The Hour

Series Similar to The Hour

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

1. The Honourable Woman

   2014 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended98% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Espionage profile, hidden gem, also on BBC Two.

   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.

2. The Capture

   2019 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · returning93% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Espionage profile.

   While disentangling misinformation from truth in an era of deepfakes, alternative facts and ubiquitous surveillance, investigations of damning video evidence calls into question whether seeing is deceiving.

3. The Americans

   2013 · Drama, Espionage · ended93% 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.

4. A Spy Among Friends

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Espionage profile.

   A Spy Among Friends follows the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott. The show examines espionage through their friendship, the fallout of which affects East-West relations to this day.

5. Homeland

   2011 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended93% 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.

6. Smiley's People

   1982 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Espionage profile, highly rated (8.1), also on BBC Two.

   Adaptation of John Le Carré's novel, following on from the previous BBC adaptation Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. George Smiley returns to the Game. A member of one of George Smiley's old networks seems to have caught on to something big. When he turns up dead the Circus asks George to tie up the loose ends with minimal fuss. But George Smiley does not like loose ends. Especially if they lead to the darkest recesses of the KGB - to Karla, the Sandman.

7. Rubicon

   2010 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Espionage profile.

   Rubicon is a conspiracy thriller set in a NYC-based government intelligence agency, API, where nothing is what it seems. The series focuses on a beleaguered analyst, Will Travers, who, faced with a shocking tragedy, begins to uncover clues that point to a complex and sinister conspiracy.

8. X Company

   2015 · Drama, War, Espionage · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Espionage profile.

   Five highly skilled young recruits – Canadian, American and British are torn from their ordinary lives to train as agents in an ultra-secret facility on the shores of Lake Ontario. These agents parachute behind enemy lines, where they're fair game for torture and execution. From elegant hotels to hellholes in the field, it's one risky operation after another.

9. Spooks

   2002 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended91% match

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

   Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation.A team of agents in the British security intelligence service work to protect the U.K. from terrorists and other threats to national security. A repackaged version of the BBC series "Spooks," "MI-5" follows a counterterrorism unit based in the highly secure suite of offices called The Grid, where Harry Pearce oversees the team and deals with the often dirty politics of the spy game.

10. Our Zoo

    2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended91% match

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

    Our Zoo is a drama series based on the true story of the Mottershead family who, in the face of staunch opposition and huge personal sacrifice, founded Chester Zoo in the 1930s.