Ransom

Series Similar to Ransom

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

1. Crossing Lines

   2013 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile.

   The series taps into a fictional unit mandated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate cross-border crimes and ultimately bring global criminals to justice. Crossing Lines is set in the world's most exotic locales, where an elite team of eager cops work to solve the most notorious international crimes.

2. Caught

   2018 · Drama, Crime · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Caught is set in 1978 and follows a young man who was caught smuggling drugs to Newfoundland. After spending five years in prison, he breaks out in order to do one last drug run in a futile attempt to shake off his past and set himself up for life. Slaney embarks on a cross-country adventure filled with fascinating characters and close calls.

3. Hidden Assets

   2021 · Drama, Crime · returning94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Hidden Assets is about family, power and the corrosive effects of boundless greed - a story set in Co Clare, small town Ireland and the world's diamond capital, Antwerp.A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong. Eventually, reluctantly banding together, they unravel a political conspiracy fuelling domestic unrest for financial gain; caught up in this web of greed are the Brannigans, a wealthy Irish dynasty with ties to Antwerp. Drawn into a battle of wits with the family, Emer, Christian, and the CAB team must follow the money to stop another terrorist attack – before it's too late.

4. Marvel's The Punisher

   2017 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended94% match

   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.

5. The Unit

   2006 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, highly rated (8.3), also on CBS.

   The Unit is a covert Special Forces team that does not exist. Their cover is the 303rd logistical studies group. They are assigned covert military operations by the President and never get credit for their actions. Their wives are also a tight group protecting their husbands. They protect their husband's secrets and maintain their cover.

6. Banshee

   2013 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended93% match

   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.

7. Narcos

   2015 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended93% match

   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.

8. FBI

   2018 · Drama, Crime · returning93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, also on CBS.

   FBI is a fast-paced drama about the inner workings of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. These first-class agents, including Special Agent Maggie Bell and her partner, Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan, bring all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep New York and the country safe.

9. Marvel's Daredevil

   2015 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended93% match

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

   Matt Murdock, a Marvel Comics hero who's a lawyer by day but fights the bad guys at night to avenge the murder of his father, a boxer. But what sets Matt apart from most superheroes isn't his back story it's his handicap. Matt is blind, the result of a childhood accident that removed his ability to see but gifted him with heightened senses of touch, taste, hearing and smell.

10. Played

    2013 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended93% match

    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.