Shows like Black Doves
If you liked Black Doves, the best matches are The Night Agent, The Night Manager and Slow Horses.
Black Doves gives us a slick London spy thriller where a politician's wife and an assassin team up for holiday-season carnage, and fans clearly adore the moody espionage, political stakes, and sharp female-led action.
If you have already burned through that conspiracy-laden chaos and need more undercover tension, the list below keeps the paranoia high and the body counts satisfyingly steady.
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1. The Night Agent 2023 · Series
78Swap out the London streets for Washington corridors, but keep the exact same frantic pace of high-stakes political conspiracies and agents scrambling.
- Netflix
2. The Night Manager 2016 · Series
80This trade-craft heavy thriller matches the spy genre and tense espionage atmosphere, just with more globe-trotting arms dealers.
- Amazon Prime Video
3. Slow Horses 2022 · Series
83It stays in London and deals with spies, offering a similarly gritty spy thriller tone with a heavy dose of British intelligence.
- Apple TV
4. Reacher 2022 · Series
71It trades sleek espionage for bone-crunching action, but keeps the same tough protagonist solving dangerous conspiracies.
- Amazon Prime Video
5. Citadel 2023 · Series
64If you loved the spy thriller angle, this adds amnesiac agents and secret organizations to the mix with a faster blockbuster pace.
- Amazon Prime Video
6. Gangs of London 2020 · Series
76It shares the gritty London crime setting and a quest for vengeance following an assassination, though it leans way harder into brutal gang warfare.
- Philo
- AMC+
- Spectrum On Demand
7. Strike 2017 · Series
70It keeps the London setting and a veteran investigator solving crimes, but swaps international espionage for grounded private detective work.
- HBO Max
- Shahid VIP
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