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20 best shows like Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

List of the best shows and series like Dog Day Afternoon (1975): Halston, Happily Divorced, The Following, Love Stage!!, The Great Train Robbery, Chucky, Fear City: New York vs The Mafia, In the Flesh, When They See Us, Gunpowder.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA

American fashion designer Halston skyrockets to fame before his life starts to spin out of control.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

Happily Divorced is an American sitcom created by Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson. Inspired by their experiences, the series, which became TV Land's third original scripted series following Hot in Cleveland and Retired at 35, ran from June 15, 2011, to February 13, 2013, and revolves around a Los Angeles florist who finds out her husband of 18 years is gay. Happily Divorced was canceled on August 23, 2013.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature, escapes from death row. The FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy to consult on the case, as he was the one responsible for Carroll’s capture in 2003. Ryan, working closely with an FBI team, including Mike Weston and FBI Specialist Debra Parker, piece together the ever-growing web of murders orchestrated by the devious Carroll.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan
Duration00:25

Izumi was born in a family of celebrities. His father is a singer, his mother an artist, his older brother the lead vocalist for the popular band Crashers. Izumi himself, however, is just a nerdy college student. He loves the manga "Magical Girl Lala Lulu" and dreams of becoming a manga writer himself. One day he is roped into filming a commercial where he wears a dress. Another actor on the set, Ryoma Ichijo, mistakes him for a woman and falls in love at first sight. As it turns out, though, they met ten years in the past. And Ryoma feelings don't change when he finds out Izumi is a boy.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration03:00

8 August 1963: Britain wakes up to news of the biggest robbery in the country’s history. A train has been hijacked and robbed, 35 miles from its arrival in central London. The country is stunned. Who could be behind it? How did they pull off such an audacious raid?

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Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
CountryUSA

    After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies — and allies — from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredocumentary, crime
    CountryUSA

    New York City in the 1970s was ruled with a bloody fist by five mafia families, until a group of federal agents tried the unthinkable: taking them down.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:43

    Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?

    Markimdb: 8.9
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:43

    Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:06

    London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    The harrowing true story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and the Branch Davidians, a spiritual sect led by David Koresh in Waco, TX that resulted in a deadly shootout and fire.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy from real-life pals Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration00:43

    Off the grid and miles from civilization, Little Otter Family Camp has summer fun for everyone. Parents decompress over gin and tonics while their kids run wild, and teenage counselors fall in and out of love.Mackenzie Granger is the camp owner and director. Still reeling from her recent divorce, Mackenzie is ready for a fresh start. She is running things on her own for the first time and scrambling to keep the cash-strapped Little Otter from going under.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:11

    Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    This dramedy series set in 1980 revolves around a group of recent college grads setting out to pursue their dreams in Manhattan while still clinging to the familiarity of their working-class Long Island home town.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySweden

    Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon, short, music
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico

    Lincoln Loud is an eleven-year-old boy who lives with ten sisters. With the help of his right-hand man Clyde, Lincoln finds new ways to survive in such a large family every day.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:55

    Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySweden

    Police detective Peter Wendel leads a cold case group. Based on an original idea by Leif GW Persson, one of Sweden’s most recognized criminologists.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryNorway
    Duration01:03

    The story of a young teenager group, born 1999, and a pupil on Hartvig Nissens upper secondary school in Oslo, and her friends and their life, troubles, scandals and every day life. Which of the members represented changes per season.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:53

    A seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories with the first season following Gypsy Blanchard, a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrehorror, comedy, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    A group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:42

    Payton has known since childhood that he's going to be president. First he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:30

    Having gone their separate ways since the original series ended 19 years ago, the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 reunites when one of them suggests it’s time to get a reboot up and running. But getting it going might make for an even more delicious soap than the reboot itself.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when Lena meets Callie, a hardened teen with an abusive past who has spent her life in and out of foster homes. Lena and Stef welcome Callie and her brother, Jude, into their home thinking it's just for a few weeks, until a more permanent placement can be found. But life has something else in store for the Fosters.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    Follow Jim Fitzgerald, the FBI agent who tracked down Ted Kaczynksi, aka the “Unabomber,” and brought him to justice through his expertise in profiling and linguistics.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:16

    It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, fantasy, melodrama, adventure, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration00:57

    Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength?

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:52

    To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA

    When a rising high school football player from South Central L.A. is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, the wins, losses and struggles of two families from vastly different worlds - Compton and Beverly Hills - begin to collide. Inspired by the life of pro football player Spencer Paysinger.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryBelgium

    The nerve-racking events of a cold winter's day, seen from two different perspectives. The odd episodes tell the story of a team of police negotiators and special forces who respond to a hostage crisis in a small bank branch. The even episodes tell exactly the same events, only through the eyes of the criminals inside and their victims.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecrime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A young girl moves from Brooklyn to the small lakeside town her father left behind. While there, her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySpain

    It takes place in the Galicia (Spain) of the 80s, when the fishing sector was transformed and many of the shipowners became indebted. This situation will be favorable for the start of activities such as contraband and drug trafficking.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:30

    Iwatani Naofumi was summoned into a parallel world along with 3 other people to become the world's Heroes. Each of the heroes respectively equipped with their own legendary equipment when summoned, Naofumi received the Legendary Shield as his weapon. Due to Naofumi's lack of charisma and experience he's labeled as the weakest, only to end up betrayed, falsely accused, and robbed by on the third day of adventure. Shunned by everyone from the king to peasants, Naofumi's thoughts were filled with nothing but vengeance and hatred. Thus, his destiny in a parallel World begins...

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    The minister, his mistress, and her lover the spy. The story of the woman at the centre of one of the 20th century's biggest scandals – which changed Britain forever.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryFinland, France

    The series tells the story of DI Kari Sorjonen of the Serious Crime Unit in Lappeenranta, his family, and his investigations into a variety of harrowing homicides around the border area.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, cartoon, crime, anime
    CountryJapan

    Takemichi Hanagaki is a freelancer that’s reached the absolute pits of despair in his life. He finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had, in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, had been killed by the ruthless Tokyo Manji Gang. The day after hearing about her death, he’s standing on the station platform and ends up being pushed over onto the tracks by a herd of people. He closes his eyes thinking he’s about to die, but when he opens his eyes back up, he somehow had gone back in time 12 years. Now that he’s back living the best days of his life, Takemichi decides to get revenge on his life.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryGermany

    Acclaimed series based on the true story of an unprecedented hostage crisis which shocked Germany in the summer of 1988.

    Markimdb: 9
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration10:25

      Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by Titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest Titans. Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a Titan in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a Colossal Titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller Titans flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will murder every single Titan and take revenge for all of mankind.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryNorway, Denmark

      A small Norwegian town experiencing warm winters and violent downpours seems to be headed for another Ragnarök -- unless someone intervenes in time.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryTurkey

      After a fateful domestic clash, a devoted mother finds herself in prison and fighting to survive in hopes of reuniting with her daughter.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
      CountryAustralia

      Real-life mermaids, Sirena, Nixie and Lyla are part of a mermaid pod, which lives in the waters of Mako Island. As young members of the pod, it is their job to protect the Moon Pool and guard it from trespassers. But on the night of a full moon, the mischievous mermaid girls neglect their duties. Sixteen-year-old land-dweller Zac enters the Moon Pool and forms a special connection with Mako.Zac is given a fish-like tail and amazing powers. The mermaid pod is forced to leave Mako, leaving behind the three mermaid girls, cast out of the pod. They know there's only one way they will be allowed to rejoin the pod: They must get legs, venture onto land and take back Zac's powers – or risk being outcasts forever.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryCanada

      A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, cartoon, anime
      CountryJapan
      Duration05:50

      Angel Beats takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront — an organization she leads which fights against God. The Battlefront fight against the student council president Angel, a girl with supernatural powers.

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      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryRussia

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      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.




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