Adventure TV Shows — BBC Top 100
Browse 5 adventure TV shows from BBC's 100 Greatest Television Series of the 21st Century, in their original ranking order.
5 shows
1. Breaking Bad
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A chemistry teacher facing cancer starts cooking meth with a former student, and gradually becomes a ruthless drug kingpin.
2. The Wire
Crime, Drama
A wide-angle portrait of Baltimore told through police, drug crews, schools, politics, the docks, and the media.
3. Mad Men
Drama
Advertising executives in 1960s New York sell dreams while navigating ambition, identity, marriage, and a rapidly changing America.
4. Succession
Drama, Family
The dysfunctional Roy family fights over control of a global media empire as its aging patriarch refuses to let go.
5. Fleabag
Comedy, Drama
A sharp, self-destructive London woman speaks directly to the audience while dealing with grief, sex, family, and intimacy.
6. Game of Thrones
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Noble families battle for power across a brutal fantasy continent while an ancient supernatural threat grows in the north.
7. Veep
Comedy
An ambitious U.S. vice president and her chaotic staff stumble through Washington politics, ego, incompetence, and constant crisis.
8. 30 Rock
Comedy
A TV comedy writer tries to manage eccentric stars, network executives, and her own messy life behind the scenes of a sketch show.
9. Curb Your Enthusiasm
Comedy
A fictionalized Larry David turns tiny social annoyances into spectacularly awkward conflicts through stubbornness and terrible judgment.
10. Atlanta
Comedy, Drama, Music
Two cousins try to build a rap career in Atlanta while moving through money problems, race, fame, and surreal everyday life.
11. The Office (U.S.)
Comedy
A mockumentary about employees at a mundane paper company, led by a painfully inappropriate but oddly lovable regional manager.
12. Arrested Development
Comedy, Family
The one responsible member of a formerly rich family tries to hold everyone together after his father is arrested.
13. Girls
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four young women in New York stumble through work, relationships, money, friendship, and adulthood with uncomfortable honesty.
14. Friday Night Lights
Drama, Sports
High-school football becomes the center of life in a small Texas town, following players, families, coaches, and community pressure.
15. Six Feet Under
Comedy, Drama
A family running a Los Angeles funeral home confronts death every day while struggling with love, resentment, identity, and change.
16. The Office (U.K.)
Comedy
The original mockumentary follows an ordinary British office ruled by David Brent, a boss desperate to be funny and popular.
17. The Americans
Drama, Espionage
Two Soviet spies live as a married American couple near Washington, D.C., balancing dangerous missions with increasingly real family ties.
18. I May Destroy You
Comedy, Drama
A young writer in London reconstructs what happened after a sexual assault and reexamines consent, friendship, memory, and identity.
19. Chernobyl
Drama, History
A dramatization of the 1986 nuclear disaster, the people who tried to contain it, and the institutional failures behind the catastrophe.
20. The Crown
Drama, History
A dramatized history of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, focusing on the monarchy, politics, duty, marriage, and public life.
21. The White Lotus
Comedy, Drama
Wealthy guests and resort workers collide during luxurious vacations where privilege, resentment, sex, and money slowly turn poisonous.
22. Lost
Adventure, Drama, Supernatural
Survivors of a plane crash are stranded on a mysterious island filled with strange science, hidden groups, and supernatural secrets.
23. The Comeback
Comedy
A fading sitcom actress lets a reality-TV crew film her attempted comeback, exposing humiliation, vanity, and the cruelty of show business.
24. Deadwood
Crime, Drama, Western
In a lawless 1870s mining town, settlers, criminals, businessmen, and politicians build a society through violence, negotiation, and greed.
25. The Leftovers
Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
After 2% of humanity suddenly vanishes, the people left behind struggle with grief, faith, cults, and the need for meaning.
26. Black Mirror
Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Standalone stories explore how technology can amplify human obsession, cruelty, loneliness, status anxiety, and unexpected moral choices.
27. Better Call Saul
Crime, Drama, Legal
A struggling lawyer slowly transforms into Saul Goodman while his relationships and moral compromises pull him toward the criminal world.
28. Band of Brothers
Action, Drama, War
A miniseries following Easy Company from paratrooper training through major World War II campaigns in Europe.
29. Key & Peele
Comedy
Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key perform fast, inventive sketches about race, masculinity, pop culture, language, and social behavior.
30. Severance
Drama, Mystery, Science fiction
Office workers undergo a procedure that completely separates their work memories from their outside lives, creating two selves in one body.
31. Survivor
Adventure, Reality
Contestants live in harsh conditions, compete in challenges, form alliances, and vote one another out for a cash prize.
32. Andor
Espionage, Science fiction, Thriller
A reluctant thief becomes part of the growing rebellion against the Galactic Empire in a grounded Star Wars espionage drama.
33. Enlightened
Comedy, Drama
After a public breakdown and spiritual retreat, a corporate employee returns determined to become a better person and change her company.
34. Schitt's Creek
Comedy
A wealthy family loses everything and must rebuild its life in a tiny town they once bought as a joke.
35. True Detective (Season 1)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two Louisiana detectives revisit a ritualistic murder investigation that consumed their lives over seventeen years.
36. The Pitt
Drama, Medical
A real-time-style hospital drama follows doctors and nurses through one intense shift in a crowded Pittsburgh emergency department.
37. Battlestar Galactica
Drama, Science fiction, War
Humanity's survivors flee robotic Cylons in a military fleet while searching for Earth and questioning identity, faith, and survival.
38. Homeland
Drama, Espionage, Thriller
A brilliant but unstable CIA officer suspects a rescued American POW may have been turned by terrorists.
39. Watchmen
Action, Drama, Science fiction
Decades after masked vigilantes changed history, a detective investigates a conspiracy involving racism, police, power, and inherited trauma.
40. Adolescence
Crime, Drama
A family is shattered when a teenage boy is arrested for the murder of a classmate, forcing everyone to confront how it happened.
41. Louie
Comedy, Drama
A fictionalized comedian navigates parenting, dating, embarrassment, and existential anxiety in loosely connected stories set in New York.
42. Hacks
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A legendary Las Vegas comedian and a young writer form a prickly partnership that evolves into rivalry, mentorship, and genuine attachment.
43. Peaky Blinders
Crime, Drama, History
In post-World War I Birmingham, gang leader Tommy Shelby expands his criminal empire while battling rivals, police, and his own trauma.
44. BoJack Horseman
Animation, Comedy, Drama
A washed-up sitcom star who is also a horse tries to revive his career while repeatedly sabotaging himself and the people around him.
45. Happy Valley
Crime, Drama
A tough police sergeant in northern England confronts violent crime while carrying deep personal grief connected to a dangerous local man.
46. Broad City
Comedy
Two broke best friends in New York turn jobs, dating, drugs, and everyday disasters into chaotic adventures.
47. Twin Peaks: The Return
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Supernatural
Twenty-five years after the original series, Dale Cooper's story resumes in a strange, dreamlike expansion of the Twin Peaks universe.
48. House of Cards
Drama, Thriller
A ruthless Washington politician and his equally ambitious wife manipulate, betray, and scheme their way toward greater power.
49. Normal People
Drama, Romance
Two Irish teenagers from different social backgrounds repeatedly come together and drift apart as they move from school into adulthood.
50. Parks and Recreation
Comedy
An relentlessly optimistic local-government employee and her oddball colleagues try to improve their small Indiana town.
51. The Good Place
Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural
A woman wakes up in the afterlife and realizes she may not belong there, leading to a comic exploration of ethics and what makes people good.
52. Downton Abbey
Drama, Family, Romance
An aristocratic English family and its servants face love, scandal, war, inheritance, and social change in the early 20th century.
53. Stranger Things
Drama, Horror, Science fiction
Kids in a small 1980s town encounter secret experiments, psychic powers, and a terrifying parallel dimension after a boy disappears.
54. The Bureau
Drama, Espionage
French intelligence officers manage undercover agents and long-term false identities, where professional secrecy corrodes private life.
55. Insecure
Comedy, Drama
Two Black women in Los Angeles navigate friendship, work, dating, ambition, and self-doubt while trying to figure out adulthood.
56. Nathan for You
Comedy, Reality
Nathan Fielder offers small businesses absurd, elaborate marketing schemes while keeping a perfectly straight face.
57. I Think You Should Leave
Comedy
Short, aggressively awkward sketches push ordinary social situations into bizarre arguments, meltdowns, and unforgettable nonsense.
58. Chappelle's Show
Comedy
Dave Chappelle uses sketches and stand-up to satirize race, celebrity, politics, media, and American culture.
59. PEN15
Comedy
Two adult creators play their own awkward 13-year-old selves among real teenage actors in a painfully accurate middle-school comedy.
60. Peep Show
Comedy
Two dysfunctional London flatmates narrate their selfish, anxious thoughts directly to the audience while repeatedly ruining their lives.
61. RuPaul's Drag Race
Reality
Drag performers compete in fashion, acting, comedy, and performance challenges to become America's next drag superstar.
62. Slow Horses
Drama, Espionage, Thriller
Disgraced MI5 agents dumped in a dead-end department keep stumbling into real conspiracies under their brilliant, filthy, insulting boss.
63. The Thick of It
Comedy
British government ministers and staff scramble through scandals and policy disasters while terrifying spin doctor Malcolm Tucker attacks everyone.
64. Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Documentary, Food, Travel
Anthony Bourdain travels beyond tourist routes to understand places through food, politics, history, and conversations with local people.
65. Mare of Easttown
Crime, Drama, Mystery
A small-town Pennsylvania detective investigates a murder while her own family life and community relationships are falling apart.
66. The Rehearsal
Comedy
Nathan Fielder helps people rehearse difficult real-life situations through increasingly elaborate simulations that blur planning and reality.
67. The Handmaid's Tale
Drama, Science fiction
In a totalitarian America, fertile women are forced into reproductive servitude while one handmaid struggles to survive and resist.
68. Ozark
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A financial adviser moves his family to the Ozarks to launder money for a cartel, pulling them deeper into violence and corruption.
69. Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Documentary, Food, Travel
Bourdain explores cities and countries through their food, bars, street life, and people, with a skeptical and personal point of view.
70. The Shield
Crime, Drama
A corrupt but effective Los Angeles police unit fights criminals while committing crimes of its own and trying to avoid exposure.
71. Beef (Season 1)
Comedy, Drama
A road-rage incident between two strangers escalates into an obsessive feud that wrecks both of their lives.
72. Squid Game
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Desperate people compete in deadly versions of children's games for an enormous cash prize while wealthy spectators watch.
73. Barry
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A depressed hitman discovers acting in Los Angeles and desperately tries to leave murder behind, but his past keeps following him.
74. The Bear
Comedy, Drama, Food
A gifted chef returns to Chicago to run his family's chaotic sandwich shop, where grief, ambition, and kitchen pressure collide.
75. Ted Lasso
Comedy, Drama, Sports
An upbeat American football coach is hired to manage an English soccer club despite knowing almost nothing about the sport.
76. Somebody Somewhere
Comedy, Drama
A woman back in her Kansas hometown after loss finds friendship, music, and a community of outsiders who help her reconnect with life.
77. Modern Family
Comedy, Family
Three connected households navigate parenting, marriage, aging, and everyday chaos in a mockumentary-style family sitcom.
78. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Comedy
Five deeply selfish friends run a terrible Philadelphia bar and turn every petty scheme into a moral and practical disaster.
79. The Good Wife
Crime, Drama, Legal
After her politician husband is disgraced, a lawyer returns to work and rebuilds her professional and personal identity.
80. How To with John Wilson
Comedy, Documentary
A shy New Yorker films ordinary city life while trying to explain simple tasks, wandering into funny, strange, unexpectedly moving human stories.
81. The Queen's Gambit
Drama
An orphaned chess prodigy rises through the competitive chess world while struggling with addiction, loneliness, and pressure.
82. Better Things
Comedy, Drama, Family
A working actress raises three daughters in Los Angeles while caring for family and trying to preserve a life of her own.
83. Justified
Crime, Drama, Western
A quick-drawing U.S. Marshal returns to his Kentucky hometown and clashes with criminals who often share his history.
84. Planet Earth
Documentary, Nature
A landmark wildlife documentary explores Earth's habitats with spectacular photography of animals, landscapes, and natural behavior.
85. The Great British Baking Show
Food, Reality
Amateur bakers compete in a friendly tent through weekly cake, bread, pastry, and dessert challenges.
86. Shogun
Adventure, Drama, History
In 1600 Japan, an English sailor becomes entangled in a powerful lord's political struggle and a complex cross-cultural relationship.
87. Reservation Dogs
Comedy, Drama
Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma dream of leaving for California while dealing with friendship, grief, family, and community.
88. Dexter
Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Miami blood-spatter analyst secretly lives as a serial killer who targets other murderers while trying to appear normal.
89. Baby Reindeer
Comedy, Drama
A struggling comedian's encounter with an obsessive woman becomes stalking, forcing him to confront trauma and his own complicated choices.
90. Eastbound & Down
Comedy, Drama, Sports
A washed-up, arrogant baseball pitcher returns to his hometown and tries to reclaim the fame he believes he deserves.
91. Catastrophe
Comedy, Romance
An American man and an Irish woman become a couple after an unexpected pregnancy, then discover how messy marriage and parenting can be.
92. The Night Of
Crime, Drama, Legal
A New York student wakes after a night with a stranger to find her murdered, and the justice system closes around him.
93. Station Eleven
Adventure, Drama, Science fiction
After a pandemic destroys civilization, survivors rebuild lives through art, memory, friendship, and a traveling Shakespeare troupe.
94. The Diplomat
Drama, Thriller
A career diplomat unexpectedly becomes U.S. ambassador to Britain and must manage international crises, Washington politics, and a difficult marriage.
95. House
Drama, Medical, Mystery
A brilliant, abrasive doctor solves baffling medical cases while battling addiction, authority, and his own isolation.
96. Halt and Catch Fire
Drama
Engineers and entrepreneurs chase the personal-computer and internet revolutions of the 1980s and 1990s while repeatedly reinventing themselves.
97. Community
Comedy
A fake lawyer enrolls at a chaotic community college and forms a study group that becomes an unconventional family.
98. The OA
Drama, Mystery, Science fiction
A missing blind woman returns years later with her sight restored and tells a strange story involving captivity, near-death experiences, and other dimensions.
99. Gilmore Girls
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A fast-talking single mother and her teenage daughter navigate love, school, family expectations, and life in a quirky Connecticut town.
100. Scandal
Drama, Thriller
A Washington crisis manager fixes scandals for powerful clients while becoming entangled with the White House and its secrets.
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5. Game of Thrones
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Noble families battle for power across a brutal fantasy continent while an ancient supernatural threat grows in the north.
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19. Lost
Adventure, Drama, Supernatural
Survivors of a plane crash are stranded on a mysterious island filled with strange science, hidden groups, and supernatural secrets.
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61. Avatar: The Last Airbender
Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
A young airbender and his friends travel through a world divided by elemental powers, seeking to end a war and restore balance.
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76. Rick and Morty
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Science fiction
A reckless scientist takes his anxious grandson on adventures across planets and dimensions, leaving chaos in their family and beyond.
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99. Steven Universe
Action, Adventure, Animation, Science fiction
A boy with inherited magical powers grows up among alien guardians, learning about friendship, identity, and his family’s complicated past.
1. The Wire
Crime, Drama
A wide-angle portrait of Baltimore told through police, drug crews, schools, politics, the docks, and the media.
2. Mad Men
Drama
Advertising executives in 1960s New York sell dreams while navigating ambition, identity, marriage, and a rapidly changing America.
3. Breaking Bad
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A chemistry teacher facing cancer starts cooking meth with a former student, and gradually becomes a ruthless drug kingpin.
4. Fleabag
Comedy, Drama
A sharp, self-destructive London woman speaks directly to the audience while dealing with grief, sex, family, and intimacy.
6. I May Destroy You
Comedy, Drama
A young writer in London reconstructs what happened after a sexual assault and reexamines consent, friendship, memory, and identity.
7. The Leftovers
Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
After 2% of humanity suddenly vanishes, the people left behind struggle with grief, faith, cults, and the need for meaning.
8. The Americans
Drama, Espionage
Two Soviet spies live as a married American couple near Washington, D.C., balancing dangerous missions with increasingly real family ties.
9. The Office (UK)
Comedy
The original mockumentary follows an ordinary British office ruled by David Brent, a boss desperate to be funny and popular.
10. Succession
Drama, Family
The dysfunctional Roy family fights over control of a global media empire as its aging patriarch refuses to let go.
11. BoJack Horseman
Animation, Comedy, Drama
A washed-up sitcom star who is also a horse tries to revive his career while repeatedly sabotaging himself and the people around him.
12. Six Feet Under
Comedy, Drama
A family running a Los Angeles funeral home confronts death every day while struggling with love, resentment, identity, and change.
13. Twin Peaks: The Return
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Supernatural
Twenty-five years after the original series, Dale Cooper's story resumes in a strange, dreamlike expansion of the Twin Peaks universe.
14. Atlanta
Comedy, Drama, Music
Two cousins try to build a rap career in Atlanta while moving through money problems, race, fame, and surreal everyday life.
15. Chernobyl
Drama, History
A dramatization of the 1986 nuclear disaster, the people who tried to contain it, and the institutional failures behind the catastrophe.
16. The Crown
Drama, History
A dramatized history of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, focusing on the monarchy, politics, duty, marriage, and public life.
17. 30 Rock
Comedy
A TV comedy writer tries to manage eccentric stars, network executives, and her own messy life behind the scenes of a sketch show.
18. Deadwood
Crime, Drama, Western
In a lawless 1870s mining town, settlers, criminals, businessmen, and politicians build a society through violence, negotiation, and greed.
20. The Thick of It
Comedy
British government ministers and staff scramble through scandals and policy disasters while terrifying spin doctor Malcolm Tucker attacks everyone.
21. Curb Your Enthusiasm
Comedy
A fictionalized Larry David turns tiny social annoyances into spectacularly awkward conflicts through stubbornness and terrible judgment.
22. Black Mirror
Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Standalone stories explore how technology can amplify human obsession, cruelty, loneliness, status anxiety, and unexpected moral choices.
23. Better Call Saul
Crime, Drama, Legal
A struggling lawyer slowly transforms into Saul Goodman while his relationships and moral compromises pull him toward the criminal world.
24. Veep
Comedy
An ambitious U.S. vice president and her chaotic staff stumble through Washington politics, ego, incompetence, and constant crisis.
25. Sherlock
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson solve intricate crimes in modern London, where brilliant deductions collide with dangerous obsessions.
26. Watchmen
Action, Drama, Science fiction
Decades after masked vigilantes changed history, a detective investigates a conspiracy involving racism, police, power, and inherited trauma.
27. Line of Duty
Crime, Drama, Thriller
An anti-corruption police unit investigates fellow officers, uncovering misconduct, cover-ups, and connections to organized crime.
28. Friday Night Lights
Drama, Sports
High-school football becomes the center of life in a small Texas town, following players, families, coaches, and community pressure.
29. Parks and Recreation
Comedy
An relentlessly optimistic local-government employee and her oddball colleagues try to improve their small Indiana town.
30. Girls
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four young women in New York stumble through work, relationships, money, friendship, and adulthood with uncomfortable honesty.
31. True Detective
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Troubled detectives pursue disturbing cases in an anthology crime drama about obsession, violence, and the cost of uncovering the truth.
32. Arrested Development
Comedy, Family
The one responsible member of a formerly rich family tries to hold everyone together after his father is arrested.
33. The Good Wife
Crime, Drama, Legal
After her politician husband is disgraced, a lawyer returns to work and rebuilds her professional and personal identity.
34. The Bridge
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A body on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden forces two very different detectives to investigate a crime that crosses national borders.
35. Fargo
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ordinary people become entangled in extraordinary crimes in an anthology of murder, dark humor, and Midwestern small-town life.
36. Downton Abbey
Drama, Family, Romance
An aristocratic English family and its servants face love, scandal, war, inheritance, and social change in the early 20th century.
36. Band of Brothers
Action, Drama, War
A miniseries following Easy Company from paratrooper training through major World War II campaigns in Europe.
38. The Handmaid's Tale
Drama, Science fiction
In a totalitarian America, fertile women are forced into reproductive servitude while one handmaid struggles to survive and resist.
39. The Office (US)
Comedy
A mockumentary about employees at a mundane paper company, led by a painfully inappropriate but oddly lovable regional manager.
40. Borgen
Drama
An unexpected election victory makes Birgitte Nyborg prime minister of Denmark, testing her ideals, political alliances, and family life.
41. Schitt's Creek
Comedy
A wealthy family loses everything and must rebuild its life in a tiny town they once bought as a joke.
42. Peep Show
Comedy
Two dysfunctional London flatmates narrate their selfish, anxious thoughts directly to the audience while repeatedly ruining their lives.
43. Money Heist
Action, Crime, Thriller
A criminal mastermind recruits a team of thieves for an audacious heist, where hostages, police negotiations, and personal loyalties complicate the plan.
44. Community
Comedy
A fake lawyer enrolls at a chaotic community college and forms a study group that becomes an unconventional family.
45. The Good Fight
Drama, Legal
After a financial scandal destroys her savings, lawyer Diane Lockhart joins a Chicago firm and confronts volatile cases and political upheaval.
46. Homeland
Drama, Espionage, Thriller
A brilliant but unstable CIA officer suspects a rescued American POW may have been turned by terrorists.
47. Grey's Anatomy
Drama, Medical, Romance
Surgeons at a Seattle hospital balance demanding medical cases with friendships, romances, rivalries, and personal crises.
48. Inside No 9
Comedy, Supernatural, Thriller
An anthology of darkly comic stories, each set behind a door numbered nine, moves between everyday awkwardness, suspense, and horror.
49. The Bureau
Drama, Espionage
French intelligence officers manage undercover agents and long-term false identities, where professional secrecy corrodes private life.
50. Halt and Catch Fire
Drama
Engineers and entrepreneurs chase the personal-computer and internet revolutions of the 1980s and 1990s while repeatedly reinventing themselves.
51. Small Axe
Drama
Five films explore the lives, struggles, and resilience of West Indian communities in London from the 1960s to the 1980s.
52. This is England 86, 88 and 90
Crime, Drama
Shaun, Lol, Woody, and their friends navigate adulthood, trauma, and changing relationships in three stories set in 1986, 1988, and 1990.
53. Call My Agent!
Comedy
Parisian talent agents scramble to protect their agency while juggling demanding actors, professional rivalries, and complicated personal lives.
54. Happy Valley
Crime, Drama
A tough police sergeant in northern England confronts violent crime while carrying deep personal grief connected to a dangerous local man.
55. The Shield
Crime, Drama
A corrupt but effective Los Angeles police unit fights criminals while committing crimes of its own and trying to avoid exposure.
56. The Big Bang Theory
Comedy
A group of scientists and their friends navigate relationships, work, and daily life, where academic brilliance rarely solves social problems.
57. The Young Pope
Drama, History
A young American becomes pope, unsettling the Vatican with his uncompromising beliefs, unpredictable decisions, and troubled past.
58. Dark
Drama, Science fiction, Supernatural
The disappearance of children in a German town exposes connections between four families and a mystery stretching across generations.
59. The Underground Railroad
Drama, Fantasy, History
Cora escapes slavery in the American South through a reimagined Underground Railroad, searching for freedom while being relentlessly pursued.
60. House of Cards
Drama, Thriller
A ruthless Washington politician and his equally ambitious wife manipulate, betray, and scheme their way toward greater power.
62. The Good Place
Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural
A woman wakes up in the afterlife and realizes she may not belong there, leading to a comic exploration of ethics and what makes people good.
62. Pose
Drama
Performers in New York’s ballroom scene build chosen families while pursuing recognition and confronting discrimination and the AIDS crisis.
64. Detectorists
Comedy
Two friends search the English countryside with metal detectors, hoping to find buried treasure while navigating quieter hopes and disappointments.
65. Orange is the New Black
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A woman serving a prison sentence for a past crime enters a community shaped by friendships, rivalries, and the failures of the prison system.
66. Mare of Easttown
Crime, Drama, Mystery
A small-town Pennsylvania detective investigates a murder while her own family life and community relationships are falling apart.
67. RuPaul's Drag Race
Reality
Drag performers compete in fashion, acting, comedy, and performance challenges to become America's next drag superstar.
68. Stranger Things
Drama, Horror, Science fiction
Kids in a small 1980s town encounter secret experiments, psychic powers, and a terrifying parallel dimension after a boy disappears.
69. 24
Action, Drama, Thriller
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer races to stop escalating threats in a thriller whose episodes unfold in real time.
70. Battlestar Galactica
Drama, Science fiction, War
Humanity's survivors flee robotic Cylons in a military fleet while searching for Earth and questioning identity, faith, and survival.
71. Enlightened
Comedy, Drama
After a public breakdown and spiritual retreat, a corporate employee returns determined to become a better person and change her company.
72. Gilmore Girls
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A fast-talking single mother and her teenage daughter navigate love, school, family expectations, and life in a quirky Connecticut town.
73. Planet Earth
Documentary, Nature
A landmark wildlife documentary explores Earth's habitats with spectacular photography of animals, landscapes, and natural behavior.
74. Utopia
Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Fans of a mysterious graphic novel discover a conspiracy that puts them in the path of a ruthless organization.
75. Babylon Berlin
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police detective investigates crime and political conspiracies in 1920s Berlin, a city alive with nightlife and growing instability.
77. American Crime Story
Crime, Drama
An anthology revisits notorious American criminal cases, examining the people involved and the social forces surrounding them.
78. The Killing (Denmark)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Copenhagen detective Sarah Lund investigates complex murders that draw her into political intrigue and the private lives of grieving families.
79. Mindhunter
Crime, Drama, Thriller
FBI agents interview imprisoned serial killers to develop criminal profiling, testing a new approach to understanding and investigating murder.
80. House
Drama, Medical, Mystery
A brilliant, abrasive doctor solves baffling medical cases while battling addiction, authority, and his own isolation.
81. OJ: Made in America
Crime, Documentary, Sports
A documentary traces O.J. Simpson’s rise, murder trial, and legacy through the intersecting histories of race, celebrity, and American justice.
82. Big Little Lies
Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A group of mothers in a wealthy California coastal town hide private struggles beneath polished lives, until a death exposes their secrets.
83. Insecure
Comedy, Drama
Two Black women in Los Angeles navigate friendship, work, dating, ambition, and self-doubt while trying to figure out adulthood.
84. Normal People
Drama, Romance
Two Irish teenagers from different social backgrounds repeatedly come together and drift apart as they move from school into adulthood.
84. Narcos
Action, Crime, Drama
The rise of Colombian drug cartels and the pursuit of Pablo Escobar unfold through a crime drama about power, violence, and the drug trade.
86. How I Met Your Mother
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ted Mosby tells his children how he met their mother, retracing years of friendship, romance, and misadventures in New York.
87. The Comeback
Comedy
A fading sitcom actress lets a reality-TV crew film her attempted comeback, exposing humiliation, vanity, and the cruelty of show business.
88. The OA
Drama, Mystery, Science fiction
A missing blind woman returns years later with her sight restored and tells a strange story involving captivity, near-death experiences, and other dimensions.
89. Dexter
Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Miami blood-spatter analyst secretly lives as a serial killer who targets other murderers while trying to appear normal.
90. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Comedy
Five deeply selfish friends run a terrible Philadelphia bar and turn every petty scheme into a moral and practical disaster.
91. Westworld
Drama, Science fiction, Western
Artificially intelligent hosts in an immersive theme park begin to question their world and the people who control it.
92. Show Me a Hero
Crime, Drama, History
A young mayor faces fierce resistance to a court-ordered housing plan, exposing racial and political divisions in Yonkers, New York.
93. Treme
Drama, Music
Musicians, cooks, and other residents rebuild their lives in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina while trying to preserve the city’s culture.
94. Louie
Comedy, Drama
A fictionalized comedian navigates parenting, dating, embarrassment, and existential anxiety in loosely connected stories set in New York.
95. Luther
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A brilliant but troubled London detective investigates violent crimes while struggling with his own anger and dangerous personal connections.
96. Catastrophe
Comedy, Romance
An American man and an Irish woman become a couple after an unexpected pregnancy, then discover how messy marriage and parenting can be.
97. Hannibal
Crime, Drama, Horror
An empathetic criminal profiler forms a disturbing bond with psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter while investigating a series of brutal murders.
98. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Comedy, Music
A successful lawyer abandons her New York career to follow an old boyfriend to California, confronting romance and mental health through musical comedy.
100. The Queen's Gambit
Drama
An orphaned chess prodigy rises through the competitive chess world while struggling with addiction, loneliness, and pressure.
1. Parasite
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A struggling family finds work in a wealthy household, setting off a chain of deception and conflict across Seoul's class divide.
2. Mulholland Drive
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An aspiring actor helps an amnesiac stranger in Los Angeles, where identities and Hollywood dreams begin to unravel.
3. There Will Be Blood
Drama
An ambitious oil prospector builds an empire in California while his hunger for power poisons his relationships.
4. In the Mood for Love
Drama, Romance
Two neighbors in 1960s Hong Kong discover their spouses' infidelity and form a bond shaped by longing and restraint.
5. Moonlight
Drama
Across three stages of his life, a young man in Miami searches for intimacy, belonging, and a sense of himself.
6. No Country for Old Men
Crime, Thriller, Western
A hunter takes money from a failed drug deal, drawing a relentless killer and an aging sheriff into his path.
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Drama, Romance, Science fiction
As memories of a failed relationship are erased, a man discovers how fiercely he wants to hold on to them.
8. Get Out
Horror, Thriller
A visit to his girlfriend's family estate turns increasingly sinister for a young Black photographer.
9. Spirited Away
Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
Trapped in a world of spirits, a girl works in a bathhouse while searching for a way to rescue her parents.
10. The Social Network
Drama
The creation of Facebook brings a young programmer extraordinary success and bitter disputes over friendship, ownership, and betrayal.
11. Mad Max: Fury Road
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
A drifter joins a rebel warrior and a group of escaped captives in a desperate chase across a desert wasteland.
12. The Zone of Interest
Drama, History, War
An Auschwitz commandant and his family cultivate their comfortable domestic life beside the concentration camp.
13. Children of Men
Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
In a world without new births, a disillusioned man is drawn into a mission to protect a pregnant refugee.
14. Inglourious Basterds
Drama, War
In occupied France, a cinema owner's revenge converges with a band of soldiers' plan to strike at Nazi leadership.
15. City of God
Crime, Drama
An aspiring photographer grows up amid escalating gang violence in a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood.
16. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Action, Adventure, Romance
A stolen sword brings two seasoned warriors into conflict with a young woman seeking freedom from her prescribed life.
17. Brokeback Mountain
Drama, Romance, Western
Two ranch hands fall in love during a summer in Wyoming, beginning a relationship that shapes their lives for decades.
18. Y tu mamá también
Comedy, Drama
Two teenage friends and an older woman take a road trip through Mexico that exposes tensions beneath their carefree adventure.
19. Zodiac
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A cartoonist, journalists, and detectives become consumed by the search for the Zodiac killer in Northern California.
20. The Wolf of Wall Street
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A stockbroker's spectacular rise is fueled by fraud, excess, and a culture of reckless ambition.
21. The Royal Tenenbaums
Comedy, Drama
Three former child prodigies reunite with their estranged father, reopening old rivalries and disappointments.
22. The Grand Budapest Hotel
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A hotel concierge and his young protégé become embroiled in a disputed inheritance, an art theft, and a murder accusation.
23. Boyhood
Drama
Filmed over twelve years, a boy's childhood unfolds through shifting family relationships and everyday experiences in Texas.
24. Her
Drama, Romance, Science fiction
A lonely writer develops an intimate relationship with an operating system whose growing consciousness changes their connection.
25. Phantom Thread
Drama, Romance
A meticulous London dressmaker's ordered life is unsettled by a young woman who becomes his muse and partner.
26. Anatomy of a Fall
Crime, Drama, Mystery
After her husband's fatal fall, a writer faces a trial that places her marriage and her son's testimony under scrutiny.
27. Adaptation
Comedy, Drama
A screenwriter's struggle to adapt a book about orchids spills into an increasingly tangled story of obsession and invention.
28. The Dark Knight
Action, Crime, Thriller
Batman's campaign against organized crime is upended by the Joker, who pushes Gotham toward chaos and moral compromise.
29. Arrival
Drama, Science fiction
A linguist tries to communicate with alien visitors as international mistrust threatens to turn first contact into conflict.
30. Lost in Translation
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A fading actor and a young newlywed form an unexpected connection while feeling adrift in Tokyo.
31. The Departed
Crime, Drama, Thriller
An undercover officer and a criminal planted inside the police race to expose each other in Boston.
32. Bridesmaids
Comedy
A struggling woman's role as her best friend's maid of honor becomes a battleground of rivalry and personal mishaps.
33. A Separation
Drama
A separating couple's dispute becomes entangled with their caregiver's family, creating a web of conflicting loyalties and accusations.
34. Wall-E
Adventure, Animation, Science fiction
A solitary waste-collecting robot follows a visiting probe into space and becomes part of humanity's chance to return to Earth.
35. A Prophet
Crime, Drama
A young prisoner learns to navigate rival factions and gradually builds influence within a French prison.
36. A Serious Man
Comedy, Drama
A professor in 1960s Minnesota seeks guidance as his marriage, career, and family life unravel around him.
37. Call Me by Your Name
Drama, Romance
A teenager and a visiting graduate student develop a summer romance in northern Italy.
38. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Drama, Romance
An artist commissioned to paint a reluctant bride's portrait forms an intimate bond with her subject on a remote French island.
39. Lady Bird
Comedy, Drama
A Sacramento teenager pushes against her mother's expectations while imagining a different life beyond her hometown.
40. Yi Yi
Drama
Members of a Taipei family confront love, loss, and uncertainty through everyday events seen across three generations.
41. Amélie
Comedy, Romance
A shy Parisian waitress secretly reshapes the lives of those around her while struggling to pursue happiness herself.
42. The Master
Drama
A troubled veteran falls under the influence of a charismatic leader whose movement promises answers to his inner turmoil.
43. Oldboy
Action, Mystery, Thriller
Released after years of unexplained imprisonment, a man searches for his captor and the reason his life was destroyed.
44. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
Comedy, Drama
An actor and his stunt double navigate a changing Hollywood in 1969, crossing paths with a rising star and a violent cult.
45. Moneyball
Drama, Sport
A baseball general manager challenges conventional scouting by building a competitive team through statistical analysis.
46. Roma
Drama
A domestic worker supports a family in 1970s Mexico City while facing profound changes in her own life.
47. Almost Famous
Comedy, Drama, Music
A teenage music journalist goes on tour with a rock band and discovers the distance between his heroes and their public image.
48. The Lives of Others
Drama, Thriller
A Stasi officer assigned to monitor a playwright becomes increasingly affected by the lives he overhears.
49. Before Sunset
Drama, Romance
Nine years after their first meeting, two former strangers reunite in Paris and reconsider the lives they might have shared.
50. Up
Adventure, Animation, Comedy
An elderly widower flies his house toward South America, unexpectedly bringing a young wilderness scout along for the journey.
51. 12 Years a Slave
Drama, History
A free Black musician is kidnapped and sold into slavery, enduring years of brutality while seeking a way home.
52. The Favourite
Comedy, Drama, History
Two women compete for influence and affection in Queen Anne's court, turning intimacy into a struggle for political power.
53. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Comedy
A fictional Kazakh reporter travels across the United States, provoking revealing encounters with unsuspecting people along the way.
54. Pan’s Labyrinth
Drama, Fantasy, War
In Franco-era Spain, a young girl enters a mysterious fantasy world while living under the authority of her cruel stepfather.
55. Inception
Action, Science fiction, Thriller
A specialist in stealing secrets through dreams is hired to plant an idea inside an heir's subconscious.
56. Punch-Drunk Love
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A socially anxious businessman finds a chance at romance while facing family pressure and an escalating extortion scheme.
57. Best in Show
Comedy
Eccentric owners and their dogs prepare for a prestigious competition in a mock documentary about rivalry and devotion.
58. Uncut Gems
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A New York jeweler's relentless gambling and risky deals threaten to overwhelm his business and personal life.
59. Toni Erdmann
Comedy, Drama
An eccentric father uses an elaborate alter ego to disrupt his daughter's tightly controlled corporate life.
60. Whiplash
Drama, Music
A young jazz drummer's pursuit of excellence brings him into an increasingly destructive relationship with his demanding teacher.
61. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Action, Thriller
A former assassin wakes from a coma and begins hunting the people who attacked her at her wedding rehearsal.
62. Memento
Mystery, Thriller
A man unable to form new memories uses notes, photographs, and tattoos to pursue the person he believes killed his wife.
63. Little Miss Sunshine
Comedy, Drama
A fractured family piles into a van to take their youngest member to a children's beauty pageant.
64. Gone Girl
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman's disappearance draws suspicion toward her husband as the public story of their marriage begins to shift.
65. Oppenheimer
Drama, History, Thriller
J. Robert Oppenheimer leads the effort to develop the atomic bomb and later faces a hearing that threatens his public standing.
66. Spotlight
Drama, History
Boston Globe reporters investigate sexual abuse by Catholic priests and the institutional failures that allowed it to continue.
67. Tár
Drama, Music
A celebrated conductor's carefully constructed world begins to fracture amid allegations, personal tensions, and professional pressure.
68. The Hurt Locker
Drama, Thriller, War
An Army bomb-disposal team in Iraq struggles with the dangerous methods of its new leader.
69. Under the Skin
Drama, Horror, Science fiction
An alien takes on a woman's appearance and drives through Scotland, luring men into a deadly trap.
70. Let the Right One In
Drama, Horror, Romance
A lonely, bullied boy befriends a mysterious child whose presence brings violence to his Swedish neighborhood.
71. Ocean’s Eleven
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A recently released thief assembles a specialist crew for an audacious heist against three Las Vegas casinos.
72. Carol
Drama, Romance
A department-store worker and an older married woman begin a relationship constrained by the expectations of 1950s America.
73. Ratatouille
Animation, Comedy, Family
A rat with an extraordinary palate secretly helps an inexperienced kitchen worker cook in a renowned Paris restaurant.
74. The Florida Project
Drama
A young girl finds adventure around a Florida budget motel while her mother struggles to keep their precarious life together.
75. Amour
Drama, Romance
An elderly couple's bond is tested by illness as a husband's daily life becomes devoted to caring for his wife.
76. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Adventure, Comedy, Music
Three escaped prisoners travel through Depression-era Mississippi, encountering strange characters and unexpectedly finding musical fame.
77. Everything Everywhere All at Once
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
A laundromat owner discovers alternate versions of herself while trying to save her family and a fractured multiverse.
78. Aftersun
Drama
A woman revisits a childhood holiday with her father, searching her memories and home videos for signs of his inner life.
79. The Tree of Life
Drama, Fantasy
A man's memories of childhood in Texas unfold alongside reflections on family, grief, nature, and the origins of life.
80. Volver
Comedy, Drama
Women in a Spanish family confront buried secrets and a mother's unexpected return while supporting one another through crisis.
81. Black Swan
Drama, Horror, Thriller
A ballerina's drive to embody both halves of Swan Lake's central role blurs the boundary between ambition and delusion.
82. The Act of Killing
Documentary, History
Men involved in Indonesia's mass killings reenact their crimes through cinematic fantasies, exposing how they remember and justify their actions.
83. Inside Llewyn Davis
Drama, Music
A struggling folk singer drifts through a winter week in 1961 New York, searching for work, shelter, and a breakthrough.
84. Melancholia
Drama, Science fiction
Two sisters confront a looming planetary collision as a lavish wedding gives way to dread and uncertainty.
85. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Comedy
A self-important television anchorman and his team struggle to accept a talented woman joining their San Diego newsroom.
86. Past Lives
Drama, Romance
Childhood friends separated by emigration reconnect years later, confronting the possibilities and limits of their enduring bond.
87. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Adventure, Fantasy
A hobbit and his companions begin a perilous journey to destroy a powerful ring before it returns to its creator.
88. The Gleaners & I
Documentary
Agnès Varda travels through France meeting people who gather discarded food and objects, reflecting on consumption and her own filmmaking.
89. Interstellar
Adventure, Drama, Science fiction
An astronaut leaves his family to search beyond the solar system for a habitable world as Earth becomes increasingly unlivable.
90. Frances Ha
Comedy, Drama
An aspiring dancer drifts between apartments and uncertain jobs as a close friendship changes and adulthood comes into focus.
91. Fish Tank
Drama
A teenager living on an English housing estate pursues dance and becomes drawn to her mother's new boyfriend.
92. Gladiator
Action, Adventure, Drama
A betrayed Roman general becomes a gladiator and seeks revenge against the emperor who destroyed his family.
93. Michael Clayton
Drama, Thriller
A law firm's fixer investigates a colleague's breakdown and uncovers evidence that threatens a powerful corporate client.
94. Minority Report
Action, Mystery, Science fiction
A police officer in a system that predicts murders becomes a fugitive when he is identified as a future killer.
95. The Worst Person in the World
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young woman in Oslo navigates changing ambitions and relationships while trying to decide what kind of life she wants.
96. Black Panther
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
Wakanda's new king faces a rival whose challenge forces the nation to reconsider its isolation and its responsibilities to the world.
97. Gravity
Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
After debris destroys their shuttle, astronauts stranded in orbit struggle to find a route back to Earth.
98. Grizzly Man
Documentary
Werner Herzog examines the life and recordings of a man who lived among Alaska's grizzly bears and was killed by one.
99. Memories of Murder
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detectives with clashing methods investigate a series of killings in rural South Korea, struggling against limited evidence and institutional failures.
100. Superbad
Comedy
Two high-school friends' plan to supply alcohol for a party becomes a chaotic night that tests their friendship.
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