Crossing Lines

Series Similar to Crossing Lines

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

1. Graceland

   2013 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile.

   Every year, the top graduates from the FBI Academy move from their classrooms at Quantico to their first assignments in the real world. For Agent Mike Warren, the dream has always been a post in Washington D.C. But the powers that be have other plans, and the young rookie is soon packing his bags for Graceland, a palatial beachfront mansion in Southern California that has become a cross-departmental boarding house for top undercover agents in the FBI, DEA and ICE.

2. Ransom

   2017 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile.

   Ransom follows Eric Beaumont, a highly specialized negotiator who is parachuted into crisis situations to defuse them before they spin out of control. Eric is so brilliantly effective, it's hard to know when he's working someone or dealing straight, which is part of his charm – he knows how to get what he wants and rarely loses. He travels the globe with his team which includes a new recruit, Maxine Carlson, a young woman eager to learn from one of the best negotiators, but who may have her own personal agenda. Together they negotiate the most difficult, high stakes kidnap and ransom cases, though his missions are complicated by the fact that many countries have outlawed private negotiation. As a result, Eric and his team are often in as much danger from the authorities as the criminals they face.

3. Banshee

   2013 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, highly rated (8.6).

   Banshee stars Antony Starr as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania, where he continues his criminal activities, even as he's hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier.

4. Hit & Miss

   2012 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Mia's a contract killer with a big secret - she used to be a man. As the series starts her ex-girlfriend reveals that she's dying and that they had a child. The show follows Mia's trials as she tries to separate her killer instincts with her parental ones.

5. Narcos

   2015 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Narcos chronicle the life and death of drug lord Pablo Escobar the ruthless boss of the Medellin Cartel and a known terrorist who was also a congressman, a family man and revered by the poor as a new Robin Hood.

6. Marvel's The Punisher

   2017 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, highly rated (8.4).

   After exacting revenge on those responsible for the death of his wife and children, Frank Castle uncovers a conspiracy that runs far deeper than New York's criminal underworld. Now known throughout the city as The Punisher, he must discover the truth about injustices that affect more than his family alone.

7. Prey

   2014 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, hidden gem.

   On the run accused of a terrible crime, Manchester Detective Marcus Farrow tries to prove his innocence while being hunted by his former friends and colleagues.

8. Played

   2013 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Played tracks the CIU (Covert Investigations Unit) as it risks going undercover to infiltrate and bring down criminal organizations. In this new style of intense, short-term undercover work, each covert "play" is crafted quickly and executed at an even faster pace. Placed into various worlds of crime without a safety net, the cops are in constant danger, as they repeatedly go off the grid. Wearing wires, coaxing confessions, and setting up stings, the cops of the CIU must think quickly, talk smoothly, and rely on pure instinct. They slip in and out of characters so often that, sometimes, they lose track of who they really are. The team of highly-skilled and brave detectives is led by John Moreland, a cop at the top of his game with great instincts who is usually in charge... Until the new CIU is established and consummate strategist Rebecca Ellis is given the reigns.

9. Inside Men

   2012 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Inside Men is a drama series which sees John Coniston working as the manager of a cash counting house who finds himself involved in the middle of an armed robbery. His family are taken hostage and the gang make him open the safe at gunpoint but not everything is as it seems

10. Leverage

    2008 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

    Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, highly rated (8.1).

    Leverage is a slick and crafty drama following a team of expert thieves that take down corrupt corporations in elaborate high-tech schemes. Insurance investigator Nate Ford exposed scams and recovered stolen items worth millions. But his life hit the skids when his insurance company allowed his ailing 8-year-old son to die. Years later, Nate gets even as the leader of a specialized team of thieves, computer experts and con artists that right corporate and governmental injustices against honest citizens. To expose corruption, Nate will do wrong for all the right reasons –– he will provide Leverage.