If You Liked House of Cards, Watch These Next
Finished House of Cards (2013) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like House of Cards, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Zero Day(2025)
6.9DramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama
A former U.S. President is called out of retirement to find the source of a deadly cyberattack, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.
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2.Silo(2023)
8.2Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso drama
In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.
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3.Profit(1996)
8.0DramaAlso drama
Jim Profit works for a multinational company, and isn't above using any means necessary to get ahead, and that includes bribery, blackmail, intimidation, extortion, and even murder. Now everyone at the company, including the president, Charles Gracen are oblivious to his dark side, as a matter of fact, Gracen thinks…
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4.Death by Lightning(2025)
7.3DramaCrimeAlso drama
The story of James Garfield, who rose from obscurity to become America's 20th President — and Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated him.
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5.Severance(2022)
8.4DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
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6.Paradise(2025)
7.6CrimeDramaAlso drama
The tranquility in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world's most prominent individuals explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds.
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7.Narcos: Mexico(2018)
7.9DramaCrimeAlso drama
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
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8.24(2001)
7.8Action & AdventureDramaCrimeAlso drama
Counterterrorism 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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9.Anatomy of a Scandal(2022)
7.0DramaAlso drama
Sophie's privileged life as the wife of powerful politician James unravels when scandalous secrets surface — and he stands accused of a shocking crime.
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10.Citadel(2023)
6.9DramaCrimeAction & AdventureAlso drama
What 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 emerge from the past. With the help of spymaster Bernard Orlick, these former lovers must remember the…
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11.Ambitions(2019)
7.3DramaAlso drama
A multigenerational family saga centered around one woman who, having recently relocated and intent on revitalizing her marriage, finds herself going head to head with some of the most powerful and deceitful players in the city.
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12.The Night Manager(2016)
7.7DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama
Former 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 circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.
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13.White House Plumbers(2023)
6.2DramaAlso drama
The true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect.
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14.The Terminal List(2022)
8.0Action & AdventureDramaAlso drama
Navy 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 from nearly two decades of warfare to hunt down the people responsible.
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15.Designated Survivor(2016)
7.2DramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama
Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.
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16.The Capture(2019)
7.6CrimeDramaMysteryAlso drama
When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom…
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17.XIII: The Series(2011)
6.3Action & AdventureDramaMysteryAlso drama
After 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 White House.
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18.Sneaky Pete(2015)
7.5DramaCrimeAlso drama
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 drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him…
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19.Condor(2018)
7.1CrimeDramaAlso drama
Young CIA analyst Joe Turner has his idealism tested when he learns that the CIA has been using an algorithm he developed to spy on American citizens, leading the organization to a terrorist plot that threatens the lives of millions. Inspired by Sydney Pollack’s 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor.
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20.Secret State(2012)
7.1DramaAlso drama
Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.
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