The Day of the Jackal

Series Similar to The Day of the Jackal

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

1. Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

   2018 · Drama, Action, Espionage · ended

   Quality match from the curated show pool.

   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.

2. The Terminal List: Dark Wolf

   2025 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · returning

   Recommended for similar Thriller 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.

3. Hunted

   2012 · Drama, Action, Thriller · ended

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

   Sam is a spy, a hunter who now finds herself hunted by a ruthless hidden enemy. Trapped in an intricate web of suspense and paranoia, she must discover who wants her dead by confronting her past.

4. Killing Eve

   2018 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

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

   Based on the novellas by Luke Jennings, Killing Eve centers on two women; Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade security services operative whose desk-bound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is an elegant, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Killing Eve topples the typical spy-action thriller as these two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.

5. Counterpart

   2017 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

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

   Counterpart is about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. Howard Silk is a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel dimension, he is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue, danger, and double cross… where the only man he can trust is his near-identical counterpart from this parallel world. The show explores themes of identity, fate and lost love, posing the eternal question, "what if our lives could have been different?"

6. The Ipcress File

   2022 · Thriller, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   The Ipcress File is an enthralling and atmospheric espionage thriller set in Berlin and London during the 1960's.

7. Deutschland

   2015 · Drama, Action, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Deutschland is a coming-of-age spy thriller, which unfolds just as the Cold War between East and West comes to a head. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24-year-old East German native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.

8. Slow Horses

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · returning

   Recommended for similar Thriller 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.

9. Andor

   2022 · Science-Fiction, Thriller, Espionage · ended

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

   Andor explores a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor's journey to discover the difference he can make. The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It's an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue where Cassian will embark on the path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.

10. 24

    2001 · Drama, Action, Thriller · ended

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

    Jack Bauer, agent of CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) faces threats against his country and himself in this action packed show. Each season contains of one day, each episode shows one hour of Jack Bauer's day. 24 is the only action show in real time and gained a lot of fans during the years with this concept.