If You Liked The Day of the Jackal, Watch These Next
Finished The Day of the Jackal (2024) 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 The Day of the Jackal, most of them are drama, action & adventure, mystery.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The Assassin(2025)
6.8DramaAction & AdventureAlso 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 battles to find the right time to speak to his frustratingly distant mother. But, when the moment finally…
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2.The Terminal List(2022)
8.0Action & AdventureDramaAlso action & adventure and 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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3.The Old Man(2022)
7.2Action & AdventureDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
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.
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4.Black Sails(2014)
7.6DramaAction & AdventureAlso drama and action & adventure
The 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 young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all…
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5.24(2001)
7.8Action & AdventureDramaCrimeAlso action & adventure and 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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6.The Terminal List: Dark Wolf(2025)
7.7Action & AdventureDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
Before 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 impulses. Every man has two wolves inside him – light and dark – fighting for control. Which wolf will…
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7.Chosen(2013)
6.8DramaAction & AdventureAlso 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 discovers that he has been chosen by a mysterious organization known as The Watchers to participate in…
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8.Citadel(2023)
6.9DramaCrimeAction & AdventureAlso drama and action & adventure
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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9.The Night Manager(2016)
7.7DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and mystery
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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10.The Fugitive(2020)
6.2DramaAction & AdventureAlso drama and action & adventure
Falsely 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 heading the investigation can apprehend him.
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11.The Night Agent(2023)
7.7Action & AdventureDramaMysteryAlso action & adventure and drama
Brought 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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12.Cross(2024)
7.0CrimeDramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
Alex 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 his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.
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13.Most Dangerous Game(2020)
6.9DramaAction & AdventureAlso drama and action & adventure
Desperate 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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14.Legends(2026)
7.6Action & AdventureCrimeDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
As 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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15.El final del paraíso(2019)
7.6DramaAction & AdventureAlso 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 Cartel that traffics them and that Yésica, her worst enemy, is infiltrated in the DEA.
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16.Who Is Erin Carter?(2023)
7.0Action & AdventureCrimeDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
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.
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17.Kung Fu(2021)
7.5Action & AdventureDramaAlso 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 corruption, she uses her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring…
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18.The Unit(2006)
7.4Action & AdventureDramaAlso 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.
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19.Shooter(2016)
7.2Action & AdventureWar & PoliticsDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
Bob 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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20.The Purge(2018)
6.9MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and drama
Set in a dystopian America ruled by a totalitarian political party, the series follows several seemingly unrelated characters living in a small city. Tying them all together is a mysterious savior who’s impeccably equipped for everything the night throws at them. As the clock winds down with their fates hanging in…
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