Cross-media picks for Robert Rodriguez fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
The picks here share a particular flavour: high-octane premise, genre rules bent or broken outright, and a fondness for outsiders operating just outside the law. You'll find corrupt cities where one lone operative stands between order and chaos, heist crews pulling off the impossible, loops that reset but never quite let you escape, and underground performers using forbidden gifts to survive. Pulp with ambition — stylised, propulsive, and a little dangerous.
Film
Sin: The Movie
A near-future city on the edge of collapse, one elite strike force standing between order and total anarchy.
Film
F/X2
A special-effects man pulled into a deadly conspiracy where nothing — and no one — is quite what it seems.
Film
The Bad Guys 2
Reformed criminals hijacked into a globe-trotting heist by an even slicker crew of rivals they never saw coming.
Film
Devils
A detective consumed by hatred dives headfirst into hunting a serial killer, blurring the line between justice and obsession.
Film
Rock & Rule
A malevolent rock star, a kidnapped singer, and a band's desperate race to stop a demonic summoning — all animated.
Film
Spy Time
A hapless security guard discovers he's a spy target, spinning an ordinary life into absurd, action-packed chaos.
Film
Savage Beach
Two drug-enforcement agents stumble onto a centuries-old treasure conspiracy after a routine vaccine run goes sideways.
Film
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL
A soldier trapped in a death-loop battles monstrous creatures in a relentless, kinetic fight for survival.
Series
Terror in Resonance
Two teenage suspects upload cryptic videos after a Tokyo attack — a tense, stylised cat-and-mouse with the police.
Series
Black Scorpion
A cop by day, masked vigilante by night — a city rotten with corruption and one woman willing to fight it alone.
Series
Texhnolyze
Three factions battle over a city-as-organism, blending body-horror, crime, and dark philosophical menace.
Series
Black Bullet
Humanity exiled and terrified, one boy and his partner fight back against viral parasites threatening what little remains.
Series
Qualidea Code
Teens who slept through an alien invasion wake up with powers — and a war against the unknown that never stops escalating.
Series
Dies Irae
Nazi occultists perform a ritual sacrifice in Berlin's final hours, unleashing something far worse than the war itself.
Series
DNA²
A time-travelling agent from the future tries to rewrite history before one man's charm destroys the world's population.
Series
No. 6
A privileged boy's utopian city turns nightmare when a mysterious stranger upends everything he was raised to believe.
Game
We Know the Devil
Mean teenagers at a religious camp wait for the devil — a quiet, pressurised story about who actually gets blamed.
Game
P.T.
A voice from beyond the walls asks you to find her — eerie, cryptic, and designed to burrow under your skin.
Game
Mission: Impossible (1990)
A kidnapped genius, a stolen doomsday device, and one covert operative against an organisation determined to end the world.
Game
Scarface: The World Is Yours
Tony Montana cheated death — now he's clawing back his empire from the people who took everything from him.
Game
Police Quest Collection
A rookie cop chasing a car crash unravels a murderous drug empire in a procedural that rewards patience and detail.
Game
The Thing
A shape-shifting alien picks off your team one by one — trust no one, survive the Antarctic cold and each other.
Game
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
A city full of demons mirrors the darkness inside you — action-horror where the real enemy is your own past.
Game
Amid Evil
Seven wildly different worlds, ludicrous magical weapons, and relentless momentum — old-school FPS turned fever dream.
Book
Iron cast
Two young illusionists run cons for a gangster's nightclub in 1919 Boston, their forbidden gifts a blessing and a target.
Book
Class A, The Graphic Novel
Kids band together to form a covert spy organisation — junior-grade undercover work played completely straight.
Book
A child of a CrackHead
Surviving a reign of brutal violence, a family tries to build normality while the nightmare refuses to fully end.
Book
Time bomb
A schoolyard sniper attack draws a psychologist into a conspiracy far darker than a single act of violence.
Book
Homeboyz
After a drive-by takes his sister, Teddy hunts for justice on streets where the rules are written by the gang.
Book
Ghost night
A film crew's island murder — staged like a pirate massacre — pulls a survivor back into a killer's lethal game.
Book
Saber Dance
An undercover agent at the Goodwill Games chases a spy while navigating world-class athletes and rising danger.
Book
Maske
A crash-landed colony adapts across twelve generations — a stratified society and one man willing to break its rules.
Start with Black Scorpion, a crime-soaked vigilante series with a lone-operative-vs-corrupt-city energy, or Terror in Resonance, an animated thriller with cryptic adversaries and a city on the brink.
Scarface: The World Is Yours lets you rebuild a criminal empire from nothing, while The Thing traps you in paranoid Antarctic survival — both suit fans drawn to high-stakes action and pulpy genre premises.
Iron Cast blends 1920s gangsters with illegal performers using forbidden gifts, and Time Bomb starts with a schoolyard sniper and spirals into a darker conspiracy — both move fast and don't soften the edges.