8 Espionage Shows Like The Agency to Watch Next
Paramount+’s new political thriller, The Agency, is a fresh take on the critically acclaimed hit French drama Le Bureau des Legendes. The series follows a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.
The all-star cast includes Michael Fassbender (The Killer), Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction), Jodie Turner-Smith (After Yang), Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice), John Magaro (Past Lives), Alex Reznik (Hearts Beat Loud), Andrew Brooke (After Life), Harriet Sansom Harris (Phantom Thread), India Fowler (Safe), Saura Lightfoot-Leon (Masters of the Air), Reza Brojerdi (Snowflake), and Richard Gere (Chicago). Dominic West (The Crown) and Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) are guest stars.
The Agency premiered on November 29, and has already been renewed for season 2. While you wait for new episodes to drop, here are 8 espionage thriller shows like The Agency you can stream.
The Americans (2013-2018)
Cast: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Keidrich Sellati, Holly Taylor, Costa Ronin, Margo Martindale, Noah Emmerich, Lev Gorn, Alison Wright, Frank Langella, Richard Thomas, Annet Mahendru, Brandon J. Dirden,
Synopsis: “At the height of the Cold War, married KGB spies pose as Americans in Washington, D.C.”
Where to watch: Disney+, Hulu
A Spy Among Friends (2022 miniseries)
Cast: Guy Pearce, Damian Lewis, Anna Maxwell Martin, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Kunken, Monika Gossmann, Nicholas Rowe, Lucy Russell, Lucy Akhurst
Synopsis: “In England in 1963, Nicholas Elliott works for MI6 but is left in turmoil when he learns his close friend and colleague Kim Philby had been secretly working as a double agent for the KGB and has defected to the Soviet Union.”
Where to watch: MGM+, Spectrum
Black Doves (2024 – )
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw, Sarah Lancashire, Andrew Koji, Omari Douglas, Sam Troughton, Kathryn Hunter, Ella Lily Hyland, Gabrielle Creevy
Synopsis: “When a spy posing as a politician’s wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.”
Where to watch: Netflix
The Day of the Jackal (2024 – )
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Eleanor Matsuura, Chukwudi Iwuji, Úrsula Corberó, Ben Hall, Khalid Abdalla, Charles Dance, Jon Arias
Synopsis: “A ruthless assassin, the Jackal, (Eddie Redmayne) makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch) who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.”
Where to watch: Peacock
Homeland (2011-2020)
Cast: Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend, Maury Sterling, F. Murray Abraham, Morena Baccarin, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor
Synospis: “In Season 1, Carrie (Claire Danes) investigates and ultimately becomes obsessed with returned POW marine Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), who may or may not be an al-Qaeda-trained terrorist; Brody struggles to resume his life with his wife and children whom he barely knows.”
Where to watch: Disney+, Hulu
London Spy (2015 miniseries)
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Edward Holcroft, Zrinka Cvitesic, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Samantha Spiro, Charlotte Rampling
Synopsis: “A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them is found murdered.”
Where to watch: Xumo Play
The Night Manager (2016 miniseries)
Cast: Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Debicki, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, David Harewood, Tobias Menzies, David Farr, Alistair Petrie, Sobhita Dhulipala, Neil Morrissey, Douglas Hodge, Noah Jupe, Russell Tovey
Synopsis: “The Night Manager is based on the internationally acclaimed novel by master storyteller John le Carré. This suspenseful thriller follows Jonathan Pine as he endeavours to bring down the notorious arms dealer Richard Roper.”
Where to watch: Prime Video
Slow Horses (2022 – )
Cast: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Rosalind Eleazar, Saskia Reeves, Christopher Chung, Jonathan Pryce, Chris Reilly, Freddie Fox, Ruth Bradley, Olivia Cooke
Synopsis: “Slow Horses follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 – Slough House. Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but irascible leader of the spies who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes.”
Where to watch: Apple TV+
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