Shows Like The Ipcress File
If you liked The Ipcress File (2022), a action & adventure and drama 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.
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The Old Man (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also action & adventure and dramaDan 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.
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The Terminal List (2022)
★ 8/10Also action & adventure and dramaNavy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons he's learned…
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Citadel (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and action & adventureWhat if you lost your memory? What if a spy didn't know they were a spy? Years ago, the top agents of Citadel, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, had their minds wiped. But, they're called back to action as sinister forces…
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The Unit (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure and dramaA 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.
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Dark Blue (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also action & adventure and dramaWandering in and out of he underbelly of Los Angeles, where criminals roam free under the veil of night or hide in the shadows of day, is routine for Lieutenant Carter Shaw and his special undercover task force. This…
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XIII: The Series (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also action & adventure and dramaAfter a plot to kill the president of the USA an agent with lost memories tries to recover his life and memories. Others use him to cover up some dirty business involving high ranking officials from the CIA and the…
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Traitors (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also war & politics and drama1945 London. Feef is seduced by a rogue American spy into spying on her own country. Her task? To uncover a Russian agent in the heart of the British Government.
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The Day of the Jackal (2024)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and action & adventureAn 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…
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Lioness (2023)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and war & politicsCruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness…
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Agent X (2015)
★ 5.8/10Also action & adventure and dramaHidden from the view of the public - and even from the President - there is a top secret agent who is trained and ready to serve, deployed only at the careful discretion of the Vice President.
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A Spy Among Friends (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also war & politics and dramaFollow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
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The Hour (2011)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and war & politicsA behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
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The Assassin (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and action & adventureSecluded on a remote Greek island, retired assassin Julie has a somewhat thorny reunion with her estranged son, Edward, visiting from England. Armed with questions around new information on his paternity, Edward…
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Legends (2026)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and dramaAs drugs flood the streets of '90s Britain, a team of civil servants is thrust undercover to topple the gangs behind it.
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Kung Fu (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also action & adventure and dramaA 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…
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The Night Agent (2023)
★ 7.7/10Also action & adventure and dramaBrought together by a midnight phone call, an FBI agent and a cybersecurity expert must unravel an ever-growing web of political conspiracies.
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Homeland (2011)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and war & politicsCIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her…
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The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also action & adventure and dramaBefore The Terminal List, Navy SEAL Ben Edwards finds himself entangled in the black operations side of the CIA. The deeper Ben goes into the 'gray', the harder it will become to not give himself over to his darker…
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TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also war & politics and dramaThe story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
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Ultimate Force (2002)
★ 6.8/10Also action & adventure and dramaThis covert combat series focuses on the Red Troop, an elite group of soldiers from the British military's Special Air Service group.