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20 best shows like The Solitary Man (1979)

List of the best shows and series like The Solitary Man (1979): Past Life, East Los High, No Easy Days, Stripped, The Man in the High Castle, We Are Who We Are, The Chair, Total Divas, Terror Lake Drive, Power Book IV: Force.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Past Life is an American crime drama television series which aired on Fox from February 9 to June 4, 2010. The series premiered on Tuesday, February 9 at 9:00 pm Eastern/8:00 pm Central. After the premiere, subsequent airings were broadcast on Thursdays beginning February 11, during the 9:00 pm Eastern/8:00 pm Central timeslot.The series was created by David Hudgins and inspired by the book The Reincarnationist, a crime thriller by M. J. Rose, whose main character, Josh Ryder, solves a 21st-century crime with memories and clues from his past life in ancient Rome.Although seven episodes were produced, the series was canceled after three episodes aired due to rapidly declining ratings. The network announced plans to air the remaining episodes on successive Friday nights from May 28 to June 4, 2010. On June 8, Fox announced that they would not air the final two episodes.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryUSA

East Los High is not your typical high school. Dance, sex, romance, and mystery are at the heart of this inner city school in East LA where two teenage cousins—Jessie, a 16-year-old virgin and Maya, a troubled runaway with a violent past —fall in love with Jacob, a popular football player. From this forbidden love triangle, Maya, Jessie and Jacob, along with their close friends must face true-to-life decisions during a single dramatic and breath-taking year that will mark their lives forever.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama
CountryUSA

President Reynolds and his wife are blindsided in the middle of the night by shocking reports that their daughter has been kidnapped from a New York nightclub. The situation rapidly escalates when, following the brutal shooting of a witness on live television, a Navy Seals Unit, led by Commander Christopher Lowe storms the parking garage where Alice Reynolds is being held.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama, reality TV
CountryUSA

A true story: An unconventional mother on the run from the government and determined to keep her family together, sets up home in a tent and attempts to create a sense of normalcy.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:35

Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama
CountryItaly, USA

Two American kids who live on a U.S. military base in Italy explore friendship, first love, identity, and all the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, documentary, biography, sport, reality TV
CountryUSA

An inside look of the lives of seven WWE Divas from their work within WWE to their personal lives.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA

A single mother tries to dodge her troubled past by relocating to another city with her defiant teenager, only to discover there are forces that cannot be outrun.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA

Tommy Egan leaves New York behind and plans to take on Chicago, using his outsider status to break all the local rules and rewrite them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in the city.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

Believe is about an unlikely relationship between a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her from the evil elements that hunt her power.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryUSA

What happens after the world ends? This show explores the aftermath of infidelity on a gay couple in Silver Lake, CA.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA

An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd to help track down a fiercely dangerous and elusive criminal she knows all too well. While Shepherd and Keaton have different motivations for bringing the enemy to justice, they both know that to catch a spy… they must think like one.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

When ambitious Chicago marketing exec Emily unexpectedly lands her dream job in Paris, she embraces a new life as she juggles work, friends and romance.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, music
CountryUSA

A controversial rock band with ties to the occult and the maestros who work with them try to keep their west coast family dynamic together amidst the chaos of the industry as a haunting secret of the singer and a young groupie arrives on his doorstep. Their path intertwines with an east coast rookie kid who idolizes them and tries to make his way in the music business as the ultimate underdog.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:42

Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

Covert operative Tom Keen joins forces with Susan "Scottie" Hargrave, the brilliant and cunning chief of a covert mercenary organization that solves problems that are too dangerous for the government.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, crime
CountryFrance, Australia, USA

Cat Chambers is a thief-turned-fixer for the governor of a stunning and seductive Pacific Island paradise. Impulsive, reckless, and irresistible, Cat's less-than-perfect past gives her an instinctive gift for understanding crime and criminals as she becomes enmeshed in fast-paced, high-octane adventures and island intrigue.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:58

A young H.G. Wells time travels to modern day New York City in pursuit of the charismatic—yet secretly psychopathic—Dr. John Stevenson, better known as "Jack the Ripper," following the doctor's brazen escape from the Victorian London authorities.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA

Down deep in the Mississippi Delta, Trap music meets film noir in this kaleidoscopic story of a little-strip-club-that-could and the big characters who come through its doors—the hopeful, the lost, the broken, the ballers, the beautiful, and the damned.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

Last Resort is an American military drama television series. When the crew of the U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, the USS Colorado, pick up a U.S. Navy SEAL team off Pakistan's coast, the Colorado receives an order to launch nuclear ballistic missiles at Pakistan.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
CountryUSA

Following the events of “Avengers: Endgame”, the Falcon, Sam Wilson and the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes team up in a global adventure that tests their abilities, and their patience.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A family’s lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.

Markimdb: 8
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

    A preacher sets out on a mission to make the almighty himself confess his sin of abandoning the world. With his best friend Cassidy, an alcoholic Irish vampire, his love Tulip, a red blooded gun towing Texan, and the power of genesis, an unholy child born from an angel and a devil, Jesse gives up everything to set the world straight with its creator.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:06

    Dr. Dylan Reinhart, a gifted author, university professor and former CIA operative is lured back to his old life by tenacious top NYPD Detective Lizzie Needham. Though Dylan and Lizzie initially clash, when it comes to catching killers, they make an ideal team.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    Go deep into the clandestine world of the legendary brotherhood of warrior monks known as The Knights Templar.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA

    Avery Jennings and Tyler James are step-siblings who are complete opposites. The family faces an even bigger adjustment when their new dog, Stan, can talk and also has a blog, unbeknownst to the family. Stan uses his blog to discuss the happenings in the Jennings-James household. Avery and Tyler later learn of Stan's talking ability and agree to keep it a secret from their parents.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada

    A dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father's death, the threat of the apocalypse and more.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:49

    An action-packed Las Vegas thriller about a former military operative turned security expert who is drawn into a high-stakes game where an organization of wealthy individuals gamble on his ability to stop some of the biggest crimes imaginable from playing out. Can he take them down from the inside and get revenge for the death of his wife, or is it true what they say: the House always wins.




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