More like Criminal Minds
Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Criminal Minds follows the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, a team of profilers who work backwards from crime scenes to reconstruct the psychology of the offender before they strike again. The show's driving idea — that pattern and pathology leave readable traces, and that understanding a killer's mind is a more powerful tool than physical pursuit — defines its appeal. Viewers drawn to it tend to want procedural rigour, moral seriousness, and the tension of intelligence applied to violence.
About Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Jeff Davis which premiered on CBS on September 22, 2005. It follows a group of criminal profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU).
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Films like Criminal Minds
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Mindhunters
FBI profiling trainees must apply their training when a killer surfaces among their own ranks.
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Serial Killer
An FBI psychological profiler hunts a vicious serial killer who then turns the pursuit dangerously personal.
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S.I.S.
An elite LAPD unit faces a new psychopath who proves their most difficult case yet.
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The Code
A long-running detective unit cracks cases through code-breaking intellect rather than brute force.
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S.I.U.
A detective relying on sharp intuition confronts a case involving a dead officer and a drugs trail.
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Masterminds
A night guard at an armored-car company schemes his way into one of the biggest heists in US history.
Books to read after Criminal Minds
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Criminal minds
The BAU's own profiler David Rossi works a series of seemingly unrelated but violent Chicago murders.
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Profilers
Pioneering homicide investigators share the hard-won craft behind real criminal profiling techniques.
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Killer at Large
When evidence is scarce, investigators must reason from almost nothing to identify a serial offender.
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Field of graves
A Nashville detective and medical examiner face intense pressure hunting a killer targeting university students.
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An Evil Mind
A freak accident unravels a decades-long trail of abduction and murder by a hidden serial killer.
More series like Criminal Minds
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Criminal Minds
Profilers work cases by inhabiting the criminal's own perspective, mirroring the BAU's core methodology.
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MINDHUNTER
An FBI agent develops criminal profiling techniques while pursuing the most dangerous serial offenders.
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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
A direct spin-off following a second FBI profiling team operating with the same case-driven approach.
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Evil Minds
A gifted profiler must overcome personal trauma to confront a new serial killer threatening more lives.
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Profiler
A top FBI criminal profiler leads a specialist team solving violent crimes across the country.
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FBI: Most Wanted
Seasoned agents operate as a mobile unit relentlessly pursuing the Bureau's most wanted fugitives.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after Criminal Minds?
MINDHUNTER is a natural next step — it follows an FBI agent developing the very profiling techniques Criminal Minds dramatizes, with a darker, more psychological tone. Profiler is an older but tonally similar pick about an elite FBI profiler solving violent crimes.
Are there books like Criminal Minds?
Profilers collects real insights from pioneering homicide investigators who shaped the science behind behavioral profiling, while An Evil Mind delivers the same serial-killer hunt tension in thriller novel form.
Are there any other TV shows with FBI criminal profilers like Criminal Minds?
Evil Minds follows a gifted profiler drawn back into service by a new string of serial killings, and FBI: Most Wanted keeps a similar procedural pace with a mobile task force tracking the Bureau's most dangerous fugitives.