Shows Like El Candidato

If you liked El Candidato (2020), a action & adventure and crime series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Red Queen (2024)
★ 7/10Also action & adventure
A gifted woman's intellect brings chance to lead covert European police force. But it backfires, costing her everything. Following murder at her home and kidnapped heiress, her ex-supervisor enlists a policeman's aid…
2
Rosario Tijeras (2010)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure and crime
This is the story of the legendary Rosario Tijeras, the beautiful warrior from a slum who fell in love with Antonio and Emilio, two handsome and wealthy young men. Antonio, a young architect, desperately rushes the…
3
El Dragón: Return of a Warrior (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure
A Tokyo business man returns to his home country of Mexico where he must battle rivals to replace his grandfather as the head of a cartel.
4
Enemigo íntimo (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure
The story of two siblings who witness the murder of their parents in the hands of one of the drug cartels in Mexico, after which Alejandro Ferrer's younger sister is kidnapped. 25 years later, Alejandro is now the…
5
Bulletproof (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also action & adventure and crime
Police duo Bishop and Pike are two best mates bonded by the same moral code, despite their differences. Packed full of humour, action and emotion, Bulletproof is about friendship, conspiracies and ghosts from the past.
6
The Mosquito Coast (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also action & adventure
Allie Fox—a brilliant inventor and stubborn idealist—uproots his family for a dangerous quest through Mexico to flee the U.S. government and find safety.
7
Taken (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also action & adventure and crime
The origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as…
8
The Cartel (2008)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure
The Cartel follows ten friends, all of them members of a dangerous drug cartel, whose ambition for power and money will cause them to eventually kill each other. For it is an undeniable truth that, in this business…
9
Kung Fu (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also action & adventure
A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and…
10
El final del paraíso (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure
In this new era, Catalina, now head of the DEA in Colombia, has a new challenge: to track down a criminal organization that is trafficking a new synthetic drug. What she ignores is that her daughter is part of the…
11
The Old Man (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also action & adventure
Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past.
12
The Day of the Jackal (2024)
★ 8.2/10Also action & adventure
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who…
13
Who Is Erin Carter? (2023)
★ 7/10Also action & adventure and crime
A British woman's tranquil life in Barcelona spirals out of control when an armed robbery at a supermarket exposes her secret... and violent past.
14
MacGruber (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also action & adventure
After rotting in prison for over a decade, America's ultimate hero and uber patriot MacGruber is finally released. His mission: to take down a mysterious villain from his past—Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth. With the…
15
Pancho Villa: The Centaur of the North (2023)
★ 8.5/10Also action & adventure
This is the story of Doroteo Arango, of a life that began on the wrong side of the law, to becoming "Pancho Villa", the feared commander and key figure in the Mexican Revolution. Buried within the story is a man…
16
Legends (2026)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and crime
As drugs flood the streets of '90s Britain, a team of civil servants is thrust undercover to topple the gangs behind it.
17
The Unit (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
18
Reacher (2022)
★ 8.1/10Also action & adventure and crime
Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he…
19
El Conde: Amor y Honor (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also action & adventure
A wrongful conviction changes the life of Alejandro Gaitán and separates him from the woman he loves, Mariana Zambrano. After 17 years in jail, he becomes a count with the help of another prisoner and seeks revenge on…
20
The Equalizer (1985)
★ 7.2/10Also action & adventure and crime
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have…