Shows Like The Day of the Jackal
If you liked The Day of the Jackal (2024), a drama and action & adventure 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 Assassin (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also 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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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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24 (2001)
★ 7.8/10Also action & adventure and dramaCounterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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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 Night Manager (2016)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and mysteryFormer British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner…
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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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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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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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Cross (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and mysteryAlex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but…
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Black Sails (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and action & adventureThe pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking…
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The Fugitive (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and action & adventureFalsely accused of bombing a Los Angeles subway train by “tweet-now, confirm-later” journalism, blue collar worker Mike Ferro must prove his innocence by uncovering the real perpetrator, before the legendary cop…
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Chosen (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and action & adventureIan Mitchell is a lawyer and father who one day receives a box containing a gun and a picture of a stranger, along with instructions to kill the pictured person. He is subsequently attacked by another stranger, and…
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El final del paraíso (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and action & adventureIn 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…
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Mr. Mercedes (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also mystery and dramaA demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before…
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Most Dangerous Game (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and action & adventureDesperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he soon discovers that he’s not the hunter but the prey.
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Shooter (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also action & adventure and dramaBob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president.
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El Conde: Amor y Honor (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and action & adventureA 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…
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Atomic (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also action & adventure and dramaWhen the path of free-spirited drug smuggler Max collides with JJ, an enigmatic outsider on the run, an unlikely friendship is formed. They're swept into a chaotic, high-stakes mission they never signed up for…
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Black Doves (2024)
★ 7/10Also action & adventure and mysteryWhen a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.
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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.