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Series Similar to Alias

If you enjoyed Alias, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The Americans

   2013 · Drama, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Espionage profile, highly rated (8.5).

   The Americans is a period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President.

2. Spooks

   2002 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Espionage profile, highly rated (8).

   Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation.A team of agents in the British security intelligence service work to protect the U.K. from terrorists and other threats to national security. A repackaged version of the BBC series "Spooks," "MI-5" follows a counterterrorism unit based in the highly secure suite of offices called The Grid, where Harry Pearce oversees the team and deals with the often dirty politics of the spy game.

3. Burn Notice

   2007 · Action, Crime, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Espionage profile, highly rated (8).

   My name is Michael Westen. I used to be a spy. Until I got a burn notice, I was blacklisted. When you're burned, you've got nothing: no cash, no credit, no job history. You're stuck in whatever city they decide to dump you in. Miami. You do whatever work comes your way. You rely on anyone who's still talking to you. A trigger-happy ex-girlfriend... An old friend who used to inform on you to the FBI... Family too... if you're desperate... Bottom line? Until you figure out who burned you... you're not going anywhere.

4. The Recruit

   2022 · Action, Thriller, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Espionage profile.

   The Recruit follows Owen Hendricks, a fledgling lawyer at the CIA who becomes enmeshed in dangerous international power politics when a former asset threatens to expose the agency.

5. Homeland

   2011 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Espionage profile, highly rated (8.2).

   The winner of 6 Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series, Homeland is an edge-of-your-seat sensation. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody is both a decorated hero and a serious threat. CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar. The delicate dance these two complex characters perform, built on lies, suspicion, and desire, is at the heart of this gripping, emotional thriller in which nothing short of the fate of our nation is at stake.

6. Smiley's People

   1982 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Espionage profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Adaptation of John Le Carré's novel, following on from the previous BBC adaptation Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. George Smiley returns to the Game. A member of one of George Smiley's old networks seems to have caught on to something big. When he turns up dead the Circus asks George to tie up the loose ends with minimal fuss. But George Smiley does not like loose ends. Especially if they lead to the darkest recesses of the KGB - to Karla, the Sandman.

7. Sleeper Cell

   2005 · Drama, Crime, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Espionage profile.

   The controversial and unconventional drama delves into the harsh inner-workings of a Los Angeles-based Islamic terrorist cell headed by a charismatic and fanatical extremist (Fehr) and an Muslim undercover FBI agent (Ealy) who infiltrates it. Last year's mini-series featured a powerful and engrossing two-hour finale that will set the stage for the new Sleeper Cell, which will continue to combine timely, meticulously researched storylines and complex characters to create an entertaining and thought-provoking television event.

8. Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

   2018 · Drama, Action, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Espionage profile.

   Jack Ryan is a drama featuring Tom Clancy's popular hero Jack Ryan billed as a new contemporary take on the character in his prime as a CIA analyst/operative using the novels as source material.

9. Rubicon

   2010 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Espionage profile.

   Rubicon is a conspiracy thriller set in a NYC-based government intelligence agency, API, where nothing is what it seems. The series focuses on a beleaguered analyst, Will Travers, who, faced with a shocking tragedy, begins to uncover clues that point to a complex and sinister conspiracy.

10. Slow Horses

    2022 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · returning

    Recommended for similar Espionage profile, highly rated (8.1).

    Slow Horses follows the story of a group of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 called Slough House after the big mistakes they've made that resulted in the end of their mainstream careers.This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.