Reprisal

Series Similar to Reprisal

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

1. Queen of the South

   2016 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

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

   Queen of the South is based on the literary page-turner "La Reina Del Sur", the top-selling novel by the internationally acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte, which also yielded a Telemundo series that became one of the most popular telenovelas of all time for USA's sister network. It tells the powerful story of Teresa Mendoza (Alice Braga). When her drug-dealing boyfriend is unexpectedly murdered in Mexico, Teresa is forced to go on the run and seek refuge in America, where she teams with an unlikely figure from her past to bring down the leader of the very drug trafficking ring that has her on the run. In the process, she learns the tools of the trade and strategically positions herself to become the leader of the Cartel.

2. Marvel's The Punisher

   2017 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action 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.

3. Narcos

   2015 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action 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.

4. Teach You a Lesson

   2026 · Drama, Action · ended

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

   When respect collapses in schools, a special unit arrives to set things right — with sharp, no-nonsense lessons you won't find in textbooks. 

5. Serangoon Road

   2013 · Drama, Action · ended

   Recommended for similar Action profile, hidden gem.

   1964-65. Singapore is a city at a crossroads. Political and racial tensions are at fever pitch as the British pull out, and a new nation is about to be born. The lights of Bugis Street have never burned so bright: bootleg copies of Motown songs boom out from street stalls; the Rolling Stones are in town along with tourists and American sailors fresh from Vietnam. They join British and Australian soldiers checking out the prostitutes and gambling dens en route to their own war in Borneo.This is the city of Sam Callaghan, Patricia Cheng, the CIA's Conrad Harrison and the clients of the Cheng Detective Agency. The agency's cases range from the usual (straying spouses and petty fraudsters) to events with international implications and complications. Sam's contacts from his military days are useful - but they start to drag him back into a dark world that he would prefer to leave behind.

6. Banshee

   2013 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action 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. Marvel's Daredevil

   2015 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action 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.

8. Warrior

   2019 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

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

   Inspired by the writings and work of martial arts icon Bruce Lee and set against the backdrop of San Francisco's Chinatown in the aftermath of the Civil War, Warrior tells the story of a young martial arts prodigy, newly arrived from China, who finds himself caught up in the bloody Tong Wars.

9. Rescue: HI-Surf

   2024 · Drama, Action · ended

   Recommended for similar Action profile.

   Rescue: HI-Surf is an action drama that follows the personal and professional lives of the heavy-water lifeguards who patrol and protect the North Shore of O‘ahu—the most famous and dangerous stretch of coastline in the world. Each episode features these dedicated, heroic, and adrenaline-seeking first-responders saving lives in the difficult and often life-threatening conditions of Hawaii's Seven Mile Miracle.

10. Inside Men

    2012 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

    Recommended for similar Action 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