trainee Clarice Starling is trying to understand serial killers in order to catch them, enlisting the help of incarcerated cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter in order to track down a man called "Buffalo Bill" who skins his victims. Gruesome, engrossing, and one of the best performances ever given by either Jodie Foster or Anthony Hopkins, this movie is worth watching no matter how many times you've seen it before. 

Ranker data tells us that people who like these shows and movies tend to also like The Silence of the Lambs:

• The Shining (9X more likely)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (8X more likely)
• Misery (8X more likely) 
• The Exorcist (8X more likely)
• The X-Files (5X more likely)
• Breaking Bad (5X more likely)
• Stranger Things (5X more likely)

Mindhunter fans are 7X more likely to love Hannibal

If you love Mindhunter and you've already seen The Silence of the Lambs, there's an NBC show you absolutley have to watch. Hannibal is centered around the cannibalistic anti-hero of Silence of the Lambs Dr. Hannibal Lecter before his incarceration, when he was still a forensic psychiatrist with the FBI. Lecter is hoping to undermine and influence the FBI's activity through his treatment of profiler Will Graham, but begins to shift his focus towards pushing Graham into insanity. Mindhunter fans will see parallels between Will Graham and Holden Ford, two detectives trying to walk the line between misunderstanding violent criminals and empathizing with them — or even becoming one of them.

Ranker data tells us that people who like these shows and movies tend to also like Hannibal:

• American Gods (8X more likely)
• Bates Motel (7X more likely)
• The Following (6X more likely)
• Happy Endings (6X more likely)
• Fargo (TV show) (6X more likely)
• Alien (4X more likely)
• Requiem for a Dream (4X more likely)

Mindhunter fans are 8X more likely to love Ozark

Ozark deals more with drugs and organized crime than with lone wolf serial killers, but brings a lot of the same dark and ambient sense of danger that keeps viewers of Mindhunter biting their nails. One of Netflix's more popular current original series, Ozark stars Jason Bateman as a financial planner who must work off a debt to a Mexican cartel by laundering drug money from a Missouri motel. Think of it as Netflix's response to Breaking Bad, and as the perfect follow-up watch once you're all finished with the latest season of Mindhunter.

Ranker data tells us that people who like these shows and movies tend to also like Ozark:

• Peaky Blinders (8X more likely)
• Breaking Bad (7X more likely)
• Narcos (7X more likely)
• Godless (7X more likely)
• Dead to Me (6X more likely)
• Sneaky Pete (6X more likely)

Mindhunter fans are 5X more likely to love Dark

Nobody does psychological thrillers better than the Germans! Set in a fictional town German town called Winden, Dark follows four families as they uncover a massive, time-traveling conspiracy while searching for a missing child — think Stranger Things, but a little, uh, darker. It's a sci-fi show that tracks three generations across multiple time periods, so it's a little less grounded than Mindhunter, but both shows share a focus on the pervasive and often surprising consequences of our capacity for evil.

Ranker data tells us that people who like these shows and movies tend to also like Dark:

• The Rain (7X more likely)
• The Innocents (7X more likely)
• Altered Carbon (6X more likely)
• Narcos: Mexico (6X more likely)
• Black Mirror  (5X more likely)
• Westworld (5X more likely)

Mindhunter fans are 7X more likely to love Killing Eve

With its sometimes shocking violence, rock-solid dialogue, and its focus on the struggle to keep work and private life separate, there's a lot that Killing Eve has in common with Mindhunter. Killing Eve boasts five Emmy nominations in 2019, with both Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer up for the "Lead Actress in a Drama" award, and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge is one of the most exciting, up-and-coming screenwriters active today. This story about a deadly assassin and the spy tasked with bringing her to justice swings wildly between action, romance, and thriller, which makes it everything that a Mindhunter fan could ask for and more.

Ranker data tells us that people who like these shows and movies tend to also like Killing Eve:

• You (9X more likely)
• Fortitude (8X more likely)
• The Sinner (7X more likely)
• Homecoming (7X more likely)
• Schindler's List (5X more likely)
• Full Metal Jacket (3X more likely)