Cross-media picks for Richard Fleischer fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
The picks here share a restless, genre-crossing energy — crime procedurals shading into existential dread, wartime adventure pressing hard against moral reckoning, science fiction that refuses to leave human consequences behind. You will find the same appetite for grand stakes and intimate jeopardy: characters trapped by history, hunted by systems larger than themselves, occasionally redeemed by stubborn ingenuity. The Seventh Seal, The Killing, War and Remembrance — the tone is serious without being solemn, spectacular without forgetting the cost.
Film
Sea Devils
A smuggler's dangerous coastal crossing becomes a romance entangled in war and personal risk.
Film
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
A sole survivor in a post-apocalyptic New York confronts isolation, race, and the will to rebuild.
Film
The Big Red One
A hardened sergeant and his squad endure WWII's full arc, from Africa to the horror of liberation.
Film
The Seventh Seal
A knight bargains with Death itself while grappling with faith, plague, and the meaning of life.
Film
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
A visually inventive adventure pits a scientist against a would-be dictator in the age of steam.
Film
A Bag of Marbles
Two Jewish brothers flee occupied France alone, surviving by wit and courage under Nazi persecution.
Film
The Killing
A meticulously planned racetrack heist unravels through betrayal — taut, morally cool crime cinema.
Film
The Masque of the Red Death
A decadent European prince uses his castle as a fortress against plague while terrorising peasants.
Series
Dies Irae
A secret occult ritual in Berlin's final wartime hours unleashes apocalyptic supernatural forces.
Series
The First Man
Two women bound by violent acts face a life-threatening confrontation built on revenge and desire.
Series
Holocaust
An intertwined Jewish and German family saga traces the full human cost of the Nazi years and WWII.
Series
Middlemarch
A progressive woman pushes against social constraints in an industrialising 19th-century England.
Series
Crossbones
Blackbeard rules a pirate democracy in 1715, mixing political intrigue with swashbuckling menace.
Series
The Buccaneers
A former pirate turned privateer sails the seven seas on high-seas adventures.
Series
Wormwood
A mysterious Cold War death draws Errol Morris into the secretive depths of a government program.
Series
War and Remembrance
Two extended families navigate WWII's sweep — from Pearl Harbor to the Holocaust — in intimate detail.
Game
Close To The Sun
A journalist boards a colossal Tesla-inspired vessel in 1897 and discovers its deadly dark secrets.
Game
11-11 Memories Retold
A WWI photographer and a German technician both struggle to preserve their humanity amid the carnage.
Game
Blues and Bullets
A former Untouchables leader is dragged back into a corrupt city's violence against his better judgement.
Game
Quarantine (1994)
A decayed near-future city's hovercar driver survives a corporate dystopia through raw aggression.
Game
The Drifter
A pulp thriller full of genre-bending twists draws on horror and conspiracy in equal measure.
Game
Variable Barricade
A young woman from a powerful family is cornered by mysterious suitors in a comedic high-stakes farce.
Game
Legendary
Opening Pandora's box unleashes mythological creatures on the modern world in this action thriller.
Game
At World’s End
High-seas pirate action mixes swashbuckling set-pieces with the adventure of the Caribbean.
Book
The Deluge
A Wall Street speculator's ruthless ambition unravels capitalism's human cost in early 20th-century America.
Book
Aye, and Gomorrah
Ordinary people caught in extraordinary moral predicaments — wartime grief, passion, quiet injustice.
Book
Sliding Scales
An amnesiac survivor on an alien world must piece together identity while navigating factional danger.
Book
U-571
American sailors infiltrate a crippled Nazi U-boat to seize an Enigma machine in hostile waters.
Book
Escape from Passion
A woman perpetually displaced by war stumbles through love affairs that keep ending in heartbreak.
Book
Maske
A castaway society on a water-world evolves rigid hierarchies — classic stratified science fiction.
Book
Sweetheart,sweetheart
A twin's obsessive dread about his brother's new bride reveals something deeply, darkly wrong.
Book
The English Air
An English girl and her half-German cousin fall in love in 1938 — as the world around them fractures.
Start with The Killing for taut crime plotting and The Big Red One for sweeping wartime drama. On TV, War and Remembrance and Holocaust explore the same WWII moral terrain on an epic scale.
Yes — U-571 delivers the kind of high-stakes wartime mission central to many of Fleischer's films, while The Deluge offers a morally complex portrait of ambition and its consequences in early capitalism.
Absolutely. 11-11 Memories Retold captures WWI's human tragedy with a painterly, emotional restraint, and Blues and Bullets puts a former lawman back into a corrupt city — pure genre noir.