If You Liked Taken, Watch These Next
Finished Taken (2017) 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 Taken, most of them are action & adventure, crime, drama.
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20 titles · updated 1st October 2026
1.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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2.The Recruit(2022)
7.5DramaCrimeAction & AdventureAlso drama and crime
Recruited out of law school by the CIA, a daredevil young attorney leaps unprepared into the dangerous world of international espionage.
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3.Condor(2018)
7.1CrimeDramaAlso crime and 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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4.The Greatest American Hero(1981)
7.2Action & AdventureComedyCrimeAlso action & adventure and comedy
The chronicles of teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often with comical results.
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5.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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6.Citadel(2023)
6.9DramaCrimeAction & AdventureAlso drama and crime
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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7.Marvel's The Punisher(2017)
8.2Action & AdventureCrimeDramaAlso 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.
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8.Reacher(2022)
8.1Action & AdventureCrimeAlso action & adventure and crime
Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served.
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9.Mr. & Mrs. Smith(2024)
6.6Action & AdventureComedyDramaAlso action & adventure and comedy
Meet the Smiths: two lonely strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their lives and identities to be thrown together as partners – both in espionage and in marriage.
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10.Human Target(2010)
7.2Action & AdventureDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
It takes a brave, selfless man to make himself a "human target" in order to save the lives of those in danger. Based on the popular DC Comics comic book and graphic novel, Human Target is a full-throttle action drama centered on Christopher Chance, a unique private contractor/security expert/bodyguard hired to protect.
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11.The Day of the Jackal(2024)
8.3DramaAction & AdventureMysteryAlso 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 starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in…
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12.24(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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13.Legends(2026)
7.6Action & AdventureCrimeDramaAlso 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.
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14.Chuck(2007)
7.7Action & AdventureComedyDramaAlso action & adventure and comedy
When Buy More computer geek Chuck Bartowski unwittingly downloads a database of government information and deadly fighting skills into his head, he becomes the CIA's most vital secret. This sets Chuck on a path to become a full-fledged spy.
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15.FUBAR(2023)
6.6Action & AdventureDramaComedyAlso action & adventure and drama
When a father and daughter discover they both secretly work for the CIA, their high-stakes missions get tangled up with awkward family dynamics.
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16.Alex Rider(2020)
7.8DramaAction & AdventureAlso drama and action & adventure
Alex Rider is an ordinary teenager enlisted to work on behalf of MI6, where he uses skills he didn't know he had to become an extraordinary spy.
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17.La Femme Nikita(1997)
7.4Action & AdventureDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection, upon which she was secretly drugged by the government, faking her death. Nikita is then "recruited" by a…
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18.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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19.The Night Manager(2016)
7.7DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and crime
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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20.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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