Shows Like Sr. Avila

If you liked Sr. Avila (2013), 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
Sky High: The Series (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also action & adventure and drama
To remain independent of her father, who is a stolen goods trafficker, a newly widowed single mom joins her late husband’s gang of smash-and-grab thieves.
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
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.
4
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.
5
Kung Fu (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also action & adventure and drama
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…
6
The Day of the Jackal (2024)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and 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…
7
The Assassin (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and action & adventure
Secluded 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…
8
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.
9
The Cartel (2008)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and drama
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…
10
El Dragón: Return of a Warrior (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and 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.
11
The Unit (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure and drama
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.
12
Enemigo íntimo (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and drama
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…
13
Gangs of London (2020)
★ 7.8/10Also action & adventure and drama
When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now…
14
Panic (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also action & adventure and drama
In the forgotten town of Carp, Texas, Panic is the only way out. Every summer the graduating seniors risk their lives competing in a series of challenges for the chance to win life-changing money. After the death of…
15
Marvel's The Punisher (2017)
★ 8.2/10Also action & adventure and crime
A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.
16
Chosen (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and action & adventure
Ian 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…
17
El Conde: Amor y Honor (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and 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…
18
Nemesis (2026)
★ 7.7/10Also action & adventure and drama
A relentless LAPD cop becomes obsessed with taking down the master thief behind a string of daring heists — and only one can come out on top.
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El final del paraíso (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and 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…
20
Sneaky Pete (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to…