TV & Movie Recommendations

DRAMA
The Crown
Unbelievable
The Queen’s Gambit
The Honorable Woman
Doctor Foster
Babylon Berlin
The Same Sky
Godless
The Salvation (movie)
Mad Men
Halt and Catch Fire
The Tudors (also on Showtime)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (movie)
Traitors
Shadow (Asian movie)

CRIME DRAMA
Peaky Blinders
Happy Valley
Narcos
Broadchurch
The Fall
The Killing
Luther
Wanted
Safe
The Five
Marcella
The Sinner
Longmire
Bodyguard
Sons of Anarchy
Witnesses
Manhunt: Unabomber
The Code
Department Q Trilogy
Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition
Wind River (movie)
Criminal: UK
The Highwaymen

SCI-FI, FANTASY
Stranger Things
Dark
Black Mirror
Altered Carbon
Anon (movie)
Lost in Space
The Magicians
The OA
Maniac
Penny Dreadful (also on Showtime)
From Dusk Till Dawn
The Umbrella Academy

ACTION
The Marvel Series: Daredevil 1-3; The Punisher 1-2; Jessica Jones 1-2; Luke Cage 1; Iron Fist 1-2; The Defenders
Battle Royale (movie)
The Night Comes for Us (movie)
Sin City (movie)
13 Assassins (movie)
Kill Zone 2 (movie)
Fist of Legend (movie)
Spartacus (also on Starz)
Ip Man series (movies)

COMEDY
Extras
Green Wing
The Office (UK version)

DOCUMENTARY
The Social Dilemma
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

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DRAMA
The Night Manager
Love/Hate
Homecoming
The Americans (also on FXNow)
Justified (also on FXNow)
Mr. Robot
The Missing (also on Starz)
Thirteen
Ordeal by Innocence (Agatha Christie)
The ABC Murders (Agatha Christie)
A Most Wanted Man (movie)
Allied (movie)
Victoria
Wolf Hall
Deadwood (also on HBO)
Suits
Silk

CRIME DRAMA
Jett (also on Cinemax)
ZeroZeroZero
Sneaky Pete
Bosch
Goliath
Absentia
Fearless
Tin Star
The Wire
The Worricker Trilogy
Endeavour
The Tunnel
Secrets and Lies (Australian version)
River
Touching Evil
Hunted
Too Old to Die Young (note: very violent)

SCI-FI, FANTASY
Utopia (British show; don’t bother with the American version)
The Boys
Electric Dreams
Battlestar Galactica
The Kettering Incident
Humans
Arrival (movie)
A Discovery of Witches (also on Sundance Now)

ACTION
Warrior (also on Cinemax)
Banshee (also on Cinemax)
Strike Back (also on Cinemax)
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Hanna

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DRAMA
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Looming Tower
Deutschland 83
Silk
Flame & Citron (movie)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (movie)
Pride & Prejudice (1995 version)

CRIME DRAMA
The Bridge (Danish/Swedish version)
Line of Duty (also on Acorn TV)
Fargo (also on FXNow)
Prime Suspect
Top of the Lake
Reprisal
Midnight Sun
Red Riding trilogy
Killing Eve
Homeland
The Killing
Braquo (French)
MI-5
Zodiac (movie)

SCI-FI, FANTASY
Battlestar Galactica
12 Monkeys
Marvel’s Runaways
Timecrimes (movie)
Twin Peaks
Devs

ACTION
District B13 (movie)
Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior (movie)
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (movie)

COMEDY
The Thick of It
Coupling
Archer (also on FXNow)
Seinfeld
The Office (UK version)
In the Loop (movie)

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Line of Duty
Trial & Retribution
Foyle’s War
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
Loch Ness
The Witness for the Prosecution (movie, Agatha Christie)
Mystery Road (Australian)
Wire in the Blood
Second Sight
Code of a Killer
The Disappearance (French)
Winter (Australian)
The Code (Australian)
Thorne
Manhunt

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Prime Suspect (seasons 1-3)
A Confession
Silent Witness
Shetland
The Moorside
Little Boy Blue
In Plain Sight
Zen
Inspector Morse
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
The Office (UK)

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HBO MAX
Raised by Wolves
The Murders at White House Farm

DRAMA
Chernobyl
The Pacific (WWII)
Band of Brothers (WWII)
Generation Kill (Iraq war)
Deadwood
Boardwalk Empire
Big Little Lies

CRIME DRAMA
True Detective
Sharp Objects
The Night Of
The Wire
Perry Mason

SCI-FI, FANTASY
Game of Thrones
Westworld
Watchmen
The Leftovers
True Blood

COMEDY
Veep
The Larry Sanders Show
Extras

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Homeland
Twin Peaks
Ray Donovan
Penny Dreadful
The Tudors
The Affair

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Counterpart
The Missing
Power
Spartacus
The White Queen
The White Princess
The Rook

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The Knick
Warrior
Banshee
Strike Back
Jett
Hunted
Rellik
C.B. Strike

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AMC+
The Salisbury Poisonings
Gangs of London

EPIX
Berlin Station
Deep State
Pennyworth

SUNDANCE NOW
The Bureau
A Discovery of Witches
Deutschland 83
The Game
McMafia
Restless

PEACOCK
The Capture
Save Me

DC UNIVERSE
Titans
Doom Patrol

APPLE TV+
See

YOUTUBE PREMIUM
Impulse

OTHER
Waco
Yellowstone

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John Wick series
Valhalla Rising

MARTIAL ARTS
Once Upon a Time in China trilogy (young Jet Li)
The Raid: Redemption & sequel
Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior & sequels
Seven Samurai (1954)
Yojimbo (1961)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Ip Man series
Hero
Iron Monkey
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
House of Flying Daggers
Fist of Legend
SPL: Kill Zone

ACTION COMEDIES
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
RocknRolla
Kung Fu Hustle
Shaolin Soccer

AGENTS & SOLDIERS
Sicario & sequel
Zero Dark Thirty
Spartan (unknown and underrated)
Munich
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
12 Strong
The Outpost

DENZEL
The Equalizer
Safe House
Unstoppable
Deja Vu
Man on Fire
The Book of Eli

FRENCH-PRODUCED
Léon: The Professional
District B13
District 13: Ultimatum
The Nest (2002; hard to find)
La Femme Nikita
The Transporter
Taken
Kiss of the Dragon
Colombiana
Lucy

WESTERNS
High Plains Drifter
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Searchers
Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
3:10 to Yuma
The Salvation
The Quick and the Dead

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Underworld series
Jumper
Push
Predestination
Equilibrium (underrated)
Inception
Edge of Tomorrow
Gattaca
Dark City
Timecrimes (Spanish)
The Martian
Prometheus
Pitch Black

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CLASSICS
The Last Emperor
The King’s Speech
Elizabeth (1998)
The Verdict
A Few Good Men
All the President’s Men
Spotlight
The Insider
The Sting
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (western)
Out of Africa
The Miracle Worker (1962)
Great Expectations (1946)

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE
The Lives of Others (German)
Black Book (Dutch)
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009; Spanish)
Tell No One (2006; French)
Open Your Eyes (Spanish)
Headhunters (Danish)
Three Colors: Red (French)
Phoenix (German)
The Counterfeiters (German)
Cinema Paradiso (Italian)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian)
In the Mood for Love (Chinese)
Days of Being Wild (Chinese)
Ashes of Time (Chinese)
Raise the Red Lantern (Chinese)

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Manhunter (1986)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Zodiac
Three Days of the Condor
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Marathon Man
Identity (2003)
Gorky Park
Presumed Innocent
Out of Sight
A Perfect Getaway
Wind River
Mulholland Drive
The Game (1997)
No Way Out (1987)
The Spanish Prisoner
Blood Simple
Devil in a Blue Dress
Spy Game
Panic Room
Inside Man
The International

OLDER
Charade
And Then There Were None (1945)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Rear Window
Notorious (1946)
To Catch a Thief
Dial M for Murder
Spellbound
Strangers on a Train
North by Northwest
The 39 Steps (1935) The Third Man

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Young Frankenstein
The Producers
Bridesmaids
Spy
The Heat
The Other Guys
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Shaun of the Dead
Wedding Crashers
The Grand Budapest Hotel
In the Loop
Best in Show
Team America: World Police
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
(Untitled)
The Proposal
Office Space
Groundhog Day
Liar Liar
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
The Princess Bride
When Harry Met Sally
A Fish Called Wanda
Moonstruck
As Good as It Gets

OLDER
Modern Times
The General
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

OLDER & ROMANTIC COMEDY
Hobson’s Choice
The Quiet Man
The Parent Trap (1961)
Houseboat
Father Goose

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