Lioness

Series Similar to Lioness

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

1. Homeland

   2011 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / 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.

2. The Agency: Central Intelligence

   2024 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · returning99% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Espionage profile, also on Paramount+.

   The Agency: Central Intelligence follows Martian, a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.

3. The Honourable Woman

   2014 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Espionage profile, hidden gem.

   The Honourable Woman tells the story of one woman's personal journey to right her father's wrongs. Featuring a stellar cast including Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal in the lead role as Nessa Stein, this compelling drama written and directed by BAFTA winning Hugo Blick (The Shadow Line) draws Nessa into a complex and dangerous world of international conspiracy and espionage.

4. Slow Horses

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · returning90% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / 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.

5. Spy City

   2020 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Espionage profile, hidden gem.

   Spy City follows an English spy who is sent to Berlin in 1961 to sift out a traitor in the UK Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall. The city, declared by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev as "the most dangerous place on earth," is teeming with spies and double agents. One wrong move could trigger the looming threat of nuclear war as American, British and French troops in West Berlin remain separated from their Soviet and East German counterparts by nothing more than an imaginary line.

6. The Americans

   2013 · Drama, Espionage · ended88% match

   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.

7. The Spy

   2019 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Espionage profile.

   The Spy tells the story of legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen. Eli Cohen lived in Damascus undercover in the beginning of the '60s, spying for Israel. He managed to embed himself into Syrian high society and rise through the ranks of their politics until he was uncovered by the Syrian regime, sentenced to death and publicly hanged in a Damascus square in 1965. Cohen is considered a national hero in Israel. His actions, connections and immense sacrifice have had lasting consequences, shaping the Middle East of today.

8. Little Disasters

   2025 · Drama, Thriller · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, also on Paramount+.

   Little Disasters centers on four friends who were thrown together while expectant mothers with little in common apart from their due dates. When Jess takes her baby daughter to hospital with a head injury she can't explain, close friend and on-duty A&E doctor Liz is forced to make the excruciating decision as to whether to call social services on her friend. The decision sets of a chain of events that show how a moment can fracture and nearly destroy families and friendships.

9. The Terminal List: Dark Wolf

   2025 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · returning87% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Espionage profile.

   The Terminal List: Dark Wolf is a prequel series with an origin story that follows Ben Edwards throughout his journey from the Navy SEALs to the clandestine side of CIA Special Operations. The series is an espionage thriller that explores the darker side of warfare and the human cost that comes with it.

10. Condor

    2018 · Drama, Action, Espionage · ended87% match

    Recommended for similar Espionage profile.

    Joe Turner has always been conflicted about his work for the CIA. But when something he's discovered gets his entire office killed, leaving Joe as the only survivor and forcing him to go on the run, the theoretical reservations he's always harbored turn into all-too-real moral dilemmas. Under life or death pressure, Joe will be forced to redefine who he is and what he's capable of in order to discover who's behind this far-reaching conspiracy, and stop them from completing their deadly objective that threatens the lives of millions.