Shows like The Sentinel: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Sentinel (1996) — a drama, crime and action & adventure series created by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Sentinel most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like mythology, superhuman and police detective. 8 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Citadel 2023★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure
What if you lost your memory? What if a spy didn't know they were a spy? Years ago, the top agents of Citadel, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, had their minds wiped. But, they're called back to action as sinister forces emerge from the past. With the help of spymaster Bernard Orlick, these former lovers must remember the past to save the future.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Crime Story 1986★ 8.0
Shares: Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Arrow 2012★ 6.8
Shares: Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, JioHotstar, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Alphas 2011★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure
Five ordinary people with superhuman physical and mental abilities are brought together to form one extraordinary team of Alphas. Operating within the U.S. Department of Defense, the team investigates cases that point to others with Alpha abilities.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Baretta 1975★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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77 Sunset Strip 1958★ 7.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Las Vegas 2003★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime
Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Grace 2021★ 6.8
Shares: Crime, Drama
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Following another reprimand for his unorthodox police methods, Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Watchmen 2019★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, Crime
Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Police Story 1973★ 7.0
Shares: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama
Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the Empire of Chaiba, a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia. He initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Cross 2024★ 7.1
Shares: Crime, Drama
Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2013★ 7.5
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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Mission: Impossible 1988★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. The show is a revival of the 1966 TV series of the same name. The only actor to return for the series as a regular cast member was Peter Graves who played Jim Phelps, although two other cast members from the original series returned as guest stars. The only other regular cast member to return for every episode was the voice of "The Tape", Bob Johnson.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Walker 2021★ 7.1
Shares: Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there's harder work to be done at home.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Barnaby Jones 1973★ 7.0
Shares: Crime, Drama
Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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T. J. Hooker 1982★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Crime
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Marvel's Daredevil 2015★ 8.2
Shares: Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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Murder in a Small Town 2024★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Crime
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his shore.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Night Manager 2016★ 7.7
Shares: Drama, Crime
Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Gotham 2014★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, Crime
Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now